UK M&A leader Slaughter and May is repositioning itself as the preferred UK referral partner to Wall Street’s legal establishment as the firm moves to broaden its relationships beyond its American ally Davis Polk & Wardwell.
Legal Week Global understands that Slaughters, which alone among the UK’s so-called ‘magic circle’ of five top firms has resisted US law expansion, has this year conducted a tour of leading Wall Street firms to sell the practice as a referral firm for premium US-driven work.
