Mayer Brown LLP

The Chicago law firm Mayer, Brown LLC, formerly Mayer, Brown, Rowe, and Maw, and prior to that known as Mayer, Brown, and Platt, operates in fourteen cities worldwide. The firm's Chicago office hosts more than 500 of the firm's 1,500 lawyers. The firm represented the Metropolitan Pier and Expansion Authority (McPier) in support of the $1 billion-dollar expansion of the McCormick Place and the redevelopment of Navy Pier. Tyrone C. Fahner, former Illinois Attorney General, is the chairman of Mayer, Brown, Rowe, and Maw.

Mayer Brown is a career patron of Senate President Emil Jones (D), House Republican Leader Tom Cross (R), and Senate Republican Leader Frank Watson (R).

From 1993 through December 31, 2006, Mayer, Brown contributed $2,384,000 to candidates for Illinois statewide constitutional and legislative office, 55% of which went to Republicans.

Last revised June 2011.