Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

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• Arabic
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• Hebrew
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• Italian
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Law Firm Overview

Having grown to more than 160 lawyers since it opened in 1999, our New York office has developed a premier practice founded on many of the firm's core strengths. Across all practice areas, the New York office has been built on the firm's guiding principles of collegiality, diversity, commitment to public service, and dedication to our clients and the practice of law.

Our New York office is uniquely positioned to offer the intimacy of a smaller office with the high quality work and substantial resources of a leading international law firm. As an office integrated within a global firm of over 1000 lawyers, we benefit from the breadth of experience and expertise of our talented colleagues throughout the firm. We frequently work with lawyers from other offices to insure that our clients are able to draw seamlessly upon the resources and expertise of the entire firm.

The primary practice areas of the New York office include securities regulation and enforcement, intellectual property, patent and trademark litigation, trial and appellate litigation, white collar defense, corporate, bankruptcy and financial institutions. Our clients consist of a broad array of companies, including major financial, investment management and investment banking firms, pharmaceutical and life-sciences companies, venture-backed corporate start-ups and technology firms. Our work on behalf of these clients often involves novel and interesting issues of first impression, many of which raise important questions of public policy.

Consistent with our firm's rich tradition of public service, the office has developed a vibrant pro bono program. Lawyers within the office are encouraged to work on significant pro bono matters of interest to them and do so routinely. Recent examples of our pro bono work include two successful wrongful conviction cases, a successful 1983 action for wrongful arrest and imprisonment, several cases that were briefed or argued by the firm before the US Supreme Court, the successful defense at trial of a nonprofit social services organization, and a series of immigrant rights cases and a free speech case that have been argued by our associates before federal courts of appeals.

Our practice in the New York office is enriched by an unusually talented and interesting group of colleagues. Our lawyers include an NCAA college soccer player of the year and US Olympian, PhDs in English literature, electrical engineering, molecular biology, and organic chemistry, and a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal. As is the case throughout the firm, many of our lawyers in the New York office had significant government, regulatory or public interest careers prior to joining the firm, and many of our colleagues had one or more federal court clerkships before entering private practice.

Our firm’s strong commitment to the training and development of our attorneys is evidenced in the exciting opportunities that our alumni have pursued when they left our firm, including several Assistant US Attorneys in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the General Counsel of the Dallas Cowboys, and tenure track positions at the University of Chicago, Cardozo Law School, the University of Michigan, and the University of South Carolina.

Areas of Practice

• Anti-Money Laundering Practice
• Antitrust and Competition
• Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation
• Bankruptcy and Creditor Rights Litigation
• Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring
• Broker-Dealer Compliance and Regulation
• Business Trial Group
• Capital Markets
• Cleantech and Energy
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Working Group
• Copyright
• Corporate
• Corporate and Transactional
• Debt Finance
• Derivatives and Futures
• DiscoverySolutions
• Distressed Real Estate Solutions
• Due Diligence and Opinions
• Education
• Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits
• Export Controls and Economic Sanctions
• Federal Regulatory and Legislative Matters
• Financial Institutions
• Financial Services
• Financial Services Enforcement
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Anti-Corruption
• Fund Formation
• Government and Regulatory Litigation
• Information Technology
• Insurance
• Intellectual Property
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• International
• International Arbitration
• International Litigation
• International Trade, Investment and Market Access
• Internet, E-Commerce and New Media
• Investigations and Criminal Litigation
