Law Firm Mergers and Alliances - Page 4

Mourant expands into Luxembourg with local acquisition

Offshore firm follows up January acquisition of specialist accounting business with purchase of Luxembourg law firm LexField

Nigeria’s TEMPLARS marks international expansion with Ghana joint venture

Growing demand for services across West Africa sees TEMPLARS add team from Accra-based AMPEM Chambers to launch new firm

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Ashurst to launch in Korea after striking first ever joint venture deal

JV with HwaHyun hands Anglo Australian firm unique ability to practise local law

Venable absorbs Florida firm Genovese Joblove & Battista to launch in Miami

Deal will add more than 30 South Florida lawyers to Venable’s roster across three offices

Spain’s Cuatrecasas integrates with Portuguese firm SLCM in Lisbon

SLCM’s team will operate under the Cuatrecasas brand from January next year

DWF enters Canada legal market through £27.7m deal to buy Vancouver law firm

Acquisition of Whitelaw Twining follows tie-ups in Portugal, Spain and Hong Kong

Womble Bond Dickinson and UK's BDB Pitmans in merger talks

Deal would create transatlantic firm with around 1,100 fee earners and revenue of more than £500m

Morrison Foerster absorbs 'stellar' Californian litigation boutique Durie Tangri

Durie Tangri’s 36 lawyers to move across, boosting MoFo's West Coast IP coverage

Dentons announces ‘historic’ combination with India’s Link Legal

Move sees Dentons become first international law firm to combine with a law firm in India

Local law firm group MAPD takes majority stake in North-West firm Bermans

Group is actively looking for more potential deals as it seeks to expand nationwide

Norton Rose Fulbright absorbs 10-strong renewables-focused Chicago real estate boutique

Global firm builds on April office launch with additions to 'cornerstones' practice areas of projects and real estate

Clyde & Co further expands Latin America footprint with Chile merger

Deal with partner firm Grasty Quintana Majlis and Halpern Pino establishes permanent base in Santiago

Womble Bond Dickinson expands US platform with San Francisco tie-up

Merger with Cooper White & Cooper pushes Anglo-US firm's California network past 50 lawyers

Clyde & Co’s £700m merger with BLM goes live

Combination creates UK's 11th largest law firm by revenue and largest casualty insurance team

Eversheds Sutherland expands Central and Eastern Europe business with Bulgarian tie-up

Firm combines with four-parter Sofia-based outfit Tsvetkova Bebov & Partners

Fennemore agrees tie-up with 113-year old East Bay firm Wendel Rosen

Deal adds 56 lawyers to Fennemore’s roster, taking its total headcount to 250

Eversheds Sutherlands expands Irish business with Kenny Solicitors tie-up

Kenny’s founder Graham Kenny will become a partner in Eversheds’ disputes practice

Nigerian firm Aluko & Oyebode joins African legal alliance ALN

Deal expands ALN’s coverage to 16 jurisdictions and third in West Africa

Law firm mergers: the cultural iceberg below the surface

If people buy off people, then it’s the individuals mergers bring together that will ultimately make them a success or failure, writes Jeff Zindani

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BLM salaried partners to become legal directors under Clyde & Co merger plans

Around 140 salaried partners face having to apply to regain partner status in 'disruptive and potentially unsettling' process

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