Three years ago, the UK magic circle were considered dead ducks in New York.
But recent months have witnessed a renewed bout of self-confidence, not least because of the rebound this year in their profits. Today, Linklaters announces a further ramping up of its presence in the Big Apple with the hire of a team of four partners and around a dozen associates from White & Case (see story). The regulatory team’s arrival will swell the number of partners in Linklaters’ New York office to 26, nine of whom will be litigators. Paul Wickes, the head of the New York office and a litigator himself, says: “We have always said that we expect that the litigation team in New York will make up around a third of the office.”
