- Managing Partner: Robert E Giles
FIRM OVERVIEW: Perkins Coie, a law firm with more than 750 attorneys in 18 offices in the United States and China, represents clients from Fortune 100 corporations to start-ups in a variety of industries, including Internet and software, e-commerce, semiconductor, aerospace, retail, telecommunications, hospitality, biotech and energy. Perkins Coie has been named one of Fortune magazine’s "100 Best Companies to Work For" for nine straight years.
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE:
Business: The firm has more than 200 business attorneys who handle a wide variety of matters for leading businesses, including publicly traded, multinational, emerging growth and private businesses, as well as financial institutions, venture capital and private equity firms, governmental entities,nonprofits and individuals. The group focuses on public and private equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities compliance, tax, licensing and technology agreements, bankruptcy and workouts, employee benefits and compensation matters and international business.
Environment, Energy & Resources: The firm has extensive experience in project development, commercial transactions, permitting, compliance and audits, litigation, legislation, regulation and policy.
Finance: The firm represents debtors, borrowers, creditors, lenders, committees, trustees, receivers and asset purchasers in bankruptcy and workout transactions, as well as federally insured financial institutions, CMBS special services,pension fund administrators, assetbased lenders, trade creditors and public debt holders in all types of debt financings.
Intellectual Property: The firm’s large IP Practice focuses on patent and other IP litigation, patent and trademark prosecution and portfolio management, technology licensing, copyrights, and trade secret and unfair competition counseling for companies in all technologies and industries around the world.
Labor & Employment: The firm advises clients on issues such as employee discipline, background investigations and benefits, requirements under FMLA, ADA, Title VII and COBRA, labor relations, trade secrets, immigration, workers’ compensation and class actions.
Life Sciences: The Life Sciences Group represents clients in biologics, diagnostics, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. The group represents companies in a variety of areas including corporate, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, employment and immigration.
Litigation: More than 300 attorneys have jury and bench trial experience in state and federal jurisdictions and at every appellate level including the U.S. Supreme Court, with a particular strength in the privacy, intellectual property,p roduct liability and regulatory arenas. The firm has extensive experience in class actions.
Personal Planning: The firm coordinates legal, estate planning, trust and investment management needs for individuals as well as owners of closely held businesses, senior officers of public companies and entrepreneurs.
Political Law: The firm has extensive experience in campaign finance, congressional ethics and election disputes.
Privacy & Data Security: The firm counsels clients on issues such as enforcement, litigation, compliance, incident response and government and third-party requests for information.
Product Liability: The firm represents clients in product liability litigation; coordinates global, national and regional claims; and counsels clients on product liability containment and lawsuit avoidance.
Real Estate & Land Use: The firm represents hotels, housing developments, retail and mixed-use projects, corporate campuses, retirement communities, industrial facilities and public/private developments, and helps clients with leasing and subleasing commercial space, land use permitting strategies, and the financing, acquisition, development and disposition of national and international projects.
Retail & Consumer Products: The firm advises clients on a range of issues including tax, marketing and advertising, litigation, intellectual property, labor, real estate and environmental, franchising, consumer protection, e-commerce and social media and bankruptcy
INTERNATIONAL OFFICES: Perkins Coie has offices in Beijing and Shanghai, China.