Cleary’s Simon Jay describes how his firm has evolved its London practice since opening in the City more than 40 years ago
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton opened its doors in London more than 40 years ago. Unlike many of its peer firms in the US, Cleary had, from its inception in 1946, been a firm with ambitions on both sides of the Atlantic. Having opened in Paris in 1949 and Brussels in 1960, the London office was thus a relative latecomer to the Cleary European presence when Manley Hudson opened its doors as the sole resident partner in 1971.
