Crowell & Moring LLP

Firm Details:
Chair: Philip T Inglima
Number of partners: 274
Number of lawyers: 677

Firm Overview:
Crowell & Moring LLP is an international law firm with offices in the United States, Europe, MENA, and Asia that represents clients in litigation and arbitration, regulatory and policy, and transactional and corporate matters. The firm is internationally recognised for its representation of Fortune 500 companies in high-stakes litigation and government-facing matters, as well as its ongoing commitment to pro bono service and diversity, equity, and inclusion. In 2021, the firm saw unprecedented growth, opening offices in Chicago, Denver, and Indianapolis, and joining forces with storied financial law firm Kibbe & Orbe and with Brinks Gilson & Lione, a premier technology-focused IP firm.

• Litigation & Trial:
Litigation is a core strength of the firm and its deepest practice. More than two thirds of the firm’s lawyers prosecute and defend cases, handling billion-dollar civil trials, criminal trials, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations in the US and in global forums on matters spanning all practices and industries.

• Regulatory & Policy:
The firm draws on deep experience working with government agencies across the US Executive Branch and within the EU. It is home to more than 100 former government officials who have held pivotal positions in US and international governmental bodies. Lawyers and consultants guide clients in navigating the complex and shifting regulatory and enforcement landscape to help them achieve business objectives.

• Transactions & Corporate:
The firm advises clients on a full range of complex corporate and securities, M&A, joint venture, and financing transactions, as well as on general corporate, governance, and compliance counseling. Lawyers work with large international and domestic public companies, mid-sized and privately-held firms, private equity sponsors and hedge funds, emerging companies and venture capital, and high net-worth individuals across a wide range of industries.

• Investigations:
The firm conducts investigations on behalf of leading businesses, boards, and individuals, both for internal purposes and in response to government enforcement inquiries and actions. It has represented clients in matters spanning more than 80 countries and six continents in high-profile and international internal investigations, congressional probes, compliance counselling, and monitorships, in focus areas ranging from FCPA, to financial fraud, to whistleblower complaints.

Main Areas of Practice:
Antitrust & Competition:
One of the premiere practices in the US, the group handles all phases of antitrust law: high-visibility mergers, criminal cartel investigations, high-stakes antitrust litigation, and affirmative recoveries of hundreds of millions of dollars. The firm’s EU practice covers the full spectrum of competition law matters, with in-house experience in Belgian and UK competition law.

Energy:
The group has extensive capabilities and experience, particularly with respect to federal and state electric and gas regulation, infrastructure project development, financing and acquisition transactions, litigation, compliance, and enforcement matters.

Environmental & Natural Resources:
With more than three decades of experience, the group has a strong reputation across the US for successfully shaping regulatory policies and litigating disputes in industries, including oil/ gas, agriculture, renewable energy, and defence, and in related issues, such as water/ air quality, public land use, endangered species, site cleanup, pesticides, health and safety, and consumer products regulation.

Financial Services:
The firm advises traditional financial institutions, technology start-ups, venture capital and private equity firms, and other lenders and funds on transactional, regulatory, and contested matters to protect their operations and maximize their assets. The group offers guidance on asset management, commercial finance and lending, fintech, digital assets, derivatives, distressed debt trading, bankruptcy/insolvency, restructuring and creditors’ rights, financial services litigation, and AML/banking regulatory counseling.

Government Contracts:
The firm is a recognised industry leader with 40 years of government contracts experience. Companies of all sizes from a diverse array of industries turn to the group for its unrivalled excellence, depth, and success. The group offers a full range of counselling, investigation, litigation, and transactional services covering every facet of contracting.

Health Care:
The group provides a range of litigation, investigations, transactional, and regulatory counselling services. Clients include hospitals and hospital systems, long-term care facilities, medical groups and medical management companies, health plans and other payors, pharmaceutical companies, PBMs, academic medical centres, not-for-profits, and government contractors, as well as established and start-up medical device/ biotech and digital health companies.

Insurance/Reinsurance:
The group represents clients in their most challenging coverage and reinsurance matters concerning property/casualty, financial lines, life, healthcare, insurtech, and other insurance issues. Lawyers handle trial and appellate insurance litigation, arbitration, M&A transactions, and ADR and advise on strategic considerations in data management and digital transformation.

Intellectual Property:
Crowell & Moring’s internationally recognised intellectual property team of 100+ attorneys and IP professionals offers a complete range of services to assist clients in successfully navigating the complexities of IP issues, including prosecution, litigation, licensing, transaction, and portfolio management challenges across virtually every industry sector. The group includes industry specialists with degrees across a range of scientific disciplines, former US Patent and Trademark Office examiners, and litigators who practice before regional courts around the world.

International Dispute Resolution:
A global team delivers end-to-end advice on the full range of business and governmental disputes worldwide, commercial and geopolitical disputes involving business operations, transactions, projects, and strategic alliances. Lawyers provide pre-dispute counseling on investment decisions and dispute resolution clauses, pre-arbitrations assistance on potential geopolitical approaches to resolving disputes, representation in international arbitrations, and litigation to enforce arbitral awards.

International Trade:
Experienced teams advise on the myriad U.S. and international laws and regulations governing the movement of goods, services, technology, and people across national borders. Few firms match Crowell & Moring’s breadth, depth, and geographic reach, with lawyers handling virtually every area of trade law.

Labour & Employment:
The group provides the full range of labour and employment law services to clients, including handling complex class and individual employment litigation, providing advice on routine employment law issues, helping address complicated labour disputes and privacy problems. The firm has a strong record of success resolving difficult disputes involving employment discrimination claims, wage-and-hour class and collective actions, trade secret and non-compete litigation, complicated labour disputes, fiduciary duty, benefit claims, and other ERISA litigation, and whistleblower retaliation claims.

Privacy & Cybersecurity:
The group guides clients across multiple industries through the myriad federal, state, and international laws governing the collection, use, transfer, and protection of data. Understanding the internal and external threats that clients face to their data and systems, the group provides end-to-end support, advising companies on risk mitigation, cybersecurity and privacy incidents, regulatory investigations, and litigation defence.

Tax & Employee Benefits:
Lawyers provide federal and state tax advice and representation in business transactions, controversies and litigation to domestic and foreign corporations and joint ventures. The practice encompasses all U.S. tax aspects of business dealings and all administrative and litigation forums. Clients benefit from the firm’s prior experience in positions with the U.S. government.

White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement:
With a powerful bench of former government prosecutors – including more than 20 DOJ and SEC attorneys – clients regularly turn to the group when the stakes are at the highest. The firm’s global footprint allows it to be nimble and provide a wide array of services, including government and internal investigations, criminal trials, corporate and individual crises, enforcement actions, and compliance issues. As an internationally recognized group, many companies, boards, and individuals turn to the team for a holistic and pragmatic view of how to approach their matters.