Last month, about 700 Eversheds Sutherland partners congregated in New York for their firmwide partner conference, at which management laid out their priorities for the year ahead – with Stateside growth high on the agenda.

The firm, now almost 18 months old following last February’s union of Eversheds and US firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, has built on the merger with a series of office openings and team hires, and co-CEO Mark Wasserman told Legal Week that further US expansion through a domestic merger was still one option firmly on the table.