Altman Weil MergerLine™

Welcome to Altman Weil MergerLine™, tracking law firm mergers and acquisitions as they are reported by the press. MergerLine compiles news of mergers and acquisitions of all sizes involving at least one US law firm (including vereins with a US partnership component).  Lawyer headcounts are derived from published league tables, directories and law firm websites.

In 2017, Altman Weil published Ten Years of Law Firm Mergers and Acquisitions, 2007-2016.  The report includes a ten year retrospective on market activity, lists the 25 largest deals of the decade, profiles the ten most active state markets, and includes special sections on cross-border combinations, the acquisitions of AmLaw 200 firms, and the most active deal-makers.

Latest Headlines

Report Date   Headline   Source
6/17/19   Midsized Seattle Firms to Merge   Seattle Times
6/12/19   Dentons to Acquire Zimbabwe Firm   The American Lawyer
6/12/19   Small Birmingham Alabama Firms Merge   Digital Journal
6/09/19   Duluth Minnesota Firms Merge   Duluth News Tribune
6/05/19   Babst Calland Adds Texas Office   Pittsburgh Business Journal

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2016 Mergers

Link Report
Date 		Firm 1 Main
Office		 Size & Firm 2 Main
Office		 Size
12/31/16 Lundberg Law Offices Jamestown NY 5 & Price Flowers Malin & Westerburg Jamestown NY 3
12/23/16 Flynn & Riordan Worthington MN 3 & Mork Darling & Hagemann Worthington MN 2
12/16/16 Eversheds London 1900 & Sutherland Asbill & Brennan Atlanta 400
12/13/16 Halford Niemiec & Freeman Fort Mill SC 3 & Haselden Owen & Boloyan Lake Wylie SC 3
12/12/16 Faruki Ireland & Cox Dayton OH 17 & BGD Law Cincinnati OH 6
12/07/16 Jackson Lewis Los Angeles 805 & Denlinger Rosenthal & Greenberg Cincinnati 7
12/07/16 Dentons New York 7600 & Munoz Global San Jose, Costa Rica 75
12/01/16 Kelley Drye & Warren New York 300 & Jackson Gilmour & Dobbs Houston 14
11/30/16 Freeman Mathis & Gary Atlanta 72 & Edgerton & Weaver Hermosa Beach CA 11
11/30/16 Spencer Fane Kansas City 160 & Berenbaum Weinshienk Denver 30
11/30/16 McCandlish Holton Richmond VA 26 & Morris & Morris Richmond VA 13
11/29/16 Holman Fenwick Willan London 450 & Legge Farrow Kimmitt McGrath & Brown Houston 17
11/29/16 Attea & Attea Hamburg NY 6 & Barone and Barone Orchard Park NY 2
11/28/16 von Briesen & Roper Milwaukee 139 & Weiss Berzowski Milwaukee 14
11/18/16 Brouse McDowell Akron OH 73 & Nadler Nadler and Burdman Canfield OH 8
11/10/16 Arnold & Porter Washington DC 700 & Kaye Scholer New York 375
10/31/16 Baker Donelson Memphis TN 700 & Ober Kaler Baltimore MD 110
10/31/16 Fitzpatrick & Hunt Pagano Aubert New York NY 22 & Pino & Associates White Plains NY 9
10/17/16 Littler Los Angeles 1070 & Fromont Briens Paris 170
10/10/16 Royse Law Firm Menlo Park CA 23 & Peters Verny Palo Alto CA 2
10/06/16 Haight Brown & Bonesteel Los Angeles 64 & CVM Law Group Sacramento 5
10/05/16 Seyfarth Shaw Chicago 850 & Fanelli Haag Washington DC 4
10/04/16 Sheehey Furlong & Behm Burlington VT 14 & Melendy Moritz Woodstock VT 2
10/04/16 Pullman & Comley Bridgeport CT 89 & Jeffers Cowherd Fairfield CT 6
10/03/16 Sowell Gray Stepp & Lafitte Columbia SC 19 & Robinson McFadden and Moore Columbia SC 13
9/20/16 DLA Piper New York 3756 & Dimock Stratton Toronto 16
9/12/16 Norton Rose Fulbright Houston 3800 & Bull Housser Vancouver 92
9/12/16 Joseph Hollander & Craft Wichita KS 16 & Erickson Scherff Overland Park KS 2
9/12/16 Kirkland & Ellis Chicago 1700 & Bancroft PLLC Washington DC 17
9/06/16 Woods Rogers Roanoke VA 59 & Edmunds & Williams Lynchburg VA 15
8/09/16 Bingham Greenebaum Doll Indianapolis 210 & Rhine Ernest Evansville IN 2
8/06/16 Clark Hill Detroit 350 & Axe & Ecklund Grosse Pointe MI 2
8/01/16 Greenspoon Marder Fort Lauderdale FL 185 & Florida Health Law Center Fort Lauderdale FL 5
7/25/16 Stanley Law Offices Syracuse NY 4 & Fallon Fallon & Bigsby Syracuse NY 3
7/11/16 Paul Hastings New York 912 & Zaccaro Morgan Los Angeles 6
