DLA Piper Goes Down Under and Gets Even Bigger

DLA Piper Goes Down Under and Gets Even Bigger DLA Piper Goes Down Under and Gets Even Bigger DLA Piper has some springtime updates on its own, and it has nothing to do with additional money for DLA Pipers partners. The goliath firm with workplaces everywhere throughout the world is getting biggerIm talking 4,000 attorneys huge. Good karma finding your companions at that organization picnic.The firm, which got the number two spot on The National Law Journals 250 biggest law offices positioning in 2010, reported a merger with its accomplice in Australia: DLA Phillips Fox (their association goes back to 2006). The merger is opened for May first. This move will add another 600 lawyers to the organizations program, which will make it the greatest law office in the entirety of the land (Baker McKenzie will hand over its crown as the main biggest firm except if it gets itself a few hundred more lawyers).So whats with or without the get worked up about Australia from its awesome sea shores, astounding BBQs and rest taking tennis competition (for every one of you east-liners sufficie ntly committed to keep awake for the 3:30am Federer-Djokovic coordinate the previous evening)? Three words: mergers and acquisitions. Australias got them, and BigLaw firms need them. A year ago, the quantity of Australian mergers and acquisitions was more noteworthy than twofold that of 2009, coming to $108.5 billion. Also, as per Tony Holland, CEO of DLA Phillips Fox, [c]orporate Australia is looking considerably more internationally.Congrats on being actually enormous, DLA Piper. My solitary inquiry for you is whether you plan on making a sprinkle this spring by adding partner rewards to your newsfeed.