The 2013 Best Lawyers in America® List Includes 101 WilmerHale Lawyers

The 2013 Best Lawyers in America® List Includes 101 WilmerHale Lawyers

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WilmerHale has a record of success at all stages of enforcement proceedings—from informal inquiries to litigation.
WilmerHale has defended clients in hundreds of class, derivative, shareholder and individual actions alleging securities fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and other corporate misconduct.
WilmerHale has been at the forefront of complex financial restructuring and bankruptcy litigation and policy matters for decades.
Sophisticated knowledge of the bankruptcy process, combined with top-notch appellate and trial experience and the perspective and insight required to address a wide range of bankruptcy litigation and regulation issues.
We guide clients through today’s ever-changing debt markets, representing them in a broad variety of debt deals that range from complex financial structures to traditional loan transactions.
Helping clients launch their businesses and transform their innovative ideas into successful companies.
WilmerHale lawyers have decades of experience advising public and private companies in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
A premier corporate governance and disclosure practice providing timely, tailored and practical advice to public company clients based on in-depth experience and insight.
We leverage technical knowledge, business acumen and legal experience to structure, prepare and negotiate innovative and effective technology-related agreements.
Leveraging our sophisticated technical, market and legal experience to help clients effectively and efficiently manage complex transactions and get the deal done.
We provide legal insight and practical solutions for one of the most complex and highly regulated areas of business.
WilmerHale is renowned for its sophisticated representation of investors, developers, landlords, tenants, lenders and institutions on complex real estate projects and transactions.

Since the development of the Prudential Center from what had been a blighted railroad yard in Boston’s Back Bay in the early 1960s, WilmerHale has been at the forefront of many of the most significant and complex development projects in the United States. We advise owners, developers, lenders and investors on every step of the development process—from site identification and evaluation through design, permitting, financing, construction, leasing and sale. Our projects range from big-box retail stores and industrial warehouse and distribution centers to manufacturing plants, office towers, hotels, multi-family and condominium projects, seniors housing communities, university and private research facilities, and more.

We counsel owners, investors, lenders, developers and tenants in an array of distressed real estate transactions, including mortgage loan workouts and foreclosures, acquisitions and dispositions of distressed assets and loans, lease renegotiations, and joint venture restructurings. We work with colleagues in our bankruptcy, litigation and environmental risk management practices to provide the full range of advice needed for each transaction. Our deep experience in foreclosures serves the needs of institutional lenders and investors using the acquisition of loans and the exercise of loan remedies as a means to acquire title to properties.

WilmerHale’s Real Estate Practice represents borrowers and lenders in complex mortgage and mezzanine financing transactions across a wide variety of asset classes. We have extensive experience with government-sponsored enterprises and HUD, as well as conventional lenders, life insurance companies and mezzanine lenders. We also have one of the leading workout and bankruptcy practices in the nation, and we regularly collaborate with our bankruptcy lawyers to restructure debt on distressed real estate projects.

Our wide-ranging experience includes retail, office, industrial, life sciences, credit tenant and build-to-suit leases. We help clients analyze alternative space choices, sublease arrangements, and restructurings and buyouts of existing leases. We devise structures to protect tenants against landlord and/or lender financial distress and navigate complex, multi-phase tenant fit-out projects. WilmerHale is the firm of choice for high-profile headquarters leases for tenants in the key Massachusetts office markets (Boston, Cambridge and the Route 128 corridor) and beyond, and we represent many clients in their national and international leasing needs. In addition to complex headquarters leases, we represent numerous companies in office leasing, subleasing and lease restructuring throughout the United States. For these representations, we often develop form leases, engage local counsel on an as-needed basis, and achieve efficiencies by centralizing negotiations.
We represent public companies, REITs, private equity advisers, real estate operating companies, mutual fund investment managers and pension funds in all types of real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, equity investments, restructurings, workouts and mezzanine debt. Our clients include both taxable and tax-exempt investors (including pension and endowment funds). Our tax and ERISA groups work closely with us on many transactions. We have overseen the offerings of billions of equity in public and private REITs. We are familiar with market terms and conditions on economics, including registration rights and tax protection provisions.
A deep and diverse practice focused on maximizing tax efficiencies and minimizing tax risks for clients nationally and internationally.
With a team of lawyers recognized nationally as leading practitioners in the field, we regularly advise public and private companies, their shareholders and their key employees on tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures. Clients rely on our advice to maximize their tax efficiencies and minimize their tax risks. Our clients include businesses from a wide range of sectors: technology, life sciences, publishing, telecommunications, aviation and defense, venture capital and private equity. We develop tax-efficient structures that help clients achieve business objectives and negotiate appropriate contractual protections against the assumption of unwanted tax risks.
For companies in the life sciences sphere, licensing intellectual property and establishing strategic alliances are critical. WilmerHale’s experienced licensing lawyers shepherd biotech, pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical device clients of all sizes through the complex transactions that make their businesses possible, including a broad range of licensing, collaboration, strategic alliance and joint venture agreements. Our attorneys also excel at brokering manufacturing and supply agreements, contract research and development agreements, distribution and commercialization services agreements, and material transfer and confidentiality agreements. They also frequently represent life sciences clients as they license patents—often the foundations of their companies—from, and sponsor research at, leading academic institutions across the United States and Europe. Backed not only by their own experience but also the deep well of knowledge possessed by the firm’s patent, tax, antitrust and EU competition lawyers, our transactional attorneys are ready to handle even the most multifaceted matters. Our team helps clients protect their innovations, forge strategic alliances, and successfully navigate a complex, dynamic industry.
Providing comprehensive solutions for the acquisition, enforcement and protection of IP.
Clients trust us to protect their most important intellectual property matters.
We advise clients on the smartest, most cost-effective ways to challenge or defend issued patents.

By patenting their innovations, our clients increase the value of their intellectual property and enhance their ability to compete in the marketplace. We work with laboratory and research teams and R&D and product development groups to determine whether, when and where it is in our clients’ business and technical interests to seek patent protection. And we don’t just file patent applications. Drawing on our experience with patent litigation, corporate financings and technology transactions, we implement IP strategies that conserve resources, add measurable value and give our clients a cost-effective and commercially practical competitive edge.

We help clients obtain more than 750 US and foreign patents each year, covering innovations that span the technological spectrum, including aerospace, biochemistry, biotechnology, business methods, chemistry, computer science, fuel cells, genetics, high-speed data communication, integrated circuits, materials science, medical devices, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, semiconductor devices and processes, and software.

We also prepare and prosecute patent applications internationally under the Patent Cooperative Treaty and by working with a network of seasoned patent lawyers around the world. Our experience extends to appeals, interferences and opposition proceedings within the US Patent and Trademark Office, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the European Patent Office.

Clients turn to us for their highest-stakes trade secret disputes.
Intellectual Property Litigation
A global team handling highly complex and sensitive matters in all aspects of litigation.
“The firm is at its best during a fight—whether that’s against an enforcer, or in court against a private litigant.” — Global Competition Review
Combining our trial and appellate strengths allows us to shape litigation strategy from the outset to maximize the likelihood of ultimate success.
Battle-tested. Globally Respected.
With litigators who previously served as senior lawyers in the Departments of Justice and Defense, and in-house for a major defense contractor, our team has successfully represented clients in difficult, high-stakes FCA litigation brought by relators and the government.
Named an “FCPA Powerhouse” and “Practice Group of the Year,” we have been involved in some of the most notable public and non-public cases and key developments related to FCPA and anti-corruption issues.
Drawing on years of experience in the public and private sectors, our lawyers handle a range of litigation involving the federal government, state and foreign governments, and complex regulatory regimes.
WilmerHale offers one of the world’s premier international arbitration and dispute resolution practices.
Uncompromising defense of corporations and individuals in high-profile and complex litigation and investigations.
We offer clients exceptional insight in dealing with competition agencies in the United States, Europe and around the world.
WilmerHale’s corporate lawyers have a long history of experience with cross-border deals involving mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and capital markets, venture capital, joint ventures and other transactions.

More than 100 WilmerHale lawyers have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2013.

Best Lawyers is based on a comprehensive peer review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast approximately 3.9 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.

