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• Beijing

  The Beijing Office, which opened in February 2006, is part of our Greater China Practice, an interdisciplinary group comprising partners from our Business and Finance, Intellectual Property, Litigation, and Antitrust practices. The group focuses on both foreign direct and VC/PE investments into China by global companies and financial investors and the outbound expansion of leading Chinese companies into the United States, Europe, and Japan, including public offerings and listings on foreign exchanges.

  Lawyers in our Beijing office specialize in corporate securities, venture capital, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, international tax planning and other corporate transactions, as well as intellectual property creation and protection, technology partnering, IP litigation, and antitrust investigation and litigation.

  Clients of the Beijing office and Greater China Practice include global companies that have an increasing need for advice on how to structure transactions in China and leading Chinese companies whose businesses are expanding into the United States, Europe, and Japan.

  
  
  
• Boston

  Our Business and Finance lawyers in Boston focus their practices on finance and restructuring. Part of the firm's international Business and Finance Practice, they handle sophisticated and complex matters across most industries, among them financial services, retail, manufacturing, food and beverage, energy, media/communications, and sports.

  Our Litigation lawyers in Boston focus on complex commercial litigation involving product liability, environmental, and business and corporate disputes. They frequently assist a range of clients across most industries with matters related to insurance recovery; toxic torts and general contract litigation; patent, trademark, trade dress, trade secret, and copyright litigation; and disputes over software development, licensing, and contracting matters.

  
  
  
• Brussels
  The Brussels office is an important element of one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated antitrust practices. The firm provides clients with the full spectrum of antitrust services, from preventive counseling and merger control to advice on cutting-edge antitrust issues to defense of "bet your company" litigation, including international cartel cases. The firm focuses on effective strategies, careful structuring, and skilled implementation to provide clients with tailored, cost-effective, and innovative solutions to enable them to meet their business objectives. Morgan Lewis antitrust lawyers work as one worldwide integrated team, irrespective of office location, and are particularly experienced in addressing complex multijurisdictional issues.
  
  
• Chicago

  Morgan Lewis's Chicago office offers a broad range of services related to corporate and securities matters; complex international and domestic tax and business planning, litigation, and employment issues; regulatory matters; and employee benefit transactions. Our team in this important hub of innovation and commerce also includes a number of attorneys with high-level scientific backgrounds who are especially suited to assist life sciences clients with their intellectual property needs.

  Attorneys in Chicago also defend banks, consumer service providers, consumer product companies, and others in class actions in federal and state lawsuits throughout the United States. We assist clients with a variety of complex legal issues such as mergers and acquisitions, public and private financings, restructurings, joint ventures, and private equity and venture capital transactions. Our lawyers also serve as outside general and special counsel to corporations.

  Corporate Matters

  Our corporate team, part of our Business and Finance Practice, represents major corporations, including Fortune 500 companies, both domestically and overseas. We assist our clients in mergers and acquisitions, public and private financings, restructurings, spin-offs, joint ventures and partnerships, securities regulations, private equity and venture capital transactions, and general corporate and securities counseling.

  Tax

  Morgan Lewis's Tax Practice focuses on helping our clients minimize the federal, state, and foreign taxes associated with their transactions and ongoing business operations, and on resolving disputes with taxing authorities. We integrate controversy, consulting, and transactional advice to produce practical and efficient solutions to often highly complex tax challenges.

  The Tax Practice advises in the areas of: controversy and litigation, transactions, international tax issues for multinationals, tax-exempt organizations, and state and local taxes.

  Intellectual Property

  Clients, particularly those in the life sciences, turn to our firm's Chicago office for assistance in Intellectual Property matters. Our team features attorneys with advanced academic degrees in such disciplines as microbiology, molecular biology and biochemistry, and cell biology. We focus on such matters as the acquisition and enforcement of intellectual property rights, the design and implementation of global intellectual property matters, and the valuation of patent portfolios. We also advise clients regarding freedom-to-operate opinions, patent prosecution, and patent counseling. The leader of our Chicago IP team has represented clients before various courts and administrative agencies and in private mediation and arbitration.

