Four Big Law firms — Winston & Strawn, Baker Botts, Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner — said Thursday they’re closing their Moscow offices as Russia presses its invasion of neighboring Ukraine.
Winston & Strawn is acting “out of a sense of solidarity with the Ukrainian people,” firm chairman Tom Fitzgerald said in a statement. Baker Botts said, “We see no alternative to winding down our operations” in Moscow.
U.K. firms Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance also announced on Thursday that they would be closing their operations in Moscow.
Firms have been accelerating their exits, ...
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