US tie-up on the cards for Addleshaw Goddard

A US tie-up is on the cards at Addleshaw Goddard.

Addleshaw Goddard is reportedly in merger talks with Hunton & Williams.

The firm, headquartered in Virginia, employs 800 people across Asia, the US and Asia.

Professional publication The Lawyer has reported that Addleshaws is seeking expansion in the US with the merger.

A spokesperson for Addleshaw Goddard said: “We’ve said before that we will never comment on speculation about mergers and that remains our position so we have nothing to say.

“Increasing our scale and coverage is something we constantly consider, and we’re always talking to individuals, teams and firms on a regular basis about a lot of things. But we have nothing further to say about individual rumours.”

Addleshaw Goddard has UK offices in Leeds, London and Manchester and international offices in Doha, Dubai, Hong Kong, Muscat and Singapore. Around 400 of its 1,300 staff are in Leeds. 

Last November it emerged that Addleshaws was in talks with Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens, one of the largest independent firms in the country.

A merger would have created a £230m-turnover business, however talks seem to have ground to a halt. The deadline reported late last year of May 1 passed without any announcement.

Mergers with trans-Atlantic firms are becoming a trend in the legal sector. US firm Squire Patton Boggs moved into the Leeds market following the acquisition of Hammonds in 2011 .

Down in Birmingham, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co merged with Canadian firm Gowling which completed earlier this year, becoming Gowling WLG.

 

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