Strong relationships in the aerospace, defense, and tech arenas characterize Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP‘s government contracts practice, which handles a diverse array of counseling and litigation, including bid protests, M&A, and regulatory compliance. The Washington DC-based team is led by James McCullough, a key asset in bid protests, contract formation disputes, as well as claims and terminations. Michael Anstett supports on M&A, private equity investments, subcontract disputes, and suspension and debarment proceedings. Alexander Ginsberg is highly regarded bid protest litigator, and also assists with prime/sub disputes, enforcement defense, and compliance efforts.
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Key clients
- AEA Investors LP
- Abacus Technology Corp.
- BAO Systems, LLC
- CAE USA Inc.
- Cognosante LLC
- Goldman Sachs
- Hunt Companies Inc.
- IronArch Technology LLC
- Leidos Inc.
- LexisNexis Special Services Inc.
- Life Cycle Engineering Inc.
- National Opinion Research Center
- Oasis Systems LLC
- Pasha Group
- Permira
- PGLS LLC
- Red River Technology
- Science Applications International Corporation
- Syneren Technologies Corp.
- Textron Aviation Defense LLC
Work highlights
- Represented Syneren Technologies in a successful bid protest action filed at the COFC challenging the DOC’s failure to award a contract under the $1.5bn, 10-year, multiple-award CATTS procurement for enterprise-wide information technology services.
- Represented Leidos in successfully defending against two separate bid protests at the GAO by Peraton challenging the award by the SSA of two task order contracts to Leidos valued at up to $1.5bn to provide critical IT infrastructure and programmatic support services.
- Assisted AEA Investors with its $1.75bn sale of Spectrum Plastics Group to DuPont de Nemours.
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