  Litigation

  Our Chicago litigators work in concert with hundreds of Morgan Lewis attorneys in our worldwide Litigation Practice to offer clients advice in and out of the courtroom on a wide range of litigation matters. For decades we have defended the nation's leading companies in high-stakes product liability and toxic and mass tort litigation. We were among the original participants in asbestos property damage litigation, which was critical in developing current class-action case law.

  We represent clients in insurance recovery, environmental, product liability, property damage, and business interruption litigation. We also represent clients in cases involving allegations of financial fraud, as well as in securities regulatory and commercial litigation matters. We defend clients in serial litigation, in multiplaintiff claims, and other cases that may involve a relatively small number of plaintiffs but pose significant risks for the client.

  Workforce Issues

  Our Employee Benefits Practice provides risk transfer, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), and consulting services to many financial institutions and privately held companies. Our ESOP Practice is among the nation's largest dedicated to this area. Our Labor and Employment Practice represents national and regional clients in discrimination, employee benefits, trade secret, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), wage and hour, and union/company litigation and counseling matters.

  Our team is particularly active in assisting companies with matters related to workforce change, such as reductions in force, as well as with high-stakes ERISA litigation, including cases involving retiree health benefits and victories in post-Enron stock-drop cases. Our team defends employers around the country in other complex litigation, including significant wage and hour collective actions and employment discrimination class actions brought by private counsel, as well as pattern and practice claims brought by the government.

  
  
  
• Dallas

  In 2004, Morgan Lewis opened the Dallas office with the addition of five partners from a prominent national law firm. Since then, the Dallas office has grown to include lawyers specializing in four main areas of law: employee benefits and ESOPs, labor and employment, intellectual property, and outsourcing and technology-enabled transactions law.

  Our lawyers in the Employee Benefits Practice bring experience and creativity to both their ESOP and ERISA clients. We represent companies, fiduciaries, and lenders in complex ESOP transactions across the country. Our experience spans the practice from structuring to working with the IRS and other federal agencies. In our ESOP Practice, we have represented banks and private equity funds wishing to invest in ESOP companies and have helped ESOP companies access such investors. Our ERISA Practice lawyers work with many other benefits lawyers in Morgan Lewis's worldwide offices to bring a level of sophistication, knowledge, and experience few firms can offer. We also work with our Litigation Practice to address ESOP and ERISA controversies.

  Our Labor and Employment Practice assists employers in developing and implementing effective plans for addressing the changing landscape of legal risks they face. Our clients rely on our team to handle their most significant labor and employment law matters, including labor-management relations, single- and multiplaintiff and class-action litigation, benefits litigation and advice, health and safety issues, employment counseling and advice, and workplace training, among others.

  Our lawyers in the Intellectual Property Practice specialize in litigation relating to patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition disputes in both trial and appellate courts throughout the nation. Our lawyers are experienced in the procurement of intellectual property rights from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office, along with the procurement of property rights in foreign countries. We also counsel clients on a variety of intellectual property areas, including licensing, acquisitions, and other intellectual property-based transactions.

  Our lawyers in the Outsourcing Practice are part of one of the leading outsourcing and technology-enabled transactions practices in the world. Our primary focus is with the customer community for these complex information technology and business process outsourcing transations. We work with our clients and with their other advisors to determine realistic objectives of the outsourcing project, develop a set of business requirements that will meet those objectives, and ultimately achieve a deal that reflects those business requirements. Our outsourcing team has completed over 100 major outsourcing projects in the past five years.

  
  
  
• Frankfurt

  Opened in 1989, the Frankfurt office is a successful, growing, highly specialized office concentrating on projects and transactions—in particular, mergers and acquisitions and public and private equity transactions—and financial services advice including securities, capital markets, and derivatives. Lawyers in our office handle corporate, tax, outsourcing, and labor and employment, law, as well as German and European antitrust law, intellectual property, real estate, and litigation matters.

