Mergers

Mestel & Company knows mergers. It’s been part of our DNA for much of the time we’ve been the nation’s leading legal search firm. We have helped to initiate merger discussions involving firms of varying size and geographic footprint. Our ability to advise on merger possibilities is predicated on nearly two decades of total immersion in the dynamics that are remaking the legal sector. As a result of that experience and having constructed the largest dedicated Partners, Groups and Mergers Division in the nation, no other company is so respected by so many national, regional and local law firms and so frequently enlisted as a trusted advisor to these firms as they shape their short term and long term growth and acquisition plans.

• We understand what makes these firms tick and the resources and potential advantages that each firm can offer to another.
  
  
• We understand that cultural compatibility is as important as the seminally important dimensions of practice fit and financial similarity when determining whether merger discussions are warranted and likely to be productive. 
  
  
• We know how such merger discussions must be structured, what the agenda must include and how to quickly drill down to any show-stopping issues while also identifying all those facts that spell “upside.” 

It is our reputation for objectivity, creativity and honesty, as well as our long-term experience, that have afforded us the privilege of being at the forefront as the trusted advisors for law firm mergers. 

We understand the pressures – and the rewards – of the legal profession. We know the terrain and appreciate the complex, far-reaching decisions every attorney must make over the course of a career. We respect the importance of building a practice, a department or a firm.