It was one of the predecessor firms of Vonnegut, Wright & Yeager.

'This list primarily represents alumni of predecessor firms.'

But eventually, the executives say, the merged agency proved more powerful than either of its predecessor firms.

He has always devoted himself to corporate work, beginning with a predecessor firm to Wachtell, Lipton.

A predecessor firm, Brown Brothers, had done business from the Wall Street site since 1843.

(One of them had signed a one-year noncompete agreement with a predecessor firm.)

He was associated with Milbank, Tweed and its predecessor firms for more than six decades.

He was a co-founder of one of its predecessor firms in 1948.

It is unclear at this stage whether the new identities thus formed have inherited the "Big Six" status of their predecessor firms in Australia.

The firm was structured as a Swiss Verein and had a single management board but the partnerships of the predecessor firms were not financially integrated.