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Firm Watch

Mar. 6, 2001

Sidley & Austin: East-Midwest Merger Will Create Another Behemoth - 1,300 Lawyers

Another pair of U.S. firms announced their intentions to "super-size" things in an East-Midwest merger. Chicago's Sidley & Austin and Brown & Wood of New York agreed to pursue the merger in mid-February. The firms' chairs say they expect to wrap up the deal by May 1.

        Another pair of U.S. firms announced their intentions to "super-size" things in an East-Midwest merger.
        Chicago's Sidley & Austin and Brown & Wood of New York agreed to pursue the merger in mid-February. The firms' chairs say they expect to wrap up the deal by May 1.
        The merger of Sidley & Austin's 900 lawyers and the 400 whi...

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