On November 14, 2014, Morgan Lewis's partnership voted to admit 227 partners from Bingham McCutchen LLP into the firm as partners, scaling Morgan Lewis into one of the largest law firms in the world, with the addition of 750 partners, attorneys, and staff joining Morgan Lewis on November 24, 2014. Bingham McCutchen, in turn, was the product in part of an acquisition in 2006 of Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, which at its height employed some 300 attorneys with offices in Washington D.C. and New York, was known for its strength in the regulatory, telecommunications, and insurance sectors. On March 15, 2015, Morgan Lewis and Singapore’s Stamford Law Corporation announced a combination that created a fully integrated law firm in Singapore. The combination established a business transactions, litigation, and arbitration practice to serve clients with interests in Singapore and across the expanding Asian marketplace.