After decades of living uneventful, if gilded, lives offshore, law firms have more recently engaged themselves in a near-frenzy of cross-jurisdictional mergers, office openings and team hires.
The process got off to a relatively gentle start in 2003 with the cross-Channel Islands merger of Guernsey’s Carey Langlois with Jersey firm Olsens, but accelerated through the following year with the unions of Jersey’s Ogier & le Masurier with Boxalls of the Cayman Islands (the first transatlantic merger) and then Bermudian leader Appleby Spurling and Kempe with Hunter & Hunter in the Cayman Islands.