  Lawyers are qualified in the German and other international jurisdictions—in particular in U.S. law—and are able and accustomed to handling complex crossborder assignments.

  In Frankfurt we offer you collaboration in a small excellent team, which is integrated in our international network. Discover career opportunities in Frankfurt.

  
  
  
• Harrisburg
  The Harrisburg office opened in 1961 to serve the needs of clients headquartered in Pennsylvania, as well as out-of-state and international companies with operations in the Commonwealth. The practice initially encompassed Pennsylvania legislative and regulatory matters. The office has grown to include energy regulation, environmental matters, labor and employment, business and tax, and litigation.
  
  
• Houston

  The Houston office has experienced significant growth since its opening in January 2007 and has nearly 60 attorneys practicing across a range of the firm's core areas of law, including:

  • Business & Finance (energy transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and international/cross border transactions)
  • Intellectual Property (including patent and trade secret litigation)
  • Labor and Employment
  • Litigation (appeals/special issues, commercial litigation, insurance recovery, and product liability and toxic tort)
  
  
  
• Irvine

  The Irvine office is located in Orange County and focuses principally on labor and employment litigation and counseling, complex commercial litigation, and real estate transactions.

  Our Labor and Employment lawyers handle employment litigation and counseling for clients in a wide range of industries, including the financial services, retail, technology, and entertainment industries. We defend employers in litigation involving issues of FLSA/wage and hour law; employment discrimination; wrongful termination; workplace harassment; trade secrets and restrictive covenants; and other employment-related claims brought in federal, state, and administrative forums. Our work also includes counseling on the full range of workplace law issues, including employment policies and agreements, leaves of absence, wage and hour compliance, workforce change counseling, and workplace training and education. Our Labor and Employment team provides companies with the advice and counsel they need to manage California's complex legal, compliance, and human resources challenges.

  Our Litigation lawyers handle complex business litigation and trials in a wide range of subject areas. Our work includes defending public companies and officers and directors in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation, defending corporations and individuals in regulatory and enforcement proceedings before the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory agencies, representing special board committees and audit committees in internal investigations, defending clients in professional liability cases against lawyers and accountants, and representing clients in antitrust and trade practices litigation.

  In addition, our Irvine office also assists clients with real estate and related matters, including finance, workouts, land use, development, corporate real estate, acquisitions, sales, leasing, joint ventures, and redevelopment. Drawing upon the extraordinary resources of one of the nation's largest law firms, our Irvine office exemplifies the commitment to excellence and client service that has been the hallmark of Morgan Lewis since 1873.

  
  
  
• London

  Our London office is made up of lawyers that practise both English and US law. The office was opened in 1981 and works closely with our other offices to service the needs of our international clients accessing the markets in the US, UK, and elsewhere in Europe.

  Our lawyers advise on the establishment, operation, and financing of businesses in the UK covering mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and debt and equity financings in the public and private markets, including listing on the London Stock Exchange. Our Business and Finance Practice in London also includes a specialist pharmaceutical and biotech team.

  Our cross-border transactional practice includes the representation of large- and medium-sized US, UK, and other European companies in public and private debt and equities financings in the US, including SEC registered offerings and listings on the NYSE and NASDAQ.

  Our International Tax Practice provides UK and US planning and structuring advice for companies and individuals involved in cross-border situations.

  Our highly regarded Labour and Employment Law Practice focuses on high-level employment litigation, managing workplace disputes, and day-to-day advisory work, including advice on restructuring, termination, and data privacy issues, as well as advising on the employment and benefits aspects of corporate and outsourcing transactions.

  View the London office's statement on equality and diversity.

  
  
  
• Los Angeles

  The Los Angeles office, located in the downtown financial district, opened in 1976. With 60 lawyers, the office has a full-service practice with particular emphasis on corporate and securities matters, litigation, energy and infrastructure finance, insurance coverage litigation, environmental, mergers and acquisitions, tax, real estate and real estate finance, and labor and employment law.

