William Guthrie and Paul De Fere convince J.P. Morgan’s Charles Steele, a former partner, to stick with a merger of bridge companies after the deal was nearly dead. The Firm then advises on the formation of the American Bridge Company, which consolidates 28 companies and goes on to build the Chrysler, Woolworth and Empire State buildings and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, among other iconic structures.