{"id":139096,"date":"2025-12-15T17:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/15\/biglaws-latest-transatlantic-merger-will-be-complete-come-may-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T01:54:20","slug":"biglaws-latest-transatlantic-merger-will-be-complete-come-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/15\/biglaws-latest-transatlantic-merger-will-be-complete-come-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw\u2019s Latest Transatlantic Merger Will Be Complete Come May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s what we believe our clients want from their law firms. To be able to provide trans-Atlantic service that aligns with their own business, which is cross-border, cross-risk that was the driving force about this.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Steve D\u2019Amore<\/a>, chairman of Winston & Strawn, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, on the decision to enter into a merger<\/a> with UK-based Taylor Wessing. \u201cI think taking a hard look at the incredible growth of [Taylor Wessing\u2019s] business over the most recent period is really important to understanding why this makes a lot of sense for us,\u201d\u00a0he continued, after being presented with the disparity between the firms\u2019 financials, on which Winston is on the up side. When the tie-up is finalized in May 2026, the combined firm will be known as Winston Taylor.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw\u2019s Latest Transatlantic Merger Will Be Complete Come May 2026<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s what we believe our clients want from their law firms. To be able to provide trans-Atlantic service that aligns with their own business, which is cross-border, cross-risk that was the driving force about this.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Steve D\u2019Amore<\/a>, chairman of Winston & Strawn, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, on the decision to enter into a merger<\/a> with UK-based Taylor Wessing. \u201cI think taking a hard look at the incredible growth of [Taylor Wessing\u2019s] business over the most recent period is really important to understanding why this makes a lot of sense for us,\u201d\u00a0he continued, after being presented with the disparity between the firms\u2019 financials, on which Winston is on the up side. When the tie-up is finalized in May 2026, the combined firm will be known as Winston Taylor.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw\u2019s Latest Transatlantic Merger Will Be Complete Come May 2026<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. It\u2019s what we believe our clients want from their law firms. To be able to provide trans-Atlantic service that aligns with their own business, which is cross-border, cross-risk that was the driving force about this. \u2014 Steve D\u2019Amore, chairman of Winston & Strawn, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Staci-Zaretsky-8oixgF.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}