The Legal 500

McDermott Will & Emery is a leading international law firm with a diversified business practice. It represents a wide range of commercial, industrial and financial enterprises, both publicly and privately held. Founded in 1934, McDermott Will & Emery has more than 1000 lawyers in six European and nine US offices.

Through a strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices, the firm also connects with clients through its skilled lawyers based in Shanghai.

Main Areas of Practice

McDermott partners with clients to accomplish their business objectives by providing superior counsel, service and dedication.

Corporate: the corporate practice represents a wide spectrum of business interests around the world, from Global 50 companies to venture backed start-ups. Lawyers focus on areas including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate, restructuring and insolvency, securities and structured finance and derivatives.

Employee benefits and pensions: the firm’s lawyers advise clients in a variety of matters, including international planning, implementation and administration of a wide range of compensation and benefit plans and programs.

Energy: the firm represent US and international energy clients in complex transactional, regulatory, enforcement, litigation and tax matters. Lawyers have extensive experience in the power, oil and gas, biofuels, renewable energy, agriculture, metals and derivatives sectors.

Finance and banking: the firm has an integrated finance and banking team with recognized experience in all areas of US, UK, European and international corporate finance.

Health: as one of the of the United States’ largest and most prestigious health law practice, lawyers counsel leading organizations in every major sector of the healthcare industry on regulatory and business transaction issues.

Labor and employment: the practice handles all employment related matters, both contentious and non-contentious. Lawyers represent employers in virtually every industry including manufacturing, financial, service, entertainment, healthcare, education and construction.

Intellectual property: the firm’s IP lawyers are uniquely capable of handling intellectual property matters in virtually every technical or scientific discipline. The IP practice includes litigation, procurement, and licensing in the patent, trademark, trade dress, copyright, trade secret and entertainment areas.

Private client: the firm’s private client practice is one of the largest and best-known departments of its kind in the US. The firm’s lawyers provide a spectrum of estate, succession, gift transfer and wealth planning services.

Regulatory and governmental affairs: the firm’s lawyers have extensive experience working with state, national and international legislative bodies and administrative agencies. The practice is focused on antitrust and competition, government strategies, crisis communications, international trade, food and beverage, telecommunications, OSHA and environmental law.

Tax: the core of the tax practice deals with thousands of statutory tax requirements imposed at international, federal, state and local levels. The firm represents more than half of the Fortune 100 companies in tax matters on a regular basis.

Trial: the trial lawyers engage in all aspects of civil, regulatory and white-collar criminal defense litigation in US and international forums. Experience includes handling emergency situations such as temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, bench and jury trials, arbitrations and alternative dispute resolution, including mediations and summary jury trials.

Co-Chairs:
Jeffrey E Stone
Peter J Sacripanti

Other Offices:
Brussels
Düsseldorf
Houston
Orange County
London
Miami
Milan
Munich
Silicon Valley
Rome
Shanghai

Number of Partners: 539
Number of Other Fee-earners: 492
Total Other Staff: 990