Although
recent merger talks with Beale & Co, another commercial law firm, fell through, Browne Jacobson still seems keen to expand.
Not exact matches
Many Wall Street strategists view the
recent CVS - Aetna
merger talks as evidence that some of the industry's major players are also wary of Amazon's ambitions in the space.
The company has been up - and - down recently, with a string of mixed earnings and botched
merger talks with CBS causing the stock to wobble, but the company's
recent Q2 earnings release shows a media giant that is on solid footing.
UK / US
mergers have been distinctly thin on the ground in
recent years but last week Berwin Leighton Paisner announced it plans to rectify this dearth of activity, confirming it is in
talks with Greenberg Traurig.
LG has been openly looking for a
merger in
recent years, with the firm entering into serious discussions with Scotland's Shepherd and Wedderburn last summer, which are understood to have ended around September 2011 after the Scottish firm opted out of the
talks.
Squire Sanders has explored
merger talks in
recent years with a handful of U.S. and U.K. firms, including Bryan Cave in 2006, Seyfarth Shaw in 2008, and British firm Denton Wilde Sapte in 2009.