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The Global 100: The European question – Have years of cuts left the Magic Circle exposed as Brexit looms?

Posted on 11 July 2017 08:30am22 February 2018 11:46am
Madeleine Farman
Global 100 2017 BrexitEuropeMagic Circle

 

London’s top firms have been quietly retrenching for years in mainland Europe. As Brexit looms, where has that left the Magic Circle?

‘Welcome to Europe, the haven of legal certainty,’ quips Burkhart Goebel, Hogan Lovells’ managing partner for continental Europe.

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