TG: set to recommend a short-listTheodore Goddard (TG) is poised to recommend a merger short-list to its partnership by next month amid growing signs the embattled City firm now views a tie-up with a larger practice as inevitable.

Legal Week has learnt that the short-list includes US firms Pillsbury Winthrop, Morrison & Foerster and Winston & Strawn, and UK rivals CMS Cameron McKenna, Addleshaw Booth & Co and DLA.