• Investment Management
• Licensing and Technology Transfer
• Life Sciences
• Litigation
• Litigation and Enforcement
• Litigation/Controversy
• Media and Entertainment
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Nanotechnology
• Patent
• Professional Services
• Proprietary Information and Trade Secrets
• Regulatory and Government Affairs
• Securities
• Securities Litigation
• Technology Transactions and Licensing
• Telecommunications
• Trademark, Trade Dress and Domain Names

Published Works

• Law360: Regulatory and Govt. Affairs Practice: WilmerHale, 2008
• WilmerHale raid increases King & Spalding NY woes
• 2011 IPO Report, 2011
• 2011 Venture Capital Report, 2011
• 2011 M&A Report, 2011
• Regulators Propose Volcker Rule: Sweeping Changes Ahead, 2011
• Revised ICC Rules of Arbitration, 2011
• SEC Adopts Definition of "Venture Capital Fund" and Other Rules to Implement Provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act Related to Investment Advisers, 2011
• Many Firms Unaware of Municipal Advisor Registration and Compliance Requirements: MSRB Advises Municipal Entities to Check the Registration Status of Their Advisors, 2011
• Slice of History: Television and the Making of a Lawyer-Hero, 2011
• SEC Proposes Bad Actor Disqualification to Popular Private Placement Safe Harbor, 2011
• New FINRA Books and Records Rules, 2011
• Selected 2010 M&A Transactions, 2011
• Selected 2010 Venture Financings As Company Counsel, 2011
• Selected 2010 Public Offerings and Rule 144A Placements, 2011
• SEC Proposes New Compensation Committee Rules, 2011
• Sand Traps for the Unwary: Golf Course Case Questions the Finality of 'Free and Clear' Sale Orders by Bankruptcy Courts, 2011
• Judge Issues Opinion on Definition of "Foreign Official", 2011
• UK Bribery Act 2010: Publication of Guidance on Adequate Procedures, 2011
• Joint CFTC-SEC Advisory Committee Recommends Transformative Market Changes in the Wake of May 6th Flash Crash, 2011
• Trading Away Priority? Implications of Seventh Circuit Decision in United Air Lines on Bankruptcy Claims Trading & Contract Assumption, 2011
• SEC Issues Final Rules and Interpretive Guidance on Say-on-Pay and Say-on-Frequency Advisory Votes, 2011
• The Defensibility of Non-Human Document Review, 2011
• Anti-Corruption Enforcement Developments: 2010 Year in Review and 2011 Preview, 2011
• The SEC and CFTC Issue Joint Rules Defining Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants, 2010
• Computer-Expedited Review: The Future is Here, 2010
• SEC Proposes Definition of "Venture Capital Fund" and Other Rules to Implement the Private Fund Adviser Registration Provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act, 2010
• SEC Approves Sweeping Changes to FINRA's Regulatory Reporting Rules, 2010
• 2010 M&A Report, 2010
• 2010 IPO Report, 2010
• 2010 Venture Capital Report, 2010
• A Return to Modesty - The SEC Clothes Naked Access: Adoption of Risk Management Controls for Broker-Dealers with Market Access, 2010
• Corporate Crime and Privilege: Where Does Manhattan District Attorney Stand?, 2010
• Corporate Crime and Privilege: Where Does Manhattan District Attorney Stand?, 2010
• SEC Proposes Rules for Say-on-Compensation Votes, 2010
• In Seminal Decision, New York Court of Appeals Rejects Attempt to Expand Scope of Liability for Professional Service Providers, 2010
• Multiple Claims Toward a Single Satisfaction: Interpreting the "Single Satisfaction" Rule with Respect to Bankruptcy Claims, 2010
• Basel III Capital Standards Are Announced, 2010
• Preparing for Doing Business Under the UK Bribery Act, 2010
• The SEC's New Proxy Access Rules, 2010
• Rethinking Selective Waiver, 2010
• Dodd-Frank Title VIII: The Devil is in the Details, 2010
• Cost Shifting and Fee Splitting in Electronic Discovery, 2010
• SEC to Require Stockholder Proxy Access, 2010
• Revised UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, 2010
• Dodd-Frank Act Expands Federal Regulation of Public Company Governance, Executive Compensation and Disclosure, 2010
• Recent Developments in Global Antibribery Enforcement, 2010
• We're Almost There! Financial Reform Almost Final as Attention Turns to Rulemaking, 2010
• For Whose Benefit? Courts in Adelphia and eToys Bankruptcies Decline to Unwind Transactions Where Suits Do Not Serve Goal of Creditor Protection, 2010
• Bilski Loses—The Machine or Transformation Test is Important, but Not Exclusive, 2010
• Outer Bounds of Safe Harbors: Lehman-Swedbank Decision Limits Setoff Rights Under Swap Agreements, 2010
• Revised IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration, 2010
• Think Like a Client, 2010
• FINRA Proposes New Registration and Qualification Requirements for Certain Operations Personnel, 2010
• Selected 2009 Public Offerings and Rule 144A Placements, 2010
