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Squire Sanders

600 HANSEN WAY, PALO ALTO, CA 94304-1043, USA
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Squire Sanders combines sound legal counsel with a deep knowledge of its clients’ businesses to resolve their legal challenges. It cares about the quality of its services, the success of its clients and the relationships that are forged through those successes.

The client base of its global legal practice spans every type of business, both private and public, worldwide. Squire Sanders advises a diverse mix of clients, from Fortune 100 and FTSE 100 corporations to emerging companies, and from individuals to local and national governments. In the private sector it provides the full range of legal advice required to implement practical strategies and resolve disputes. In the public sector it counsels governments on privatization of whole industries and on establishment of regulatory systems under which new private businesses can compete. Squire Sanders also serves the regional needs of the countries and cities that it calls home.

Whatever is needed, Squire Sanders is able to deliver the seamless cross-practice, cross-border and industry-specific support that clients require for success in today’s competitive markets.

Clients expect knowledge of their business, as well as high-quality legal skills from their law firms. Squire Sanders’ combination of legal and industry experience allows it to better analyze client requirements and develop the right approach for the matter at hand. Clients receive tested insight and guidance from a team that understands their needs and is able to offer tailored solutions.

Squire Sanders is dedicated to its clients’ success and their satisfaction shows it. It continues to advise successor organizations of clients that it represented at its formation some 120 years ago.

Squire Sanders operates as a ‘one-firm firm’, rather than a loose confederation of separate offices or practices. With 1,300 lawyers in 36 offices located in 17 countries on five continents, the global legal practice is in the markets where its clients do business. Squire Sanders also has strong working relationships with independent firms in Europe and the Middle East, as well as the Squire Sanders Legal Counsel Worldwide Network, which includes independent firms across Latin America.

The extensive practice and industry knowledge are shared throughout Squire Sanders via one of the most robust technology platforms in the legal business, as well as ongoing rotation of lawyers to its offices around the world. In addition, the firm applies knowledge and project-management tools to implement continual business process improvements and enhance the value of its legal services.

Squire Sanders emphasizes quality, efficiency and alignment with client goals as core standards to continually improve its services delivery and the value of what it does for its clients. Squire Sanders encourages and manages processes and tools to improve pricing models, training and resource optimization, knowledge management and more, all centered on the core focus – delivering the services its clients want, when and where they want them, and with the value they deserve.

Main areas of practice

Aerospace and defense; anticorruption compliance and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; antitrust and competition, automotive; aviation; branding; capital markets; chemicals; communications; construction; corporate governance; corporate transactions, finance and governance; data privacy and protection; diversified industrials, e-discovery and records management; education; energy and natural resources; environmental, safety and health; financial services; global compliance solutions; government relations and public advocacy; healthcare; hospitality and leisure; immigration; insurance; intellectual property and technology; international dispute resolution; international trade and export controls; labor and employment; life sciences; litigation; media; mergers and acquistions; mining; nonprofit organizations; pensions; private equity and venture capital; project and infrastructure finance; public finance; public-private partnerships; real estate; restructuring and insolvency; retail; sports and entertainment; taxation and benefits; transportaion, shipping and logistics; and white collar defense and investigations.

Other Offices:
Beijing
Berlin
Birmingham
Bratislava
Brussels
Budapest
Cincinnati
Columbus
Frankfurt
Hong Kong
Houston
Kyiv
Leeds
London
Los Angeles
Madrid
Manchester
Miami
Moscow
New York
Northern Virginia
Palo Alto
Paris
Perth
Phoenix
Prague
Rio de Janeiro
San Francisco
Santo Domingo
Shanghai
Tampa
Tokyo
Warsaw
Washington DC
West Palm Beach

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