Law Firm Overview

Washington, DC is a complex legal market, demanding experience in handling matters before a broad variety of federal agencies, commissions and policymaking bodies.

For the last 25 years, our office in the Nation's capital has offered clients both our full-service capabilities as a global law firm and a unique Washington perspective on the regulatory, legislative, and policy-making issues in this environment. The chair of our global Litigation practice resides in the Washington, DC office, and our project finance, telecommunications, international trade, legislative affairs, employee benefits, energy, environmental, and immigration practice groups are well-represented here as well.

Our Corporate group handles mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, finance, and corporate workouts. And many of our lawyers bring distinguished service in the executive and legislative branches to bear on the issues facing our clients. The Washington, DC office also houses our traditional leading litigation practice, focused on the areas of fraud/white collar/investigations, consumer finance, and class actions, as well as our across-the-board Employment Law and labor-management relations practice. Additionally, the Washington, DC office offers a full-service Intellectual Property practice, including patent, trademarks and trade secrets licensing, prosecution and litigation, Section 337 international IP protection, and Information Technology/eCommerce transactions and counseling.

No matter what the legal need may be, we deliver seamless, multidisciplinary service to clients who operate in highly regulated, but also highly competitive, industries.

Areas of Practice

• Affordable Housing and Tax Credits
• Antitrust and Competition
• Appellate Litigation
• Asset Securitization and Structured Finance
• Banking and Financial Institutions
• Bankruptcy Litigation
• Base Realignment and Closures
• Class Actions
• Commercial Leasing and Sales Leaseback
• Copyright
• Corporate
• Counseling and Preventive Advic
• Disaster Mitigation
• E-Discovery
• Employment Class Actions
• Employment Law
• Employment Litigation
• Environmental Law
• ERISA, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
• Estate Planning and Probat
• Finance and Restructuring
• Financial Litigation
• Financial Services
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• Government Affairs
• Government Contracts Litigation
• Immigration
• Intellectual Property
• International Arbitration
• International Employment Law
• International Trade and Export Controls
• Investment Management
• IP Transactions and Licensing
• Labor/Management Relations
• Land Use
• Leveraged Finance
• Litigation
• Mergers and Acquisition
• Patent Litigation
• Patent Preparation and Prosecution
• Payment Systems
• Political Risk and International Trade Credit Insurance
• Private Equity
• Private Investment Funds
• Product Liability and Toxic Tort
• Project Development & Finance
• Purchase and Sale of Non-Performing Loans
• Real Estate
• Real Estate Acquisitions and Dispositions
• Real Estate Equity Investments and Joint Ventures
• Real Estate Finance
• Real Estate Capital Markets
• Real Estate Litigation
• Real Estate Restructuring and Reorganization
• Regulatory Compliance
• Restructuring
• Securities Finance and Capital Markets
• Securities Litigation and Enforcement
• Sustainability and Global Climate Change
• Tax Advisory
• Trade Secrets
• Trademark
• White Collar, Internal Investigations and Corporate Governance