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posted 27 Aug 2008
Bryan Cave expands Chicago office
INTERNATIONAL LAW firm Bryan Cave LLP is to expand its Chicago office with the appointment of five new lateral partners from the Chicago office of rival firm Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP.
The new partners concentrate on three practice areas: environmental, transactional and business-related litigation matters. They include Nicola Fiordalisi, an international arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association and specialist in corporate finance, M&As and cross-border transactions; Bryan Keyt, who focuses on environment, energy and health and safety matters and also has extensive experience representing clients in real estate and corporate transactions; Francis X. Lyons, who served under President Clinton as the regional administrator for the US Environmental Protection Agency and now specialises in a number of practice areas including environmental compliance, corporate environmental audits and due diligence; S. Patrick McKey, a commercial litigator specialising in international disputes, mass and toxic torts, public liability and public law; and Mike Ohm, the former Illinois attorney general (1986-1988) and environmental, energy and natural resource specialist.
“Expanding the Chicago office is consistent with one of our strategic goals, which is to position ourselves to address our clients’ legal needs in key markets and practices,” explained firm chairman Don Lents. “We have taken painstaking measures to grow by carefully selecting individual practitioners and practice groups that share the collegial and entrepreneurial spirit – and dedication to quality of service – for which Bryan Cave is known.”
The firm’s Chicago office became a full-service offering in 2004 and has since grown from an eight to a 60-lawyer operation.
