DLA Piper
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| No. of offices | 71[1] |
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| No. of attorneys | Approximately 3,500[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 71 offices across 29 countries and over 3,500 lawyers.[1] It is one of the ten largest law firms in the world, with revenues of $2.25 billion in 2008/09.[3] 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.[4]
DLA Piper's clients range from multinational, Global 1,000 and Fortune 500[failed verification] enterprises to emerging high-tech companies and start-ups, for which it operates a dedicated division[5] for venture-capital placements.
DLA Piper's joint chief executive officers are Sir Nigel Knowles and Lee Miller.[4] The Chairman of the firm's Global Board is Frank Burch.[4]
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.[6][7]
Awards and rankings
- DLA Piper is ranked 39th in the 2010 Vault Law 50 UK prestige rankings[8] and 53rd in the 2011 Vault Law 100 U.S. prestige rankings.[9]
- Received the "Best Management of Risk" award at the MPF European Practice Management Awards 2010[10]
Offices
DLA Piper has 71 offices in 29 countries across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Europe:[11]
- Africa: Accra, Cairo, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam, Johannesburg, Lusaka, Mwanza, Nairobi
- North America: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Cherry Hill, Chicago, Dallas, East Brunswick, NJ, Houston, La Jolla, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Northern New Jersey, Northern Virginia, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Raleigh, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Tampa, Washington, D.C., Wilmington
- Asia: Abu Dhabi, Bangkok, Beijing, Doha, Dubai, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Manama, Muscat, Riyadh, Shanghai, Tokyo
- Australasia: Auckland, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Wellington
- Europe: Amsterdam, Antwerp, Birmingham, Bratislava, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cologne, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Hamburg, Istanbul, Kiev, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rome, St. Petersburg, Sarajevo, Sheffield, Stockholm, Tblisi, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb
References
- ^ a b c "Facts and Figures". DLA Piper. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
- ^ a b "Our History". DLA Piper. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
- ^ "The Global 100: Most Revenue 2009". American Lawyer. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
- ^ a b c "Firm Leadership". DLA Piper. Retrieved 30 September 2010.
- ^ "Law Firms Offer Discounts, Play Matchmaker," The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 9, 2010
- ^ "DLA Piper: The Firm Behind the Mitchell Report". The Wall Street Journal. 4 December 2007. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
- ^ "Palestinians looking to American-style housing developments, financing". The Washington Post. 23 November 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
- ^ "DLA Piper UK LLP Rankings 2010". Vault. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ^ "DLA Piper Rankings 2011". Vault. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
- ^ "MPF Awards". MPF. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
- ^ "Our Offices". DLA Piper. Retrieved 25 October 2010.
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