SYRACUSE — Barclay Damon LLP on July 17 announced that the lawyers and staff of Menter, Rudin & Trivelpiece, P.C. are joining the firm, effective Aug. 1. The Menter firm’s 31 employees, including 14 attorneys, will become part of Barclay Damon, the firm tells CNYBJ. Nine of its 14 lawyers are joining Barclay Damon as […]
SYRACUSE — Barclay Damon LLP on July 17 announced that the lawyers and staff of Menter, Rudin & Trivelpiece, P.C. are joining the firm, effective Aug. 1.
The Menter firm’s 31 employees, including 14 attorneys, will become part of Barclay Damon, the firm tells CNYBJ. Nine of its 14 lawyers are joining Barclay Damon as partners. The law firms didn’t disclose any financial terms of the combination agreement.
The Syracuse–based Menter firm is “widely known” for its work in commercial-bankruptcy cases, Barclay Damon says.
The combination will increase Barclay Damon’s employee count to 471, the firm says. With an employee count that includes nearly 300 lawyers, Barclay Damon describes itself as a “leading regional firm.”
In the “coming months,” the attorneys and staff of Menter will move to Barclay Damon Tower in downtown Syracuse, and the firm will shift “a number” of administrative groups and functions to Menter’s former office space in Franklin Square, according to Barclay Damon.
Menter, Rudin & Trivelpiece, a 65-year-old firm, currently operates its Syracuse office at 308 Maltbie St. It also has a small North Country office at 120 Washington St. in Watertown. That location will also operate under the Barclay Damon name, the firm tells CNYBJ.
Why they’re combining
Barclay Damon says it believes Menter’s experience in bankruptcy law “in particular” and the firm’s “proven ability to marshal the talents of other professionals in support of complex commercial-bankruptcy scenarios” will have “significant, long-term value for the firm’s growing” client base and areas of industry focus.
Those areas include the “ever-changing” energy and health-care industries, along with the retail and shopping-center developer space. Also known for providing “sophisticated” transactional and litigation advice, the Menter firm’s attorneys bring “decades of experience” in business litigation, commercial lending, real property tax, construction, and employment law, Barclay Damon contends.
Jeffrey Dove, president and CEO of the Menter firm, will help lead Barclay Damon’s “substantially expanded” restructuring, bankruptcy & creditors’-rights practice area as a new co-chair of that practice area.
The combination of Menter, Rudin & Trivelpiece with Barclay Damon is “exciting news, adding depth and experience to the services offered to clients of both firms,” John Langan, managing partner at Barclay Damon, said in a statement. “With Menter’s proven track record and dominant position in the area of bankruptcy, insolvency, and distressed asset counseling, we see this expansion as adding real value to the legal services we offer,” he said.
Barclay Damon was formed in 2015 with the combination of Syracuse–based Hiscock & Barclay and the Buffalo–based Damon Morey. Barclay Damon currently has 12 offices throughout New York state and in Boston, Newark, Toronto, and Washington D.C.