Atlantic Canadian law firm McInnes Cooper’s merger this week with The Breton Law Group is indicative of the firm’s “growth mode,” according to managing partner Kevin Kiley.

McInnes Cooper is now one of the 25 largest firms in Canada, with seven offices in the country’s four easternmost provinces—Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. The merger with eight-lawyer Breton Law Group, based in Sydney, Nova Scotia, is the firm’s first combination with an outside firm since the late 1990s, Kiley told Law.com International.