By JEFFREY COLLINS
Related Press
COLUMBIA – Two main Southern legislation corporations are merging into one agency that can have places of work on each coasts and greater than 550 attorneys.
The attorneys main each Alabama-based Maynard Cooper & Gale and South Carolina-based Nexsen Pruet mentioned their comparable philosophies and a pattern towards corporations desirous to cope with greater legislation corporations led them to mix.
“Increasingly shoppers are asking for fewer legislation corporations of their roster,” Nexsen Pruet Chairman Leighton Lord informed The Related Press.
Lord would be the president and chief technique officer for the brand new Maynard Nexsen agency. Jeff Grantham, who’s managing shareholder of Maynard Cooper & Gale, will function the brand new agency’s CEO, the mixed firm introduced Thursday.
“The power to have an even bigger bench and an even bigger workforce permits you to have the ability to deal with greater issues,” Grantham mentioned.
Grantham and Lord met whereas at legislation college at Vanderbilt College and every mentioned they admired the opposite’s legislation agency from afar. A number of years in the past, they began assembly to debate their companies and the merger discuss grew from there.
Every agency had a number of places of work in fast-growing areas. Maynard Cooper & Gale dealt with monetary companies litigation and newer web companies legal guidelines in fast-growing areas together with Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Texas and California.
Nexsen Pruet dealt with many development, labor, legislative and worldwide enterprise circumstances from its base alongside the southern East Coast.
The brand new agency could have about 550 attorneys and 23 places of work in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Washington, D.C.
