Holland & Knight is pleased to announce that Robert J. Grammig will become the firm’s Chair and Chief Executive Officer, and David C. Whitestone and Tiffani G. Lee will serve as Managing Partner and Deputy Managing Partner, respectively. The new leadership team will succeed Steven Sonberg, who has served as Managing Partner since 2008 and will step down after the end of the first quarter in 2024, concluding a 16-year term.

The leadership change follows a period of transformational growth at Holland & Knight that has included the firm’s combinations with Tennessee-based Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis in March 2023, and Texas-based Thompson & Knight in August 2021.

Under Mr. Sonberg’s leadership, the firm has added nearly 900 lawyers and 17 offices and, through the end of 2022, had grown its revenue by nearly $1 billion. The firm now has approximately 2,000 lawyers in 34 offices worldwide.