Law Firm Mergers and Alliances

IP firms AA Thornton and Venner Shipley to join forces

Merged firm to house 230 professionals and operate under Venner Shipley name

New York via Sydney: Herbert Smith Freehills’ unique transatlantic merger play

HSF’s deal to merge with Kramer Levin provides Anglo-Australian firm with an unusual path into the US market

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Kramer Levin’s Paris office to spin out ahead of HSF merger

Merged firm to have 100-plus legacy HSF lawyers in French capital

Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin unveil transatlantic merger

Deal, subject to partner approval, will create firm with $2bn-plus revenue

Kennedys absorbs boutique for Wellington launch

Insurance specialist continues Australasian expansion with second New Zealand office

Taft to combine with Sherman & Howard in latest large US merger

Tie-up to create firm with revenues of $810m and more than 1,000 lawyers

Womble Bond Dickinson and Lewis Roca announce merger

Combination to create top 70 US firm with revenue of $740m and more than 1,300 lawyers

Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord cement $1.6bn merger

Troutman Pepper Locke to have 1,600 lawyers across 33 US and two European offices

‘The market is dynamic and fragmented’ – Gadens’ CEO on its top tier ambitions

Mark Pistilli outlines the national Australian firm’s strategy ahead of its Canberra merger

Rouse acquires Swedish IP consultancy firm Konsert

Merger marks third foray into the region aiming to offer single source for IP consultancy and services

Australian national firm Gadens merges with Canberra-based Trinity Law


Deal follows financial integration of Gadens' office network taking partner count to 106

Garrigues makes major play in Mexico with Sánchez Devanny merger

Tie-up to make Spanish heavyweight second-largest international firm in Mexico

Troutman Pepper, Locke Lord in merger talks to create $1.6bn firm

Combination would create top 30 US firm with more than 1,700 lawyers

Pérez-Llorca enters Mexico through landmark merger with 100-lawyer González Calvillo

Tie-up to make fast-growing Spanish firm second largest international firm in Mexico

Withers forms alliance with Indonesian boutique

Association with 17-lawyer Karna Partnership sees UK firm bolster offering in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy

UK arms of rival US class action firms unveil merger

Keller Postman UK joins forces with Lanier Longstaff Hedar & Roberts to form litigation funder-owned KP Law

Fenwick Elliott forms construction and energy law alliance in Latin America

London-headquartered firm partners with Chile’s 20-lawyer Molina Ríos as regional construction market forecast to reach $840bn by 2029

Leadership announced for A&O Shearman

Allen & Overy interim managing partner Khalid Garousha named senior partner of soon-to-be firm

Growth and opportunity: seizing the moment in the Philippines

Nowhere is the ASEAN opportunity greater than in the Philippines, write Dentons’ Elliott Portnoy and PJS Law’s Regina Jacinto-Barrientos on the day their firms’ combination goes live

Eversheds Sutherland absorbs four-partner KWM team in Frankfurt

Ten lawyers join with business services colleague as part of Eversheds’ and KWM’s cooperation agreement forged last year

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