• Selected 2009 Strategic Alliances, Joint Venture and Licensing Transactions, 2010
• Selected 2009 Life Sciences Transactions, 2010
• Selected 2009 M&A Transactions, 2010
• Selected 2009 Venture Financings As Company Counsel, 2010
• Selected 2009 Technology Transactions, 2010
• Recent Developments in Global Antibribery Enforcement, 2010
• Recent Developments in Global Anti-Bribery Enforcement, 2010
• Are We Almost There Yet? Financial Reform Makes it to Conference, 2010
• FDIC Releases Additional Questions and Answers Regarding Final Policy Statement Governing Private Equity Investments in Failed Banks, 2010
• Recent Decisions in Saad, Metcalfe, and Condor: Chapter 15 Re-Energized, 2010
• New York Convention Awards In the Second Circuit, 2010
• Supreme Court Endorses Gartenberg, But It's Not the Same Old Standard, 2010
• Recent Decisions in Saad, Metcalfe, and Condor: Chapter 15 Re-energized, 2010
• Putting More Equity Into Equitable Mootness: Recent Cases in the Tenth and Fifth Circuits Signal More Appellate Review of Plan Confirmation Orders, 2010
• Upcoming Amendments to SEC E-Proxy Rules, 2010
• Recent Developments in Global Antibribery Enforcement, 2010
• Clarifying The Standard For Transfer In Eastern Texas, 2010
• FinCEN Clarifies Anti-Money Laundering Beneficial Ownership Rules, 2010
• Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Muchnick: The Supreme Court Unanimously Clarifies Jurisdictional Requirements for Copyright Infringement Actions, 2010
• SEC Issues Interpretive Guidance Regarding Climate Change Disclosure, 2010
• Recent Lehman Decision Raises Questions About Application of Safe Harbors to Complex Financial Products, 2010
• Breaking Up is Easier to Do: Third Circuit Denies Section 363 Buyer its "Break-Up Fee" in Reliant Energy Decision, 2010
• FDIC Releases Questions and Answers Regarding Final Policy Statement Governing Private Equity Investments in Failed Banks, 2010
• SEC Approves New Financial Responsibility Requirements for FINRA Member Firms, 2010
• Federal Circuit Affirms Decision Granting Patentees Additional Patent Term, 2010
• The Increased Prosecution of Individuals Under the FCPA: Trends and Implications, 2010
• Using International Law to Promote Millennium Health Targets: A Role for the CEDAW Optional Protocol in Reducing Maternal Mortality, 2010
• The Increased Prosecution of Individuals Under the FCPA: Trends and Implications, 2009
• SEC Adopts Compensation, Corporate Governance and Risk Disclosure Changes, 2009
• Are We Halfway There Yet? House Passes Major Financial Services Bill While Senate Expected to Defer to Early Next Year, 2009
• Comments with consequences: SEC staff explains its approach to executive compensation disclosure for the 2010 proxy season, 2009
• Two Roads Diverge in Managing E-Discovery Costs, 2009
• Supreme Court Hears Argument on Jones v. Harris, 2009
• New PTO Director Responds to Complaints and Rescinds Proposed Rules, 2009
• 2009 IPO Report, 2009
• 2009 Venture Capital Report, 2009
• Federal Circuit Finds Method of Treatment Claims Patentable Under Bilski, 2009
• In re Bose: Federal Circuit Raises the Bar for Fraud in Trademark Cases, 2009
• FDIC Releases Final Policy Statement Governing Private Equity Investments in Failed Banks, 2009
• Transforming the Machine-or-Transformation Test Under In re Bilski, 2009, 2009
• Recent Developments in Global Antibribery Enforcement, 2009
• Brave New World for OTC Derivatives: Treasury Proposes Major Overhaul, 2009
• SEC Proposes Expanded Compensation and Governance Disclosure Rules, 2009
• SEC Proposes 'Proxy Access' Rules, 2009
• Treasury Proposes Registration of Fund Advisers; SEC Testifies in Support, 2009
• Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Members Named, 2009
• SEC Approves Elimination of Broker Discretionary Voting in Uncontested Elections of Directors, 2009
• Proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency Would Cloud SEC Enforcement, 2009
• SEC Issues Proposals to Implement TARP and Disclosure and Governance Agenda, 2009
• President Obama's Regulatory Reform Proposal—Major Overhaul or Missed Opportunity?, 2009
• Administration Proposes Giving SEC New Rulemaking Authority on Executive Compensation Matters for all Public Companies, 2009
• Country Q&A United States, 2009
• Selected 2008 M&A Transactions, 2009
• Selected 2008 Technology Transactions, 2009
• Selected 2008 Venture Financings As Company Counsel, 2009
• Selected 2008 Life Sciences Transactions, 2009
• Selected 2008 Strategic Alliances, Joint Venture and Licensing Transactions, 2009
• Selected 2008 Public Offerings and Rule 144A Placements, 2009
• SEC Votes to Propose New "Proxy Access" Rules, 2009
• Regulating OTC Derivatives: How Hard Would It Be To Undo the CFMA?, 2009
• Prescriptions for Compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Identifying Bribery Risks and Implementing Anti-Bribery Controls in Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Companies, 2009
