DLA Piper | |
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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) |
Date founded | 2005 (merger)[2] |
Company type | International law firm |
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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 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]
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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-1990s 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]
DLA Piper has 76 offices in 30 countries across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Europe:[9]
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