Legal Business

Womble Bond-BDB Pitmans: The data driving the national tie-up talks

The Legal 500’s Ben Wheway takes a look at the rationale behind the proposed merger and what a combined firm could look like

The latest merger news to hit the headlines involves two firms which have been down this road before – Womble Bond Dickinson and BDB Pitmans.

On the Womble Bond side, the 2013 union of Newcastle’s Dickinson Dees and Bristol’s Bond Pearce created Bond Dickinson, which then combined with US firm Womble Carlyle in 2016. Meanwhile, BDB Pitmans was formed by the 2018 merger of London’s Bircham Dyson Bell and South-East firm Pitmans.