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 London, Paris, Frankfurt, Beijing, and Tokyo. 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 300 M&A transactions with an aggregate market value in excess of $180 billion since January 2006
- 75 private equity transactions completed since January 2006
- Clients include more than 700 mutual funds, venture capital funds, private equity, and hedge funds
- More than 230 venture capital financing transactions completed since January 2006
- More than $3.3 billion in venture financing since 2006
- More than 20 significant outsourcing transactions completed since January 2006
- More than 30 of our lawyers are SEC alumni, covering all areas of expertise
- 141 lawyers listed in the 14th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2008–2009)
- 126 lawyers named in Chambers and Partners, America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2008
Practice Rankings
Morgan Lewis consistently ranks among the top transactional law firms. The following are selected results:
- Ranked 1st – Law Firms that Most Often Represent America's Largest Companies by Corporate Counsel (2008)
- Ranked among the top 10 U.S. law firms with the best growth prospects in BTI Consulting Group's survey (2008)
- Ranked Top 15 – M&A transactions based on value and number of transactions, Thomson Reuters, Mergermarket, Bloomberg, and Buyouts (2008)
- Ranked 5th – Counsel to Principals, Bloomberg (Q1 2009)
- Ranked 3rd – Legal Advisors to Northeast M&A, Mergermarket (Q1 2009)
- Ranked 6th – Any U.S. Public Involvement, Thomson Reuters (Q1 2009)
- Ranked 2nd – Most Active Law Firm based on number of private equity or venture capital funds, Private Equity Analyst (2008)
- Ranked Top 10 – U.S. PIPE Market Issuer Counsel by number of transactions, PlacementTracker and PrivateRaise (2008)
- Ranked Top 10 – Daily 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 2008 in the following areas:
- Buyouts and Venture Capital
- Financial Services Regulation: Broker Dealer Regulation
- Insurance: Policy Holder
- Investment Funds: Registered Funds
- Bank Lending and Mutual Funds
- Transactional firm in New York, California, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey