Bingham McCutchen buys Los Angeles law firm
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Continuing its steady growth, Bingham McCutchen LLP has acquired Alschuler Grossman LLP, a 40-lawyer Los Angeles firm, bringing Bingham's head count to nearly 1,000 lawyers.
The Boston-based firm is merging with Alschuler Grossman LLP, a 40-lawyer outfit known for litigation. It will be Bingham's eighth acquisition since 1997 and its third in California since 2002. Bingham McCutchen now has 350 lawyers in California and nearly 1,000 worldwide.
Alschuler Grossman, which also handles real estate, real estate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property work, successfully represented Arthur Andersen LLP in a $1.3 billion class action securities lawsuit filed in Arizona state court. It currently represents Grupo Televisa S.A. in its battles with Univision Communications Inc. and is defending Blockbuster Inc. from a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Netflix Inc.
Bingham's clients include Oracle Corp., Bank of America N.A., Boston Scientific Corp.
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