TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 20, 2025

Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, with offices in Memphis and Nashville, will merge with Bricker Graydon in January, the firms have announced. The combined firm will be known as Bricker Graydon Wyatt LLP. Franklin Jelsma, managing partner of Wyatt, and Chris McCloskey, managing partner of Bricker, said that merger discussions have been in the works for over a year. The combined firm will unite more than 325 attorneys across 14 offices in four states. Bricker operates in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. Wyatt has offices in Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee. The new firm will focus on litigation, mergers and acquisitions, estate planning, and complex public sector representation for the real estate, health care, energy, education, and construction industries. Read more in a news release.