International
Our approach to international assignments
Many of our clients work on a global scale and need legal advice across a number of jurisdictions. Our approach to international work is to ensure that our clients’ interests come first and that they consistently receive the highest quality of advice across borders.
Our law firm has an office in Brussels for European work.
In Europe, we have an alliance with August & Debouzy in France (www.august-debouzy.com), GSK Stockmann + Kollegen in Germany (www.gsk.de) and Nunziante Magrone in Italy (www.nunziantemagrone.it). August & Debouzy and GSK Stockmann + Kollegen now share our Brussels office. Between us, we have more than 830 lawyers based in 16 offices spread over 7 international jurisdictions. For more information about this alliance, please visit our alliance website.
Together, we are committed to providing excellent advice on international projects for our clients. We have regular meetings to manage the alliance and practice groups across a range of disciplines and industries to develop best practice initiatives in their areas. Our partners, associates and key staff meet on a regular basis. We attend each others partners’ conferences. We hold an associates’ conference each year and this, together with regular secondments between the law firms, broadens and deepens the personal relationships between us. These relationships play an integral part in delivering the levels of service that our clients expect.
Elsewhere, we believe that the best way of providing our clients with the quality of advice and service that they require is by working with a select number of firms who are experts within their own jurisdictions in the areas of law that we require. This allows our clients to benefit from those firms’ deeper understanding of the culture, values and work-style of their particular countries. We have dedicated groups of lawyers who focus on and develop these links in particular regions such as North America, China, India, Israel and the Middle East.
We do not share fees with any of the law firms we instruct. Our incentive in using these firms is to continue to improve our ability to provide our clients with the best quality of advice at local rates. We can freely choose the best local law firm for your business and are not forced to use an overseas law office simply because it bears our name. As a result of this approach, we have close and long-standing relationships with many of leading firms throughout the world and our clients benefit from this.
Whether working with our European alliance or our other international colleagues, our clients receive a seamless delivery of services across jurisdictions managed by a single point of contact and operating to consistent standards of service.