  The ever-expanding client base includes investment and commercial banks, independent power producers, oil and gas companies, broker-dealers, hedge and investment funds, insurance companies, industrial companies, real estate owners, investors and managers, entrepreneurs, foreign companies and individuals, developers and financiers, exempt organizations, airlines, hospitals, public utilities, syndicates of foreign investors, life sciences companies, and technology companies.

  Los Angeles office past events and traditions include:
  • End of the Year Holiday Party
  • Weekly Social Gatherings for the Entire Office
  • Once a Month Associate Lunches
  • Pumpkin Carving Contest and Annual Health Fair
  
  
  
• Miami

  Morgan Lewis is a unique place to work in Miami for those who seek to work with substantial clients on legal matters of national and international scope. Recognizing Miami as a gateway for global business, Morgan Lewis opened the Miami office in 1977 and became the first national law firm to enter the South Florida market. The firm’s client-focused culture and global legal talent have propelled the Miami office’s success in the market.

  Partners and associates in our Miami office’s complex commercial litigation, securities, and labor and employment practices excel in summarily defeating civil class and collective actions brought against our clients. Our attorneys also handle high-powered transactions in real estate law and advise top investment management clients.

  Key to our office’s continued success is our attorneys' commitment to business and community leadership. Our attorneys founded and manage the South Florida Group of Regional Counsel, a professional association for in-house counsel to multinationals, with regional headquarters in Miami. One of our attorneys also spearheaded a joint venture between the American Arbitration Association and the Inter-American Bar Association to make Miami a headquarters for international commercial arbitration. Similarly, another attorney helped found LegalLine of Miami-Dade, the region’s only free legal help-line. Miami attorneys also mentor inner city elementary students and have served on the boards of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Greater Miami Society for Human Resource Management, The Education Fund, and Hands on Miami, and have won the Put Something Back Pro Bono Service Award of the Dade County Bar Association.

  Our office also supports and reflects the vibrant diversity of Miami. Our partners have mentored female and minority attorneys to federal court clerkships, and a Morgan Lewis alumna is Miami’s first female African American District Court of Appeals judge. Other Morgan Lewis Miami attorneys and alumni have distinguished themselves in public service, including a former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, a Florida Inspector General, a Deputy General Counsel to the Governor, and a Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.

  Our summer associate program typically consists of two to three second-year law students from some of the top schools in the country. Additionally, two to three entry-level associates and four to eight lateral associates are hired each year.

  Miami office past events and traditions include:

  • Annual Office Picnic
  • Annual Lawyer Outing
  • Kids And the Power Of Work Program (KAPOW)
  • Hands on Miami Volunteer Day
  • Corporate Run
  • Holiday Party
  • Holiday Tree Trimming Party
  • Florida Marlins Games
  • Monthly Firm Nights
  • Monthly Associate Meeting/Luncheons
  
  
  
  
• New York

  Our New York office, established in 1972, has a prominent position in the New York legal market and is one of the firm's three largest offices. With nearly 200 lawyers, the office reflects New York's place at the center of U.S. and global financial markets. Our New York attorneys have significant expertise in all major substantive areas of business and finance, litigation, employment, intellectual property, and taxation law and have extensive industry knowledge of the financial services, media and entertainment, and life sciences markets. They are also well versed in the complexities of transatlantic and transpacific transactions.

  New York office past events and traditions include:

  • Annual Firm Golf Outing at Old Oaks Country Club
  • Family Event at the Central Park Zoo
  • Annual Attorney Dinner Dance
  • New York Office Community Service Day
  • Skip Lunch/Fight Hunger Pizza Lunch
  • Monthly Firm Cocktail Party
  • Monthly Chat-N-Chew Luncheons with the Management Committee
  • Quarterly Town Hall Meetings
  • Holiday Party at Cipriani
  • Practice Group Ski Trips
  • Practice Group Events/Cocktail Parties
  
  
  
  
• Palo Alto

  We opened our Palo Alto office in February 2003, and since then have significantly increased the number of attorneys in this location. The attorneys in Palo Alto meet the business needs of clients in the technology and life sciences industries, and with the addition of new attorneys we have greatly enhanced our local capabilities in the areas of patent litigation and the full range of intellectual property matters.

