Arnold & Porter

Firm Overview: Arnold & Porter is renowned for its regulatory expertise, sophisticated litigation and transactional practitioners, and leading multidisciplinary practices in the life sciences and financial services industries. Client-driven and industry-focused, lawyers practice across over 30 critical areas, including bankruptcy, corporate, finance, IP, litigation, real estate, and tax, to help clients stay ahead of the global market, anticipate opportunities and address issues that impact the very value of their businesses. It offers practical forwardlooking, results-oriented solutions to handle US, international and cross-border legal needs.

Main Areas of Practice

Antitrust/Competition & Consumer Protection: Industry leaders regularly engage the firm for matters related to U.S. and international laws governing competition, pricing, distribution, advertising, and IP.

Appellate & Supreme Court: Broad experience in federal and state law including administrative, antitrust, banking, bankruptcy, constitutional law, criminal law, employment, environmental, healthcare, IP, product liability, and telecommunications.

Bankruptcy: Represents secured and unsecured creditors, parties dealing with distressed businesses, investors and asset purchasers, committees, debtors, and equity holders.

Corporate & Securities: Experience in M&A, private equity and corporate control matters. Represents issuers, underwriters, and security holders in a full range of public and private offerings of debt and equity securities.

Environmental: Represents clients in high-stakes, complex environmental matters spanning the landscape of environmental issues, including litigation, regulatory counseling, and transactions, as well as issues related to climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy.

FDA & Healthcare: Represents biotechnology and medical technology companies, clinical labs and other healthcare providers, research institutions, and investors facing cutting-edge FDA, market access, healthcare compliance, drug pricing, product coverage and reimbursement, litigation, and government enforcement challenges.

Financial Services: Handles legal, business, and regulatory issues encountered by financial institutions, including growth and expansion, regulatory, financial products and services, capital markets and corporate governance.

Government Contracts: Represents government contractors of all sizes across all procurement disciplines, including compliance, bid protests, claims, M&A, False Claims Act, cybersecurity, and accounting, cost, and pricing.

Intellectual Property: Handles protection, enforcement, and acquisition of IP rights in economically vibrant industries, including technology, life sciences, medical device, and consumer goods, among others.

International Arbitration: Long-standing ties to Latin America. Has advised on international arbitration projects for U.S. and international clients. Serves as advisers, advocates and arbitrators in the economic disputes between sovereign governments, and private investors.

International Trade: Represents domestic and foreign corporations, institutions and individuals in virtually all aspects of international trade, including export controls and sanctions.

Labor & Employment: Assists clients with all types of employment cases, from single-plaintiff to "bet the company" class action lawsuits. Also provides employment-related counseling and advice, including on corporate transactions.

Life Sciences: An integrated cross-functional team that provides creative and effective solutions for life sciences innovators--from early-stage startups to global enterprises--and investors.

Litigation: A major practice with more than half of its U.S. lawyers involved. Work includes civil, criminal, regulatory, commercial, national, and international matters.

National Security Law & Policy: Advises companies and individuals on national security issues such as foreign direct investment, CFIUS, export controls, sanctions, security clearances, classified information, cybersecurity, and supply chain issues.

Privacy and Data Security: Advises clients throughout the data lifecycle, including global privacy and data protection law compliance, cybersecurity, incident response, investigations, due diligence, and privacy/data breach litigation.

Private Client Services: Counsels clients on estate planning, tax, real estate, family disputes, business organization and succession planning.

Product Liability: Defends large and complex mass tort matters, acting both as national and trial counsel in cases asserting personal injury and property damage claims.

Real Estate: Advises investors, lenders, owners, and developers on all aspects of real estate transactions, including joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions, construction, leasing, loan originations, loan restructurings of all asset types including office, retail, hospitality, multi-family, industrial and mixed use properties.

Regulatory: More than 130 attorneys have held senior positions in U.S. and European governments and international organizations. Advises on solutions to regulatory challenges; from compliance programs to high-profile global regulatory investigations.

Securities Enforcement & Litigation: Represents clients in SEC investigations, class action securities litigation, shareholder derivative litigation, accounting irregularities, breach of fiduciary duty and criminal investigations by federal and state prosecutors.

Tax: Advises on all major areas of corporate, partnership, non-profit, employment, individual, trusts and estates and gift tax law.

Telecommunications: Guides companies through major telecommunications and media mergers, advises on FCC licenses, investments, and emerging technologies.

White-Collar Criminal Defense: A team of former high-level government lawyers and seasoned litigators with extensive experience ranging from internal and government-initiated investigations, government enforcement actions, allegations of fraud or money-laundering, trade sanctions violations, complex tax matters, environmental crime and Congressional investigations.