Four Firms Join Rivals in Abandoning Moscow Over Ukraine War (1)

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, ...