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Our Business and Finance Practice is composed of more than 350 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. We have lawyers in offices across the United States and in Europe and Asia.
Client Diversity
We provide counsel to clients representing a diverse range of industry sectors, including:
- Life sciences
- Technology
- Media and entertainment
- Financial services
- Energy
- Shipping
- Retail
Practice Facts
- Advised on more than 600 M&A transactions in the last five years with a combined market value of more than $200 billion
- More than 400 venture capital financing transactions completed in the last five years
- Buy side advisor in Buyouts' Deal of the Year and Middle Market Deal of the Year (2010) between Ovation Pharmaceuticals and H. Lundbeck
- Sell side advisor in Buyouts' Turnaround of the Year (2010) as Sun Capital Partners sold Tarami K.K. to Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company
- More than 150 private equity transactions completed in the last five years
- Clients include more than 700 mutual funds, venture capital funds, private equity, and hedge funds
- More than $5 billion in venture financing transactions in the last five years
- More than 30 of our lawyers are SEC alumni, covering all areas of expertise
- 140 lawyers named in Chambers and Partners, America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2012)
Practice Rankings
Morgan Lewis consistently ranks among the top transactional law firms. The following are selected results:
- Ranked as one of the top law firms in Corporate Counsel magazine's 2012 listing of "Who Represents America's Biggest Companies?"
- Ranked #1 in Mid-Atlantic — 2012 Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms
- Top 10 firm: The BTI Brand Elite: Client Perceptions of the Best-Branded Law Firms (2012), based on 240 interviews conducted with clients in the second half of 2011
- Ranked Top 10 - M&A transactions: Thomson Reuters, Mergermarket, Bloomberg, and Buyouts (2011)
- Listed as Highly Recommended for Outsourcing in PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook (2010 & 2011)
- Ranked the #1 Most Active Law Firm globally based on the number of private funds worked on for limited partners in the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst (2010-2012)
- Ranked Top 10 - U.S. PIPE Market Issuer Counsel by number of transactions, PlacementTracker (2012)
- Ranked Top 10 - The Deal consistently ranks Morgan Lewis in the Top 10 practices active in the corporate bankruptcy area, based on active bankruptcy cases
- Ranked as a leading firm by Chambers USA 2011 in the following areas:
- Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Buyouts and Venture Capital
- Energy & Natural Resources (California, New York, Texas)
- Financial Services Regulation: Broker Dealer Regulation
- Investment Funds: Hedge Funds
- Investment Funds: Private Equity - Buyouts
- Investment Funds: Private Equity - Fund Formation
- Investment Funds: Registered Funds
- Outsourcing
- Projects
- Tax
- Transactional firm in New York, California, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, and New Jersey