WilmerHale’s Recognized Lawyers (Listed by Specialty):

Administrative/Regulatory Law
Bruce Newman

Antitrust Law
James Burling
William Kolasky
James Lowe
Michelle Miller
Thomas Mueller

Appellate Practice
Louis Cohen
Edward DuMont
William Lee
Seth Waxman
Paul Wolfson

Arbitration

James Carter

Banking and Finance Law

Russell Bruemmer

Franca Harris Gutierrez

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Philip Anker

Mitchel Appelbaum

William Perlstein

John Sigel

Bet-the-Company Litigation

Jamie Gorelick

William Lee

William McLucas

Howard Shapiro

Seth Waxman

Biotechnology Law

David Redlick

Steven Singer

Commercial Litigation

John Batter III

Louis Cohen

Robert Cultice

David Donovan

Jamie Gorelick

Daniel Halston

William Lee

William McLucas

Randolph Moss

William Paine

Lisa Pirozzolo

Andrea Robinson

Jeffrey Rudman

Howard Shapiro

Peter Vigeland

Seth Waxman

Laura Wertheimer

Roger Witten

Communications Law

Samir Jain

Jonathan Nuechterlein

Copyright Law

Michael Bevilacqua

William Lee

Donald Steinberg

Corporate Compliance Law

Mark Borden

Bruce Coolidge

William McLucas

Harry Weiss

Thomas White

Corporate Governance Law

Mark Borden

Bruce Coolidge

William McLucas

Harry Weiss

Thomas White

Jonathan Wolfman

Corporate Law

Michael Bain

Mark Borden

Hal Leibowitz

Yoon-Young Lee

David Redlick

Steven Singer

John Watkins

David Westenberg

Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Jamie Gorelick

Karen Green

Brent Gurney

Jay Holtmeier

Robert Keefe

Howard Shapiro

Peter Vigeland

Seth Waxman

Roger Witten

Derivatives and Futures Law

Paul Architzel

Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law

Stephen Oleskey

Employment Law-Management

Neil Jacobs

Energy Law

Andrew Cohn

Environmental Law

Robert Fitzpatrick, Jr.

Robert Kirsch

Government Relations Practice

Charlene Barshefsky

Jamie Gorelick

Robert Kimmitt

Information Technology Law

David Westenberg

Insurance Law

Charles Platt

International Arbitration-Commercial

James Carter

Richard Johnston

Rachael Kent

International Arbitration-Governmental

Rachael Kent

International Trade and Finance Law

Charlene Barshefsky

William Benjamin

John Burgess

Ronald Meltzer

Robert Novick

Labor Law-Management

Neil Jacobs

Land Use & Zoning Law

Katharine Bachman

William O’Reilly, Jr.

Litigation-Antitrust

James Burling

Jamie Gorelick

William Kolasky

James Lowe

Thomas Mueller

Litigation- Bankruptcy

Philip Anker

Paul Daley

Craig Goldblatt

William Perlstein

Litigation-First Amendment

Randolph Moss

Seth Waxman

Litigation-Intellectual Property

Mark Flanagan

William Lee

Randolph Moss

Lisa Pirozzolo

Donald Steinberg

Cynthia Vreeland

Seth Waxman

Litigation-Patent

Peter Dichiara

William Lee

Lisa Pirozzolo

Donald Steinberg

Wayne Stoner

Litigation-Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)

Jamie Gorelick

Seth Waxman

Litigation-Securities

William Paine

Peter Vigeland

Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Mark Borden

Jay Bothwick

John Burgess

Louis Cohen

Hal Leibowitz

Graham Robinson

Steven Singer

John Watkins

David Westenberg

Thomas White

Mutual Funds Law

James Anderson

Matthew Chambers

Lori Martin

Non-Profit/Charities Law

Amy Segal

Patent Law

Michael Bevilacqua

Peter Dichiara

James Lampert

William Lee

Donald Steinberg

Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law

Sarah Rothermel

Real Estate Law

Katharine Bachman

Keith Barnett

Sean Boulger

Andrew Cohn

Stephen Edwards

Robert Fitzpatrick

Allen Fox

Paul Jakubowski

William O’Reilly

Robert Tuchmann

Securities/Capital Markets Law

Mark Borden

John Burgess

Matthew Chambers

Louis Cohen

Christopher Davies

William McLucas

Jeffrey Rudman

John Watkins

Harry Weiss

Securities Regulation

Matthew Chambers

William Paine

Securitization and Structured Finance Law

Dennis Jenkins

Tax Law

Richard Andersen

William Benjamin

Robert Burke

A. William Caporizzo

Richard Giuliani

Julie Hogan Rodgers

Roger Ritt

Kimberly Wethly

Technology Law

David Westenberg

Trademark Law

William Lee

Trusts and Estates

Michael Fay

A. Silvana Giner

Jennifer Snyder

Venture Capital Law

Michael Bain
David Westenberg

For more information, visit the Best Lawyers website.

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