• Terminal Valuation: Will the Seventh Circuit Decision on Valuation of United Airlines Bond Collateral Bring Closure to Recharacterization Litigation?, 2009
• Life Sciences Patent Restrictions Depend on Meaning of Word 'And', 2009
• Congress to Establish Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, 2009
• EU Proposal on Regulation of Alternative Investment Fund Management, 2009
• Renewable Energy and Clean Technology Funding Opportunities, 2009
• Treasury Fails Charge: May 1 Launch, 2009
• NYSE Eliminates Press Release Requirement, 2009
• TTAB Clarifies Requirements for Intent-to-Use Application Based on Foreign Registration, 2009
• SEC No-Action Position Affects Three-Party Proxy Contests, 2009
• A Regulatory Policy Dilemma: Short Sale Restrictions and Investor Confidence, 2009
• Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. linkLine Communications, Inc.: The Supreme Court Provides Clarity - Sort Of, 2009
• Navigating the Increased Anti-Corruption Environment in the USA and Elsewhere, 2009
• SEC Chairman Outlines Disclosure and Corporate Governance Agenda, 2009
• SEC Seeks Comment on Various Short Sale Restrictions, 2009
• Second Circuit Allows Keyword Allegations to Survive Motion to Dismiss in Rescuecom Corp. v. Google, 2009
• The FDA Exemption & Research Tools: The Federal Circuit Gets It Wrong, 2009
• Treasury Announces Second Extension of Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds, 2009
• Money Market Fund Reforms on the Way, 2009
• Securities Mosaic: SEC Approves Joint Venture of CME and Citadel to Act as a Central Counterparty for Credit Default Swaps, 2009
• Law 360: The Wdening Reach Of Securities Regulators, 2009, 2009
• SEC Approves Joint Venture of CME and Citadel to Act as a Central Counterparty for Credit Default Swaps, 2009
• ABA's Business Law Today: Trends in the Private Equity Secondary Market, 2009, 2009
• Securities Mosaic: Deadline Approaching for Amendments to Form D, 2009, 2009
• Securities Mosaic: FinCEN Issues Proposed Rule and Guidance on the Confidentiality of Suspicious Activity Reports, 2009, 2009
• Deadline Approaching for Amendments to Form D, 2009
• Supreme Court Agrees to Review Jones v. Harris Associates, 2009
• U.S. Securities Regulators Extend Reach Over Non-Securities Activities of Broker-Dealers, 2009
• False Claims Act Developments, 2009
• A Spiraling Caseload Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 2009
• SEC Adopts XBRL Requirements for Fund Risk/Return Summaries, 2009
• New York Law Journal: A Spiraling Case Load Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 2009, 2009
• FINRA Seeks to Harmonize Financial Responsibility and Operational Rules, 2009
• SEC Clarifies Guidance on Rule 144 Resales of Restricted Securities Following Partnership Distributions, 2009
• Patentees Confront Bans On Reverse Engineering, 2009
• National Law Journal: Patentees Confront Bans on Reverse Engineering, 2009, 2009
• Claims Litigation, 2009
• Siemens Agrees to Record-Setting $800 Million in FCPA Penalties, 2008
• Nationalreview.com:More Boumediene Fall-out: Judge Orders Release of Five Alleged Combatants, 2008, 2008
• Looking Ahead to 2009: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Countdown for Banks, 2008
• Law360: M&A Practice: WilmerHale, 2008, 2008
• New York Times: U.S. Is Set to Release 3 Detainees From Base, 2008, 2008
• Washington Post: Three Algerian Detainees Set for Transfer to Bosnia, 2008, 2008
• The Consolidated FINRA Rulebook: Current Status, December 15 Rollout, and Year-End Surprises, 2008
• FOXNEWS.COM: Federal Judge Orders Release of 5 Terror Suspects Held at Guantanamo Bay Prison, 2008, 2008
• New YorK Law Journal: Select Waiver, 2008, 2008
• Selective Waiver, 2008
• BalkanInsight.com: Five of "Algerian Six" Freed from Guantanamo, 2008, 2008
• ADNKronos Internation: Bosnia: Wife urges Algerian Guantanamo inmates' release after US Judge's ruling, 2008, 2008
• The AmLaw Daily: Wilmer Kicks off Week of Detainee Case with win, 2008, 2008
• WashingtonPost.com: Another Falsehood Exposed, 2008, 2008
• Wall Street Journal: Al Qaeda Detainees and Congress's Duty; Habeas corpus hearings could set terrorists free inside the U.S, 2008
• Washington Times: Federal Judge Orders Five Gitmo detainees freed, 2008, 2008
• Christian Science Monitor: US Judge orders five Guantanamo, 2008
• Wall Street Journal: Judge Orders 5 Gitmo Inmates Released, 2008, 2008
• BBC.COM: US Judge Orders Algerians Freed, 2008, 2008
• Washington Post: Federal Judge Orders Relase of 5 Guatanamo Detainees, 2008, 2008
• Bloomberg: U.S. Judge Orders Release of Five Held at Guantanamo, 2008, 2008
• New York Times: Judge Orders Five Detainees Freed From Gauntanamo, 2008, 2008
