Conner & Winters Announces Combination with Spencer Fane
Tulsa, Okla. (April 8, 2026) - Conner & Winters, LLP today announced plans to combine with Spencer Fane, a highly-regarded AmLaw 200 firm with more than 700 attorneys across 33 offices nationwide. Effective July 1, the combination significantly expands the depth, reach, and value of Conner & Winters' services while reflecting the firm's long-standing commitment to providing clients with service that's a step above.
Spencer Fane has been consistently recognized across the industry as one of the most innovative, high-growth law firms in the country. Featuring a national platform of elite lawyers focused on unrivaled value creation and client service, the full-service business law firm provides comprehensive counsel across a broad array of practices. The firm operates efficiently at scale by leveraging a redesigned organizational model that emphasizes autonomy, accountability, and collaboration. This structure has resulted in the formation of more than 90 attorney-led Market Teams focused on solving a variety of emerging challenges facing the business community. Conner & Winters' integration with this infrastructure will strengthen the combined firm's ability to deliver efficient legal services and consistent value across markets.
"Joining Spencer Fane was a strategic decision driven by alignment and opportunity,” Conner & Winters Managing Partner Kevin Redwine said. “Spencer Fane has built a platform that combines strong economics, operational efficiency, and a genuinely collaborative culture – all while keeping clients at the center of the model. That made this combination a compelling next step for our lawyers and our clients.”
The combination presents a strategic opportunity for Spencer Fane to elevate its national profile by adding the technical excellence, pragmatic approach to problem solving, and enduring client relationships that has defined Conner & Winters for over 90 years.
“This combination will dramatically enhance our client platform and ability to deliver exceptional value,” Spencer Fane Chair Patrick J. Whalen said. “Conner & Winters brings exceptional lawyers, complementary practices, and longstanding client relationships that expand our capabilities while fitting seamlessly into our collaborative, efficiency-driven model. The combined firm will offer increasingly sophisticated legal services with compelling economics and a client experience other law firms do not offer.”
Over the past decade, Spencer Fane has combined with several elite law firms who shared a common vision of unequalled value creation for clients as well as professionals in the firm. The combination with Conner & Winters marks the firm’s largest to date and continues its decade-plus record of sustainable growth while maintaining industry-leading culture, efficiency, and collaboration.
“When firms are aligned culturally and structurally, growth becomes a natural byproduct of a strategy that works – for clients, for lawyers, and for the firm’s long-term economics.” Whalen said.
Conner & Winters joins a firm whose platform and performance have been recognized across the industry, including recent honors from the Financial Times, which shortlisted the firm among its "Innovative Law Firms North America 2025"; U.S. News & World Report, which ranked Spencer Fane as the top-rated firm in its "2025 Best Companies to Work For: Law Firms" listing; and The American Lawyer, which described the firm as “a case study on how a law firm can add market share, climb the rankings, and grow profits, all at the same time.”
About Spencer Fane
Spencer Fane is a full-service business law firm built on a culture first strategy that prioritizes continuously unlocking value for clients while also standing as one of the highest performing firms nationally in workplace satisfaction. With more than 700 attorneys across 33 offices nationwide, the firm provides clients direct access to firm leadership and a different approach to engaging outside counsel. Clients rely on Spencer Fane for comprehensive counsel across a broad array of practices, including banking and financial services, corporate and business transactions, litigation and dispute resolution, real estate, health care, intellectual property, labor and employment, environment and energy, and tax, trusts, and estates. Additionally, as part of the firm’s new organizational redesign, the firm’s attorneys have created 90+ client-facing Market Teams to solve a variety of emerging challenges facing the business community. For more information, visit www.spencerfane.com.
About Conner & Winters, LLP
Founded in 1933, Conner & Winters has five offices located in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Northwest Arkansas, Dallas, and Houston, the firm serves a broad range of clients in local, state, regional, national, and international arenas. Its clients include businesses of all sizes and types, from locally owned companies to multi-national corporations and individuals, estates and trusts, municipalities and other public-sector organizations, institutions, and charitable foundations. Conner & Winters, LLP, is a full-service firm with more than 75 attorneys successfully representing numerous areas of practice. For more information, visit www.cwlaw.com.
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