The Legal 500

Dewey & LeBoeuf is a full-service law firm providing counsel to many of the world’s most well-known companies, financial institutions and government agencies. Headquartered in New York, the firm has particular global experience in the financial services, life sciences and healthcare, technology, insurance, renewable energy, oil and gas, and utilities, power and pipelines industries.

Main areas of practice

Corporate: the corporate department is the largest of the firm’s practices, with teams of lawyers serving clients in the US, UK, continental Europe, Russia/CIS, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The corporate department consists of lawyers focused in the sectors of bank and institutional finance, corporate finance/capital markets, intellectual technology and intellectual property transactions, M&A, private equity, project finance and structured finance.

Litigation: the firm has a leading global presence in complex litigation and arbitration matters. The lawyers represent clients around the world in national and cross-border litigation work. The litigation department comprises antitrust, employment litigation, energy litigation, environmental litigation, insurance/reinsurance, intellectual property litigation, international arbitration, international litigation, international trade, securities, M&A and corporate governance litigation, sports litigation, tax controversy and litigation, and white-collar criminal defense and investigations.

Tax: the firm has one of the largest tax departments of any full-service law firm, with more than 100 tax lawyers practising in the firm’s global offices. The principal areas of the Tax practice include US and international transactional tax, corporate tax planning, tax controversy and litigation, insurance, financial products, lease financing, debt restructuring, corporate workouts, bankruptcy reorganisations, real estate, public finance, exempt organisation and legislative matters.

Business solutions and governance: the firm’s litigation, reorganisation and governance lawyers engage in crisis management, defending against ‘bet the company’ lawsuits, mass tort actions and maximising creditors’ recoveries. The firm has established a track record of successfully providing clients with clear comparisons of in-court and out-of-court solutions. The firm’s corporate, governance and reorganisation lawyers routinely represent investors acquiring assets from distressed situations.

Compensation, benefits and employment: the firm provides a comprehensive practice for clients including employers and plan sponsors in a wide variety of industries, including plan trustees, insurers developing and providing ERISA-required bonds, private equity funds, fiduciary liability coverage and plan products, employee benefit consultants, third-party administrators, investment advisors, business associations, multi-employer plans, buyers and sellers of businesses, and individual executives.

Energy: the firm represents global clients in corporate and regulatory matters and across a broad spectrum of other issues. The firm serves electricity, natural gas, renewable energy, petroleum, petrochemical and other power industries — as well as their financial advisors and financiers — throughout the world and is expanding throughout the Middle East and North Africa regions.

Insurance: the firm provides full-service advice to all sectors of the industry including life, non-life, health insurers and reinsurers, intermediaries, bankers and capital providers. The firm also advises on M&A, securities offerings, securitisations, demutualisations and other mutual conversions, restructurings, regulatory matters, corporate governance, compliance, taxation, insolvencies and governmental investigations.

Real Estate: the firm has a network of offices that enables the global real estate group to provide real estate, land use and zoning, finance, structuring, tax and environmental services to clients in any country or industry. The firm services the needs of developers, investors, lenders, lessees and users worldwide.

Chairman: Steven H Davis

Other Offices:
Abu Dhabi
Almaty
Beijing
Brussels
Doha
Dubai
Frankfurt
Hong Kong
Johannesburg
London
Madrid
Milan
Moscow
Paris
Riyadh
Rome
Warsaw

Number of Partners: 300