Partners at SNR Denton, the 1,140-lawyer global firm created by the 2010 merger of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and British firm Denton Wilde Sapte, will vote next week on a three-way merger with European firm Salans and Canadian firm Fraser Milner Casgrain (FMC).
While the possibility of a tie-up between SNR Denton and Salans has been the subject of reports in the British legal press for the past several months, SNR Denton global CEO Elliott Portnoy and global chairman Joseph Andrew told Law Journal affiliate The Am Law Daily from Paris on Nov. 7 that the two firms have now included Fraser Milner Casgrain in a proposed combination that will be presented to the partnerships of all three firms. If approved, the merger will go live in the first quarter of 2013.
