Crowell & Moring LLP

Chair: Philip T Inglima

Number of partners: 269

Number of lawyers: 675

Drawing on significant government-facing, in-house, industry, and private practice experience, the firm provides clients with creative solutions to complex litigation, regulatory and policy, corporate and transactional, and intellectual property issues.

Regulatory & Policy Department

Crowell helps businesses across nearly every industry navigate the complex and shifting regulatory landscape. More than 100 of the firm’s lawyers are former government officials and prosecutors who have held pivotal positions in U.S. and international agencies where they drafted, negotiated, and implemented critical regulations that impact business across industries. They use that experience to provide clients with valuable compliance and enforcement insights on the context and impact of government regulations and policies.

• Antitrust & Competition: The firm’s deep bench of trial lawyers routinely represents industry-leading companies in defense of antitrust claims, and in pursuit of affirmative recoveries when clients have been victims of price-fixing conspiracies. The antitrust transactions practice has handled some of the largest and most complex mergers and acquisitions in recent history.
• Artificial Intelligence: Working at the convergence of law, technology, and business, Crowell & Moring helps clients develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategies that maximize competitive advantage while minimizing potential exposure. We advise businesses and organizations in every part of the AI ecosystem on the full range of regulatory, corporate, IP, and litigation issues raised by the creation and use of this technology.
• Environment, Energy, & Natural Resources: With more than three decades of experience, the group provides solutions spanning the range of environmental, energy, and natural resource issues. The firm has a national reputation for successfully shaping regulatory policies and litigating disputes for clients in the mining, oil and gas, agriculture, alternative energy, defense, health and safety, and consumer products sectors.
• Government Affairs: Crowell has been involved in federal lobbying and government affairs consulting since the firm’s inception over 43 years ago. Our lawyers, lobbyists, and policy professionals have worked for U.S. Senators and members of the House of Representatives, and served as senior political appointees and career professionals in the Executive Branch. They also have worked in-house for Fortune 500 companies and trade associations and served as trusted advisors to C-suite executives.
• Government Contracts: For more than 40 years, Crowell has set the standard in this highly complex arena. The firm’s practice is one of the largest and most reputable in the United States and internationally. It offers a full range of counseling, investigation, litigation, and transactional services covering every facet of government contracting. Companies of all sizes from diverse industries turn to the group for its unrivaled depth and success.
• Healthcare: Crowell’s healthcare practice offers clients a full range of services, including litigation, fraud and abuse, government investigations, antitrust, data privacy, digital health, government affairs, and corporate transactions. The team represents all of the nation’s top health plans and many of the nation’s leading health care providers, as well as managed care companies, pharmacy benefit managers, academic medical centers, established and start-up medical device/biotech companies and technology companies entering into the health care space.
• International Trade: Crowell’s global team of lawyers and trade professionals leverage experience from government and in-house roles to provide comprehensive and practical advice on international trade laws and regulations to companies in a wide array of industries. The team advises clients on every aspect of international trade, including customs, trade remedies, export controls, sanctions and embargoes, anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, foreign investment, global mobility and the movement of people, and human rights and forced labor.
• Labor & Employment: Crowell helps leading global companies build and manage the workforce of the future by navigating employment laws throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The firm advises on the full spectrum of labor and employment issues, including pay equity analyses and related reporting; sensitive personnel investigations and whistleblower retaliation matters; high-stakes employment discrimination claims; racial equity audits, civil rights audits, and ESG issues; traditional labor issues relating to union matters; wage and hour matters; recruiting practices involving artificial intelligence; and managing a remote workforce.
• Privacy & Cybersecurity: The group advises 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 advises companies on risk mitigation, cybersecurity and privacy incidents, regulatory investigations, and litigation defense.

Litigation & Trial Department

Over one-third of Fortune 100 companies turn to Crowell for their litigation and trial needs. The foundation of the firm’s work is understanding each client's business and goals from the inside out. That knowledge allows firm litigators to develop effective strategies that mitigate legal risk, anticipate regulatory challenges, and successfully navigate market forces. That’s why when the stakes are highest, clients trust Crowell to handle their most critical disputes and achieve the best solutions for their business.

