MORGAN LEWIS & BOCKIUS — MEMORANDUM TO CLIENTS
From: Jami Wintz McKeon
Date: Mon, Nov 24, 2014
Subject: Announcing Our New Colleagues from Bingham McCutchen
As Chair of Morgan Lewis, I am excited to share the news that as of today we have welcomed 226 partners and more than 525 other lawyers, legal professionals, and staff from Bingham McCutchen to create a firm that delivers significantly expanded capabilities to handle our clients’ legal and business challenges wherever and whenever they arise. This is a very exciting day for us, and we hope for our clients as well.
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Our firm of nearly 2,000 lawyers will now be operating from 28 offices in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. We provide capabilities across a comprehensive spectrum of services and industries, touching on virtually every aspect of corporate, financial, and asset management operations. Our firm has a newly reinforced presence along the East and West coasts of the United States, including new offices in Santa Monica, California, and Hartford, Connecticut, as well as an expanded capacity in Asia. To this we add our existing depth in the center of the United States, and in London, Dubai, Frankfurt, Brussels, Moscow, and Kazakhstan.
Our strategic decisions have always been driven first and foremost by our clients’ needs. In welcoming the talented lawyers from Bingham today, we continue to build a firm that is capable of mobilizing teams to serve you virtually anywhere in the world. We have built this firm on long-standing, deep relationships with our clients, and that will never change.
Many of you are familiar with the outstanding lawyers and practices who are joining us from Bingham McCutchen. We hope you will continue to connect—or reconnect—with lawyers from that firm, and take advantage of our combined and expanded presence and services. In addition, clients of Bingham McCutchen now have access to the added resources of Morgan Lewis’s worldwide network of offices and lawyers who stand ready to assist you in new ways.
In addition to our longstanding depth in areas such as corporate transactions, litigation, labor and employment, energy, FDA and healthcare, Morgan Lewis gains new resources in those areas, as well as additional capabilities to serve your needs in many others, including restructuring, antitrust, high-end toxic tort and other environmental matters, and life sciences. We are also welcoming to our firm additional top-tier lawyers in new or expanded practices such as telecommunications, structured transactions, private equity, tax controversy and planning, and institutional finance.
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We believe today’s additions offer compelling new reasons for you to call on us to serve you from Tokyo to New York, London to San Francisco, Silicon Valley to Moscow, and points in between.
I hope you will reach out to the partners with whom you have been working, or contact me directly if you have questions or if we can be of help.
On behalf of our 725 partners and the entire Morgan Lewis firm, thank you for your support, your business, and your confidence, and have a happy holiday season.
Warmest Regards,
Jami
Jami Wintz McKeon
Chair
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
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