Firm Overview:
Founded in 1902, Chadbourne & Parke LLP has evolved into an
international law firm with 12 offices in key markets around the world. The
firm's diversity of practices and unitary structure enable its attorneys to
work together to meet its clients' full range of legal needs, both within the
United States and internationally. With its global network of attorneys, the
firm is positioned to analyze market, institutional and regulatory trends as
they evolve, and offer clients a full range of legal services on virtually all
matters affecting them.
Main Areas of Practice:
Chadbourne provides clients a diverse portfolio of legal services,
including antitrust, banking and finance, insolvency and financial
restructuring, capital markets, commercial litigation, communications and
technology, corporate, corporate finance, domestic and international tax,
emerging markets, employment law and ERISA, energy and renewable energy,
environmental, government contract matters, insurance and reinsurance, intellectual
property, international arbitration, mergers and acquisitions, oil and gas,
private funds, products liability litigation, project finance, real estate,
securities, and trusts and estates.
Energy & Project Finance:
Chadbourne is recognized internationally as a leading firm for project finance
and energy/renewable energy. Attorneys in the practice group are located
throughout the regions the firm serves and have worked on the development and
financing of a wide variety of infrastructure and renewable energy projects in
more than 60 countries. This experience includes advising on the development
and financing of greenfield energy, transportation and other industrial
projects, including novel public-private partnership structures, as well as
acquisitions and divestitures (including privatizations), private equity
investments, debt restructurings, and the resolution of political risk claims
and investment disputes. In recent years, the firm has done significant work
involving ‘clean’ energy projects. It has a significant share of the US legal
market in biofuels and renewable energy projects as well as for projects that
use wind, solar, geothermal and water power to generate electricity.
Corporate:
Chadbourne’s Corporate Practice advises domestic and international clients in
connection with all manner of business transactions throughout the world. The
firm maintains significant practices in the areas of bankruptcy/restructuring,
banking and finance, capital markets, corporate governance, general corporate
activities, mergers and acquisitions, private funds and securities compliance.
Chadbourne offers clients expertise in every major industry, with particular
depth in aerospace and defense, consumer products, energy, insurance/reinsurance,
manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and communications and technology.
Litigation & Alternative
Dispute Resolution:
Chadbourne’s Litigation Practice has earned a national reputation
for excellence in complex high-stakes, high-profile business disputes as well
as for white collar defense work. The firm’s attorneys have worked extensively
in the fields of products liability, commercial litigation, accountants’
liability, securities litigation and regulatory enforcement, corporate
governance, anti-corruption legislation, special investigations, environmental
litigation, trusts and estates, insurance/reinsurance and IP litigation. The
firm’s trial lawyers regularly try and win cases in state and federal courts
throughout the United States and abroad. They also recognize that disputes are
often best resolved outside the courtroom, and, accordingly, make use of arbitration,
mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Chadbourne’s ADR
professionals frequently represent clients in both commercial and
investor-state arbitration before major global and regional arbitral tribunals.
Products Liability:
For decades, Chadbourne has been a leader in products liability
and defense counseling. The Products Liability Group is adept at handling the complex
challenges faced by manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, household appliances,
distilled spirits, cosmetics and other consumer products in the US and around
the world. The firm regularly serves as national and international counsel to
its clients, coordinating the defense of large-scale litigation and managing
all aspects of products liability and complex tort litigation throughout the US
and abroad, including class actions, mass torts and multi-district litigation,
actions brought by health insurers and governments to recoup medical
expenditures, and actions brought by individual plaintiffs.
Insolvency & Financial
Restructuring:
Chadbourne’s Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Group has an
impressive record of achieving successful outcomes for its clients in major
Chapter 11 cases and corporate restructurings both in the United States and
abroad. Chadbourne plays leading roles in mega-cases such as Tribune Company,
ASARCO, Technical Olympic USA (TOUSA), VeraSun Energy, Lehman and
AbitibiBowater. The firm also represents the world's leading banks, including
Citigroup, Credit Suisse, The Royal Bank of Scotland and WestLB, in their roles
as agents for large lending syndicates in restructuring distressed loans.
Chadbourne is recognized as the leader in cross-border insolvency proceedings
and has commenced more cross-border ancillary bankruptcy cases than any other
law firm, including 25 under Chapter 15.
Intellectual Property:
Chadbourne’s unique Intellectual Property Practice combines the
specialized legal and technical expertise of an IP boutique with the business
and litigation skills of a global law firm. The firm’s IP lawyers have a track
record of successful results in matters involving IP litigation, patent
portfolio development and prosecution, copyrights, trademark clearance and
prosecution, due diligence investigations, trade secret misappropriation,
licensing, unfair competition and false advertising. The firm’s strong
international presence provides clients with IP strategy and protection wherever
they do business while its ‘insider’ familiarity with major industries adds a
unique element of business savvy to the practice.
International Offices:
The firm also has offices in Beijing, Dubai, Istanbul, Kyiv, London, Mexico
City, Moscow, São Paulo and Warsaw.