7/08/16 Manion Gaynor & Manning Boston 67 & Glaspy & Glaspy Walnut Creek CA 7
7/06/16 Loewinsohn Flegle Deary Dallas 10 & Simon Ray & Winikka Dallas 5
6/30/16 DLA Piper New York 3756 & Gronberg Advokatbyra Stockholm 21
6/30/16 Wilson Elser New York 815 & Jankoff & Gabe New York 3
6/30/16 Haynes & Boone Dallas 585 & Curtis Davis Garrard London 20
6/28/16 Blank Rome Philadelphia 630 & Phillips Lerner Los Angeles 4
6/27/16 Momkus McCluskey Lisle IL 24 & Nyberg & Cassioppi Naperville IL 4
6/27/16 Momkus McCluskey Lisle IL 24 & Roberts PC Wheaton IL 3
6/23/16 CzepigaDalyPope Berlin CT 9 & Law Offices of Barbara Reynolds and Lynda Lee Arnold New Milford CT 2
6/22/16 Cullen and Dykman Garden City NY 138 & Sokol Behot Hackensack NJ 14
6/12/16 Goodrich Law Firm Billings MT 3 & Reely Law Firm Missoula MT 2
6/03/16 Cozen O'Connor Philadelphia 600 & Feldman Gale Miami 15
6/02/16 Anderson Kill New York 72 & Rosen Livingston and Cholst New York 10
6/01/16 McCalla Raymer Atlanta 75 & Pierce & Associates Chicago 50
5/26/16 Clyde & Co. London 1800 & Thornton Davis & Fein Miami 18
5/24/16 Boies Schiller New York 290 & O'Shea Partners New York 5
5/20/16 Leiderman Shelomith Fort Lauderdale 3 & Alexander & Somodevilla Miami 2
5/18/16 Scarinci Hollenbeck Lyndhurst NJ 47 & Bienstock & Michael Hackensack NJ 5
5/18/16 Goede Adamczyk DeBoest & Cross Naples FL 19 & McClosky D'Anna & Dieterle Boca Raton FL 2
5/13/16 Pashman Stein Hackensack NJ 33 & Walder Hayden Roseland NJ 12
5/07/16 Holland & Knight Washington DC 1168 & Clark Ricketts London 6
5/02/16 Freeborn & Peters Chicago 120 & Brenner Evans & Millman Richmond VA 6
4/29/16 Husch Blackwell Kansas City MO 560 & Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek Milwaukee WI 144
4/27/16 Fox Rothschild Philadelphia 739 & Myers Kenney San Francisco 3
4/27/16 Fox Rothschild Philadelphia 742 & Rothenberg Hyett Eisen & Lang Boca Raton FL 3
4/04/16 Greenspoon Marder Fort Lauderdale 172 & Jacob Medinger & Finnegan New York NY 9
4/04/16 Parmele Law Firm Springfield MO 13 & RGG Law Springfield MO 3
4/04/16 Brown & Connery Westmont NJ 37 & Freeman Huber Sacks Brennan & Fingerman Haddonfield NJ 7
4/01/16 Meyer Capel Champaign IL 33 & Ansel Law Ltd. Champaign IL 3
4/01/16 High Swartz Norristown PA 19 & McNamara Bolla & Panzer Doylestown PA 9
3/24/16 Offit Kurman Baltimore 122 & Kelley Partners Philadelphia 3
3/03/16 FordHarrison Atlanta 215 & Rose Kallor Hartford 5
2/24/16 Poole & Shaffery Los Angeles 20 & McDowell Odom Valencia CA 2
2/22/16 Squire Patton Boggs Washington DC 1500 & Carroll Burdick & McDonough San Francisco 50
2/18/16 Schouest Bamdas Soshea & BenMaier Houston 27 & Fitzhugh & Elliott Houston 4
2/14/16 Schneider Smeltz Ranney & LaFond Cleveland 17 & Spieth Bell McCurdy & Newell Cleveland 11
2/01/16 DLA Piper New York 3756 & Peltonen LMR Helsinki 30
2/01/16 Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis Nashville 204 & Taube Summers Harrison Taylor Meinzer Brown Austin 13
1/30/16 Bowman and Brooke Minneapolis 149 & Seipp Flick & Hosley Miami 29
1/22/16 Ryan & Faenza Walpole MA 6 & Cataldo Law Offices Franklin MA 4
1/20/16 Foster Swift Collins & Smith Lansing MI 95 & DeFrancesco Dienes & Smith St. Joseph MI 3
1/13/16 Lewis Brisbois Los Angeles 1023 & Mannion and Gray Cleveland 14
1/11/16 Gallagher and Stein Damariscotta ME 2 & Law Offices of Marcia E. DeGeer Damariscotta ME 2
1/08/16 Coats Rose Houston 91 & Wright Ginsberg & Brusilow Dallas 16
1/07/16 Clark Hill Detroit 295 & Martin Brown Sullivan Roadman & Hartnett Chicago 7
1/05/16 Skiermont Puckett Dallas 10 & Derby Curtis Los Angeles 4
1/04/16 FordHarrison Atlanta GA 152 & Waldman Law New York NY 2
1/04/16 Lewis Roca Rothgerber Phoenix 216 & Christie Parker & Hale Glendale CA 39
1/04/16 Martinez White & Viniegra Coral Gables FL 6 & Espinosa Trueba Miami 3
1/04/16 Morningstar Law Group Morrisville NC 21 & Wood Jackson Raleigh NC 4
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