The Legal 500

Hogan Lovells is a global legal practice that helps corporations, financial institutions, and governmental entities across the spectrum of their critical business and legal issues globally and locally. The firm offers an exceptional, high-quality transatlantic capability, with extensive reach into the world’s commercial and financial centers, and distinctive strengths in the areas of government regulatory, litigation and arbitration, corporate, finance, and intellectual property. The firm’s lawyers possess the experience, knowledge, and connections to craft creative solutions for clients across a wide range of industries.

The highly collaborative nature of Hogan Lovells’ global network gives it the distinct ability to match each client’s specific needs to the unique skills of its worldwide network of lawyers. Hogan Lovells’ style is open, service-focused, and friendly. The firm provides cohesive representation at local, national, and global levels, which allows Hogan Lovells to focus on virtually every one of a client’s goals, no matter how varied they may be in scope, subject, or geography.

Hogan Lovells’ 2,300 lawyers operate out of 43 offices in 21 countries around the globe, and each exhibits the firm’s core values of excellence, teamwork, good citizenship, and putting clients first. In the US, the firm’s lawyers are based in 12 offices stretching from coast to coast.

Main areas of practice

Hogan Lovells is based around five main practice areas:

Corporate: the practice assists public and private companies, private funds and other investors, investment banks, financial institutions, and governmental entities on their most complex and challenging transactions.

Finance: located in the world’s financial hubs, Hogan Lovells’ finance practice is consistently rated as a market leader by respected legal directories and trade publications. The practice comprises business restructuring and insolvency, infrastructure and project finance, securitization and structured finance, debt capital markets, and banking.

Government regulatory: in an increasingly complex global market, it is more important than ever to understand, anticipate, and quickly respond to a wide range of regulatory challenges. The practice’s objective is to help clients achieve a competitive advantage and minimize regulatory risk. The firm’s experience at the intersection of business and government enables it to guide clients successfully through the growing array of regulatory issues.

Intellectual property: the intellectual property group helps drive clients’ business growth by protecting and leveraging their ideas and innovations, brands, and creative works. Its lawyers combine a strategic, global outlook with local knowledge and a keen understanding of the technological and business factors involved in this area of law.

Litigation, arbitration and employment: the practice has a track record of achievement in complex, high-stakes disputes. Because its lawyers are leaders in their local jurisdictions and function across offices as one team, the firm is positioned to deliver local insight and global perspective to meet clients’ interests in multi-jurisdictional matters.

Hogan Lovells also has a wealth of knowledge about many key industry sectors:

Aerospace, defense, and government services; automotive; consumer; education; energy and natural resources; financial institutions; infrastructure; life sciences and healthcare; real estate; sports and recreational facilities; technology, media and telecoms; transportation.

Awards and Recognition

The health practice was recognized by Chambers USA with a 2011 Award for Excellence in Healthcare. Hogan Lovells’ antitrust, competition and economic regulation practice was named by Global Competition Review (GCR) magazine among the top ten Global Elite practices in its annual GCR 100 list in 2012. Hogan Lovells was named to The National Law Journal’s 2011 Appellate Hot List, which recognizes the nation’s leading appellate practices. The firm boasts the top life sciences practice, according to the 2012 PLC Life Sciences Industry Super League. The practice was catapulted to band one in the Chambers Global 2012 rankings.

Co-CEOs:
Warren Gorrell
David Harris

Other Offices
Abu Dhabi
Alicante
Amsterdam
Beijing
Berlin
Brussels
Budapest
Caracas
Dubai
Dusseldorf
Frankfurt
Hamburg
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh City
Hong Kong
Jeddah
London
Madrid
Milan
Moscow
Munich
Paris
Prague
Riyadh
Rome
Shanghai
Singapore
Tokyo
Ulaanbaatar
Warsaw
Zagreb

Number of Lawyers: 2,300