The Legal 500

Dewey & LeBoeuf is a global law firm headquartered in New York, with 1,100 lawyers in 15 countries. The firm has leading practice groups in areas such as corporate finance and capital markets, litigation and arbitration, tax, project finance, and insolvency and restructuring. It also has leading industry experience in sectors including banking, energy, utilities, insurance, life sciences and healthcare, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and manufacturing.

The firm: The London office has over 115 lawyers that come from a diverse range of backgrounds. It is a full-service English law practice with US capabilities. The firm’s lawyers advise a broad range of clients, including global financial institutions, multinational companies, FTSE 100 companies, Fortune 100 companies and governmental institutions.

Types of work undertaken: The core of the firm’s business in London is its transactional and dispute resolution practices, which handle some of the highest profile matters across Europe. The corporate group in London, which includes capital markets, M&A, private equity, project finance, institutional bank lending and structured finance, regularly handles some of the largest and most challenging cross-border transactions, often in conjunction with other Dewey & LeBoeuf offices.

M&A: the firm is consistently ranked in industry surveys as one of the top ten firms worldwide for M&A. It represents clients in some of the world’s most complex international transactions today. The firm is world-renowned for its global leadership in the energy and insurance sectors. London plays a pivotal role in both.

Capital markets: the London office advises on sovereign and corporate Eurobond issues, IPOs, global debt and equity offerings, commercial paper and MTN programmes. It also has a leading practice in the emerging markets field. The office is a pioneer in developing and implementing innovative structures for equity-linked, asset-backed and structured finance transactions.

Project finance: Dewey & LeBoeuf’s project finance group is acknowledged as one of the leading project finance practices in the world. The London office has significant project finance capabilities and in-depth experience advising project developers, sponsors, governments and financial institutions.

Dispute resolution: the London office has a team of dedicated litigators and arbitrators who handle high-end, technical and international work across a wide range of sectors.

Competition/EU: the firm has an integrated team of lawyers from its London, Brussels, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Rome and Warsaw offices, working closely together on EU and competition matters.

Employment: Dewey & LeBoeuf provides the full spectrum of contentious, non-contentious and advisory employment advice.

Environment and renewable energy: the firm’s London environmental law team is one of the most highly regarded in the City. It forms a key part of a 40-strong contentious and non-contentious global team in this area.

Institutional bank lending: the finance lawyers advise banks, borrowers and guarantors on a variety of banking transactions. The firm advises clients on all types of secured and unsecured credit agreements, loan participations, letters of credit and bankers acceptances, project financings, export and import trade financings, securitisations, and acquisition financings.

Real estate: the firm advises clients on a wide range of real estate transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, leases, developments and funding.

Structured finance: the London finance group advises on a range of structured finance transactions, including structuring and implementing innovative and complex transactions in securitisations, structured products, derivatives and tax-driven schemes.

Tax: the firm’s London office represents a substantial number of US and European financial institutions in connection with the structuring of complex, cross-border financial transactions; provides advice with respect to M&A and capital markets transactions; and counsels multinational corporations on a wide range of international tax planning issues. The office provides both UK and US tax advice.

Other offices: New York, Washington DC, Abu Dhabi, Albany, Almaty, Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Doha, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Riyadh, Rome, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Warsaw

Number of UK partners 31
Number of other UK fee-earners 85

Contact Steven H Davis (chairman)

Languages
Arabic
Cantonese
Danish
English
French
German
Greek
Hindi
Hungarian
Italian
Malay
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Russian
Spanish
Ukranian
Vietnamese

Other offices
Abu Dhabi
Albany
Almaty
Beijing
Boston
Brussels
Chicago
Doha
Dubai
Frankfurt
Hong Kong
Houston
Johannesburg
Los Angeles
Madrid
Milan
Moscow
New York
Paris
Riyadh
Rome
San Francisco
Silicon Valley
Warsaw
Washington DC

Number of lawyers 1,100

at this office 130