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No. of offices
  
27

Date founded
  
1873

Founded
  
1873

No. of attorneys
  
approx. 1000

Revenue
  
617 million USD (2015)

Number of offices
  
27

Bryan Cave

Major practice areas
  
Diversified international legal practice

Key people
  
Therese Pritchard, Chair of the Firm

Company type
  
Limited liability partnership

Headquarters
  
St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Subsidiaries
  
Bryan Cave International Consulting (Asia Pacific) Pte. Ltd., Bryan Cave Strategies LLC, Holme Roberts & Owen

Profiles

Scott hodes senior counsel at bryan cave llp


Bryan Cave LLP is an international law firm with twenty-four offices worldwide, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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History

In 2002, Bryan Cave acquired New York-based Robinson, Silverman, Pearce, Aronsohn, and Berman LLP, bringing the headcount of the combined firms up to over 800 lawyers.

The firm established an office in southern Illinois in 2004 to assist clients with class action, product liability and commercial litigation matters in Madison and St. Clair Counties in Illinois.

In 2005 Bryan Cave lost its Riyadh and Dubai offices to the Houston, Texas-based mega-firm Fulbright & Jaworski, but retained its office in Kuwait. The Kuwait office however soon closed as well.

Bryan Cave expanded further in 2007 when it opened an office in Hamburg and Milan. In 2008, the firm opened offices in San Francisco and Paris. In 2009, Bryan Cave and Atlanta-based Powell Goldstein merged, creating an expanded firm with new offices in Atlanta, Charlotte and Dallas.

At the beginning of 2012, Bryan Cave merged with Holme Roberts & Owen (HRO), a law firm based in Denver, Colorado with over 210 attorneys.

Bryan Cave also established an office in Frankfurt, Germany in 2012, to be integrated with the firm’s already established Hamburg office.

Notable transactions

  • Represented Ralcorp in the $2.6 billion merger between Ralcorp and Kraft Foods' portfolio of cereals under the Post Cereal label.
  • Advised Monsanto in its $290 million purchase of Aly Participacoes, a division of Brazilian global conglomerate Votorantim. Aly Participacoes operated two companies, CanaVialis S.A. and Alellyx S.A. which focus on sugarcane breeding and related applied genomics and biotech in the sugarcane industry.
  • Counseled Barnes & Noble, the bookseller, on its $596 million purchase of Barnes & Noble College Booksellers Inc., a division that had been spun off from Barnes & Noble in the mid-1980s. The acquisition closed on October 1, 2009.
  • References

    Bryan Cave Wikipedia