• Salon.com: Five detainees ordeered released "forthwith" after seven years at Guantanamo," 2008, 2008
• WallStreetJournal.com: Judge Tells Gov't Not to Appeal Detainee Rulings; 7 Yrs of Waiting Enough", 2008
• NPR: Judge Orders Release of 5 held at Guantanamo, 2008, 2008
• The Guardian: Judge: Algerian prisoners held in Guantanamo must be freed Ruling By US Judge has far reaching implications for the remaining detainees at the base in Cuba, 2008
• CNN.com:Federal Judge Orders Release of 5 Guantanamo Detainees, 2008, 2008
• Los Angeles Times: Judge orders release of 5 Guantanamo prisoners, the government's case against five Algerian natives accused of plotting with Al Qaeda, is weak a federal judge in Washington says, 2008, 2008
• Al-Jazeera: Judge orders Guantanamo releases, 2008, 2008
• ABC.com: Guantanamo detainees win court challenge, 2008, 2008
• AFP: Five Guantanamo detainees ruled illegally detained, 2008, 2008
• Associated Press: Judge orders release of 5 terror suspects at Gitmo, 2008, 2008
• Associated Press: Gitmo detainees blame arrest on "political game," 2008, 2008
• Reuters: Factbox-facts about the Guantanamo prison camp, 2008, 2008
• Reuters: U.S Judge: Five Algerians at Guantanamo can be freed, 2008, 2008
• McClatchy Newspaper: Judge Orders release of 5 Guantanamo detainees, 2008, 2008
• USATODAY.com: Judge orders government to release five Gitmo prisoners, 2008, 2008
• Trends in the Private Equity Secondary Market, 2008
• Environmental Appeals Board Remands PSD Permit to EPA on Issue of CO2 Limits; Declines to Require CO2 Controls, 2008
• Troubled Asset Relief Program Update: Treasury Completes Major Financial Institution Commitments, 2008
• Financial Institutions Developments: Treasury's TARP and Capital Purchase Program--Opportunities and Considerations for Participating Institutions, 2008
• Federal Trade Commission Delays Enforcement of "Red Flags Rule" for Certain Financial Institutions and Creditors, 2008
• SBA Office of Inspector General Scrutinizes Small Business Lenders: Lenders at Risk for Denial of SBA Loan Guarantees, 2008
• Market Crisis--New Draft Legislation, 2008
• FASB to Reconsider Proposed Standard for Disclosure of Litigation Contingencies, 2008
• New York State and the SEC call for Urgent Regulation of Credit Default Swaps, 2008
• SEC Issues New Guidance on the Use of Company Websites, 2008
• President Bush Signs Federal Rule of Evidence 502 Into Law, 2008
• SEC Approves Revised Rule for Auditor Communications to Audit Committees About Independence, 2008
• SEC Imposes Additional Limits on Short Selling, 2008
• Exceptional Insolvencies: Provisions of the Bankruptcy Code and SIPA Regarding Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Market Participants and Contracts, 2008
• Patent Claims: Valid in Court, but Invalid in the PTO, 2008
• Congress Limits Subject Matter and Inadvertent Waivers for Attorney-Client Communications and Work Product, 2008
• NYSE and NASDAQ Amend Bright-Line Director Independence Tests, 2008
• Keeping Current with Form 8-K: A Practical Guide, 2008
• FCC Issues Long Awaited Comcast Order on Net Neutrality Violation, 2008
• RCRWireless: Analyst Angle: Be mindful of the legal restrictions on mobile ads, 2008, 2008
• Advertising Age: Analyst Angle: Be mindful of the legal restrictions on mobile ads, 2008, 2008
• SEC Approves New Interpretive Guidance Regarding the Use of Corporate Websites, 2008
• American Lawyer: Pro Bono 2008: Wilmer's Three-For-Three Supreme Court Wins, 2008, 2008
• Section 16 Reporting Gets a Little Easier, 2008
• SEC Extends Deadline for Smaller Public Companies to File Auditor Attestation Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting, 2008
• FASB Proposes Expanded Disclosure Standard for Loss Contingencies, 2008
• 2008 IPO Report, 2008
• 2008 M&A Report, 2008
• 2008 Venture Capital Report, 2008
• PWG Hedge Fund Committees Announce Best Practices, 2008
• Privilege Standing Committee Update, 2008
• Supreme Court Rejects Expanded Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards in Hall Street v. Mattel, 2008
• Safe Harbor or Adrift in Bankruptcy: Treatment of Mortgage "Repurchase Agreements" and Servicing Rights in Bankruptcy Court, 2008
• The Non-Obvious Life Sciences Patent Claim - Applying 'KSR' and 'Tekada' to a different field, 2008
• Secondary Pharmaceutical Patents Post-KSR: Do They Have A Future?, 2008
• Supreme Court Rebuffs Attempt to Impose "Scheme" Liability on Secondary Actors, 2008
• FCPA Enforcement Related to UN Oil-for-Food Program Continues; Recent Fifth Circuit Decision Holds that FCPA Gives Fair Notice of Illegal Conduct, 2008
• The Continuum of Deference: Supreme Court Treatment of Agency Statutory Interpretations from Chevron to Hamdan, 2008
• "Recent Developments in Case Law Relating to Sections 327-330 of the Bankruptcy Code", 2008
• "Recent Developments in Case Law Relating to Sections 327-330 of the Bankruptcy Code", 2007
