An alliance quickly loses its purpose when one party feels its ambitions are being blocked. So news this week that Willkie Farr & Gallagher is considering a push into UK private equity work in London may suggest that the US firm has designs beyond its formal arrangement with Dickson Minto. In recent months Willkie has held recruitment discussions with at least one high-profile UK-qualified private equity partner in London. While those talks are understood to have fallen through, the firm's Paris-based European chair, Daniel Hurstel, confirmed that Willkie is still considering a move into UK private equity, as well as finance, funds and arbitration work.
March 13, 2014 at 08:33 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
An alliance quickly loses its purpose when one party feels its ambitions are being blocked. So news this week that Willkie Farr & Gallagher is considering a push into UK private equity work in London may suggest that the US firm has designs beyond its formal arrangement with Dickson Minto.
In recent months Willkie has held recruitment discussions with at least one high-profile UK-qualified private equity partner in London.
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