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
12/10/18	Fox Rothschild Acquires San Francisco Family Law Boutique	The Legal Intelligencer
12/06/18	Maynard Cooper Adds Los Angeles Litigation Firm	The Recorder
12/04/18	Dykema Gossett to Acquire DC Boutique	law.com
12/03/18	DeWitt Ross Acquires Minneapolis IP Boutique	DeWitt Ross & Stevens
11/27/18	Small Michigan Firms Merge	BusinessWire

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Current Quarter

Link	Report Date	Firm 1	Main Office	Size	&	Firm 2	Main Office	Size
	11/01/18	Burr & Forman	Birmingham AL	281	&	McNair	Columbia SC	84
	10/02/18	Day Ketterer	Canton OH	39	&	Goldman & Rosen	Akron OH	6
	10/29/18	Day Pitney	Parsippany NJ	252	&	Richman Greer	Miami	15
	12/03/18	DeWitt Ross & Stevens	Madison WI	132	&	Nikolai & Mersereau	Minneapolis MN	3
	11/14/18	Drummond Woodsum	Portland ME	89	&	Gardner Fulton & Waugh	Lebanon NH	8
	12/04/18	Dykema Gossett	Bloomfield Hills MI	384	&	Loss Judge & Ward	Washington DC	12
	11/02/18	Fairchild Law Offices	Chicago	6	&	Morgan Legal Group	Milwaukee	2
	12/10/18	Fox Rothschild	Philadelphia	933	&	Apex Family Law	San Francisco	5
	11/13/18	Hammond Young Immigration Law	Silver Spring MD	5	&	Grossman Law	Bethesda MD	4
	11/01/18	Jones Walker	New Orleans LA	342	&	Liles & Rushin	Birmingham AL	2
	11/27/18	Lippitt O'Keefe Gornbein	Birmingham MI	14	&	Serra Donovan Law Group	Rochester MI	2
	11/12/18	Maki & Overom	Duluth MN	5	&	Dryer Storaasli Knutson & Pommerville	Duluth MN	3
	11/15/18	Mandell Menkes	Chicago	13	&	Leavens Strand & Glover	Chicago	5
	10/09/18	Manning Gross & Massenburg	Boston MA	84	&	Kurowski Shultz	O'Fallon IL	23
	10/01/18	Margolis & Bloom	Wellesley MA	8	&	Russell McTernan McTernan & Fruci	Norwood MA	4
	12/06/18	Maynard Cooper & Gale	Birmingham AL	281	&	Kumagai Law Group	Los Angeles CA	3
	11/13/18	McCormick Barstow	Fresno CA	78	&	Sinsheimer Juhnke McIvor & Stroh	San Luis Obispo CA	6
	11/06/18	Morgan & Morgan	Orlando	411	&	Alley Clark & Greiwe	Tampa	3
	10/15/18	Offit Kurman	Philadelphia	173	&	Salon Marrow Kyckman Newman & Broudy	New York	10
	10/19/18	Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas	New York NY	47	&	Mayerson Abramowitz & Kahn	New York NY	6
	10/01/18	Tully Rinckey	Albany NY	72	&	Harris Chesworth Johnstone & Welch	Rochester NY	5
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