In a significant set of legal team movements, Arnold & Porter has welcomed six partners from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. These partners will be based out of the firm’s Chicago, Denver, and New York offices and are expected enhance the company’s M&A and transactional capabilities, as well as its finance and real estate practices, according to firm leaders Global Legal Post.
Ongoing change within the industry has affected several other firms as well, with other notable moves including Annie Herdman’s switch from Ropes & Gray to join Paul Weiss’ London outpost, which now includes 20 partners and over 100 lawyers. Further south, Hinckley Allen merged with Fort Lauderdale-based firm Ferencik Libanoff Brandt Bustamante and Goldstein, broadening Hinckley’s presence in Florida with seven additional lawyers, according to Hartford Business Journal.
In retrospect, Atlanta-founded Alston & Bird’s management attributes the firm’s success to its local growth strategy, emphasizing the importance of Georgia-based clientslike Coca-Cola Co., Mohawk Industries Inc., MiMedx Group Inc., and Veritiv Corp. This philosophy underscores Alston & Bird’s standing as one of the top 50 firms in the AmLaw rankings. “In many ways, our success is simply a reflection of the success that clients in Georgia have experienced within and beyond the state,” clarified firm chairman Richard Hays Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Information about the complete set of lateral moves and partner appointments can be found on the original article from Bloomberg Law.