For a firm renowned for its singular focus, the London arm of Howrey once looked pretty confusing. Launched five years ago, the UK practice has failed to register much on the City radar, despite the rise and rise in Europe of competition, one of the firm’s core US strengths. Having until last year neglected to launch a City competition team, the firm’s London office had instead become more focused on fairly generalist contentious work, including some asset-tracing, white-collar crime and financial services litigation. Likewise, its small intellectual property (IP) team was, until recently, well short of critical mass.
Matters seemed further complicated by last week’s announcement that a three-partner litigation team was decamping to top IP litigation boutique Bristows as part of a shake-up of its London office’s practice, suggesting (wrongly) that patent
litigation was going down the agenda.
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