Bryan Cave


Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is an international law firm with 25 offices worldwide, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
In 2018, Bryan Cave merged with Berwin Leighton Paisner to create Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP. The new firm is led by co-chairs Lisa Mayhew and Steve Baumer.

History

Founded in 1873 as King, Phillips & Stewart in downtown St. Louis. Pendleton Taylor Bryan joined the firm in 1911, followed by Rhodes Cave in 1917.
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-based mega-firm Fulbright & Jaworski, but retained its office in Kuwait. The Kuwait office however soon closed as well.
In 2007 offices were opened in Hamburg and Milan, followed by San Francisco and Paris in 2008.
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, 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.
In 2018, Bryan Cave merged with the London firm of Berwin Leighton Paisner.

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