FAQs

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.

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.

This combination brings together two growing, elite firms of similar scale with highly complementary geographic footprints, capabilities, and cultures.

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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.

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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.

This combination brings together two growing, elite firms of similar scale with highly complementary geographic footprints, capabilities, and cultures.

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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.

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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.

This combination brings together two growing, elite firms of similar scale with highly complementary geographic footprints, capabilities, and cultures.

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As Ashurst Perkins Coie, our greater global reach and expanded expertise means we will have the ability to do even more to help our clients solve their most pressing challenges with confidence, including access to deeper capabilities and new insights in key markets.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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Ashurst Perkins Coie’s strong culture, global mobility, and values-driven approach will make us a destination for the world’s top talent.

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.

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.

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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Pre- and post-close, clients can expect the same personalized, relationship-driven service for which we have always been known, and as Ashurst Perkins Coie, we will be able to provide clients with deeper capabilities and new insights in key markets.

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.

Ashurst is a tailor-made partner for this next chapter. They share our dedication to client service excellence, innovation, and a like-minded culture grounded in integrity and collaboration.

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Ashurst brings to this combination an established presence in major financial capitals including Frankfurt, London, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo, and market-leading capabilities in energy and infrastructure, financial services, and real estate that complement our own leading technology sector capability and practice strengths.

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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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Pre- and post-close, clients can expect the same personalized, relationship-driven service for which we have always been known, and as Ashurst Perkins Coie, we will be able to provide clients with deeper capabilities and new insights in key markets.

U.S. expansion has long been a strategic priority for Ashurst, but we were looking for a partner with more than just a U.S. footprint – one with strengths distinct from our own, shared ambitions, and clear cultural compatibility. In Perkins Coie, we found that match.

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Perkins Coie’s leading technology sector capability and deep corporate, litigation, and intellectual property expertise complements our global presence and strength in energy & infrastructure, financial services, and real estate.  

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Equally, Perkins Coie shares our culture defined by ingenuity, collaboration, and a willingness to challenge convention, making it an ideal partner for building a forward-looking, values-driven global firm.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.