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CommentsFormerly known as Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, Mayer Brown is one of the most distinguished law firms in the world. Mayer Brown is adviser to majority of the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 companies, a number of Deutscher Aktienindex companies, and 89 Fortune 100 companies. It also serves over half of the biggest investment banks in the world.
Mayer Brown has gained worldwide recognition in a comprehensive range of legal services, including litigation, appellate, representation, pro bono, arbitration, inspection, dispute resolution, internal audit, white collar defense, insurance and reinsurance, valuation, and regulatory compliance.
Esteemed by most accounts as the most expansive law firm in the world, Mayer Brown employs more than 1,800 lawyers globally, including 190 recognized by Chambers. Mayer Brown lawyers are scattered over seven US and six European cities, including London, New York, Paris, Washington D.C., Hong Kong, Berlin and Frankfurt. The firm is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Its Chicago headquarters is the oldest among the firm’s offices, with a history stretching back to the very inception of Mayer Brown in 1881. The law firm began that year when Levy Mayer, a Yale Law School alumnus, and Adolf Kraus, a self-educated Czech lawyer, struck a partnership. The two had worked, albeit against each other, in 1879, in a lawsuit involving Levy Mayer’s brother David. Kraus defeated Mayer in the dispute. Regardless of the outcome, Kraus was impressed with Mayer.
In time, their practice grew to accommodate Kraus, Mayer & Brackett. Brackett resigned in 1887, after which the firm became Kraus, Mayer & Stein. Thomas Moran, a judge at the Illinois Appellate Court, then joined the firm in 1893 to form Moran, Kraus, Mayer & Stein.
In January 2002, Mayer Brown combined with London-based Rowe & Maw. The law firm, which employs 250 lawyers, has a history nearly as long as Mayer Brown’s. Rowe & Maw is the namesake of Frank Rowe and Frederick James Maw, the lawyers who incepted it in 1895. The firm is known for carrying out extradition services in behalf of the US and France, including one against James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King, Jr’s assassin.
In January 2008, Mayer Brown expanded yet again to merge with JSM, hailed among Asia’s largest law outfits. Edmund Sharp established JSM in 1863 to meet the demand for lawyers in Hong Kong, which was then a British colony.
In Asia, Mayer Brown has 300 multilingual lawyers whose work covers Hong Kong, Beijing, Guangzhou, Bangkok, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. At present, Mayer Brown’s practice in Asia is called Mayer Brown JSM.
Mayer Brown is chaired and vice-chaired, respectively, by James D. Holzhauer and Kenneth S. Geller, both partners of the firm. Evan L. Merberg serves in the capacity of Chief Operating Officer, while Paul Maher serves as the firm’s Global Vice Chairman.
Additional information on Mayer Brown:
Mayer Brown is profiled on Findlaw’s InFirmMation.
Heller Ehrman Talking Merger with Mayer Brown.
Mayer Brown plans merger
Combination with Hong Kong firm aids global expansion.
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