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
1/05/21	Milberg Combines with Greg Coleman Law	New York Law Journal
1/05/21	Milberg Combines with Sanders Phillips Grossman	New York Law Journal
1/05/21	Milberg Combines with Whitfield Bryson	New York Law Journal
1/04/21	Dinsmore Acquires Indiana Firm	The American Lawyer
1/01/21	Small Connecticut Firms Combine	Connecticut Law Tribune

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2020 Mergers

Link	Report Date	Firm 1	Main Office	Size	&	Firm 2	Main Office	Size
	9/10/20	Craig & Gatzoulis	Manchester NH	2	&	Law Office of Thomas Craig	Manchester NH	2
	2/27/20	Boldt Law Firm	Boca Raton FL	3	&	Ratzan Law Group	Miami FL	2
	8/18/20	McManamy Jackson	Savannah GA	4	&	Lee Black & Hollis	Savannah GA	3
	5/06/20	Rupp Wesche Hagans	Archbold OH	5	&	Gallagher & Rohrs	Bryan OH	2
	12/23/20	Crumpler Freedman Parker & Witt	Winston-Salem NC	5	&	Surratt Thompson & Ceberio	Winston-Salem NC	5
	4/13/20	Albers & Associates	Westminster MD	6	&	Decker Tychostup & Friedman	Baltimore MD	3
	9/17/20	Hickey, Hauck, Bishoff & Jeffers	Detroit MI	7	&	Seabolt Law Firm	Livonia MI	3
	4/02/20	Marshall Grant	Boca Raton FL	7	&	SRM Law	Chicago IL	2
	11/17/20	Slack Davis Sanger	Austin TX	8	&	Guajardo & Marks	Dallas TX	2
	1/15/20	Stone Genow	Beverly Hills CA	10	&	Goodman Schenkman	Beverly Hills CA	7
	7/22/20	Clendening Johnson & Bohrer	Bloomington IN	10	&	Hehner & Associates	Indianapolis IN	2
	7/05/20	Gottlieb Johnston Beam & Dal Ponte	Zanesville OH	11	&	Leech Scherbel & Peddicord	Coshocton OH	2
	3/10/20	Hirschen Singer & Epstein	New York, NY	12	&	Slater & Beckerman	New York, NY	4
	8/06/20	Nolte IP	Houston TX	16	&	Lackenbach Siegel	Scarsdale NY	13
	11/30/20	Harris St. Laurent	New York NY	17	&	Wechsler & Cohen	New York, NY	5
	1/08/20	Suisman Shapiro	New London CT	19	&	Avena & Kepple	Pawcatuck CT	2
	7/29/20	Buckley King	Cleveland OH	20	&	Altick & Corwin	Dayton	3
	10/09/20	Wolfsdorf Rosenthal	Santa Monica CA	23	&	Chin & Curtis	Boston MA	12
	8/31/20	Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan	Greenwich CT	24	&	Smith & Grant	Greenwich CT	4
	12/22/20	Brown Hay & Stephens	Springfield IL	30	&	Kehart Peckert Wise & Lewis	Decatur IL	5
	7/01/20	Katz Korin Cunningham	Indianapolis IN	31	&	Cantrell & Mehringer	Indianapolis	3
	1/08/20	Lipson Neilson	Bloomfield Hills MI	34	&	Alber Frank	Troy MI	4
	5/20/20	Lamb McErlane	West Chester PA	36	&	Imperatrice Amarant & Bell	Newtown Square PA	5
	10/01/20	Wallace Jordan Ratliff & Brandt	Birmingham AL	38	&	Redden Mills Clark & Shaw	Birmingham AL	2
	8/31/20	Meyers Nave	Oakland CA	58	&	Brown Law Group	San Diego CA	7
	1/07/20	Lightfoot Franklin	Birmingham AL	60	&	Levinthal Wilkins	Houston TX	3
	12/01/20	Genova Burns	Newark NJ	62	&	Wasserman Jurista & Stolz	Basking Ridge NJ	4
	9/08/20	Munck Wilson Mandala	Dallas TX	66	&	Simpson Law Group	Richardson TX	2
	6/22/20	Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman	Miami FL	68	&	DuBosar Law Group	Boca Raton FL	2
