Baker Hostetler offices in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM)Baker & Hostetler Continues Dallas Growth Sans Office Space, Adding 4 Partners
Wick Phillips corporate partners Robert Schroeder, Jordan Bethea and Patrick Rose joined as partners, and Kirkland & Ellis corporate partner Ryan Gorsche will do the same on Monday.
January 31, 2020 at 11:24 AM
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Baker & Hostetler has hired four more corporate partners in Dallas, although the firm has not yet committed to opening an office in North Texas.
The hires include Ryan Gorsche, joining from Kirkland & Ellis, and three partners from Wick Phillips—Robert Schroeder, Jordan Bethea and Patrick Rose.
Like white-collar litigator Shawn Cleveland, who started at Baker & Hostetler last September, the four new partners live in Dallas but are listed as partners in Houston.
Cleveland said Gorsche will start Feb. 3, and the Wick Phillips group started Jan. 23.
Baker & Hostetler seems to be taking a deliberate path in establishing its Dallas presence, by first building a contingent of partners before committing to a second brick-and-mortar outpost in Texas. The Am Law 100 firm opened its Houston location in 1990.
"We are hiring some really significant lawyers in Dallas and there will be additional hires announced in Texas," Cleveland said of the firm's expansion plans. He declined to discuss the firm's plans for a physical office in Dallas.
He said the latest four lateral partners "all have really impressive M&A practices including [work for] private equity and public company" clients.
Schroeder said his group was attracted to Baker & Hostetler's strong middle-market M&A expertise. But he said their clients also would benefit from complementary practices including data privacy and security, health care, tax and regulatory.
Schroeder declined to identify clients. But, Rose said, they include private equity funds, family companies and institutions in the manufacturing, oil field services, technology, health care and consumer products industries.
Gorsche declined to comment on his move Thursday because he had not officially started work at Baker & Hostetler, according to Cleveland.
If and when Baker & Hostetler formally opens an office in Dallas, helping to launch a new outpost won't be a new experience for Gorsche.
In the summer of 2018, as speculation about Kirkland's plans to open an office in Dallas swirled, Gorsche left Weil Gotshal & Manges, where he was then counsel in Dallas, and joined Kirkland's Houston office. At the time, Gorsche declined to comment on Kirkland's plans for Dallas. Shortly afterward, Kirkland launched its Dallas office with a group of lateral partners from several big firms, and Gorsche joined them there.
Regarding the departures from Wick Phillips, managing partner David Drez said in a statement: "Fifteen years ago, Bryan Wick and Todd Phillips struck out on their own and since then have grown Wick Phillips from two to over 60 attorneys. Understanding the excitement of growing a firm, we wish Rob, Jordan and Patrick the best in their endeavors."
A spokeswoman for Kirkland said the firm has no comment on Gorsche's departure.
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