  Our clients range from well-established corporations to emerging growth companies. Outsourcing, labor and employment, and employee benefits and executive compensation practices are resident in Palo Alto. These capabilities, coupled with the corporate, litigation, real estate, and other capabilities of lawyers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Irvine, and the rest of the firm's international offices, provide the full range of services needed by clients in this fast-paced, dynamic industry.

  
  
  
• Paris
  A majority of the lawyers in the Paris office are members of Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice. The lawyers in this practice focus on mergers and acquisitions, finance, private equity, privatizations, PPP/PFI, tax, and securities law.

  Our European Labor and Employment Practice lawyers help clients negotiate the ever-changing landscape of laws that govern the workplace. Lawyers in the Paris office are well-versed in French, European Union, and international labor laws and have represented clients before courts and administrative bodies in a variety of business and employment matters.

  The Paris office is also home to lawyers who focus on antitrust and competition issues. Antitrust lawyers in Paris file with and obtain clearance from the European Commission and national competition authorities, defend clients accused of antitrust violations, prosecute complaints against represented/third parties in merger proceedings, and ensure that clients' business operations comply with competition law.

  With an emphasis on commercial and white collar crime litigation, the Paris litigation team represents both French and foreign clients in litigation matters. The commercial litigation team in our Paris office focuses on financial and banking litigation, company litigation, bankruptcy proceedings, international arbitration, enforcement of French and foreign judgments, and intellectual property litigation. The Paris office's white collar crime litigation team represents and advises companies and individuals on matters such as stock exchange regulation, liability of statutory auditors, corporate investigations, industrial liability and environment law, public/private contract law, trade agreements, press rectification, employment litigation, new technology, and urban planning and development.

  The public and environmental law team advises on all aspects of public law, including regulatory as well as environmental law, on both advisory and litigation matters. In particular, this team focuses on PPP/PFI, concessions, and all administrative contracts.

  
  
  
• Philadelphia

  The Philadelphia office of Morgan Lewis opened in 1873, as the firm's first office. It grew quickly due to the vision of Charles Eldridge Morgan Jr., Francis Draper Lewis and Morris Rex Bockius. By the 1930s, the office had a full-service practice, that served as the base on which the firm has grown. Today, lawyers in Philadelphia serve businesses and individuals whose interests are focused in the region and beyond.

  Today, nearly 300 lawyers practice in Philadelphia, making the office one of the three largest in the firm. Historically, 15 to 25 summer associates, 15 to 25 entry-level associates, and 20 to 40 lateral associates are hired each year.

  Philadelphia office events and traditions include:

  • Lawyer dinner dance
  • Cocktail parties
  • Community service program
  • Emergency child care
  • Employee recognition program
  • Fitness center open 24/7
  • In-house cafeteria
  • In-house travel services
  • Staff appreciation day
  • Daily complimentary fruit and snacks
  
  
  
  
• Pittsburgh

  The Pittsburgh office of Morgan Lewis is recognized as a leading provider of legal services in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Our diverse client base ranges from cutting-edge startups to established, global industry leaders, with a focus on emerging growth companies in the fields of technology and life sciences.

  Lawyers in the Pittsburgh office practice in the areas of business and finance, labor and employment, and employee benefits and executive compensation.

  Historically, the Pittsburgh office hires several second-year law students as summer associates and several entry-level associates each year. Laterals are hired on an as-needed basis.

  Pittsburgh office events and traditions include:

  • Annual holiday party
  • Annual office picnic
  • Friday lunches for attorneys and staff
  • Professional development training programs
  • Denim Days for Charity
  
  
  
  
• Princeton

  Since its opening a decade ago, the Princeton office has continued to expand to serve the needs of major corporations and emerging growth companies in this dynamic technology corridor. Combining unparalleled industry expertise in technology, life sciences, securities, energy, financial services, media and information systems, and drawing upon the extraordinary resources of one of the nation’s largest law firms, our Princeton office exemplifies the commitment to excellence and client service that have been the hallmark of Morgan Lewis since 1873.

