{"id":767459,"date":"2026-02-16T03:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/767459\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T03:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:56:14","slug":"still-mates-how-slaughters-macfarlanes-and-travers-smith-are-surviving-the-us-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/767459\/","title":{"rendered":"Still mates? How Slaughters, Macfarlanes and Travers Smith are surviving the US invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnlondon.com\/tags\/legal%20services?mod=article_legal-services\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1dq9wp9\">Still mates? How Slaughters, Macfarlanes and Travers Smith are surviving the US invasion<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-15jjdb7\">London\u2019s elite law firms are hoping their connections with stateside peers can offer shelter from a surge in mergers<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" class=\"e1w123ca0 css-1fa2tud\">When New York law firm Paul Weiss burst into London by hiring a band of Kirkland &amp; Ellis heavyweights in 2023, some predicted trouble for Slaughter and May.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" class=\"e1w123ca0 css-1fa2tud\">The City institution had long-benefitted from a transatlantic \u2018best friend\u2019 arrangement. Paul Weiss referred work when its clients needed English law advice, while Slaughters directed those needing US expertise back to the white-shoe firm. It gave Slaughter and May access to Wall Street clients and US firepower without a New York office. It shuttered its small Manhattan base in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Still mates? How Slaughters, Macfarlanes and Travers Smith are surviving the US invasion London\u2019s elite law firms are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[169515,748,393,181282,181283,4884,1491,6615,78559,257,12,28415,16,15,169518],"class_list":["post-767459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-applenews","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-finance-investing","tag-gcapi","tag-great-britain","tag-in-depth","tag-investing","tag-legal-services","tag-london","tag-news","tag-synd","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wsj-pro-fn-online"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116078299261597711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}