The law firm of McCarter & English has merged with New Jersey-based SorinRand. The company will continue to be known as McCarter & English.
“This combination makes sense on every level,” said Michael P. Kelly, the Wilmington-based chairman of McCarter & English. “Our corporate practice is strong and has been growing substantially. The addition of SorinRand’s incomparable attorneys, who honed their craft at the most prestigious law firms in the country, establishes us as the leader in the early stage and emerging companies sector.”
“Plus, our new East Brunswick office will put us in the middle of New Jersey’s tech corridor,” Kelly said. “Our technology, venture capital, early stage and emerging company clients will benefit from the addition of some of the best lawyers in the nation focusing specifically on their businesses, bolstering the skilled team of lawyers they already know and count on.”
David J. Sorin, managing partner of SorinRand, who will become managing partner of McCarter’s new East Brunswick office and the head of McCarter’s expanded Venture Capital and Early Stage and Emerging Companies practice, said McCarter’s size and capabilities will bring its clients expertise for which they currently need to look elsewhere.
“We believe we’re in a league of our own in working with venture capital firms and early stage and emerging growth companies in this region,” Sorin said.
our services to them were limited to corporate, intellectual property, employment and litigation. Now, as part of McCarter & English, we can offer our clients a complete array of subject matter experts in fields such as real estate, immigration, employee benefits, executive compensation and bankruptcy, as well as deep industry expertise in fields such as health care, pharmaceuticals, banking and finance.” The SorinRand attorneys coming to McCarter include 11 corporate, three intellectual property, two employment and one litigation lawyer. The SorinRand attorneys will practice from the East Brunswick location, where that firm has been located for five years, and from McCarter’s New York office.
McCarter is one of the oldest law firms in the nation. The firm has seen its corporate practice double in the last two years, with the SorinRand transaction following substantial growth in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. Meanwhile, the firm’s intellectual property practice has doubled over the last four years to include 105 attorneys, patent agents and technical specialists, of whom 29 hold PhDs.
