Antitrust & Consumer Protection
Banking & Finance
- Asset-based lending
- Commercial lending
- Energy financing, equipment leasing and financing
- Health care finance
- Mezzanine, subordinate and other alternative financing
- Public finance, bond issuance and economic development
- Real estate financing
- Tax credit financing
- Troubled borrower financing
- UCC and other commercial transactions
Bankruptcy, Workout & Creditors' Rights
- Bankruptcy
- Bankruptcy litigation
- Collateral strategies
- Commercial foreclosures/receiverships
- Creditors' rights
- Customers and suppliers
- Debtor-creditor litigation
- Distressed assets
- Provisional remedies
- Reorganizations and workouts
- Special servicers
Business Competition, Advice & Litigation
- Anti-raiding
- Antitrust advice and litigation
- Competitive interference claims
- Non-compete, non-solicitation, non-recruitment and non-disclosure agreements
- Non-competition and trade secret counseling and litigation
Business Growth & Operation
- Board and committee counsel
- Business succession planning
- Business transactions
- Compliance, including antitrust, licensing and franchising
- Corporate governance
- Executive compensation
- Family office
- Insurance
- Manufacturing
- Organization, planning and financing
- Private fund formation
- Sustainability initiatives
- Tax planning
- Venture capital and private equity
Cannabis
Corporate & Internal Investigations
COVID-19
Education
Employee Benefits
- Audits and correction
- Benefits issues related to mergers and acquisitions
- Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
- Equity and non-equity based incentive plans
- ERISA and employee benefits litigation
- ERISA fiduciary compliance
- ERISA insurance and indemnification
- Health and welfare plans
- Nonqualified deferred compensation and executive compensation
- Retirement plans
- Tax-exempt and governmental employers
Energy
- Clean energy
- Coal and mineral rights
- Oil and gas
- Power siting
- Renewable energy and sustainability initiatives
- Utility regulation
Entrepreneurship & Startups
- Biotech
- Capital raising
- Entity formation
- Nanotechnology
- Operations, transactions and governance
- Tax credits
Environmental
Financial Institutions
- Financial institution regulation and corporate governance
- Financial services litigation
- Mergers and acquisitions, and other regulatory matters
- Representation of financial institution regulatory agencies
- Secured lending, negotiable instruments and other Uniform Commercial Code matters
Government & Regulatory Affairs
- Economic development, incentives and grants
- Election law representation
- Government contracts
- Legislative advocacy and drafting
- Public entity representation
- Regulatory advocacy and drafting
- Zoning
Health Care
- Antitrust counseling and litigation, including clinical integration
- Business governance and best practices
- Clinical integration
- Data privacy and security, including HIPAA, HITECH and state data breach laws
- Fraud and abuse counseling, defense, prevention and compliance
- Hospitals, surgery centers and specialty facilities
- Intellectual property
- Litigation
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Physicians and related organizations
- Regulatory and legislative advice
- Reimbursement and overpayment audit defense
- Security breach, malware and ransomware advice
Immigration
Intellectual Property
- Advertising, false advertising, unfair competition and product claims
- Copyrights
- Domain names, social media and online brand identity
- Enforcement, disputes and litigation
- Intellectual property audits and strategies
- International business and intellectual property
- Joint research, development and joint ventures
- Patents
- Promotions, sweepstakes and contests
- Technology and intellectual property transfers and licensing
- Trademarks and service marks
International Business & Trade
- Antitrust and competition law
- Cross-border litigation and arbitration
- Export control restrictions and compliance
- Foreign direct investment
- Immigration and cross-border employment
- International financing, including letters of credit
- International tax planning
- International trade and customs regulation and compliance
- Sales representation, distribution and licensing agreements
Labor & Employment
- Affirmative action
- Class and collective actions
- Employment law compliance counseling
- Employment litigation
- Executive compensation
- Leave, FMLA and ADA reasonable accommodation counseling
- NLRB and other unfair labor practices representation
- Public sector collective bargaining
- Recruiting, hiring and training
- Reductions-in-force and restructuring
- Social media
- State and federal workplace safety and health
- Trade secret protection and non-competition
- Wage and hour compliance
- Whistleblowing and retaliation
- Workplace safety
- Workplace privacy and technology
Litigation
- Antitrust litigation
- Appellate and Supreme Court practice
- Arbitration and mediation
- Catastrophic injuries
- Class actions, mass torts and MDLs
- Commercial litigation
- Construction
- E-Discovery
- Environmental litigation
- Financial services litigation
- Health Care litigation
- Insurance litigation
- Intellectual property litigation
- Non-competition and trade secrets litigation
- Probate, trust and guardianship litigation
- Product liability
- Professional liability
- Securities litigation
- Transportation and logistics
- Unmanned and autonomous systems (Drones and driverless vehicles)
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Antitrust and regulatory filings
- Due diligence
- Employee benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
- Fairness opinions and special committees
- Family office
- Financial institution regulation and corporate governance
- Tax
- Transaction structuring
Privacy & Data Security
- Broker, lender and financial institution matters
- Data security and breach notification
- HIPAA and HITECH compliance
- Information technology
- Law enforcement and forensics
- Litigation
- Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
- Records management and privacy policies
- Retail and web commerce
- Social media
- U.S. and international privacy regulation
- Workplace privacy
Real Estate
- Affordable housing and fair housing
- Appropriation and eminent domain
- Coal and mineral rights
- Commercial and residential development
- Commercial leasing
- Condominium development and operation
- Construction and design contracts
- Economic development incentives
- Environmental compliance
- Foreclosures, receiverships and workouts
- Mortgage loans and other financing
- Purchase and sale transactions
- Real estate litigation
- Sustainability initiatives
- Tax appeals
- Title insurance
- Zoning, annexation and land use planning
Reinsurance Litigation & Arbitration
Securities
- Equity, mezzanine and debt securities
- Investment advisors
- Regulatory compliance and corporate governance
- SEC investigation and enforcement
- Securities litigation
Sports
Tax, Estate Planning & Personal Wealth
- Estate and gift planning
- Family office
- Marital agreements, adoptions and guardianships
- Probate, trust and guardianship litigation
- Tax
- Tax credit finance and affordable housing
- Tax exempt organizations
- Wealth and asset preservation
Technology
- Enforcement, disputes and litigation
- International transactions
- Internet and electronic commerce
- Joint research, development and joint ventures
- Open source software
- Outsourcing
- Social media
- Software development, licensing and services
- Technology transfer and licensing
Wireless & Telecommunications

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