Dewey, Orrick make marriage plans
By far the biggest US merger news this month was that of Dewey Ballantine and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (www.thelawyer.com, 12 September). Dewey and Orrick have been in talks to create a combined firm of 1,200 lawyers and a revenue of $1bn (£526m). The firms’ respective chairmen Morton Pierce and Ralph Baxter confirm only that […]