Squire Patton Boggs Elects New Global M.P.

By Stephen Siciliano, Special to Big Law Business

Squire Patton Boggs announced on Monday that Cleveland-based partner Frederick Nance has been named global managing partner, and will oversee 36 offices in 16 countries.

He will take the helm Jan. 1, maintaining his Cleveland residence. The move makes Nance the first African-American to sit on the firm’s global board and executive group.

In an interview on Tuesday, Nance said his charge will be to better integrate the 1,600-lawyer firm, which is the product of a June 2014 merger between Cleveland-based Squire Sanders and Washington D.C.-based Patton Boggs. Since that time, there have been ...