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Midwestern Biglaw Firm Uses Merger To Get Into The New York Market

Smaller firms unite to become one big team.

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We think the value proposition that we offer to our associates includes a lot of things you can’t find at the bigger firms. A place where you can grow your practices and become a partner—at larger firms that can be very difficult to achieve sometimes. —Roman Wuller

As a small firm, we’ve always had to try hard to catch up to the big boys, and we’ve done our best. I think what resonated with our associates, when we announced no layoffs, no cuts—to the extent there was a downturn in the market, we would all weather that storm together. That garnered a lot of loyalty. —Mark Indelicato

— Roman Wuller, chair of Thompson Coburn, and Mark Indelicato, managing partner of financial boutique Hahn & Hessen, commenting on one of the reasons they knew a merger between their two firms would work: because of the values their firms share. The combined firm will have more than 400 lawyers across seven offices, and their combined revenue would have been about $240 million in 2020. Now the Biglaw firm, ranked at No. 149 in the most recent Am Law 100, will have much greater access to the New York market.

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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