13 Facts About Eversheds Sutherland

1.

In May 1998, Eversheds Sutherland formed an alliance with Copenhagen-based Sandal Lunoe and acquired the London, Paris, Sofia and Moscow offices of Frere Cholmeley Bischoff.

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2.

Eversheds Sutherland merged the activities of its Bristol and Cardiff offices in 2001 and simultaneously closed the Bristol office.

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3.

In 2002 Eversheds Sutherland formed an alliance with Italian firm Piergrossi Villa Bianchini Riccardi.

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4.

Eversheds Sutherland formed alliances with Swedish firm Andren Bratt Partners, German firm Heisse Kursawe and Polish firm Wierzbowski i Wspolnicy in 2005.

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5.

In 2006 Eversheds Sutherland was granted a licence to open an office in Shanghai, China, formed an association with Irish firm O'Donnell Sweeney and became the first international law firm to be awarded an operating licence in the Qatar Financial Centre in Doha, Qatar.

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Also in 2008, Eversheds Sutherland was granted a licence to operate in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and associated with Netherlands-based Faasen and Partners, South Africa-based Routledge Modise and Switzerland-based Schmid.

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7.

In September 2008 Eversheds Sutherland announced that the activities of its Norwich and Cambridge offices would be merged and the Norwich office closed.

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8.

Eversheds Sutherland opened offices in Edinburgh, Hong Kong and Singapore in 2009.

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9.

Between 2008 and 2010 Eversheds Sutherland had four rounds of redundancies and cut a total of around 730 jobs, the largest staff reductions of any UK-based law firm in that period.

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10.

In February 2011 Eversheds Sutherland parted with its Spanish alliance partner Lupicinio Abogados citing strategic differences, and shortly afterwards formed a new alliance with Spanish law firm Nicea Abogados.

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11.

Eversheds Sutherland opened its seventh Middle East office, and second Iraqi office, located in Erbil.

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12.

In December 2013 Eversheds Sutherland announced a tie up with South African medium-sized law firm, Mahons Attorneys, giving Eversheds Sutherland bases in Johannesburg, Cape Town and in Mauritius.

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13.

Eversheds Sutherland formed an association with Juridia Butzow which became JB Eversheds Sutherland in Finland with a national coverage of five offices, located in Hameenlinna, Helsinki, Jyvaskyla, Tampere and Turku.

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