Newly-merged New York giant Dewey & LeBoeuf is to ditch the role of London managing partner, following a review by management consultancy McKinsey.
The office will now be organised along practice group lines, with the two firms’ legacy City heads – Peter Sharp of LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae and Dewey Ballantine’s Fred Gander – returning to full-time fee earning. The firm’s practice groups include M&A, litigation, intellectual property litigation, international trade, capital markets, tax and bankruptcy.
