Top Biglaw Firm To Open An Office In Silicon Valley – Above the Law

Biglaw companies proceed to open their doorways in cities the place enterprise is booming, and the most recent agency to take action is Eversheds Sutherland.

The agency — which introduced in $1,480,000,000 gross income in 2024, placing it at No. 7 on the UK Prime 50 — is opening up store in Silicon Valley, California, because of the addition of former Baker McKenzie accomplice Bradford Newman, who’s slated to guide the Eversheds U.S. advanced know-how litigation and disputes apply. The agency doesn’t have a brick-and-mortar workplace house simply but, however that’s not stopping them from powering ahead. The American Lawyer has extra particulars:

Hiring Newman and opening the most recent Bay Space workplace [is a] “vital step in our long-term technique to develop our presence in key innovation hubs,” Eversheds’ co-CEO Lino Mendiola mentioned in an announcement Monday. …

Newman mentioned he was “grateful that quite a lot of longstanding shoppers with whom I’ve been privileged to work on their most troublesome issues have chosen to proceed working with me as I transition to Eversheds Sutherland.”

In line with a agency spokesperson, in the case of the hunt for workplace house, Eversheds is “prioritizing centrally-located workplaces near our shoppers with room to develop and that create alternatives for in-person collaboration.”

Better of luck to Eversheds Sutherland in its new workplace house — as soon as it finds an workplace, that’s.

Eversheds Sutherland Opens Silicon Valley Workplace [American Lawyer]

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