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Chadbourne and Pillsbury end merger talks after two months
Chadbourne & Parke and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman are understood to have walked away from the prospect of joining forces, possibly because of the latter's 1-1 ratio of partners to associates.
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The combination would have created a firm with 930 lawyers and turnover in excess of US$800m. Pillsbury has negotiated with at least six law firms over a potential merger in the last nine years.
New leader
Pillsbury is facing a change of leadership in a little over a year when, in January 2017, Washington DC litigator David Dekker is due to take over from Jim Rishwain as CEO. Source: The Lawyer
