MEGA MERGER APPROVED

Partners of Cleveland’s Squire Sanders and Washington, D.C.-based law firm/lobbying powerhouse Patton Boogs have approved a combination that will create a firm with about 1,600 lawyers spanning 45 offices in 21 countries. The combined firm will be called Squire Patton Boggs. It will bring together Squire Sanders’ top ranked global legal platform and Patton Boggs’ preeminent public policy, white collar and other practices to provide clients with unparalleled geographic reach, breadth and depth of practice capabilities and unmatched knowledge in matters where law, government and business intersect.

The deal creates a firm that will rank “among the top 25 firms globally in terms of lawyer headcount, and eighth by number of countries where they have offices. The firm will also rank as one of the top 10 largest firms in Washington, with approximately 280 lawyers, and among the largest in the United States, with roughly 785 lawyers.

Patton Boggs is the premier public policy firm in the world, and this combination establishes Squire Patton Boggs  as the ‘go-to’ firm for public policy work.

Patton Boggs' more than 170 registered lobbyist employees serve a long and diverse list of clients. Some of its past and present clients include:

• Angola
• Cameroon
• Campaign for a U.S.-Afghanistan Partnership
• Costa Rica
• Croatia
• Egypt
• Haiti
• India
• Kuwait
• Libya
• Metabolife International
• Pakistan
• Peru
• Philippines
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
• Sri Lanka
• Venezuela
• Abbott Laboratories
• Boston Scientific Corporation
• HCR-Manor Care, Inc., Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Omnicare, Inc. on Medicare/ Medicaid; Arvesta Corporation, The Climate Council, National Grid USA, United Technologies Corporation and W. R. Grace & Company on the Superfund program; Arrow Electronics, CH2M Hill, DTE Energy, FirstEnergy Corporation and Los Angeles, California's Department of Water and Power on nuclear energy;
• Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
• George Soro's Open Society Institute
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.