Kenyon & Kenyon to Dissolve, Lawyers Joining Andrews Kurth

After months of losing partners, the intellectual property firm Kenyon & Kenyon announced on Monday it will dissolve — but its 55 lawyers will jump en masse to the Houston-founded law firm Andrews Kurth.

The group hire creates a 400-plus lawyer law firm, that will be known as Andrews Kurth Kenyon everywhere — except Texas where it will continue as Andrews Kurth.

The deal has already been signed and is expected to close Sept. 1. The news marks an end of Kenyon & Kenyon , which was founded in 1879 in New York, and reached its peak size at about 150 lawyers in 2014. Since then, it lost nearly two-thirds of ...