Gretchenfrage: Warum eine Großkanzlei mandatieren?

Eine ehemalige General Counsel erläutert noch einmal ein paar der bekannten Gründe: Then there is the issue of outside parties on transactions. If you are working with a large bank or Venture Capitalists or Private Equity, you may find that they want to work with a “name brand.” Often they are indifferent to the legal fees because they are not the ones paying the bills. There are very good lawyers everywhere; there are great solo practitioners. Unfortunately, there is also a lot of mediocrity. If, as General Counsel, I had to put too much work into the project training outside counsel or fixing their work, then I didn’t want to use them again. The firm I used the most was expensive but always did an excellent job, and its associates were efficient enough that the bill was often cheaper than less competent counsel from smaller firms. [...] Going to a large firm in a lot of cases is sort of like going to a chain restaurant. You pretty much know that the minimum you are going to get is going to be accepta…