'Cobbetts' great American adventure' trumpeted the press release as it entered Obiter's in-box. Well, you can imagine our excitement. Had the regional firm managed what the magic circle had signally failed to achieve and cracked the lucrative US market? Had fast-growing Cobbetts pulled off a reverse takeover of one of the über-profitable, white-shoe New York firms such as Cravath Swaine & Moore or Sullivan & Cromwell? Er, no. 'Leading law firm Cobbetts LLP has advised the UK's largest dealership of American and European motorhomes on its sale.'
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