Powell Goldstein’s merger partner—Bryan Cave—maintains an active corporate practice. Bryan Cave placed 10th on Thomson Financial’s 2007 ranking of law firms on the number of U.S. M&A deals for which they advised the target or acquiring company. 
Bryan Cave’s most-recent work in the corporate transactions area involved a longtime client, Reinsurance Group of America Inc., better known as RGA. Partners Randy Wang and Jim Levey advised RGA on common stock offering. RGA plans to sell 8.9 million shares at $33.89 per share. Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley are the underwriters.
RGA, one of the world’s largest life reinsurance companies, is headquartered in the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield, Mo.
Although Wang and Levey both work in St. Louis, Bryan Cave’s largest office, the law firm’s corporate transactions lawyers are spread out geographically. St. Louis counts 57 lawyers in the corporate transactions practice group, while New York has 30, Kansas City has 29 and Los Angeles has 12.
In addition to RGA, some of Bryan Cave’s other clients in the corporate area include Barnes & Noble Inc., Energizer Holdings Inc., International Paper Co. and Sprint Nextel Corp.