Two elite firms, one future
Ashurst Perkins Coie combines two firms with highly complementary geographic footprints, capabilities, and cultures. Together, we will create a globally integrated firm with deep sector and practice expertise that is relentlessly focused on the success of its clients.
Our clients are redefining industries, creating new markets, and shaping the future on a global scale. In a time of rapid technological and economic change, the world’s leading companies require agility, foresight, and trusted guidance from their legal counsel more than ever before.
Ashurst Perkins Coie unites market-leading capabilities in the technology, energy and infrastructure, and financial services sectors with cultural fluency and geopolitical insight to transform global complexity into clarity and opportunity.
A law firm built for tomorrow
Deep sector and practice expertise
Embracing the power of AI
Building a globally integrated firm
Deep sector and practice expertise
Ashurst Perkins Coie will represent the industries shaping the future economy. By combining Perkins Coie’s leadership in technology and its deep corporate, litigation, and intellectual property expertise – alongside highly regarded privacy, fintech, life sciences, and environmental practices – with Ashurst’s global presence and strength in energy & infrastructure, financial services, and real estate, Ashurst Perkins Coie will be the advisor of choice for companies shaping the future.
Embracing the power of AI
Perkins Coie and Ashurst have both pioneered the use of AI in the legal profession. Together, as Ashurst Perkins Coie, we will invest in and thoughtfully integrate advanced technologies, including AI, to enhance the insight, speed, and quality of the services we provide.
Building a globally integrated firm
Ashurst Perkins Coie will be a top 20 law firm globally, with 3,000 lawyers, US$2.7 billion in revenue, and over 300 years of shared history. Our footprint will span 52 offices in 23 countries, with flagship hubs in Seattle, London, Sydney, and New York, and a presence in major business centers including Brussels, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Paris, Seoul, Shenzhen, Singapore, and Tokyo.
Wherever we operate, we will deliver trusted legal guidance seamlessly across borders.
Our combination at a glance
Perkins Coie
Ashurst
Both
Flagship Hubs
Lawyers
3,000
Chambers ranked lawyers,
placing Ashurst Perkins Coie 4th among law firms worldwide
450
+
Offices
in 23 countries
52
partners
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offices
[46]
A shared vision
"Ashurst brings a global presence that complements our reach and brings recognized strength in the energy and infrastructure and financial services sectors. They share our ambition to build a firm defined by ingenuity and collaboration. Together, we will combine our expertise to accelerate growth and set new standards for world-class legal service."
Bill Malley
Firm Managing Partner, Perkins Coie
"Perkins Coie is an ambitious, forward-thinking law firm meeting its clients at the forefront of technological change. At a time of rapid transformation and strategic complexity, we are excited by this unique opportunity to launch a truly differentiated global law firm for our clients and our people."
Paul Jenkins
Global CEO, Ashurst
"Clients want us to think and act globally, and uniting with Perkins Coie, a firm that shares our values and collaborative culture, to create a firm with an even greater breadth of capabilities and deeper client relationships, is exciting."
Karen Davies
Global Chair, Ashurst
"For more than 100 years we have looked to the future, constantly adapting to change, and helping our clients do the same. This combination is the next evolution of that, bringing together two forward-thinking firms into a truly global platform that will stay ahead of change."
Mark Birnbaum
Chair, Firmwide Executive Committee, Perkins Coie
"Ashurst brings a global presence that complements our reach and brings recognized strength in the energy and infrastructure and financial services sectors. They share our ambition to build a firm defined by ingenuity and collaboration. Together, we will combine our expertise to accelerate growth and set new standards for world-class legal service."
"Perkins Coie is an ambitious, forward-thinking law firm meeting its clients at the forefront of technological change. At a time of rapid transformation and strategic complexity, we are excited by this unique opportunity to launch a truly differentiated global law firm for our clients and our people."
"Clients want us to think and act globally, and uniting with Perkins Coie, a firm that shares our values and collaborative culture, to create a firm with an even greater breadth of capabilities and deeper client relationships, is exciting."
"For more than 100 years we have looked to the future, constantly adapting to change, and helping our clients do the same. This combination is the next evolution of that, bringing together two forward-thinking firms into a truly global platform that will stay ahead of change."
