DLA Piper

DLA Piper
No. of offices	76[1]
No. of attorneys	Approximately 4,200[1]
Major practice areas	Arbitration, Banking, Competition and Trade, Corporate Crime, Corporate Finance, Employment, Energy, Hospitality and Leisure, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Pensions, Private Equity, Real Estate, Tax, Technology
Key people	Frank Burch (Global Chairman) Sir Nigel Knowles (Joint CEO) Lee I. Miller (Joint CEO)
Date founded	2005 (merger)[2]
Company type	International law firm
Website
dlapiper.com

DLA Piper is a global law firm with 76 offices across 30 countries and more than 4,200 lawyers.^[1] As of May 2011, it was the largest law firm in the world by number of attorneys. ^[3] The firm's global revenues were $1.92 billion in 2009-2010.^[4] The firm is composed of two partnerships, DLA Piper International, and DLA Piper U.S. The two partnerships share a single management board but are not financially integrated.^[5]

DLA Piper's clients range from multinational, Global 1,000 and Fortune 500^{[not in citation given]} enterprises to emerging high-tech companies and start-ups, for which it operates a dedicated division^[6] for venture-capital placements.

DLA Piper's joint chief executive officers are Sir Nigel Knowles and Lee Miller.^[5] The chairman of the firm's global board is Frank Burch.^[5]

History

DLA Piper was formed in 2005 by a merger between three firms: San Diego-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP, Chicago-based Piper Rudnick LLP and London-based DLA LLP.^[2]

DLA itself had been the result of a mid-90s merger between three UK firms, Dibb Lupton Broomhead, Alsop Stevens, and Wilkinson Kimbers, while Piper Rudnick had been the product of a 1999 merger between Baltimore-based Piper & Marbury and Chicago-based Rudnick & Wolfe. Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell was DLA Piper's Chairman between 2003 and 2009.^[7][8]

Offices

DLA Piper has 76 offices in 30 countries across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Europe:^[9]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Facts and Figures". DLA Piper. http://www.dlapiper.com/global/about/facts/. Retrieved 4 May 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Our History". DLA Piper. http://www.dlapiper.com/global/about/ourhistory/. Retrieved 30 September 2010. 
3. ^ Baxter, Bryan. "We're Number One! We're Number One!: Firm Now Ranks as World's Largest". New York Law Journal. http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/nylawyer/PubArticleNYL.jsp?id=1202492791576&Were_Number_One_Were_Number_One_Firm_Now_Ranks_as_Worlds_Largest=&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=NY%20Lawyer&pt=NYLAWYER%20Daily%20Buzz&cn=buzz050311&kw=We're%20Number%20One!%20We're%20Number%20One!%3A%20Firm%20Now%20Ranks%20as%20World's%20Largest. Retrieved May 3, 2011. 
4. ^ "The Global 100: Most Revenue 2010". American Lawyer. http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=1202472338838&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1. Retrieved 04 May 2011. 
5. ^ ^{a b c} "Firm Leadership". DLA Piper. http://www.dlapiper.com/global/about/firm_leadership/. Retrieved 30 September 2010. 
6. ^ "Law Firms Offer Discounts, Play Matchmaker," The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 9, 2010
7. ^ "DLA Piper: The Firm Behind the Mitchell Report". The Wall Street Journal. 4 December 2007. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/12/04/dla-piper-the-firm-behind-the-mitchell-report/. Retrieved 25 October 2010. 
8. ^ "Palestinians looking to American-style housing developments, financing". The Washington Post. 23 November 2009. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/22/AR2009112202106.html. Retrieved 25 October 2010. 
9. ^ "Our Offices". DLA Piper. http://www.dlapiper.com/global/locations/. Retrieved 25 October 2010. 

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