We maintain offices only where we can advise at partnership level on local law, and where our clients have sustained interests. Elsewhere we appoint specialised counsel with whom we have worked for many years.

The offices exist to serve mandates; the mandates do not exist to fill the offices. Partners are resident in each city and qualified in each jurisdiction. When a matter touches a city in which we do not sit, we appoint specialised counsel with whom we have worked for many years — and the relationship, not the building, remains the unit of trust.