St. Louis’ Holme Roberts & Owen and Bryan Cave LLP
The merger plans to go into effect beginning January 1, 2012. When finalized, the merger will elevate Bryan Cave to be within the top 25 largest firms throughout the entire world. It will have 30 offices across the globe, employing well over 1,000 lawyers on staff. Bryan Cave will also become a full-service firm in Colorado, that only international full-service firm in that area.
Chairman of Brayan Cave, Don G. Lents said, “Extending our geographic reach while expanding the range of our services in California are important steps in our firm’s long-term growth. We are very pleased to have our colleagues lawyers coming from a firm with the stature of HRO, a name that has been synonymous with the highest-quality legal work in its region for more than a century.”
Holme Roberts is a 113-year-old firm. It is headquartered in Denver, Colorado and also has offices in the cities of Dublin, London, San Francisco, Boulder, Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City. Holme Roberts reaches into a variety of business industries including: mining, natural resources, energy, technology industries and telecommunications. It has also had recent expansion into environmental law and security transactions.
Managing parter of Holme Roberts, Randy Miller, said, “It was clear to us from the beginning that Bryan Cave and HRO share common values, including a passion for building long-term relationships with clients. This combination allows for the unbroken continuity of those professional relationships while also permitting us to offer a wider array of legal services to existing and new clients.”
Bryan Cave also underwent a recent expansion over the course of the last month. It maintains an overall strategy to broaden its reach into Germany substantially. The firm announces that a Frankfurt, Germany office is opening, making it the second office from the firm in the country. This will go a long way to expand its legal team throughout the country over the next five years, which is a part of its overall plan.
It has been a busy year for law firm mergers this year. The year 2010 only had 39 mergers. However, this year has had 55 different mergers.