	7/08/20	Whiteman Osterman & Hanna	Albany NY	76	&	McNamee Lochner	Albany NY	12
	8/20/20	Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel & Burns	Tampa FL	78	&	Ford & Ford	St. Petersburg FL	2
	7/01/20	Much Shelist	Chicago IL	96	&	Zfaty Burns	Newport Beach CA	6
	8/25/20	Miller Johnson	Grand Rapids MI	99	&	Lusk Albertson	Detroit MI	6
	2/03/20	Lippes Matthias	Buffalo NY	104	&	Deily & Glastetter	Albany NY	6
	1/30/20	Segal McCambridge	Chicago	108	&	McIntosh Sawran & Cartaya	Ft. Lauderdale	10
	7/28/20	Fennemore Craig	Phoenix AZ	124	&	Dowling Aaron	Fresno CA	46
	1/02/20	Burns White	Pittsburgh	143	&	Christie & Young	Philadelphia	13
	10/30/20	Connell Foley	Roseland NJ	144	&	Dornbaum & Peregoy	Millburn NJ	4
	8/03/20	Bressler Amery & Ross	Florham Park NJ	145	&	Ballard & Littlefield	Houston	6
	2/06/20	Kelley Kronenberg	Ft. Lauderdale FL	150	&	Talenfeld Law	Ft. Lauderdale FL	4
	12/23/20	Stevens & Lee	Reading PA	166	&	Morais Law	Moorestown NJ	2
	11/02/20	von Breisen & Roper	Milwaukee WI	187	&	Miller Matthias & Hull	Chicago	9
	8/03/20	Miles & Stockbridge	Baltimore MD	216	&	Taylor & Ryan	Pikesville MD	2
	12/17/20	Curtis Mallet-Prevost	New York NY	225	&	Bichot & Associes	Paris, France	4
	12/11/20	Offit Kurman	Bethesda MD	233	&	Law Offices of James C. Hardin	Rock Hill SC	2
	8/28/20	Bond Schoeneck & King	Syracuse NY	240	&	The Wolford Law Firm	Rochester NY	3
	1/09/20	Brownstein Hyatt	Denver	250	&	Hyperion Advisors	Las Vegas	2
	2/26/20	Michael Best	Milwaukee	288	&	RWR Legal	Austin	3
	1/06/20	Snell & Wilmer	Phoenix	435	&	Assayag Mauss	Costa Mesa CA	8
	12/01/20	Dickinson Wright	Detroit MI	475	&	Stahl Cowen Crowley Addis	Chicago IL	12
	1/28/20	Clark Hill	Detroit	650	&	Law Offices of Carl Shusterman	Los Angeles	5
	1/09/20	Troutman Sanders	Atlanta	650	&	Pepper Hamilton	Philadelphia	450
	5/04/20	Cozen O'Connor	Philadelphia	750	&	Baer Crossey McDemus	Philadelphia	9
	10/13/20	Nelson Mullins & Scarborough	Atlanta	762	&	Shanahan Law Group	Raleigh NC	9
	11/17/20	Nelson Mullins	Atlanta GA	762	&	Redgrave LLP	Chantilly VA	9
	1/16/20	Duane Morris	Philadelphia	800	&	Satterlee Stephens	New York	65
	12/04/20	Fox Rothschild	Philadelphia PA	930	&	Greene Radovsky Maloney Share & Hennigh	San Francisco CA	21
	11/03/20	Littler Mendelson	Los Angeles	1500	&	Abdon Pedrajas	Madrid	39
	6/01/20	Littler	Los Angeles CA	1500	&	Paruch Chrusciel Schiffter	Warsaw	20
	2/18/20	Littler	Los Angeles CA	1500	&	Gerlach Rechtsanwalte	Vienna Austria	3
	8/26/20	K&L Gates	Pittsburgh PA	1700	&	Richards Patent Law	Chicago IL	3
	9/22/20	Dentons	New York NY	10000	&	East African Law Chambers	Dar es Salaam Tanzania	18
	12/22/20	Dentons	New York NY	10000	&	Sirote & Permutt	Birmingham AL	86
	12/08/20	Dentons	New York NY	10000	&	Davis Brown	Des Moines IA	78
	8/11/20	Dentons	New York NY	10000	&	Durham Jones & Pinegar	Salt Lake City UT	96
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