Alex Novarese, Author at Legal Business

Comment: Winning hearts and minds (but mainly hearts) at Linklaters

6 October 2016 10:31am15 February 2018 11:42am | Blogs | Alex Novarese

The best Freshfields corporate lawyer Silk Street ever produced is now leading Linklaters, with incoming senior partner Charlie Jacobs ushering in a very different style at the City giant to the technocratic revolution pushed through by previous regimes.

Comment: The tiger that came to eat BLP’s culture for breakfast and other sorry tales

13 April 2016 10:50am19 January 2018 14:50pm | Blogs | Alex Novarese

These are tough times for another house that Stanley Berwin built, with exhibit B being the acrimonious end of merger talks between Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and Greenberg Traurig. While the practice fit between the two looked both convincing and distinctive, these were two firms with plenty of strong characters.