Photo: Barnes & Thornburg offices in Indianapolis. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALMBarnes & Thornburg Launches in New York, Hiring From Akin, Davis Polk
The Am Law 100 firm has quietly added people in the Big Apple, recruiting its office leader from Akin Gump and hiring counsel from Davis Polk and Cahill as partners.
February 11, 2020 at 05:50 PM
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Barnes & Thornburg, an Indianapolis-based law firm in the Am Law 100, has launched a New York City office, Law.com has learned.
The firm's New York office appears to be its 19th, with its other offices spread throughout the United States, including in the Midwest and the South.
Robert Boller, a complex commercial litigator who was most recently a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, is the office's partner-in-charge. He started at Barnes & Thornburg in February, according to his LinkedIn profile.
No one at the firm was immediately available for an interview, but Boller confirmed Barnes & Thornburg's Manhattan office launch in a statement Tuesday.
"We are happy to confirm that Barnes & Thornburg is opening an office in New York with outstanding lawyers joining us from some of the city's top firms," he said. "We have exciting plans for developing a significant, long-term presence in New York and look forward to sharing more details about the other lawyers who will be joining us and the strategic focus for the office at our formal launch in the weeks to come."
Nine lawyers, all partners, are listed on Barnes & Thornburg's website in its New York office, but most of them are linked to another office. In addition to Boller, two lawyers are listed only in New York: partner David Slovick, formerly of counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, whom the firm added last year in its Washington, D.C., office; and Scott Beal, a funds lawyer whose last position was of counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell, according to his LinkedIn profile.
The new office is located at 445 Park Ave, according to the firm's website. Last week, the firm posted a job opening for an office administrator position on LinkedIn.
The move comes after a breakout 2019 for Barnes & Thornburg. Preliminary ALM data indicates the firm posted double-digit growth in revenue and profits per equity partner. In recent years, the firm has touted the success of several offices it opened around 2009 in Delaware, Georgia, Ohio and Minnesota.
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