• Privilege Standing Committee Update, 2007
• US Court Enjoins New Patent Office Rules, 2007
• Changes to TTAB Rules in Trademark Proceedings, 2007
• FCPA Developments Include Increased Enforcement Related to UN Oil-for-Food Program and Reinstatement of Charges in Kozeny Case, 2007
• Don't Leave Money on the Table: Run an IP Audit, 2007
• Financial Times: Class Action Lawsuits, 2007
• IP Law & Business: Big Deals, 2007
• Patent Specification Drafting, 2007
• Taking Invention Disclosures, 2007
• Purchaser of Debt on the Secondary Market Takes Free from Taint on Account of Seller's Alleged Improper Conduct, 2007
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Update, 2007
• Bring in the Experts, 2007
• Bring in the Experts, 2007
• Important Changes to the UK Intellectual Property Office's Trademark Examination Practice, 2007
• Wilmer Cutler captures NY chief of US rival, 2007
• King & Spalding Managing Partner Joins WilmerHale, 2007
• KLA, Safenet, Brooks Executives Face Backdating Charges, 2007
• Net Trading, Market Making, and the SEC's View of Best Execution, 2007
• New Take on New Value? Recent Seventh Circuit Decisions Limit the “New Value” Defense to Bankruptcy Preference Liability, 2007
• Supreme Court Decision Regarding Standard for “Willful” Violations of the FCRA, 2007
• Who's News; Noted, 2007
• Proskauer Rose Corporate Partner Joins WilmerHale, 2007
• Law Firm Adds Securities Partner, 2007
• Movers, 2007
• Trade-Offs in Defending Willful Infringement Charge, 2007
• Nine Years After—SEC Approves NASD Mark-Up Guidance for Debt Securities, 2007
• Why Cross-Border Deals May Get Trickier, 2007
• Supreme Court Holds Federal Law Preempts State Regulation of National Bank Operating Subsidiaries, 2007
• WilmerHale Adds Latham's Vice Chair of Litigation, 2007
• Court Overturns Fee-Based Brokerage Rule, 2007
• Hedge Fund Oversight: Key Action Items for Hedge Funds, Broker-Dealers and Other Market Professionals, 2007
• SEC Proposes to Amend Financial Responsibility Rules for Broker-Dealers, 2007
• 2006 Antitrust and Competition Annual Report, 2007
• Privilege Standing Committee Update, 2007
• Know Your Customer: Prime Broker Must Return All Margin Payments after Bankruptcy Court Finds That They Were Fraudulent Transfers, 2007
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Update, 2007
• 2006 IPO Report, 2007
• 2006 M&A Report, 2007
• 2006 Venture Capital Report, 2007
• PharmaBulletin, 2007
• Privilege Standing Committee Update, 2007
• Ink Meets Inc.; Tatoos Can Still Raise Eyebrows at the Office, 2007
• Privilege Standing Committee Update, 2007
• Home Depot’s Surprising Choice For CEO; Wall Street Isn’t Convinced That New CEO Frank Blake Has the Job For the Long Haul. But His Skills May Surprise His Detractors, 2007
• Fast Pace of FCPA Enforcement Continues, 2007
• SEC and PCAOB Propose SOX 404 Relief Measures, Extend Compliance Dates, 2006
• Nonprofits wired for fast growth, 2006
• NASD Amends Proposed Debt Mark-up Policy to Exclude Certain Transactions with Institutional Customers, 2006
• State Regulators and the Mutual Fund Industry, 2006
• The Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 Is Signed Into Law, 2006
• Hands Across the Water, 2006
• Eleventh Circuit Holds That Bankruptcy Reorganization Plan Does Not Bar Intercreditor Claims between Debtor's Lenders, 2006
• Investigations and Criminal Litigation Briefing Series, 2006
• Web Gambling Firm Chairman Locked Up in Big Apple Clinker, 2006
• Partner Resigns Bar Over Litany of Misconduct, 2006
• SEC Chairman Cox's Senate Testimony Addressing SEC Hedge Fund Actions after Goldstein Decision, 2006
• Citigroup, Bear Stearns ask to use fund for investor suits, 2006
• Seeing Double: In re Oakwood Homes and the "Double Discounting" of Interest-Bearing Debt, 2006
• SEC Settlement Announced for Violations of FCPA Accounting Provisions by a Subsidiary of Oil States International, Inc., 2006
• Coming of Age - What is next for biologics as patents expire?, 2006
• Coming of Age - What is next for biologics as patents expire?, 2006
• In the Beginning: GE's legendary lawyer explains how he revolutionized the role of in-house counsel, 2006
• "St. John's LL.M. Students Get Rare Glimpse Inside Supreme Court Argument", 2006
• 2005 Venture Capital Report, 2006
• 2005 M&A Report, 2006
• SEC Proposes Overhaul of Compensation Disclosure Rules, 2006
• Seeking Provisional Meaures in ICSID Arbitration, 2006
• Making Enemies from Allies: How the Global AIDS Act Undermines Partnerships to Combat AIDS and Sex Trafficking, 2006
• Method for Compensating a Manager Eligible for Patent Protection, 2005
• Financial Institutions Law Update, 2005
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2005
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2005
• 2005 Life Sciences Compensation Study, 2005
