- Managing Partner: Kenneth E Werner
- Number of Partners: : 38
- Number of other lawyers: : 53
FIRM OVERVIEW: Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP is a dynamic and entrepreneurial firm with in-depth experience and relationships in the financial markets and the business community.With approximately 90 lawyers in New York,Washington, D.C. and London, the firm’s key attribute is the ability to find thoughtful, creative solutions to the most difficult legal problems in a manner carefully tailored to its clients ‘objectives. The firm seeks to provide precisely the technically excellent, informed and efficient service that it would want to receive as a client.
RK&O uses a highly integrated, multi-disciplinary approach across practice areas and offices because sophisticated problems rarely confine themselves to narrow practice group definitions. The firm draws upon the varied backgrounds of its partners and associates, many of whom worked at major law firms in financial centers throughout the world, clerked for US federal court judges, and served in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the US Securities & Exchange Commission and in other government agencies.
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE:
Civil Litigation: Business and commercial disputes; capital markets litigation; creditors’ rights and bankruptcy litigation; securities and shareholder suits.
Corporate & Business Transactions: Derivatives; distressed debt and claims trading; investment management; lending transactions; mergers and acquisitions; private equity transactions; securities transactions; tax.
Regulation & Compliance: Corporate governance; evaluation of regulatory risk; lawyers and ethics compliance; operational advice; securities regulation advice and training; trading/ethical policies and compliance.
Restructuring & Bankruptcy: Creditors’ rights and restructurings; distressed acquisitions; rescue, DIP and exit financing.
Securities Enforcement, Internal & Government Investigations & Criminal Defense: Broker-dealer sales practices; corruption, bribery and money laundering; financial and accounting fraud; securities trading and market manipulation.
CLIENTS: The firm’s practice covers a complex range of issues facing companies in the investment and business sectors.RK&O’s clients include hedge funds, private equity investors, investment banks, broker-dealers, investment advisers, insurance companies, accounting firms and a variety of other private and public enterprises.The firm also represents corporate boards of directors, board committees and individual corporate officers and directors. The sophisticated nature of its clients and their businesses often place the firm at the forefront of emerging trends and current issues. For instance, RK&O corporate lawyers were leaders in developing the market for distressed debt and are today highly respected in that field; the firm’s litigators are active in the most current capital markets and business disputes and in defending organizations and persons under investigation for alleged securities law violations; RK&O’s hedge fund and private equity attorneys have advised on numerous complex transactions and structuring issues; and the firm’s regulatory and compliance lawyers are recognized authorities on internal investigations, auditor independence, and US and international securities law compliance issues.