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Bloomberg News
Radio Interview with Tony Williams
May 2008

Click here to listen to Tony Williams discussing the UK view on Limited Equity Partners on Bloomberg News.
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Bloomberg News
Radio Interview with Tony Williams
April 2008

Click here to listen to Tony Williams discussing the UK Legal Services Act on Bloomberg News.
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Top 100 Lawyers
April 21 2008

Tony Williams
Legal management consultant

With the legal services market expected to explode over the next decade as restrictions on ownership structures and outside capital are lifted, Tony Williams, the former managing partner at Clifford Chance, is positioned as one of the City’s most sought-after backroom strategists. Williams, 51, set up Jomati Consultants in 2002 to advise law firms on issues such as financing, mergers and risk management.

After graduating from Southampton University, he trained at Turner Garrett & Co in Surrey and joined Coward Chance, as it was, in 1981. A corporate finance specialist, he worked in Hong Kong and Eastern Europe before rising to managing partner in 1997.

He left in 2000 to run the legal practice at Andersen, the consulting firm, and went out on his own once it collapsed after the Enron scandal.





Jomati teams up with Adam Smith in NY
19th March 2008

Legal management experts Jomati Consultants and Altman Weil have agreed an alliance with Bruce MacEwan, the founder of US legal website Adam Smith Esq.

Jomati and US affiliate Altman Weil have agreed a deal that will see MacEwan act as lead consultant for the group in New York.

Adam Smith was launched by MacEwan – a former in-house securities lawyer at Morgan Stanley – in late 2003. It is widely regarded as a leading commentator on law firm economics in the US.

Commenting on the new alliance, Altman Weil principal Ward Bower said: “[MacEwan] is a true thought-leader on issues of strategic importance to the legal profession and [this agreement] increases the scope and depth of resources we can offer our major law firm clients.”

MacEwan added: “With our strategic alliance we are able to provide our clients with the depth and breadth of service that they need at a time when the international legal marketplace is undergoing a period of major change.”

Jomati was set up in 2002 by Tony Williams (pictured), the former global managing partner of Clifford Chance and ex-chief of Anderson Legal, acting almost exclusively in the legal trade.

It formed the alliance with Altman Weil, which has been advising law firms since the 1970s, in 2005.