• 2005 Information and Technology Compensation Study, 2005
• Securities Law Update, 2005
• PharmaBulletin, 2005
• Investigations and Criminal Litigation Update, 2005
• SEC Issues Regulation NMS Adopting Release, Starting the Clock on Sweeping Overhaul of the National Market System, 2005
• New SEC, PCAOB Guidance Seeks to Re-balance Costs and Benefits of Implementing Section 404, 2005
• Merck KGaA v. Integra Life Sciences—A Roundtable Discussion, 2005
• Financial Institutions Law Update, 2005
• 2004 Venture Capital Report, 2005
• 2004 M&A Report, 2005
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2005
• PharmaBulletin, 2005
• "A Congressional Montage of Two Systems of Law - Mandatory Subordination Under the Code", 2005
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Update, 2005
• Self-Regulation Revisited: SEC Seeks Comment on Potential Enhancements to Securities Self-Regulatory System, 2005
• Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, 2005
• Emails and the Recordkeeping Obligations of Investment Advisers, 2005
• Securities Law Update, 2005
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Update, 2005
• Financial Institutions Law Update, 2005
• Securities Law Update, 2004
• Bankruptcy and Commercial Advisor, 2004
• Columbia's GC Has Worked in Biglaw, for the Feds and In-House, 2004
• The Assumption of Credit Card Merchant Agreements in Bankruptcy: Another Important Right of Debtors Filing for Chapter 11, 2004
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2004
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2004
• Specialists Tapping Governance Gusher: Clients Hire Lawyers, Accountants, and Others to Ensure Compliance, 2004
• Wilmer Cutler Celebrates Merger with Top NY Hire, 2004
• Wilmer Cutler Hires Former CSFB Counsel, 2004
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2004
• Charitable Counsel: Fellowship Honors Lloyd Cutler, 2004
• Theater's Antitrust Case Passes Early Screening, 2004
• FEC Challenges Reform Leaders' Standing in Suit, 2004
• Executive Moves, 2004
• Portability of Investment Performance, 2003
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2003
• Baby Bells Beat Class Action, 2003
• Capping the Cost of Atrocity; Survivor of Nazi Experiments Says $8,000 Isn't Enough, 2003
• Anticipation by Inherency, 2003
• Movers, 2003
• Associate Is Making Film About the Exonerated, 2003
• News In Brief, 2003
• Movers & Shakers: November 3, 2003, 2003
• New Festo Decision Focuses on Foreseeability of Equivalents, 2003
• Swiss to Widen Access to Holocaust-Era Accounts, 2003
• Swiss Banks Will Allow Access to Holocaust-Era Accounts, 2003
• Movers and Shakers, 2003
• Holocaust Fund Overseer Fears Some Claimants Are Left Out, 2003
• Overseer of Holocaust Fund Fears Many Will Be Left Out, 2003
• Report: Lawyer Says Many Holocaust Victims May Never Be Compensated By Swiss Banks, 2003
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2003
• Who's Cheating on you Today?, 2003
• Great Lakes Carbon Income Fund Completes $185M IPO, 2003
• Portability of Investment, 2003
• Microsoft, Bell enter strategic alliance in Web portal services: Big Deals, 2003
• Broad reach, 2003
• LeBoeuf, Lamb Gets Leaner, And Some Say Meaner, 2003
• Interview With Andrew D. Kaizer, 2003
• Wilmer's Class Act, 2003
• Corruption's Upside, 2003
• Cybertrespass: The Final Stage?, 2003
• Maintaining Compliance with Updated EEOC Regulations, 2003
• Movers and Shakers, 2003
• Survey Finds Fraud's Reach in Big Business, 2003
• Cerberus Faces ANC Creditor Objections, 2003
• Breath of Fresh Air--DNA Trio Enjoy Life on Outside, 2003
• DNA Evidence Frees 3 Men in 1984 Murder of L.I. Girl, 2003
• DNA Evidence Leads L.I. Judge to Vacate Murder, Rape Convictions After 17 Years, 2003
• Freed After 17 Years --Convictions Vacated in Lynbrook Teen's 1984 Rape-Murder, 2003
• Pro Bono, 2003
• 2nd Circuit Rulings Favor Non-Citizens Fighting Removal, 2003
• Democracy 21: Court Decision on Constitutionality of New Campaign Finance Law Upholds Important Portions of Law, 2003
• In The Name of Her Father - Jersey Woman Sues German Firm Over Stores Nazis Took From Her Family, 2003
• Reporters Run Risk of Being Detained as Prisoners of War - Embedded Journalists May Know More Than US Wants Them To, 2003
• ANC Bids for DIP Funding, 2003
• N.Y. Summer Associates' Buildable Hours, 2003
• SEC Takes on Justice Department Over Antitrust Actions Against Investment Bankers, 2003
• DOJ, SEC Square Off Over Antitrust Actions, 2003
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2003
• Felons have Allies in Vote-Ban Case, 2003
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2003
• Movers, Laterals, 2003
• Wilmer Cutler & Pickering adds two, 2003
• Wilmer Cutler & Pickering Add Two, 2003
• Wilmer's NYC Hires, 2003
• E-mails reveal Tyco's accounting abuses, 2002
