Two Leading Law Firms Become One

WASHINGTON, DC -Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP becomes Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP as the first-rate Washington, DC-based law firm engages in a merger of equals with the topnotch Boston firm of Hale and Dorr. Both establishments have significant practices in the real estate industry. Wilmer Cutler regularly engages in advising REITs, and Hale and Dorr has recently represented clients in major location and multi-property leasing deals. Additionally, Wilmer Cutler’s Baltimore office was only just acknowledged on Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Business Lawyers list as one of the top legal players for real estate.

“This combination of two very strong firms offers our clients unique opportunities to draw on a distinctive set of top caliber practices,” Wilmer Cutler managing partner William J. Perlstein says. “Hale and Dorr and Wilmer Cutler Pickering stress substantive excellence, professionalism and quality of service. The combined firm will continue that tradition across all of its practices.”