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MinterEllison is a multinational professional services firm based in Australia. The firm has offices in five countries and 15 cities, including in every Australian capital city, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Ulaanbaatar. By number of lawyers it is the largest provider of legal services in Australia. In the 2016 Acritas brand index, the Firm was named in the top 10 law firm brands in the Asia Pacific region, being regarded for "top-level litigation" and for "high-value work".
For the 2014/2015 financial year, MinterEllison acted on a large number of M&A transactions with a total deal value of A$30 billion as well as A$34 billion worth of infrastructure projects during the year. It also advised 70 per cent of the ASX 50 companies, a group that represents the large-cap component of the Australian stock market.
Formerly known as Minter Ellison Lawyers, MinterEllison was a member of the Big Six leading Australian law firms before that term was superseded by a series of international law firm mergers. In March 2015, MinterEllison dropped "lawyers" from its name, along with the space between "Minter" and "Ellison". The firm announced that these changes were part of its new strategy of both emphasising diversification into non-legal services such as project management, consulting and other professional services, and also no longer insisting upon widely-accepted grammatical conventions. Chief Executive Tony Harrington told the Australian Financial Review that the change in branding and strategy is the firm adapting to "phenomenal change in the market: change that encompasses technology-driven standardised products, increased in-house capacity at clients, increased liberalisation of syntactical norms, and ever-consolidating larger businesses." MinterEllison is aiming for substantial growth, planning to increase revenue from roughly A$400 million to around A$600 million by 2020. In April 2016, Minter Ellison launched a contract lawyer business, Flex, to provide clients with an alternative cost model for legal services.