While many large U.S. law firms have been busy building out their offices in London, within the past 18 months, London-based Clyde & Co has been in an expansive mood in America.

The British firm opened offices in Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., in 2017, a year that ended with it absorbing a large group of lawyers from now-defunct Sedgwick led by the latter’s insurance chair Ralph Guirgis and Los Angeles managing partner James Holmes.