Uptick in M&A activity suggests a turnaround
Fourth quarter helps to bolster 2010 deal-making.
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Indiana companies prepping for burst of acquisitions
Conditions are ripe for a barrage of mergers and acquisitions to take place this year.
Ice Miller elects new chief managing partner
Phillip L. Bayt assumes leadership of the firm, which also elected two new deputy managing partners. Bayt currently chairs Ice Miller’s real estate practice.
Barnes & Thornburg maintains top-100 ranking
The firm ranked 85th in The National Law Journal’s annual listing of the nation’s 250 largest firms, up two spots from its previous position.
Bren Simon lashes out over ‘wrongfully removed’ medical log
Widow alleges in a new court filing that a former nurse aide for Melvin Simon stole a confidential medical
log and unlawfully
turned it over to attorneys representing one of Simon's children from a previous marriage.
Barnes & Thornburg enters top 100 on list of largest law firms
A spate of office openings and an acquisition have helped catapult Barnes & Thornburg LLP into the upper echelon of the nation’s
largest law firms, at a time when the slumbering economy has forced most big firms to cut staff.
TechPoint to focus on IT firms specializing in medical, life sciences sectors
Long tracking the emergence of information technology firms involved in the health and life sciences sector, the state’s
IT trade group, TechPoint, is undergoing a mitosis of sorts to help fuel the trend. It has created Advancing
Life Science & Health Care Information Technology, or ALHIT, which will focus on growing this subset of the IT realm.
Report: Ice Miller, Louisville firm end merger talks
Merger talks that began last year between local legal heavyweight Ice Miller LLP and a Louisville-based law firm reportedly
have broken down, putting an end to a deal that was expected to close by the end of the year.
Local firms recognized for pro bono work
Led by Baker & Daniels LLP, Indianapolis’ three largest law firms are recognized in the July issue of The American
Lawyer magazine for their pro bono work.
Ice Miller still in merger talks with Louisville law firm
The city’s third-largest law firm is poised to tie the knot with Kentucky’s Greenebaum Doll & McDonald. But differences in the way the firms compensate partners are taking longer than expected to sort out.
Mergers transform Indianapolis legal landscape
Indianapolis law firms finally jumped in a big way into the merger mania that’s sweeping the legal profession.
Be prepared for this merging legal world
The recently announced mergers of Indianapolis law firms Sommer Barnard, Ice Miller and Locke Reynolds with firms outside
the state [reported in the Dec. 8 issue] mirror a larger national trend.
Merger trend hits Indiana as law firms seek fast growth
Indianapolis is finally jumping in a big way into the merger mania that’s sweeping the legal profession.
Baker and Daniels creates logistics practice with 20 plus attorneys
Indianapolis law firm Baker & Daniels LLP has formed an advanced manufacturing and logistics practice to be headed by
partner James S. Birge.
Ice Miller attorney departs, takes sports practice with him
Sports agent Andrew “Buddy” Baker has left locally based law firm Ice Miller and is taking with him the firm’s sports division,
IM Sports Services, which he wants to develop into a giant agency with a national reach. Baker’s new firm, Exclusive Sports
Group, starts with a list of high-profile clients.