Quarles & Brady’s Adsero Acquisition Boosts IP Reach in Denver
Summary
Quarles & Brady’s merger with intellectual property boutique Adsero IP boosts the firm’s reach into the Denver area, where life sciences and tech has been growing. Adsero, based in the Denver suburb of Littleton, gives Milwaukee-founded Quarles a total of about 520 lawyers in a dozen US locations, including Chicago, Washington, Minneapolis and Phoenix. The Denver-Boulder region has been a hot legal market in recent years, in part as a consequence of life science and tech companies drawing new capital. In recent years, Crowell & Moring opened a new Denver outpost while WilmerHale and Arnold & Porter doubled the size of their existing offices there. With the acquisition, Qualres’s IP group includes more than 140 lawyers and other professionals such as patent agents, said firm president Brad Vynalek in the statement.