- Choate, Hall & Stewart
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Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP is a Boston-based law firm founded in 1899. It is currently one of the largest law firms in the Greater Boston market, and one of the old-line Boston Brahmin firms which has previously been described by The New York Times as having a reputation for being "stuffy."[1] Legal press reports suggest that the addition of 10 partners and their team of associates from the defunct Boston law firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault in 2005 who specialized in technology, venture capital and private equity infused Choate with new blood and new sociability.[2] Currently the firm employs 200 attorneys and 250 staff members all working out of a single Boston office at Two International Place. Choate Hall & Stewart is well regarded in the Boston legal community and ranked in legal publications in a number of substantive areas such as mergers and acquisitions, private equity, antitrust, intellectual property prosecution and litigation, general commercial litigation, healthcare and bankruptcy law.[3]
Notable transactions
- Represented Unisphere Networks, a subsidiary of Siemens in its 2002 sale to Juniper Networks for total consideration of $740 million in combination of cash and Juniper stock.
References
- ^ David Margolick, 'In Which Boston Brahmin Law Firms Slug it Out. Genteelly, Of Course.' The New York Times, December 1, 1989.
- ^ Vault Survey, 2008. http://www.vault.com/companies/company_main.jsp?co_page=2&product_id=10457&ch_id=242&v=2&tabnum=2
- ^ Chambers & Partners http://www.chambersandpartners.com/USA/Firms/3578-32533
External links
Categories:- Law firms based in Boston, Massachusetts
- Law firms established in 1899
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