The Legal 500

The firm

Fried Frank is a leading international law firm with more than 500 lawyers located in offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York, Washington DC, London, Paris and Frankfurt. Fried Frank is best known for its ability to craft sophisticated and imaginative solutions for complex issues and intricate business transactions, frequently creating the precedents that others follow. The firm’s lawyers work on some of the largest and most high-profile transactions in financial centres around the world.

Areas of practice

In Asia, Fried Frank offers well-configured, partner-led teams of attorneys with extensive international experience who understand the unique issues faced by clients in all aspects of business relating to Asia.

The firm’s teams include lawyers fluent in Putonghua, Cantonese and Shanghainese who have received both US and PRC legal education and training. Many of its partners have decades of experience in PRC-related work across a broad range of industries, handling complex transactional work.

Capital markets: as one of the world’s leading securities law firms, Fried Frank’s clients have direct local access to extensive US and European capital markets expertise, combined with a strong Asia practice. The firm has worked on some of the largest and highest-profile international transactions, representing issuers and investment banks on debt and equity offerings, including IPOs, secondary offerings, private placements, high-yield debt offerings and investment grade debt offerings.

As part of this practice, Fried Frank advises extensively on capital market listings on the HKSE, the NYSE, NASDAQ and the LSE, and resultant disclosure and compliance issues.

Mergers and acquisitions: with pre-eminent M&A practitioners across all Fried Frank offices, the firm works on some of the largest and most high-profile transactions in financial centres around the world. The team in Asia has extensive knowledge and experience in executing domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, joint ventures and equity investments. It has played a part in the expansion and development of the region’s market through its engagement in a variety of investment transactions over the last decade.

Private equity: with more than 100 attorneys actively engaged in various aspects of private equity transactions in the US, Europe and Asia, the firm is one of the premier international private equity practices. It regularly provides counsel to prominent fund sponsors and investors on the full range of their investment-related activities.

Finance: the firm’s financing practice stands out for its role in all pieces of the capital structure, working on some of the most sophisticated and complex deals in each sector, playing a key role in developing some of the most innovative financing structures.

International arbitration, litigation and dispute resolution: the firm regularly represents US and international businesses and individuals in major cases and other complex matters. It operates on a global basis, with some of the most experienced lawyers practising in the field today throughout its offices in Asia, the US and Europe.

Contact Victoria Lloyd (managing partner Asia; phone: +852 3760 3699; e-mail: victoria.lloyd@friedfrank.com)

Other offices
Frankfurt
London
New York
Paris
Shanghai
Washington DC

Number of lawyers 500+