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In most cases, partners will need to be persuaded not only that PE investment—and giving up a degree of equity and control to outside investors—is in the firm’s best interests, but that it represents the best available alternative for achieving the partnership’s aspirations.
— Kent Zimmermann, co-chair of the Zeughauser Group, in comments given to the American Lawyer, concerning what needs to happen at a law firm before a private equity deal to sell of a portion of the firm’s business can be approved. Zimmerman went on to note that partners will likely have questions about clients and rates, and that “they will expect compelling, evidence-backed answers that they can live with while preserving the kind of culture they want to have in their firm.”
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