Law firm, Maples and Calder has announced that it will merge with Dublin based corporate finance law firm Binchys.
The merger will formally take effect from 16th January 2006 with the five lawyers at Binchys’ current London office moving to Maples and Calder’s City offices in early December 2005. The merged firm will be located in new 20,000 sq ft offices in central Dublin.
The merger will add Binchys’ expertise on Irish law to Maples and Calder’s capability to advise institutional clients on Cayman Islands, BVI, and Jersey law from offices in London, Hong Kong, the British Virgin Islands, Dubai, the Cayman Islands, Jersey and now Dublin. The firm will have 6 partners, 14 lawyers and 15 staff in Dublin and a total of 140 lawyers worldwide.
Maples and Calder partner, Julian Reddyhough, will move to Dublin and will manage the new firm together with Binchys’ senior partner Jennifer Caldwell.
The move comes as Maples and Calder continues to expand. The firm’s London and Hong Kong offices have doubled in size in the last two years whilst in September 2005 the firm opened a fully staffed transactional and execution office in Dubai.