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All of the firm's founding partners were native to Akron or Summit County.
Alexander H. Commins, Jr., and Edwin W. Brouse were established lawyers, and their
combined clientele was substantial. Amos H. "Tiny" Englebeck was primarily a trial lawyer
and a leader in the local Republican Party. C. Blake McDowell was the youngest of the four,
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In January of 1919, the firm formally organized as Commins, Brouse, Englebeck & McDowell
and established offices on the fourth floor of the Central Savings and Trust Building at the
southwest corner of Main and Mill Streets. Better known as the Hamilton Building, this
structure was razed to make way in 1929 for First National Tower. Construction was done in
stages so that both the firm and the predecessor bank to First National Bank of Ohio could
remain as continuous occupants on the site. |
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As new partners were added over the years, the firm was given a series of subsequent names:
Brouse, McDowell, May and Bierce; then Brouse, McDowell, May, Bierce and Wortman; then Brouse,
McDowell, Bierce, Roetzel & Hunsicker; then Brouse & McDowell; and since 1998, simply Brouse
McDowell.
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With offices in the city since 1919, Brouse McDowell remains committed to the downtown
Akron area. In November 2004, the firm moved to the fifth floor of the Advanced Elastomer Systems
Building located at 388 South Main Street. The firm's new office provides innovative, state-of-the-art
resources for information and communications technology and will allow the firm to easily adapt to future
technological advances.
Early in 1998, the firm responded to the needs of a growing legal market by opening an office in
Cleveland, Ohio. Fifteen of the firm's 65 attorneys practice in the Cleveland office, located
on the 16th floor of the North Point Building.
Brouse McDowell's clients include many of Northeast Ohio’s most
respected businesses and institutions. The bulk of the firm's practice has been and remains
business oriented, but the scope of its services has evolved with the changing needs of its
clients. Today, the firm counsels businesses, both publicly traded and privately held, and
individuals in traditional business concerns, as well as such diverse undertakings as public
and private debt and equity offerings, securities law compliance, venture capital arrangements,
joint ventures, mergers, and other acquisitions and dispositions.
In its broad-based commercial law practice, Brouse McDowell advises clients on creditors'
rights and debtors' protection issues, loan workouts, restructuring strategies, and the
implications of creditors' rights issues in leveraged buyouts. The firm represents numerous
banks and other financial institutions in the conduct of their daily affairs and before state
and federal regulatory authorities. In recent years, Brouse McDowell has earned a national
reputation for its skills in the area of environmental insurance recovery litigation.
There is also growing recognition of its work in structuring, negotiating, and documenting
transactions on behalf of utility and independent power developers, with a special emphasis
on venture and other collaborative relationships.
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