Two years after first announcing a combination with Australia’s Blake Dawson, Ashurst will implement a full merger, including complete financial integration, on Nov. 1.

In September 2011, London-based Ashurst and the former Blake Dawson announced they would combine their Asia operations, with the latter firm rebranding itself under the Ashurst name. The Australian and U.K. partnerships would remain separate though the two firms said at the time that they planned to be fully integrated by early 2014.