The merger between US firm Hogan & Hartson and the UK’s Lovells will take effect on May 1 of this year, and the two firms are making final preparations. Today, the firms released the names of the 12 partners who will sit on the board, with each firm nominating six lawyers based on geographic [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Is Crowell & Moring in negotiations to merge with Folger Levin & Kahn? That’s the buzz, but the firm’s response has been noncommittal. Folger, which is based out of San Francisco and has an additional office in Los Angeles, has several overlapping practice groups and is in keeping with Crowell’s strategy for long [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Fasken Martineau has merged with the small Parisian firm of Gravel, Leclerc & Partners to set up their first office in France. This move gives Fasken the largest footprint of any Canadian firm in Europe. In addition to the attorneys gained in the merger, four attorneys from Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Paris office [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 18, 2009
UK firms Halliwells and Manches are confirmed to have begun merger discussions a few months ago. Partners from both firms haveconfirmed the talks, which have now entered the due diligence phase. No formal firm wide announcements have yet been made and no final decisions have yet been made. The two firms have a combined [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 9, 2009
At the end of last year, Indianapolis firm Ice Miller began negotiating a merger with Greenbaum, Doll & McDonald. The merger was expected to take place by the end of 2009, but now unnamed sources at Greenbaum say the deal is off. Concern over increased rates for clients already scaling back their business [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 16, 2009
Legal Times is merging with one of its sibling publications, The National Law Journal. The combined publication will focus on national legal news, with a special emphasis on Washington, DC, and will be called The National Law Journal. It will publish continuously on the Web and weekly in print, with the first combined print edition expected [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 30, 2009
In December, we noted merger talks between K&L Gates and Bell Boyd & Lloyd. As of today, the merger is official. From the press release: Partners of the law firms K&L Gates LLP and Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP (Bell Boyd) today voted overwhelmingly in favor of a combination of firms, effective March 1, 2009. The combined [...]
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