DLA Piper

Americas Chair, Global Co-Chair and Global Co-CEO: Frank Ryan
Americas Co-Managing Partners: Gerry Williams and Jackie Park
Chief Operating Officer: Aydin Akbora
Number of partners worldwide: 1,600
Number of lawyers worldwide:  3,800
Languages: More than 60 languages

Firm Overview:

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, positioning the firm to help clients with their legal needs around the world. The firm has lawyers in more than 25 offices across the United States with local and national experience. DLA Piper core practices in the US include corporate and finance; employment; government affairs; intellectual property and technology; litigation and arbitration; real estate; and tax.

The firm strives to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value to clients. This is achieved through practical and innovative legal solutions that help the firm’s clients.

DLA Piper represents many of the world’s leading companies across industries, as well as emerging businesses, financial institutions, and professional firms. The firm’s work encompasses the country’s major business, financial, and technology centers.

Responsible Business and Pro Bono

Different sectors and geographies face different sustainability challenges, and the firm provides clients with a clear understanding of how, by working with DLA Piper, they can take climate action or make progress on business and human rights.

DLA Piper’s pro bono mission is to pursue justice in our communities by helping individuals, families and organizations. Through collaborative and creative pro bono projects, we promote security, dignity, and access to justice for everyone. Our focus areas include advocating for children, serving veterans, assisting immigrants seeking humanitarian relief and combating hunger.

Corporate

DLA Piper supports the world’s leading enterprises, emerging startup companies and financial institutions in their development and investment activities. The firm assists clients through all stages of their transactions to ensure successful deal outcomes.

Finance

DLA Piper advises on all aspects of financing, across borders, sectors, and financial products. This includes sharing knowledge and skills in deals involving, for example, lending and borrowing, debt securities, derivatives, funds, portfolios and FinTech solutions, as well as energy, infrastructure, and other projects.

Employment

DLA Piper’s global employment practice advises clients worldwide on employment legislation, helping them meet their workforce objectives.

Regulatory and Government Affairs

DLA Piper’s Regulatory and Government Affairs team provides advice at all stages of the regulatory process. The firm focuses on areas such as international trade, antitrust and competition, global governance and more. Firm lawyers and policy professionals often work across borders and practice groups in interdisciplinary teams, ensuring the most efficient and effective results for its clients.

Intellectual Property and Technology

DLA Piper is one of the most widely recognized providers of a full range of commercial, intellectual property law, privacy, sourcing, and technology law services for leading businesses worldwide.

The firm helps clients from emerging technology and pharmaceutical companies to established banks and financial institutions achieve their objectives wherever they do business.

Litigation, Arbitration, and Investigations

DLA Piper’s lawyers are skilled in litigation, arbitration, investigations, and ADR and will deploy that experience to help you devise the best strategies. The firm has the local knowledge to apply the regulatory, economic, political, and cultural context to legal issues and develop case strategies.

Real Estate

DLA Piper’s market-leading real estate group offers a full range of real estate services, including single asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, single asset and multi-property/programmatic joint ventures, fund formation, operating company investments, cross-border investments, REITs, financing, construction and design, leasing, zoning/land-use, environmental law, real estate litigation and tax.

Tax

DLA Piper provides the full range of tax services that address the complex challenges of international commerce and business operations as well as manage and resolve tax disputes.

Sectors

DLA Piper has 10 global and one US-focused sectors. The firm’s sector approach is critical to tackling the needs of clients and is a key reason why companies seeking a strategic partner in the legal arena turn to DLA Piper.