Areas of Experience
Antitrust
Our strength comes from the caliber of our lawyers. Many of our lawyers have held senior positions with the U.S. antitrust enforcement agencies, including Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission, and Director of Office of Planning and Evaluation of the FTC.
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Business and Finance
Our Business and Finance Practice is composed of more than 300 lawyers who focus on mergers and acquisitions (including joint ventures, spin-offs, and strategic alliances), private equity, private investment funds, finance, restructuring, capital markets, corporate governance, emerging business matters, outsourcing, and tax.
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- Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Capital Markets
- Debt Offerings
- Equity Offerings
- Going Private Transactions
- High Yield
- IPOs
- Commercial Agreements
- Licensing Transactions
- Corporate Governance
- Defense Preparedness
- Emerging Business & Technology
- Venture Capital
- Energy Transactions
- Finance
- Acquisitions Finance
- Bank Lending
- Bank Regulatory
- Corporate Finance
- Derivatives
- ESOP Finance
- Film & Media Finance
- Financial Privacy & Gramm-Leach-Bliley
- International Finance
- Maritime Finance
- Real Estate Finance
- Structured Finance
- Greater China
- Investing in the U.S.
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Carve-Out Transactions
- Cross-Border M&A
- Distressed Company Transactions
- Financial Services M&A
- Infrastructure M&A
- Insurance Transactions
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Life Sciences Transactions
- Media M&A
- Private Equity M&A
- Technology & Commercial Transactions
- Outsourcing
- Business Process Outsourcing
- Human Resources Outsourcing
- Information Technology Outsourcing
- Outsourcing in Financial Services
- Outsourcing in Life Sciences
- Private Equity
- Private Investment Funds
Climate Change
Evolving national policy on global climate change challenges businesses to adapt to developing environmental regulations and to capitalize on related financial benefits—from government funding for clean technology projects to economic incentives for energy conservation and emissions reductions. Morgan Lewis is positioned to help companies across all industries and regions respond to these challenges.
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Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
From qualified retirement plans to sophisticated equity compensation arrangements and from executive employment agreements to broad-based health and welfare plans, the members of the Employee Benefits Practice combine a wealth of practice experience with cutting-edge knowledge management technology.
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Energy
For more than a century, major domestic and international entities in every sector of the energy market—electric, nuclear, oil and natural gas, renewable energy (including wind energy), and water—have turned to Morgan Lewis for a broad range of corporate, finance, transactional, regulatory, and litigation services.
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Environmental
Morgan Lewis’s Environmental Practice helps deliver creative solutions to help clients meet their legal needs in litigation, transactional, or regulatory matters. As one of the first major law firms in the country to establish an environmental practice, Morgan Lewis offers a depth of substantive industry knowledge, government access and professional credibility rivaled by few law firms.
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FDA & Healthcare
The FDA and Healthcare Practice provides companies with all the legal services they need through the entire life cycle of their products, be they drugs, devices, foods, food additives, dietary supplements, food packaging, or other products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and related U.S. and international agencies.
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Industry Coverage
By organizing teams around our clients' business and legal needs, Morgan Lewis is uniquely situated to cover the full range of issues facing businesses in rapidly evolving and changing environments. Our multidisciplinary practice initiatives focus on the needs of specific industries.
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Intellectual Property
Morgan Lewis is a leading choice for businesses seeking protection of valuable intellectual property rights. With more than 190 intellectual property professionals and technical specialists, unlike smaller boutique firms, Morgan Lewis brings to bear the considerable resources of one of the largest law firms in the United States.
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Investment Management
Our interdisciplinary approach to counseling clients combines the knowledge of lawyers familiar with the federal and state securities laws, ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, commodities regulation, federal and state banking and insurance laws, and foreign securities laws.
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Labor and Employment
Our lawyers help clients negotiate the ever-changing landscape of federal, state, and local laws that govern the workplace. We get to know you, your business, and your industry, and assist you in devising solutions to employment problems that affect the efficiency and productivity of your workforce.
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Latin America
International knowledge and experience are the two cornerstones of Morgan Lewis’s Latin America Team. Through our lawyers’ representation of clients in virtually every Latin American country, our Latin America Team has developed an in-depth understanding of the nuances of Latin American business practices, laws, and cultures.
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Litigation
Over 600 litigators throughout the firm combine the highest levels of substantive knowledge, industry experience and courtroom savvy to help meet the litigation needs of global businesses. We handle the entire range of issues associated with dispute resolution, with a special emphasis on the coordination of national litigation, class actions and other complex business and corporate litigation, and we have an active trial practice.
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- Accounting Litigation
- Appeals & Special Issues
- Commercial Litigation
- Congressional & Independent Commission Investigations
- Corporate Investigations & White Collar
- Environmental Crimes
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
- Qui Tam
- eData
- Insurance Recovery
- Mass Torts
- Privacy
- Product Liability & Toxic Tort
- Securities Litigation & Enforcement
- Bankruptcy Litigation
- Class Actions
- Construction Litigation
- Construction Contract Drafting & Negotiation
- Construction Project Administration & Claim Avoidance
- Construction Dispute Resolution
- Financial Services Litigation
- International Arbitration & Litigation
- National Trial & Coordinating Counsel
- Reinsurance/Insurance Industry Litigation
Morgan Lewis Resources
Morgan Lewis Resources offers an innovative approach to today's changing legal landscape: one-stop shopping, competitive pricing, and sophisticated technology. We leverage the collective legal wisdom of our firm to offer clients high-quality and cost-saving enhancements to core services.
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Personal Law
The Personal Law Practice addresses the legal and financial interests of individuals, family businesses and nonprofit organizations. The practice is devoted to the representation of individuals and family groups of substantial wealth in connection with estate and gift tax planning, family business succession planning, philanthropic planning and management of personal financial interests on a national and international scale.
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Real Estate
Known for our efficiency in handling transactions of all sizes and degrees of complexity, our Real Estate Practice covers both coasts and assists our clients across the country wherever their business needs may take them.
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Tax
Helping our clients minimize the federal, state, and foreign taxes associated with their transactions and ongoing business operations, and resolve disputes with taxing authorities.
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Washington Government Relations & Public Policy
A diverse group of lawyers with senior-level executive branch and government regulatory agency backgrounds forms the core of Morgan Lewis's Washington, D.C. Government Relations and Public Policy Practice. The group leverages its firsthand Washington knowledge and insight to craft and execute legal strategies for navigating complex legal, regulatory, and legislative challenges. Attorneys in this practice are particularly focused on helping clients anticipate—and succeed amid—legislative and regulatory change and heightened Congressional oversight.
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At Morgan Lewis, we distinguish ourselves from other firms by offering our clients particularly strong resources in many disciplines. Our international breadth and depth of practice enable us to handle the most complex matters and solve our clients' problems as a seamless team.
- More than 1,300 lawyers in 22 offices throughout the world.
- Clients include more than half of the Fortune 100 companies, including 9 of the top 10 and 16 of the top 20.
- More than 2,000 clients have been with the firm for more than 5 years.
- Approximately 2,000 new clients and 20,000 new projects each year.
- Lawyers and support staff fluent in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish.