Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP

Carter Ledyard & Milburn is a general practice law firm headquartered in the Financial District. Carter Ledyard provides clients with partner-led matters, enabling seasoned lawyers with years of experience to lead and guide the strategy and communicate with clients meaningfully. We don’t pass off work to associates, and all of our matters are given oversight and attention from the partners you trust.

Building on a foundation of 169 years of legal service, we continue to maintain and develop the broad experience and diverse skills necessary to assist our clients in anticipating and managing business and personal matters in often fast-paced, changing environments.

With clients all over the world, Carter Ledyard has a long history of providing legal services to overseas companies and their United States affiliates.  Our global reach is strengthened through membership in legal networks that give us access to quality local and co-counsel throughout the United States and worldwide.

• Employment law. Everything from data security to state law privacy provisions, CLM handles employee contracts, we handle disputes and trade secrets, NDAs and other matters like RIFs and executive compensation matters.
• Privacy. As you know, unlike other countries, the US has state-by-state provisions so each jurisdiction exposes the company to potentially new or different privacy laws and breach disclosure requirements.
• Finance and Banking. Whether capital raising or private investments, CLM handles all areas of syndicated lending, debt issuances, leveraged loans, and bank loans. We work with private equity, institutional investors and other financial institutions to assist our clients with the liquidity and investment legal services they need.
• Capital Markets. Our Firm is adept at handling non-US companies with offerings, follow ons, and other instruments with securities filings and disclosures accordingly.
• Tax. Our tax team frequently works with our corporate team with non-US companies state and federal taxation requirements in order to optimize savings and comply with statutes and filings.
• Distribution and licensing, supply chain. With a wide variety of provisions that companies must adhere to in the US, CLM team is experienced at developing the right approach for clients with products and services that require licensing, warehousing, and logistics support.
• Formation of tax-exempt corporate foundations
• Real Estate. We handle ground leasing, acquisitions, siting, permits, construction law, and the full range of environmental and land use services.
• Disputes, litigation and arbitration