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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Offices

2300 N STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON DC 20037-1122
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Melissa Lesmes

Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP fields a construction counseling and dispute resolution practice with a strong country-wide record in assisting with fiercely contested, critical and high-value disputes. The group is represented across the firm’s Washington DC, San Francisco and Houston offices and its portfolio of matters span the country and also include a number of projects abroad. Clark Thiel coordinates the global construction group from the San Francisco office, while in Washington DC, construction group vice-chair Melissa Lesmes focuses her practice on complex construction claims and insurance coverage disputes. Charles Conrad is based in Houston and has recently acted in contentious matters regarding multi-billion dollar projects and together with Thiel and Lesmes makes up the leadership team. In San Francisco, John Heisse is a renowned figure in the market, assisting global developers, builders, owners and designers with every phase of complex public and private construction; and Robert James comes with client recommendation as ‘a very experienced and knowledgeable attorney in design, construction and real estate issues‘.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Government > Government contracts
- Industry focus > Insurance: advice to policyholders
- Industry focus > Transport: aviation and air travel - litigation and regulation
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Industry focus > Environment: litigation
- Industry focus > Environment: regulatory
- International Trade > International trade
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Industry focus > Transport: aviation and air travel - finance
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: electric power
- Government > Government relations
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Project finance