Pacific NW and East Coast MergerOn Jan 1. Seattle firm Davis Wright Tremaine will merge with Washington, D.C-based Cole, Raywid & Braverman. Through this merger, Davis Wright will gain a boutique firm with 35 cable and telecommunications lawyers. Cole Raywid's attorneys will be added into Davis Wright's communications, media and technology law practice, increasing that group's numbers to 120 nationwide. Davis Wright ranked 115 in The American Lawyer's latest Am Law 200 survey, with firmwide revenues of $186 million and profits per partner of $360,000. Cole Raywid's revenues and profits are comparable to Davis Wright's.
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Partnerships and Moves in NYEight attorneys recently made partner at NY's Sullivan & Cromwell. Baker & McKenzie also adds four new lawyers to its New York office as partners. Similarly, in firms across the country such as Winston & Strawn (Chicago) and Miller & Chevalier (Washington), attorneys are making lateral moves and joining new firms as partners.
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Lateral Acquisition for Orrick, Herrington & SutcliffeOrrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe strengthened its China practice through its acquisition of structured-finance lawyer Michelle Taylor. Taylor joins the 23-lawyer Hong Kong office as a partner after leaving Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker's Hong Kong office where she was a partner in the corporate group. Within the past couple months, Orrick has lost some lateral some lateral partners, so this addition comes at a good time.
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TX Attorneys on the MoveTexas firm Winstead Sechrest & Minick has gained several new lawyers in three offices around the state. The Austin office welcomed Scott Rhodes; Dallas gained eight new attorneys; and three new lawyers joined the Houston office.
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Bingham McCutchen's New Hong Kong OfficeBoston firm Bingham McCutchen is set to open a Hong Kong office this January. This office will focus on advising existing financial-institution clients in Asia. The Hong Kong opening comes after Bingham's merger with Swidler Berlin of D.C., and after Bingham's Jay Zimmermann stated that the firm hopes to expand its international operation. After completing six mergers, Zimmerman has morphed this firm into a national powerhouse.
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Lateral Moves for CA LawyersThe California firm Rosen, Bien, & Asaro is now Rosen, Bien, & Galvan after the loss of partner Andrea Asaro and the appointment of new name partner Ernest Galvan. The firm has also relocated to new offices on the 10th floor of 315 Montgomery St. and gained four associates specializing in public interest and private sector litigation. Galvan, a graduate of Yale Law School, has been with the firm since 1998 and handles general and complex civil litigation, emphasizing civil rights, employment and attorneys fee cases.
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Buffalo & Birmingham Firms' New NY OfficesHodgson Russ of Buffalo and Birmingham's Whatley Drake & Kallas are opening new offices in New York. For Whatley Drake & Kallas, fifteen attorneys now call the 37th floor of 1540 Broadway home; Hodgson Russ has 31 lawyers in their 24th floor office. Drawn to the tower for its views of Time Square, both firms have 10 year leases on their new spaces.
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New Laterals at Hiscock & BarclayThe Albany office of Hiscock & Barclay gains two new laterals from McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams. Michael J. Grygiel and William A. Hurst join the firm as partners, and will practice in the new media and First Amendment law practice area.
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Lateral Move for High-Profile LitigatorDeMaurice Smith, a litigator from the D.C. office of Latham & Watkins, made a move to Patton Boggs last week. Smith was formerly a prosecutor and a counsel, but at this firm he says he’ll focus on white-collar criminal defense matters and tort liability trials. Other Latham lawyers have moved to Patton Boggs this year; in April 30 litigators from Latham’s Newark office joined the team.
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NY Office Bolstered by Boutique AcquisitionCrowell & Moring of Washington D.C. has added the boutique firm King Pagano Harrison and ten partners from the intellectual property boutique Morgan & Finnegan to its New York office. The office opened in September with only two partners, so the moves increase the total number of New York lawyers for Crowell & Moring to 15. Nationwide, Crowell & Moring has around 300 lawyers.
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Drinker Biddle and Gardner MergeAfter months of discussion and planning, Philadelphia-based Drinker Biddle & Reath and Chicago-based Gardner Carton & Douglas have recently announced that the two firms will merge. Taking effect on Jan. 1, 2007, this merger will create a firm with 651 lawyers and 26 other professionals across 12 offices. After the combination, the firm will have offices in three of the five biggest markets for bankruptcy filings: New York, Delaware and Chicago, and will have a combined gross revenue of about $350 million.
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New Partners in NY FirmsSeveral firms in New York have recently acquired new partners and/or promoted associates to partner. Paul M. Kaplan, an antitrust counselor and litigator, has joined Bryan Cave as a partner, two criminal defense attorneys from Buchanan Ingersoll joined Carter Ledyard & Milburn as partners. Four lawyers at Morrison Cohen will be promoted on Jan. 1, and at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Denise Tormey was named managing partner in NY.
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Philadelphia Firm Adds New LateralsOn Monday November 6, John A. Nixon and Michael E. Bleier will move to Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen’s Philadelphia offices, concluding decades of work at their respective former employers. Nixon leaves Blank Rome after 13 years, and Bleier comes from 25 years at Mellon Financial Corp. There has been other lateral hiring recently in Philadelphia including Brian Guthrie’s move to Saul Ewing and Majorie Jacobs new job at Duane Morris.
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Sills, Cummis, Epstein & Gross ExpandsThe 160-lawyer New Jersey firm opened 20,000 square feet of new office space in Princeton with hopes of expanding. With gross revenues of $84.6 million for the 2005 fiscal year, Sills, Cummis, Epstein & Gross ranked fifth in the New Jersey Law Journal Top 20 survey of NJ’s largest grossing firms.
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NY IP Partner's Lateral MoveMargaret B. Brivanlou, a patent prosecution specialist who focuses on the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, has left Jones Day. She joined Jones Day when that firm acquired most of the lawyers of now-defunct IP boutique Pennie & Edmonds in 2003. Ms. Brivanlou joins the NY team of King & Spaulding, the Atlanta-based firm with almost 200 lawyers in its New York office and over 800 worldwide.
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Two New Litigators at Fulbright & JaworskiFulbright & Jaworski has gained two new litigators from Winston & Strawn. Daniel R. Murdock and Mr. Smith, both from Winston & Strawn, join the NY firm with expectations to focus on commercial litigation, anti-trust, white-collar, and securities regulatory matters. Fulbright & Jaworski employs about 1,000 lawyers around the country, with around 130 in New York.
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Chicago MergerSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is representing the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in its $8 billion acquisition of the Chicago Board of Trade, which is being advised by Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. Subject to shareholder and regulatory approval, this merger would create the largest financial market in the world if it goes through.
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East Coast Firms Set to MergeNew Jersey firm Pitney Hardin and Connecticut-based Day, Berry & Howard are set to merge as of the beginning of 2007. The combined firm will have a significant East Coast presence, with approximately 400 attorneys in offices located in New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston, among others.
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