The Legal 500

The firm

With approximately 800 lawyers in 15 offices worldwide, O’Melveny & Myers LLP helps industry leaders across a broad array of sectors to manage the complex challenges of succeeding in the global economy. The firm is values-driven, guided by the principles of excellence, leadership and citizenship. Its commitment to these values is reflected in its dedication to improving access to justice through pro bono work and championing initiatives that increase the diversity of the legal profession.

Areas of practice

Litigation: more than half of O’Melveny’s lawyers are dedicated to resolving litigation matters crucial to their clients’ key business objectives. The firm’s litigators are recognised for reducing clients’ exposure and risk, disposing of cases early, and developing innovative litigation and trial strategies. The firm represents clients in courts at all levels of both the state and federal systems, including a very active US Supreme Court practice.

Transactions: O’Melveny routinely assists its clients with a diverse portfolio of transactions that supports the firm’s prominence in representing virtually every industry. O’Melveny lawyers are experienced in M&A, private equity deals, spin-offs, public and private financings, and debt restructurings, as well as general corporate, securities and compliance matters. Clients rely on the firm to help them exploit opportunities and manage risk in the complex and competitive international marketplace.

Brussels office: O’Melveny is a top-tier antitrust firm, providing comprehensive and fully integrated antitrust counselling spanning three continents, with teams in Europe, the US and Asia consistently working together to advise large corporations active in numerous markets. The firm is experienced in all aspects of antitrust work, including counselling, regulatory work, civil litigation and criminal proceedings. Few firms can match O’Melveny’s consistent strength across these three continents and major areas of antitrust risk.

O’Melveny’s Brussels office houses the firm’s European antitrust and competition team. The office plays a central role in O’Melveny’s worldwide antitrust and competition practice, bridging the US and Asian practices by working seamlessly on multi-jurisdictional proceedings with colleagues in Washington, DC, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo and Beijing. The Brussels team covers the full range of EU and national competition law and trade/sector regulation, including merger control, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance cases, antitrust complaints and other regulatory work. The team is licensed to and regularly appears before the EU Commission and national competition authorities.

Languages
Danish
Dutch
English
French
German
Greek
Italian
Norwegian
Swedish

Other offices
Beijing
Century City
Hong Kong
Jakarta*
London
Los Angeles
New York
Newport Beach
San Francisco
Shanghai
Silicon Valley
Singapore
Tokyo
Washington DC

International groupings American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU)

Number of lawyers at this office 8