Boston restructuring specialist Bingham Dana is in merger talks with San Francisco’s McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen in the latest evidence of East Coast firms moving aggressively into the Californian legal market.

The move is seen by Bingham Dana as an opportunity to expand into the West Coast of America, once the home of the US’s thriving TMT law firms, at a time when there is a growing need for insolvency and restructuring advice.