{"id":139605,"date":"2025-12-22T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/22\/merger-madness-to-continue-in-2026-so-some-biglaw-firms-can-survive\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:27:14","slug":"merger-madness-to-continue-in-2026-so-some-biglaw-firms-can-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/22\/merger-madness-to-continue-in-2026-so-some-biglaw-firms-can-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Merger Madness To Continue In 2026 So Some Biglaw Firms Can \u2018Survive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I doubt that Cadwalader will be the last firm that needs to find a merger partner to survive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> A Biglaw senior partner, in anonymous comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning Cadwalader\u2019s recently announced merger with Hogan Lovells<\/a>. Kent Zimmermann, a strategic adviser on the Hogan Lovells-Cadwalader merger, noted that even more merger talks are going on behind the scenes, including between Am Law 50 firms and more transatlantic partners.<\/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 Merger Madness To Continue In 2026 So Some Biglaw Firms Can \u2018Survive\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

I doubt that Cadwalader will be the last firm that needs to find a merger partner to survive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> A Biglaw senior partner, in anonymous comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning Cadwalader\u2019s recently announced merger with Hogan Lovells<\/a>. Kent Zimmermann, a strategic adviser on the Hogan Lovells-Cadwalader merger, noted that even more merger talks are going on behind the scenes, including between Am Law 50 firms and more transatlantic partners.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I doubt that Cadwalader will be the last firm that needs to find a merger partner to survive. \u2014 A Biglaw senior partner, in anonymous comments given to Law.com, concerning Cadwalader\u2019s recently announced merger with Hogan Lovells. Kent Zimmermann, a strategic adviser on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139580,"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-139605","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-U7onWy.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139605","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=139605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}