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CHICAGO LEGAL INDUSTRY M&A ACTIVITY
RECENT NATIONAL LAW FIRM ENTRIES INTO CHICAGO FIRM TRANSACTION YEAR
# OF ATTORNEYS
*
Merger
2016
30
Acquired Carroll McNulty & Kull
2017
13
*
New to Market
2014
27
*
Acquired Shaw Fishman
2018
31
*
Acquired Schopf & Weiss
2015
43
*
Acquired Grippo & Elden
2015
23
*
New to Market
2014
56
*
New to Market
2017
23
*
New to Market
2016
63
New to Market
2017
16
*
Merger
2018
62
New to Market
2016
18
*
Acquired Pircher Nichols & Meeks
2018
29
*
New to Market
2019
7
*
New to Market
2019
5
*
Acquired Butler Rubin
2019
20
NOTABLE TRANSACTIONS WITH AN EXISTING LOCAL PRESENCE FIRM TRANSACTION YEAR # OF ATTORNEYS * Acquired Meckler Bulger Tilson 2015 50 * Acquired Ungaretti & Harris 2015 82
Split from Schiff Hardin
2016
58
Split from Bates Carey
2014
41
Taft acquired Shefsky & Froelich/ Merger with Briggs & Morgan
2014/2019
108
*Denotes AmLaw200
4
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