Frost Brown Todd is merging with New Jersey law firm Gibbons PC to launch several offices on the East Coast.
The tie-up will go into effect Jan. 1, creating the roughly 800-lawyer FBT Gibbons, the firms’ leaders said Wednesday in an interview. The firms totaled more than $450 million in gross revenue last year, which would have placed the combined operation just outside the country’s 100 largest, according to data published by the American Lawyer.
“The Northeast is an important piece of the puzzle that will help us truly achieve being a national law firm, largely focused on the middle-market ...