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. Our focus is U.S. firms, but we will report on significant combinations wherever they occur. Lawyer headcounts are derived from published league tables, directories and law firm websites.
Latest Headlines
| Report Date | Headline | Source | ||
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| 10/10/08 | Two Iowa Firms Merge | Cedar Rapids Gazette | ||
| 10/06/08 | Crowell & Moring Acquires Lightfoot Vandevelde | PR Newswire | ||
| 9/30/08 | Constangy Brooks Expands to West Coast | Constangy Brooks & Smith | ||
| 9/23/08 | Hughes Hubbard Acquires NYC Bankruptcy Boutique | New York Lawyer | ||
| 9/15/08 | Orrick Merges with German Firm Holters & Elsing | The Lawyer |
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Current Quarter
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7/30/08 | Alston & Bird | Atlanta | 810 | & | Weston Benshoof Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish | Los Angeles | 83 | ||||||||
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7/16/08 | Husch Blackwell Sanders | St. Louis & Kansas City | 630 | & | Welsh & Katz | Chicago | 41 | ||||||||
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8/25/08 | Fox Rothschild | Philadelphia | 430 | & | Synnestvedt & Lechner | Philadelphia | 8 | ||||||||
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10/10/08 | Simmons Perrine | Cedar Rapids IA | 38 | & | Moyer & Bergman | Cedar Rapids IA | 24 | ||||||||
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9/10/08 | Adorno & Yoss | Miami | 270 | & | Monty Partners | Houston | 11 | ||||||||
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8/14/08 | Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrere & Denegre | New Orleans | 240 | & | Miller Hamilton Snider & Odom | Mobile AL | 32 | ||||||||
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9/23/08 | Hughes Hubbard & Reed | New York | 286 | & | Luskin Stern & Eisler | New York | 8 | ||||||||
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10/06/08 | Crowell & Moring | Washington DC | 440 | & | Lightfoot Vandevelde Sadowsky Crouchley Rutherford & Levine | Los Angeles | 7 | ||||||||
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7/17/08 | Smith Moore | Greensboro NC | 130 | & | Leatherwood | Greenville SC | 50 | ||||||||
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9/30/08 | Constangy Brooks & Smith | Atlanta | 114 | & | Landegger Baron & Lavenant | Encino CA | 10 | ||||||||
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8/07/08 | Taft Stettinius & Hollister | Cincinnati | 350 | & | Kahn Kleinman | Cleveland | 31 | ||||||||
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9/15/08 | Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe | San Francisco | 1100 | & | Holters & Elsing | Dusseldorf Germany | 51 | ||||||||
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7/24/08 | Apperson Crump & Maxwell | Memphis | 27 | & | Gary K. Smith & Associates | Memphis | 4 | ||||||||
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7/31/08 | Evans & Petree | Memphis | 29 | & | Bogatin Law Firm | Memphis | 10 | ||||||||
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8/25/08 | Burke Williams & Sorensen | Los Angeles | 61 | & | Bannan Frank & Terzian | Los Angeles | 13 | ||||||||
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8/11/08 | Offit Kurman | Maple Lawn MD | 41 | & | Abrahams Loewenstein & Bushman | Philadelphia | 10 | ||||||||
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Archive
- 2008 - Quarter 3 summary
- 2008 - Quarter 2 summary
- 2008 - Quarter 1 summary
- 2007 Mergers & Acquisitions
- 2007 Mergers & Acquisitions by Region
- 2007 Mergers & Acquisitions by Size of Acquired Firm
- 2007 Merger & Acquisition Activity by Month
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