• Tyco's lawyers concerned, 2002
• E-mails show concerned Tyco lawyers: report, 2002
• Email Reveal Tyco Lawyers Knew of Funds, 2002
• News In Brief, 2002
• Wall Street Banks Ask Court to Throw Out IPO Case, 2002
• Wall Street Banks Ask Court to Throw Out IPO Case, 2002
• Case Digests, 2002
• Weddings/Celebrations, 2002
• Citigroup Chief Weill Will Testify in Probe, 2002
• New York to Question Citigroup CEO Weill, 2002
• WSJ:NY Atty Genl To Question Citigroup's Weill Sources, 2002
• Citigroup Chief Sanford Weill Will Testify in Salomon Probes, 2002
• Guilty Pleas Expected From ImClone's Waksal; Trading Case Ensnared Martha Stewart, 2002
• Guilty Pleas Expected From ImClone's Waksal, 2002
• ImClone's Former CEO May Plead Guilty to Insider-Trading Charges, 2002
• ImClone Ex-CEO May Plead Guilty As Soon As Tuesday, 2002
• ImClone Ex-CEO May Plead Guilty As Soon As Tuesday, 2002
• ImClone's Waksal Likely To Plead Guilty, 2002
• Bank Cleared of Liability for Client-Managed Accounts, 2002
• Decision of the Day, 2002
• Giant IPO Suit Hinges on Defense Motion …, 2002
• Citigroup Is Ready to Settle Probes into Stock Research, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Potential Impact of the New US Corporate Reform Law on Companies Whose Shares Trade in the UK Securities Markets, 2002
• Death pangs of the doctrine of equivalents; Round Table: the Festo Decision, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Recent Decisions on Patent and Copyright Jurisdiction, 2002
• Ex-CEO Pleads Not Guilty to ImClone Fraud, 2002
• ImClone's Waksal Pleads Not Guilty, 2002
• The Lawyer's Bookshelf, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Feds Buys More Time to Probe Martha Trades, 2002
• Martha Pal Seeking Deal to Duck Prison, 2002
• Scandal Draws Top Lawyers, 2002
• Judge Refuses to Dismiss IPO Class Action Against Credit Suisse, 2002
• Sons Also Rising: Fame Relative for Big-Shot Brothers, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Liman to Pilot Two More Ludlam Thrillers, 2002
• PSINet Liquidation Plan Approved, 2002
• Waksal Silent in Trading Scandal …, 2002
• ImClone's Ex-CEO Declines To Testify, 2002
• Ex-CEO Is Accused of Insider Trading, 2002
• Former Chief of ImClone Systems Is Charged With Insider Trading, 2002
• Insider-Trading Arrest/Ex-ImClone Chief Charged in Stock Scam, 2002
• ImClone Down 5.3% In Aftermath of Sam Waksal's Arrest, 2002
• Congress Widens Inquiry of Sales of ImClone Stock by Ex-CEO Kin, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Panel Subpoenas Ex-ImClone Chief …, 2002
• Chubb Unit, Credit Suisse Lock Horns Over E&O Claim, 2002
• CS First Boston Sues to Recoup Fines, 2002
• Cybertrespass: Developments in the Evolution of a New Tort, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• City Bar Pro Bono Society Formed, 2002
• Cisco Unit Objects to Sale of PSINet Business, 2002
• Who Invented Hyperlinks? IP Audit Uncovers Potentially Valuable Patent, 2002
• Who Invented Hyperlinks? Summary Judgment for the Defendant in the BT Case, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Cendant Ex-Executives' Fraud Trial Is Shifted to Connecticut, 2002
• Limits to Certificates of Correction, 2001
• Resting on Protocol, 2001
• Case Digests, 2001
• Resting on Protocol, 2001
• Labor and Employment Bulletin, 2001
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Update, 2001
• Financial Institutions Group Newsletter, 2001
• Paul A. Engelmayer, a partner resident in the New York Office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering,was recently interviewed by Corporate Crime Reporter., 2001
• Paul A. Engelmayer, a partner resident in the New York Office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering,was recently interviewed by Corporate Crime Reporter. The interview focused on Paul’s legal analysis of U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White’s ongoing investigation of all, 2001
• ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION PRACTICE AT WILMER, CUTLER & PICKERING: A Year 2000 Review, 2001
• Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, 2001
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• 1999 Public Offerings, 1999
• Family Business Report, 1999
• Family Business Report, 1999
• Hilton Davis Now, 1998
• Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, 1997

Representative Cases

• American Express and some of its former subsidiaries , (US District Court for the Southern District of New York)
• European Commission
• Managing Intellectual Property: Patent Firms, 2008
• PricewaterhouseCoopers , (US District Court for the Southern District of New York)
• TransUnion , (US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit)
• U.S. News & World Report - Best Lawyers: "Best Law Firms", 2010 , (2010)
• Verizon

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