International law firm Taylor Wessing has been going for growth, with central and eastern Europe as one target. Its latest merger is with Austrian firm e|n|w|c, which has offices in Budapest, Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Warsaw, Kiev and Klagenfurt as well as Vienna.

Founded in 1986, e|n|w|c had 24 partners and more than 70 lawyers before the merger.

The move takes Taylor Wessing's fee-earning headcount to almost 900 across 22 offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It claims core strengths in finance, real estate, intellectual property and private wealth, among other areas.