- THE FIRM
- Managing Partner: Terry Conner
- Number of partners: 227
- Number of other lawyers: 303
FIRM OVERVIEW:
Haynes and Boone, LLP is an international corporate law firm with offices in Texas,California,New York,Washington,DC,Mexico City and Moscow providing strategic, comprehensive, and cost-effective legal services to a variety of corporate clients.Over the years,Haynes and Boone has matured into one of the largest and fastestgrowing law firms in the US. The practice concentrates on corporate/securities, banking and finance, bankruptcy and reorganizations, clean tech, real estate, intellectual property, labor and employment, and all aspects of business litigation.
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE:
Antitrust: Haynes and Boone represents Fortune 500 companies worldwide in defending and prosecuting competition cases, and regularly represents companies and executives in criminal investigations and civil and administrative proceedings.
Bankruptcy/ Restructuring: Haynes and Boone has one of the largest business reorganization and bankruptcy practices in the United States, assisting debtors and creditors in all aspects of insolvency, both in and out of court.
Business Litigation: Haynes and Boone's Litigation Practice is international in scope, handling complex cases in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies and arbitration tribunals.
Clean Tech: Haynes and Boone's multidisciplinary clean tech practice has vast experience in helping clients such as venture capital firms, private equity funds, emerging companies and others capitalize on and leverage superior applied technology in the clean tech arena.
Corporate/ Securities: Haynes and Boone has a pre-eminent Corporate Securities Law Practice with clients ranging from large multinational corporations and investment banking firms to start-ups and emerging businesses.The firm handles securities work for more than 60 publicly-held companies.
Environment: Haynes and Boone has been named one of the top environmental practices in the state of Texas,working with clients across a broad spectrum of the most sophisticated environmental, toxic tort, health and safety issues, including litigation and government proceedings, business transactions and business activity counseling.
Finance: Haynes and Boone's finance practice is experienced in lending, securitizations, project finance, capital markets transactions, and other sophisticated financing vehicles for global businesses. Clients include domestic and foreign borrowers, commercial and investment lenders, non-bank credit companies, vendors, private equity funds, and venture capital funds.
Franchising: Haynes and Boone is internationally recognized in franchise and distribution law, consistently helping clients address the wide range of domestic and international issues that affect their businesses, from new franchise development to licensing and distribution programs.
Healthcare: Haynes and Boone's multidisciplinary approach to healthcare law combines regulatory, corporate/securities, finance, labor, M&A, tax, employment and benefit, and litigation lawyers who have experience in the industry.
Insurance: Haynes and Boone represents corporate policyholders in complex insurance coverage disputes.The group's experience extends to every kind of major insurance policy.
Intellectual Property: Haynes and Boone assists clients in the development and use of intellectual property and in preserving and defending intellectual property rights,primarily handling matters including patents, trademarks, domain names and corporate names, and copyrights.
Labor & Employment: Haynes and Boone handles all aspects of complex labor and employment matters that face domestic and international businesses such as counseling management, labor union issues, and employment litigation.
Mergers & Acquisitions: The firm assists clients in structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing transactions involving mergers, acquisitions, stock sales, asset dispositions, recapitalizations and reorganizations of public and private companies.
Project Finance: Haynes and Boone represents lenders, borrowers, risk insurers, investors, sponsors and contract parties in projects utilizing a broad spectrum of financing arrangements, such as commercial-bank and institutional-lender construction and term loan facilities; letter of credit facilities; mezzanine and high-yield financings; capital markets issuances of debt and equity; and securitization and structured finance techniques.
Real Estate: Haynes and Boone represents REITS,pension funds and pension fund advisers, private funds, portfolio managers and other institutional investors and developers, as well as involvement with traditional project, mezzanine and corporate finance and coinvestment partnerships and structures.
Technology: Haynes and Boone's Technology Contracts Practice Group helps clients in structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing a wide variety of commercial transactions involving technology and intellectual property.
INTERNATIONAL WORK: Haynes and Boone offers distinctive service capabilities in the Americas,Asia-Pacific,Middle East,Africa and Eurasia through its regional practice groups. With one of the largest US law firm offices in Mexico, the firm facilitates the representation of clients involved in Central and South American countries.
CLIENTS Representative industries include financial services, energy, real estate, hospitality, restaurant and retail, technology, manufacturing and distribution, aviation, telecommunications, insurance, transportation, sports entertainment and automotive.
INTERNATIONAL OFFICES The firm also has offices in Mexico and Russia
CONTACTS
Antitrust Barry McNeil
Bankruptcy/Restructuring Stephen Pezanosky
Business Litigation Michael Powell, David Harper
Corporate/Securities Greg Samuel, Steven Buxbaum
Clean Tech Paul Dickerson
Environment Jeff Civins
Franchising Joyce Mazero
Healthcare Lew Lefko
Insurance Ernest Martin
Intellectual Property David McCombs
Labor & Employment Melissa Goodman
Mergers & Acquisitions Greg Samuel
Real Estate Steve Waters
Technology Randall Brown