Our firms
Perkins Coie
Perkins Coie brings leading technology sector capability and deep corporate and litigation, and intellectual property expertise, along with highly-regarded privacy, fintech, environmental, and life sciences practices.
Ashurst
Ashurst brings a long-established global presence, with strength in complex cross-border transactions and expertise in the energy and infrastructure, financial services, and real estate sectors.
FAQs
Your questions, answered.
Why combine now?
Our clients are facing increasingly complex, global challenges as they navigate fast-changing business, regulatory, and geopolitical situations. With our deep capabilities and global footprint, as Ashurst Perkins Coie, we will be in a stronger position to help clients navigate these changes.
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How did this combination come about?
Discussions began in early 2025 and, as Perkins Coie and Ashurst have come to know each other, it has become increasingly clear that our two firms are uniquely well-suited. Both firms are ambitious and focused on our clients' success. We have enjoyed strong growth in recent years and share a vision for how we can accelerate that growth together as Ashurst Perkins Coie.
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How will the combination deliver greater value to each firm’s clients?
This combination brings together two growing, elite firms of similar scale with highly complementary geographic footprints, capabilities, and cultures.
As Ashurst Perkins Coie, our greater global reach and expanded expertise means we will have the ability to do even more to help clients solve their most pressing challenges with confidence, including having access to deeper capabilities and new insights in key markets.
Ashurst Perkins Coie’s combined resources will also allow us to accelerate investments in both AI and top talent – enhancing our ability to deliver even greater insight, quality, and efficiency for our clients.
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What are Ashurst Perkins Coie's biggest opportunities?
The combined firm will bring Perkins Coie and Ashurst’s deep sector and practice expertise to new global markets, creating opportunities both to expand existing client relationships and win new complex, high-value mandates. Ashurst Perkins Coie’s biggest opportunities are in the sectors most critical to shaping the future economy: technology, energy and infrastructure, and financial services.
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What will set Ashurst Perkins Coie apart from other large global law firms?
Ashurst Perkins Coie has over 300 years of shared history and we will stand out through our track record of delivery at a global scale and deep expertise in technology, financial services, and energy and infrastructure – the sectors most critical to shaping the future economy.
Our firm will build on Perkins Coie and Ashurst’s industry-leading foundation in AI, using our combined scale and expertise to invest in and thoughtfully integrate advanced technologies, including AI, to enhance the insight, speed, and quality of the services we provide.
Ashurst Perkins Coie’s strong culture, global mobility, and values-driven approach will make us a destination for the world’s top talent.
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What are the next steps for the combination?
We expect to close on this combination in Q3 of 2026, subject to a partner vote at both firms and other customary conditions to closing. Until then, both firms will continue to operate independently.
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Who will lead Ashurst Perkins Coie?
Ashurst Perkins Coie will be led by Bill Malley and Paul Jenkins as Global Co-CEOs, ensuring continuity of leadership as the combined firm enters its next phase of growth. Karen Davies of Ashurst and Brian Eiting of Perkins Coie will be Co-Chairs of the combined firm. Mark Birnbaum, the current Chair of Perkins Coie’s Executive Committee, whose regular term expires at the end of 2025, will continue serving in that role through closing.
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The press release highlights Ashurst Perkins Coie's focus on technology, energy and infrastructure, and financial services. What does this mean for clients in other sectors?
While those identified sectors will be important to the combined firm, each of the sectors in which we operate will remain fundamental to our success, and a significant strategic focus for us moving forward.
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Both firms have unique cultures. How will you maintain those?
A significant reason people have chosen Perkins Coie or Ashurst for their career, is the unique culture of each firm. We will build a collaborative, shared culture that aligns with the values of both firms, grounded in an ambition to challenge conventions on what it means to be a leading global law firm.
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What will set your approach to AI apart?
While many peers are still focused on pilot projects and small specialist teams, both Ashurst and Perkins Coie have already integrated significant AI capabilities globally across sectors and practices.
In the race to identify and refine use cases, build AI literacy, and drive adoption, Perkins Coie and Ashurst are leaders. Combined, our experience will compound, enabling Ashurst Perkins Coie to deliver deeper insights and higher quality advice at speed.
Ashurst Perkins Coie’s investment in AI will range from supercharging existing sophisticated data and analytics tools and embedding AI deeply into our legal services, to creating tailored AI solutions for our clients.
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