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Law Firms Owned By Private Equity Funds? (2)

am 21.08.2006 von http://lawjustice.blogspot.com

Last year the British government proposed that external ownership of law firms should be allowed. The bill is now expected to pass in 2007. It would allow lawyers in England and Wales to set up practices as so-called alternative business structures, with external, nonlawyer investors and even float their shares on the stock market.This is not less than a revolution in the world of legal professions and surely deserves to be closely followed for UK law firms active across the European Union and certainly in Brussels where running combined firms …

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