Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

Firm overview: For more than a century, Stradley Ronon’s more than 200 lawyers in nine offices across the United States have helped private and public companies — from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations — achieve their goals by providing pragmatic, value-driven legal counsel. Since its founding in 1926, the firm has grown into one of the mid-Atlantic’s largest and most prominent financial service law firms with legal practices in areas such as complex commercial litigation, finance, intellectual property, investment management, mergers and acquisitions, tax, and trusts and estates.

Outside of legal achievements, Stradley Ronon has a longstanding tradition of public service and pro bono work, serving the communities in which the firm works and lives. The firm is also deeply committed to fostering an environment of varying perspectives and differing views.

Stradley Ronon has built the firm around long-term client relationships, value and service. Stradley Ronon takes the long view and strives to develop each client relationship into a collaborative partnership to enable the firm’s lawyers to achieve each client’s business objectives — both today and in the future.

Stradley Ronon’s lawyers provide a breadth and depth of experience that can support a wide range of business needs. Whether an investment company is seeking help responding to ever-changing regulations, a financial institution was recently contacted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a public or private company is interested in growth through acquisitions, or an organization is concerned about protecting its intellectual property or contract rights, the firm’s lawyers bring both legal ability and business acumen to bear in addressing clients’ most pressing challenges.