Today's lenders and borrowers face a myriad of challenges, including restrictions on foreign banks lending to companies in certain jurisdictions, distressed debt and increasing complexity of financial services regulation across the world. With most financing transactions that involve global companies requiring execution in more than one jurisdiction, and local law requirements posing challenges that can significantly affect deal value, it is crucial that their lawyers can navigate them through this complex environment.
Acquisition and Leveraged Finance
Financial Services Regulatory
Managing and protecting intellectual property has become increasingly complex for global companies, which often have huge IP portfolios and operations in multiple jurisdictions with varied IP laws and levels of enforcement. Rapid technological advancements have enabled infringers to become more sophisticated, and the rise of intellectual property as a main driver of mergers and acquisitions has made developing strategies to protect these assets even more important.
With over 300 dedicated IP lawyers across 74 offices in 45 countries, we offer a full-service IP practice providing brand management, brand enforcement, copyright, IP disputes, patent litigation and prosecution, trade secrets and transactional IP services.
With decades of experience advising companies in all industries including automotive, luxury and fashion, fast-moving consumer goods, financial services, technology, media and entertainment, manufacturing, energy, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, we provide our clients with the full scope of advisory across brand management and enforcement, IP disputes including patent litigation and prosecution, copyright, trade secrets, IP transactions, tax, and broader strategic IP advisory for supply chain operations including marketing, advertising and promotion.
Brand Enforcement
IP Advisory: Strategy and Management
We deliver sophisticated advice and cutting-edge solutions to fund sponsors, investors and other market participants in the private funds space. We actively shape the market with novel and forward-thinking approaches to fund terms and structures and integrate our offerings with commercial acumen to ensure that all investment activities are strategically aligned and optimized.
Financial Services Regulatory
Sustainability for Financial Institutions and Sustainable Finance
Although the global market has become increasingly open to trade, disparate local laws and varied business and cultural practices can make creating, distributing and selling goods and services in certain markets a major challenge. International trade sanctions limit how companies can do business, as well as customs laws, exchange controls and foreign investment requirements.
Customs and Excise
Franchise, Distribution & Global Brand Expansion
Risk Protection
For today's employers, managing a global workforce requires complying with local labor and employment laws in multiple jurisdictions, staying abreast of rapidly changing regulations, handling the growing demands of labor unions and works councils, and moving talent quickly across borders. It also means developing strategies to retain high-potential employees, especially during reorganizations and spinoffs. To achieve these objectives, it's essential for employers to stay up-to-date on the latest employment trends in areas such as workforce restructuring, reward programs, and labor and human rights.
International Labor & Human Rights
Executive Compensation & Incentives
Global Immigration & Mobility
