It was a busy year for the Atlanta legal market, with several established local firms closing or reconfiguring and others opening, but the city’s biggest law firm news of 2019 was a deal that has not yet happened: Atlanta-based Troutman Sanders’ prospective merger with Philadelphia-based Pepper Hamilton.

The two firms confirmed in November that they are in talks. If the Troutman-Pepper merger goes through, it would create an Am Law 50 firm with about 1,100 lawyers and combined revenue of $855 million, based on the firms’ 2018 financials.

Shook and Akerman