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Linklaters LLP focuses on advising the world’s leading companies, financial institutions and governments on their most challenging transactions and assignments. With offices in 26 major business and financial centers in 19 countries, Linklaters is a unified firm with a single management structure that underpins its delivery of first-class, integrated service in all the principal economies in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The firm’s 200-strong global US lawyer team advises clients across a wide range of domestic and cross-border deals and cases.

TYPES OF WORK UNDERTAKEN

Antitrust: the team advises on the antitrust implications of M&A, represents firms in civil litigation and criminal price-fixing investigations, and counsels on matters including intellectual property licensing, cooperation with competitors, price discrimination issues and global compliance programs.

Banking: the banking lawyers represent clients in domestic and international loan and bank finance products and structures, including general corporate financings, leveraged buyouts and other acquisitions financings.

Capital markets: the team advises on US and international capital markets transactions, initial public offerings and non-registered offerings made pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S, as well as advising reporting issuers on their ongoing disclosure and other obligations.

Executive compensation: the team advises on all aspects of compensation and benefits, including corporate, securities and tax laws, stock exchange listing requirements and ERISA.

Investment management: the team focuses on the structuring, formation, regulation and marketing of all types of investment funds, mid- to large-capitalization private equity and real estate funds, hedge/alternative investment funds, and select investor representations.

Litigation and arbitration: the US litigation team handles high-profile cases across the US, as well as cross-border matters involving multiple jurisdictions. Areas of expertise include white-collar crime, US regulatory investigations and compliance counseling, antitrust and securities, among others.

M&A and private equity: the US M&A team, which has experience working on some of the largest cross-border M&A deals in the world, is equally at home with domestic or multi-jurisdictional transactions, both public and private, including mergers, exhange and tender offers, privatizations, private equity, joint ventures, strategic alliances, stock and asset purchases, divestitures, recapitalizations and reorganizations.

Restructuring and insolvency: Linklaters’ US bankruptcy lawyers advise clients in all phases of in-court and out-of-court restructurings and workouts, including private funds investing in distressed capital structures, providers of debt and equity financing to distressed companies, lenders with senior debt positions, and financial advisors to creditors and debtors during restructuring and recapitalization.

Structured finance and derivatives: the firm specializes in restructurings of credit products, equity derivatives, insurance products, structured notes, and hedge fund finance and hedge fund-linked products.

Tax: the US tax lawyers focus on all aspects of the firm’s international practice, particularly cross-border acquisitions and financings. Principal areas of focus include corporate restructurings, private equity, and innovative securitization and derivative arrangements.

Other Offices:
Amsterdam
Antwerp
Bangkok
Beijing
Berlin
Brussels
Dubai
Düsseldorf
Frankfurt
Hong Kong
Lisbon
London
Luxembourg
Madrid
Milan
Moscow
Munich
Paris
Rome
São Paulo
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Tokyo
Warsaw

Number of Partners: 35
Number of Other Fee-earners: 112
Total Staff: 245