Vedder Price Joins Big Law’s Miami Rush, as Firms Flock South

Vedder Price is opening a Miami office, joining a wave of Big Law firms headed for the city in recent months.

Kenneth Gerasimovich, a finance and transactions partner who joined Chicago-based Vedder Price last year, will move to Miami from New York to launch the office. The former Greenberg Traurig partner will be joined by a handful of other partners relocating to the new South Florida outpost, which the firm says will be “fully operational” on Thursday.

Miami has become a hot market for Big Law firms, luring the likes of Quinn Emanuel, Kirkland & Ellis, King & Spalding and ...