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14-626: BCLP was formed in 2018 with the merger of St. Louis based Bryan Cave and the London firm Berwin Leighton Paisner . King, Phillips & Stewart was founded in 1873 in St. Louis, Mo. A merger resulted in Stewart, Bryan, Christie & Williams in 1911, and six years, P. Taylor Bryan's name became the first in the firm title, where it remains to this day. Rhodes Cave joined the firm in 1917, and it

28-655: A decade later, the firm developed a reputation for corporate work. Its clients included Great Universal Stores , Forte Holdings, and Penguin Books . in 1947, Leighton & Co iprovided litigation and property advice to property developers in the West End of London. in 1980 Berwin Leighton was formed from a merger of Leighton & Co and Berwin & Co. Their clients included Tesco , British Land , Ove Arup , and Lex. In 2005 Bryan Cave lost its Riyadh and Dubai offices to

42-529: A law firm based in Denver, Colorado with over 210 attorneys . Bryan Cave also established an office in Frankfurt, Germany . In 2018 Bryan Cave merged with the London firm of Berwin Leighton Paisner. In 2023 Jeff Haidet, who previously was co-chair of Dentons US, joined BCLP as a partner. Fifteen lawyers specializing in intellectual property moved from Dentons to Bryan Cave. BCLP represented Ralcorp in

56-477: The 2007 $ 2.6 billion merger between Ralcorp and Kraft Foods ' portfolio of cereals under the Post Cereal label. In 2008 the company Advised Monsanto in its $ 290 million purchase of Aly Participacoes, a division of Brazilian global conglomerate Votorantim . Aly Participacoes operated two companies, CanaVialis S.A. and Alellyx S.A. which focus on sugarcane breeding and related applied genomics and biotech in

70-552: The Adelaide Buildings. In the early 1920s, the site was acquired by Richard Tilden Smith , who had the old Adelaide Buildings demolished to make way for a new office building. It was designed in the Art Deco style by Sir John Burnet and Thomas S. Tait, with some Egyptian influences, popular at the time after the recent discovery of Tutankhamen 's tomb. The building features a sculpture by William Reid Dick above

84-852: The Houston-based mega-firm Fulbright & Jaworski , but retained its office in Kuwait. The Kuwait office subsequently closed. Offices were opened in Hamburg in 2007, and Milan , followed by San Francisco and Paris in 2008. In 2009 Berwin Leighton Paisner was joined by 70 lawyers in Moscow under the leadership of Andrey Goltsblat, under the name Goltsblat BLP. Bryan Cave and Atlanta-based Powell Goldstein merged, creating an expanded firm with new offices in Atlanta, Charlotte, and Dallas. Bryan Cave merged in 2012 with Holme Roberts & Owen (HRO),

98-610: The Martyr church. It is on King William Street , and also borders the Thames Path and Thames Street. In the early 1830s, the old London Bridge Waterworks on the site was demolished and replaced with the Adelaide Hotel. The building was named in honour of King William IV 's wife Adelaide , who, in 1831, had performed the opening ceremony of London Bridge. In the 1850's, the hotel was converted into offices and renamed

112-563: The St. Louis, US firm Bryan Cave. BLP's headquarters were in London, with 14 other offices across Asia, Europe, Russia and the Middle East. Adelaide House Adelaide House is a Grade II listed office building in London's primary financial district, the City of London . Adelaide House is located on the north bank of the Thames , adjacent to London Bridge and St Magnus

126-446: The building featured a roof garden including an 18-hole putting course, rockeries, fruit trees and beehives. The building has been Grade II listed since 1972. It was occupied by law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP from 1970 to 2020. In 2021, planning permission was granted to refurbish the building. Work on the refurbishment started in late 2023, with aims to renovate the building to category A office standard, including reopening

140-432: The early twentieth century, when the three original law firms were founded: In 1970, Leighton & Co merged with Berwin & Co to form Berwin Leighton and moved into Adelaide House in London. Berwin Leighton Paisner was formed on 1 May 2001 when the two firms merged, comprising a total of nearly 1000 staff, with 122 partners. The new firm's headquarters continued to be Adelaide House in London. Neville Eisenberg

154-634: The main entrance, depicting a 3.2 metre high figure in draped materials carrying an orb with an astrological band. When completed in 1925, it was the City's tallest office block, at 43 m (141 ft). Adelaide House was the first building in the City to employ the steel frame technique that was later widely adopted for skyscrapers around the world, and also the first office block the United Kingdom to have central ventilation and telephone and electric connections on every floor. In addition, on opening

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168-851: The sugarcane industry. BCLP counseled Barnes & Noble , the bookseller, on its $ 596 million purchase of Barnes & Noble College Booksellers Inc., a division that had been spun off from Barnes & Noble in the mid-1980s. The acquisition closed on October 1, 2009. Berwin Leighton Paisner Berwin Leighton Paisner ( BLP ) was an international law firm with 14 offices across 10 countries. It specialized in real estate , finance , litigation and corporate risk, private wealth and tax . In 2018, Bryan Cave merged with Berwin Leighton Painser to create Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, led by Lisa Mayhew and Therese Pritchard. BLP's roots lie in

182-587: Was elected managing partner of Berwin Leighton in 1999, holding the position in BLP until May 2015, when Lisa Mayhew was elected managing partner. In 2007, Lawyers On Demand was created by Simon Harper, a partner at BLP, and Jonathan Brenner, then the firm's Head of Recruitment. 2009 saw the formation of Goltsblat BLP, a 70-strong team that is the only joint venture between an international and local firm in Russia. In April 2018, Berwin Leighton Paisner merged with

196-670: Was then named Bryan, Williams & Cave. The firm opened its first office Washington, D.C. in 1978, and later in Los Angeles and New York . A decade later, they expanded to the west and southwest and opened offices in Phoenix and Kansas City . In the U.S., the Chicago office opens. Shortly after, Bryan Cave and New York-based Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman merged. In 1932, UK-based firm Paisner & Co, provided general legal advice, including conveyancing . Almost

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