Our Expertise
The transactional corporate practice of the firm is extremely varied, providing clients with advice on a range of business structures, joint venture agreements, shareholder and licensing agreements, senior management contracts, leasing agreements, infrastructure financing and contracts, master services agreements, distributor agreements, conveyancing, title investigation and certification and operating vendor contracts. The firm covers simple and complex transactions when creating, negotiating, and revising bilateral and multilateral contracts.
The Firm’s regulatory and governance practice offers multinational enterprises and foreign directors and officers sitting on the board of subsidiary companies’ strong risk mitigation and preventive counsel. This includes filings and representation before investment and industry regulators, corporate regulators, and quasi-judicial authorities. The firm’s attorneys regularly collaborate with tax, audit, and labor law advisors to assist clients in clearly understanding the issues and how best to resolve them.
The Firm represents and defends multinational corporations, with a primary emphasis on swiftly resolving disputes through settlement and negotiations, but readily defending clients in court when negotiations fail, or settlements prove fruitless. The firm also counsels and represents clients in international commercial arbitrations, and enforcement of arbitration awards and judgments under the New York and Geneva conventions, and under bilateral investment treaties.
The Firm actively assists clients in securing their intellectual property through trademark, copyright, and patentability applications directly or through attorneys in various international jurisdictions; and pro-actively guides clients in enforcement of IP rights.
The Firm’s attorneys guide clients through complex real estate transactions of every kind. The Firm’s capabilities span the full spectrum of multi-jurisdictional real estate transactions, ranging from agreements for acquisition, disposition, and financing of real estate transactions, and design and construction contracts for large multi-use projects.
From manufacturing to local sale, the Firm helps clients through a full range of legal issues involved in cross-border franchising agreements, technology licensing, supply chain, and privacy laws involved in data collection.
The firm has a lot of expertise representing clients in the financing and construction of power projects, airport developments, oil and gas agreements, renewables, and road developments on three different continents.
The firm assists multilateral aid organizations, private investors, and international venture funds investing in start-ups and funds with a national focus in negotiating the difficult securities rules of the many jurisdictions in which its attorneys are admitted. This includes, drafting and approving contribution agreements, filings with regional securities regulators, and registrations.
The Firm strikes a delicate balance between the needs of corporate clients and the sensitivities of their employees, with a unique expertise in this area of law. We help clients localize employee handbooks and policies for the jurisdiction in which they operate. We advise on senior management contracts. We defend wrongful termination lawsuits. We ensure compliance with law labor and employment laws.
The Firm advises and represents public and private charitable trusts on a range of business and philanthropic concerns. The Firm gives back to the community by volunteering time to advise various boards of directors and boards of trustees on a pro bono basis.
The Firm assists businesses and athletes on different facets of sponsorships, endorsement rights, IP rights, stadium rights and related contracts.
The Firm helps in estate planning, administration of the estate and drafting and interpreting Wills, including obtaining probates. Our attorneys have a thorough understanding of the effects of competing legal systems on succession planning and frequently collaborate with foreign lawyers to produce the right result for our clients.