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Our clients speak to our position in the marketplace: we’ve advised over 80% of the Am Law 100, including 10 of the 20 most profitable firms in the Am Law 100, and a broad range of other firms in the Am Law 100 and 200, the Global 100, Wall Street firms, Magic Circle firms, and firms outside of those groups.
We have terrific relationships with large high-performing firms, and most of them know us. We have developed a sub-specialty in recent years in advising firms that are interested in the possibility of combining with similarly-sized or larger firms.
— Kent Zimmermann, co-chair of Zeughauser Group, in comments given to the American Lawyer, concerning his strategic planning and merger consultancy’s client base. He continued, saying Zeughauser has gotten to know firms outside of the Am Law 100, noting, “We represent a portfolio of clients in the 50 to 200-lawyer size range that have high-quality practices in areas like middle-market M&A, private equity, sophisticated litigation and other areas, and those are great relationships. That’s an expansion of our breadth. They’re also particularly valuable because sometimes those firms combine with larger firms, and our knowledge of that landscape is valuable to our clients.” Zimmermann, who was recently promoted the co-chair position, has been an insider on major law firm mergers, including the impending combination of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft and Hogan Lovells, which will be one of the largest law firm mergers in history.
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