Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner is spinning off its Russia base into a separate, independent law firm and has emphasised it will not maintain a relationship with the new outfit.
Alumni Partners has been established to house “the majority” of BCLP’s former Russian lawyers, according to a person with knowledge of the process. The person said that BCLP would not maintain a referral relationship with, nor “work alongside”, Alumni. A second person did, however, clarify that there was no bar against making referrals to Alumni or to any other local counsel, should a client require local advice.
