Headquarters |
Key Tower Cleveland United States |
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No. of offices | 46 (July 2016) |
No. of attorneys | 1,466 (2016) |
Key people | Mark J. Ruehlmann (Chairman and Global CEO) |
Revenue | $983 million (2016) |
Profit per equity partner | $975,000 (2016) |
Date founded | 1890 in Cleveland as Squire, Sanders & Dempsey 1887 in Leeds as Hammond Suddard 1962 in Washington D.C. as Patton Boggs |
Company type | Swiss association |
Website | www.squirepattonboggs.com |
Squire Patton Boggs is an international law firm with 46 offices in 21 countries. It was formed in 2014 by the merger of multinational law firm Squire Sanders with Washington, D.C. based Patton Boggs. It is one of the 30 largest law firms in the world by total headcount and gross revenue, twelfth largest firm in the UK by revenue, and one of the top 10 by number of countries occupied. It is also one of the largest US-headquartered law firms in Asia. Its largest offices are in Washington, London and Cleveland, each having more than 100 lawyers.
Squire Patton Boggs is currently the third-largest lobbying firm in the U.S. after Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. The lobbying arm, long managed by Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr., is currently managed by former United States Senators John Breaux and Trent Lott.
The firm was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1890 as Squire, Sanders & Dempsey.
Until the 1990s, it was primarily an Ohio law firm, with only small offices in several other US cities and in Brussels. It was one of the first US law firms to expand into Eastern Europe in the wake of the Cold War, and under the leadership of firm chairman Thomas Stanton, opened several offices in the former Soviet bloc region during the 1990s, taking on a key role in the privatization of state enterprises in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine and Poland. It subsequently absorbed a number of other legal practices including several Pacific Rim offices of Graham & James and the Florida-based law firm of Steel Hector & Davis. The firm also made overtures toward mergers with Denton Wilde Sapte, Seyfarth Shaw and Bryan Cave under Stanton's leadership.