Nobody can accuse Sullivan & Cromwell of rushing headlong into the UK corporate market. Indeed, the phrase ‘softly, softly’ could have been invented to describe the way the firm has gone about building a UK-law presence in London.

It has been circling the City market for as long as Legal Week has been in existence. The front page of our inaugural issue, in January 1999, reported on Sullivan’s first foray into UK law with the hire of Norton Rose project finance partner Jamie Logie.