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Cozen O’Connor provides 50-plus attorneys via merger in market that’s ‘a little bit of the perfect saved secret’
Cozen O’Connor will add greater than 50 attorneys after a Jan. 1 merger with Minneapolis regulation agency Moss & Barnett. (Picture from Shutterstock)
Cozen O’Connor will add greater than 50 attorneys after a Jan. 1 merger with Minneapolis regulation agency Moss & Barnett.
The merger will improve Cozen O’Connor’s providers within the Midwest, “notably throughout its regulatory, transactional and monetary apply areas,” in line with a Nov. 3 press launch.
The area is “strategically essential” for the agency and its shoppers, mentioned Michael J. Heller, the chairman and CEO of Cozen O’Connor, within the press launch.
Heller instructed Legislation.com in an interview that Minneapolis is “a very distinctive and various enterprise market” with a excessive focus of Fortune 500 corporations.
“And, frankly, the individuals are simply very nice,” Heller mentioned. “From a cultural perspective, while you mix that with the enterprise alternative, it’s only a nice authorized market—to some extent, it’s a little bit of the perfect saved secret.”
Cozen O’Connor may have greater than 1,000 attorneys throughout 33 workplaces after the merger, together with greater than 70 attorneys in Minneapolis and greater than 50 in Chicago.
Cozen O’Connor will relocate its present Minneapolis operations to current workplaces at Moss & Barnett. It would grow to be Cozen O’Connor’s largest workplace outdoors Philadelphia, New York Metropolis and Washington, D.C.
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