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Exclusive: FFW might possibly merge with LG. Or with someone else.
18 May 2012
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RollOnFriday can exclusively reveal that Field Fisher Waterhouse and LG are looking to merge. Or are at least discussing it.

There's no sign of the recent merger-mania abating, and Managing Partners throughout the City are flirting with their counterparts. FFW's Matthew Lohn is no exception, and insiders say that LG is currently the front runner.

A spokeswoman for FFW said that there had been meetings with various other firms, that a merger with one of them was an option and that the partners had been asked to consider this. However there was no specific vote in the offing on a tie-up with LG.

LG, rather more succinctly if rather less helpfully, simply said that it didn't "comment on merger speculation".
 
    How it might look

On the face of it the merger looks attractive. Partners at both firms pull in similar profits, it's an easy way to get instant bulk, and FFW would presumably abandon its cheap but grotty offices to take space in LG's expensive but lovely ones. You heard it here first.

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anonymous user
18/05/2012 09:11
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LG + Virtuous Triangle = PR Disaster!
anonymous user
18/05/2012 11:29
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Now I'm thinking about love triangles, and they are often anything but virtuous... Is polygamy/polyandry among merging firms acceptable?

Thoroughly agree about the potential improvement from half FFW's office space. I was there for a placement last year and they don't look like they have seen much change since the seventies. A view across the Thames instead of down-at-heel Vine St would be a boon.
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22/05/2012 00:55
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Anywhere else would be an improvement on FFW's offices - even the most modern of their Tower Hill offices in Ibex House is pretty ratty. Not sure how they will improve the office politics though - the in-fighting amongst FFW partners will surely put any potential merger partner off the idea!