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We are celebrating the opening of two new offices in the US – Los Angeles and Seattle, bringing our US office total to 12. This follows the opening of our Fort Lauderdale office in January, and now brings our global total to 47 offices.
The new Los Angeles office is located at 915 Wilshire Boulevard and will initially welcome four attorneys, Shain Wasser, partner, Zina Yu special counsel and associates Camille Zuber and Deniz Perkowski.
The Seattle office, located on Fifth Avenue in the Central Business District, opens with five attorneys, partner Terri Sutton, special counsel Sally Clements and associates Kristen Furman, Colin Crug and Nicole Morrow.
Regional Managing Partner, US, Meg Catalano, says: “Kennedys offices in North America have seen strong growth over the last three years, with a 62% increase in headcount, we now have 215 attorneys servicing our clients across the US.”
“The opening of these new offices expands our physical presence on the West Coast, allowing us to service increasing client demand across the region.”
Christopher Carroll, US senior partner, adds: “The addition of these two offices marks another phase of our strategic plan to grow the range of services the US can deliver to both our domestic and global clients.”
Los Angeles and Seattle are the eleventh and twelfth offices to open in North America, joining Austin, Basking Ridge, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Wilmington. We opened our first West Coast office, San Francisco, in 2020.
We have seen significant growth in recent years, with the firm reporting record revenue of £384m (USD 483m) for the financial year 2023/24. North America saw the most significant growth, with revenue of £94m (USD 119m). This follows ongoing strategic expansion of our US offering, with lateral hires to build bench strength in key practice areas, as well as the promotion of five new partners in its annual promotions round.
Last year, the firm was awarded Mansfield Certification Plus in both the US and UK, for the second year running recognizing our commitment to driving diversity in leadership and championing opportunities for historically underrepresented groups in the legal sector.
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