  Experienced technology, business and finance, environmental, labor and employment, and federal and state court litigators work together to help our clients find effective solutions to their business challenges. Our business and finance lawyers focus on emerging technology and life sciences clients and public company securities and M&A transactions, including transactions for several of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies and representations of information technology and biotechnology companies at every stage in the business life cycle. Skilled labor and employment lawyers counsel and litigate in federal and state courts and regulatory agencies, handling the full spectrum of human resource, labor, employment, and benefits issues. Environmental and toxic tort lawyers with experience at the local, state, and federal level help clients navigate an increasingly complex regulatory framework.

  Our team of experienced federal and state court litigators, part of the more than 350 litigators in Morgan Lewis’s national litigation practice, handle a wide range of business disputes, with a special emphasis on large-scale, high-profile class action and other complex litigation including securities, patent, employment, toxic tort and Superfund, and product liability litigation.

  With our experienced, business-savvy client service team in Princeton and hundreds of experienced transactional, regulatory, and litigation lawyers in our nearby Philadelphia, New York, and Washington, D.C. offices, Morgan Lewis is uniquely positioned to meet the needs of our clients in New Jersey.

  
  
  
• San Francisco

  We opened our San Francisco office in February 2003. With more than 125 attorneys who have deep roots and experience up and down the Pacific Coast, our San Francisco office serves a diverse client base ranging from Fortune 500 companies to emerging start-up enterprises. Located in San Francisco’s financial district, this office serves a broad range of industries, including financial institutions, professional services firms, technology businesses, the life sciences sector, the oil and gas industry, transportation, real estate development, and manufacturing companies.

  Our experienced litigators have successfully solved extraordinarily complex cases by drawing upon the resources of one of the nation’s largest law firms. In addition, a number of our litigators also have substantial experience in controversial, high-public-profile legal matters.

  
  
  
• Tokyo
  Lawyers in the Tokyo office regularly represent Japanese, U.S., and other non-Japanese clients in complex cross-border transactions and disputes. Areas of particular focus in Tokyo include mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate finance, and intellectual property matters. In addition, as Morgan Lewis's 1300 lawyers and 23 offices work closely together as a single integrated firm, all of our clients also have access to a team of lawyers who can provide advice in virtually every area of practice worldwide.
  
  
• Washington, D.C.

  The firm's Washington, D.C. office opened in 1947, beginning with regulatory work in energy and tax, and later cultivating a preeminent Labor and Employment practice. In 1994, the office sprang forward with a major expansion of the firm's Energy, Investment Management, and Intellectual Property practices. Other strong practice groups of the Washington, D.C. office include Antitrust, FDA and Healthcare, Financial Services, Litigation, Real Estate, and Tax. Today, nearly 300 lawyers practice in Washington, D.C.

  All lawyers accept offers to join specific practice groups. Lateral hiring needs for each practice group are based on client and market demands. Our summer associate program is our best source of entry-level associates. We customize our recruiting process to meet the information needs of the recruit as well as our interviewers, maximizing time spent for both parties. Our summer associate program is ambitious and is designed to give participants insight into our practice, including a generous mix of legal training.

  
  
  
• Wilmington

  From its office in Wilmington, Morgan Lewis provides commercial, corporate, and intellectual property litigation services as well as representation in both white collar matters and government investigations in one of the nation's busiest and most important legal jurisdictions. Led by a former U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, our Wilmington office delivers a combination of Delaware-specific experience and command of local venues as well as access to the firm's international resources. Our Wilmington office is supported by Morgan Lewis's large Philadelphia office just 30 miles away.

  Attorneys in our Delaware Practice have successfully represented companies and individuals in some of the state's most significant government enforcement actions. Morgan Lewis also acts as counsel to the special committees that are increasingly employed by corporations to review interested director transactions, to examine perceived conflicts among officers and directors, and to conduct internal investigations.

  
  
  

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