Clifford Chance (CC) last week re-elected senior partner Malcolm Sweeting for a second four-year term starting in January 2015. Having won a contested three-way election in 2010, the unopposed vote this time round appears to have been a much more serene affair.
But Sweeting sees more concrete challenges ahead than he did as a management ingenue four years ago. He admits to being “slightly naive going into the role”, candidly adding that he was perhaps not as attuned to how the wider economy and changes in the legal market affected the firm as he should have been.
