Cards on the table, here’s what we have been able to establish about White & Case.
In late January claims started circulating among pretty well-informed people that a contingent of White & Case’s London office was unhappy with the US firm’s central management to the extent that several senior names in finance were looking to move. The highest-profile of these were co-head of banking Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz. Three firms were touted as potential homes for Allen and Goetz: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters and Herbert Smith.
