Riverview open US office

Riverview Law may only be a few months old, but it is already showing its clear expansionist ambition, with the announcement of the launch of a New York office.

Riverview is an innovative law firm which offers corporate clients the services of solicitors (through Riverview Solicitors) and barristers (through Riverview Chambers) for a fixed annual or multi-year fee.  The business is part-owned by international giant DLA Piper, and partly by a number of other investors including AdviserPlus Business Solutions (from whence the head of the new US office, Andy Daws, will come), and, controversially, some of the DLA partners individually.

The firm is not offering US law advice, but will instead be aiming to market to American clients which may need legal representation in the UK.

Riverview’s COO, Adam Shutkeyer, said “We believe that there is significant demand from US clients for simpler and cost-certain access to the English legal system. The volume of cross-border activity, along with the impact of extraterritorial legislation such as the Bribery Act and Enterprise Act, means that many international corporations and professionals have a regular need for advice and representation in the English system, yet are often frustrated by the inefficiency of having to appoint, separately, both solicitors and barristers. At Riverview, we have removed these inefficiencies.”