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Sidley Austin LLP

Sidley Austin LLP
  1. One South Dearborn,
  2. Chicago,
  3. Illinois
  4. USA
  5. IL 60603
  6. Tel 312 853 7000
  7. Fax 312 853 7036
  8. Website : www.sidley.com
  • Chairman of Executive Committee: Carter G Phillips
  • Chairman of Management Committee: Charles W Douglas
  • Number of partners worldwide: 666
  • Number of lawyers worldwide: 1747
  • INTERNATIONAL OFFICES: The firm also has offices in Beijing, Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.

Firm Overview:
Sidley Austin is one of the world’s premier law firms,with a practice highly attuned to the ever-changing international landscape. The firm has built a reputation for being a powerful adviser for global businesses, with approximately 1700 lawyers in 19 offices worldwide. Sidley maintains a commitment to providing quality legal services wherever they are needed, offering advice in litigation, transactional and regulatory matters spanning virtually every area of law. The firm’s lawyers leverage their diversity of knowledge and wide-reaching legal backgrounds with a dedication to teamwork, collaboration and superior client service. Sidley values the recognition it has received in response to its leadership in its wide cross-section of legal services around the globe. These accolades, which come from professional peers, publications and industry journals and clients in numerous industries, include: 
• Received the most first-tier national rankings of any US law firm in the 2013 US News – Best Lawyers ‘Best Law Firms’ survey for the third consecutive year and each year since the survey’s inception 
• One of just three firms to have been in the top 10 of the BTI Client Service rankings every year since the inception of those rankings in 2001 
• Consistently ranks among the top global capital markets firms in the Thomson Reuters league tables 
• Named a finalist in the American Lawyer Litigation Department of the Year 2012 
• Received the Most Innovative Gender Diversity Initiative Award at the first Chambers USA Women in Law Awards in 2012 
• Received a ‘perfect’ 100 score on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2013 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) report. Sidley has received ‘perfect’ 100 scores on each report since 2008 
• Named as one of the top 25 national corporate law firms in Corporate Board Member magazine’s 2012 survey of corporate directors and general counsel 
• Named USA Law Firm of the Year for 2011 and 2012 in the Who’s Who Legal Awards 
• Recognized in four categories of the Law360 Practice Groups of 2012 award series: Appellate, Environmental, International Trade and Life Sciences 
• Only law firm with top tier Life Sciences rankings across three continents in the Practical Law Company (PLC) Life Sciences Handbook 2012. Also ranked among the world’s top five firms for both its life sciences industry practice and its life sciences regulatory practice

Main Areas of Practice:
Accountants/Professional Service Firms Liability
Antitrust/Competition
Appellate
Banking & Financial Services
Communications Regulatory
Complex Commercial Litigation
Corporate Governance & Compliance
Corporate Reorganization & Bankruptcy
Emerging Companies & Venture Capital
Employee Benefits
Energy
Environmental
ERISA Litigation
Executive Compensation
Financial Services/Consumer Class Actions
Food, Drug and Medical Device Compliance & Enforcement
Food, Drug & Medical Device Regulatory
Global Finance
Government Strategies
Healthcare Insurance
Insurance/Reinsurance Disputes
Intellectual Property Litigation
International Arbitration (Commercial and Treaty)
International Trade
Investment Funds, Advisers & Derivatives
Labor, Employment & Immigration
Life Sciences
M&A & D&O Litigation
M&A
Privacy, Data Security & Information Law
Private Equity
Products Liability
Project Finance & Infrastructure
Public Finance
Real Estate
SEC Enforcement Securities
Securities & Futures Regulatory
Securities Litigation
Tax
Tax Controversy
Technology Transactions
Transportation
Trusts, Estates & Not-for-Profits
White Collar: Government Litigation & Investigations


Areas of Practice
  • Accountants/Professional Service Firms Liability

  • Antitrust/Competition

  • Appellate

  • Communications Regulatory

  • Complex Commercial Litigation

  • Corporate Governance & Compliance

  • Corporate Reorganization & Bankruptcy

  • Emerging Companies & Venture Capital

  • Employee Benefits

  • Energy

  • Environmental

  • ERISA Litigation

  • Executive Compensation

  • Financial Institutions Regulatory

  • Financial Services/Consumer Class Actions

  • Food, Drug and Medical Device Compliance & Enforcement

  • Food, Drug & Medical Device Regulatory

  • Global Finance

  • Government Strategies

  • Healthcare

  • Insurance

  • Insurance/Reinsurance Disputes

  • Intellectual Property Litigation

  • International Arbitration (Commercial and Treaty)

  • International Trade

  • Investment Funds, Advisers & Derivatives

  • Labor, Employment & Immigration

  • Life Sciences

  • M&A & D&O Litigation

  • M&A & Private Equity

  • Privacy, Data Security & Information Law

  • Products Liability

  • Project Finance & Infrastructure

  • Public Finance

  • Real Estate

  • SEC Enforcement

  • Securities

  • Securities & Futures Regulatory

  • Securities Litigation

  • Tax

  • Tax Controversy

  • Technology Transactions

  • Transportation

  • Trusts, Estates & Not-for-Profits

  • White Collar


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    Branches

    1. 555 West Fifth Street,
    2. Los Angeles,
    3. California
    4. USA
    5. CA 90013
    6. Tel 213 896 6000
    7. Fax 213 896 6600
    1. 1001 Page Mill Road,
    2. Building 1,
    3. Palo Alto,
    4. California
    5. USA
    6. CA 94304
    7. Tel +1 650 565 7000
    8. Fax +1 650 565 7100
    1. 555 California Street,
    2. San Francisco,
    3. California
    4. USA
    5. CA 94104
    6. Tel +1 415 772 1200
    7. Fax +1 415 772 7400
    1. 1501 K Street NW,
    2. Washington, DC,
    3. District of Columbia
    4. USA
    5. 20005
    6. Tel 202 736 8000
    7. Fax 202 736 8711
    1. 470 Atlantic Avenue, 4th Floor,
    2. Boston,
    3. Massachusetts
    4. USA
    5. MA 02210
    6. Tel +1.617.273.8183
    7. Fax +1.617.273.8188
    1. 787 Seventh Avenue,
    2. New York,
    3. USA
    4. NY 10019
    5. Tel +1 212 839 5300
    6. Fax +1 212 839 5599
    1. 717 North Harwood,
    2. Suite 3400,
    3. Dallas,
    4. Texas
    5. USA
    6. TX 75201
    7. Tel 214 981 3300
    8. Fax 214 981 3400
    1. 1000 Louisiana Street,
    2. Suite 6000,
    3. Houston,
    4. Texas
    5. USA
    6. TX 77002
    7. Tel 713 315 9000
    8. Fax 713 315 9199
     
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