The last twelve months saw Squire Sanders & Dempsey amid internal troubles. "Squire Sanders has had a rough year....
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The last twelve months saw Squire Sanders & Dempsey amid internal troubles. "Squire Sanders has had a rough year. It lost its local team. I'm not sure how they'll rebuild," one partner says. The Bratislava office has now hired Tatiana Prokopová as a European partner focusing on real estate. "With Squire, Adrian Barger and some other guy [Roman Prekop] established their own boutique now [Barger Prekop Attorneys]," another partner says.
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Established in 1991, Squire Sanders & Dempsey was the first US based practice to set up operations in Bratislava. However, the office was dealt a hefty blow this year with the loss of corporate partners Adrian Barger and Roman Prekop who went on to establish their own boutique, Barger Prekop Attorneys....
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Established in 1991, Squire Sanders & Dempsey was the first US based practice to set up operations in Bratislava. However, the office was dealt a hefty blow this year with the loss of corporate partners Adrian Barger and Roman Prekop who went on to establish their own boutique, Barger Prekop Attorneys. This year, the firm has slipped a tier from the second rung as they look to rebuild. It recently hired Tatiana Prokopová as a European partner specialising in real estate in Bratislava, and time will tell whether the firm will be able to join the upward stream again. "There is no reason for Squire to stay in tier two. They've always been strange on this market. Three of their most senior local lawyers left [the third being Peter Suba]. All the local partners have gone. They all left," one partner says. "Squire hired some new lawyers, they're trying to. They're not so visible but were very visible at the time of high privatisations," another partner says.
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