Global firm Squire Patton Boggs and California-based Carroll, Burdick & McDonough have announced that they have reached an agreement to combine firms. The combination will create an extensive product quality, brand protection and compliance practice, joining together Squire Patton Boggs’ leading global platform of over 1,500 lawyers spanning 45 offices in 21 countries in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, with Carroll Burdick, a complex litigation and products risk management firm with over 50 lawyers on three continents.

The combined firm has offices around the world, including Beijing, Hong Kong, Perth, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.