After Gaedertz, a German law firm, failed to agree last month to a merger with Norton Rose, a British firm, it decided to break itself up. Gaedertz's office in Hamburg linked with Latham & Watkins, an American firm; the team in Cologne joined Norton Rose anyway; and the Berlin office has yet to decide what to do. The different bits of the firm could not agree on which partner to go with; but all of them did agree that international partners are essential for survival in the globalising legal world.
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