DLA Piper
| DLA Piper | |
|---|---|
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| No. of offices | 71 |
| No. of attorneys | Approximately 3,500 |
| 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) |
| Company type | International law firm |
| Website | |
| dlapiper.com | |
DLA Piper is a global law firm with 71 offices across 29 countries and over 3,500 lawyers. It is one of the ten largest law firms in the world, with revenues of $2.25 billion in 2008/09. 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.
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 for venture-capital placements.
DLA Piper's joint chief executive officers are Sir Nigel Knowles and Lee Miller. The Chairman of the firm's Global Board is Frank Burch.
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.
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.
Awards and rankings
Offices
DLA Piper has 71 offices in 29 countries across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Europe:
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External links
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