The hot 100: Richard Price patent litigation partner, Taylor Wessing.

(From The Lawyer)

Had it not been for senior patent litigation partner Richard Price at the then Taylor Joynson Garrett (TJG) picking up the phone to Wessing intellectual property (IP) partner Sabine Rojahn last year, 2002's largest Anglo-German merger would never have happened. TJG and Wessing had no previous relationship. Wessing worked with Bird & Bird and TJG with Gaedertz. This was until 2000, when Gaedertz split, with some of it being snapped up by Norton Rose, and TJG needed another German firm to woo. The push for the merger, which was finalised in September, can be sourced back to …