• Education: Today’s educational institutions face complex, interconnected challenges that demand a comprehensive and collaborative approach. Crowell & Moring’s Education Practice brings together a diverse team of attorneys with expertise across multiple disciplines, including government contracts, intellectual property, labor and employment, investigations, and privacy and cybersecurity. Our interdisciplinary approach enables us to provide colleges, universities, academic medical centers, public and independent schools, and other educational institutions with knowledgeable and solution-oriented guidance to help navigate the intricate landscape of education law. By combining our deep understanding of the education sector with experience from across the firm, we deliver innovative solutions that address the multifaceted legal, operational, financial, and regulatory challenges these institutions face.
• International Dispute Resolution: Organizations with cross-border interests turn to the Crowell for end-to-end advice on the full range of business and governmental disputes worldwide. From commercial and investor state arbitration to litigation and beyond, our team has the legal skills and firsthand knowledge of international markets, local business and legal customs, venues, cultures, and languages necessary to resolve complex and high-stakes disputes across the globe.
• Investigations: Regulatory, law-enforcement, and internal investigations can pose significant challenges. They can also serve as a means to demonstrate and defend compliant behavior, establish credibility, identify and remediate potential issues, and mitigate potential legal, financial, and reputational exposure. Efficient, battle-tested, and possessing extensive regulatory, law enforcement, and industry experience, our 40+ member global Investigations Practice has defended clients in matters across more than 80 countries.
• Recovery: When businesses are victimized by the illegal acts of competitors, vendors, or strategic partners—or are overcharged by U.S. or foreign governments—they must walk a fine line in their reactions. An inadequate response can mean the loss of substantial amounts of money and a failure to represent the interests of shareholders. Acting too quickly or aggressively can threaten important relationships with suppliers, customers, and other business partners, as well as with international, federal, and state regulatory agencies.
• White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement: Firm lawyers have successfully defended and counseled clients around the world in connection with all manner of government investigations, criminal trials, regulatory enforcement actions, and internal investigations. The team includes numerous former prosecutors and enforcement attorneys from the Department of Justice, the Office of Independent Counsel, U.S. Attorney’s Offices, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Transactions Department

Crowell advises clients on complex corporate and securities, M&A, joint venture, financing, tax governance, and compliance matters. The firm represents international and domestic public and private companies, mid-sized and emerging businesses, privately-held firms, private equity sponsors and hedge funds, and investment firms. The firm’s transactional lawyers provide guidance on asset management, commercial finance and lending, commercial transactions, fintech, derivatives, distressed debt trading, and bankruptcy, restructuring, and creditors rights.

• Corporate: We offer a full-service corporate practice covering complex corporate and securities, M&A transactional, governance, and compliance matters. A multidisciplinary approach means we handle a broad range of matters, including providing regulatory guidance and, when necessary, avoiding and resolving disputes. Our lawyers have deep industry knowledge, and we know the agencies that regulate industry.
• Financial Services: Financial institutions worldwide trust the firm to support them on transactional, regulatory, and contested matters so they can protect their operations and maximize their assets. Firm lawyers represent financial companies in overcoming legal and business obstacles, from traditional financial institutions to venture capital, hedge funds, and private equity firms to fintech companies and start‐ups.
• Tax & Employee Benefits: Crowell provides U.S. federal and state tax advice and representation in all types of business transactions, as well as tax controversies and litigation. Firm lawyers have deep knowledge of all aspects of IRS and state administrative proceedings and clients benefit from the prior government experience many firm lawyers have with the Department of Justice Tax Division, and IRS Office of Chief Counsel.

Intellectual Property Department

Crowell’s team of lawyers, patent agents, and scientific advisors helps clients realize the full value of their intellectual property. The firm helps companies and entrepreneurs protect, commercialize and bring new innovations to market, compete in the increasingly data-driven economy, mitigate risk, resolve disputes, and navigate a dynamic regulatory environment. Many of the IP team’s lawyers have earned advanced degrees in key scientific and technological disciplines.

• Advertising & Brand Protection: Clients rely on firm lawyers to apply their industry know-how and proven experience to their advertising campaigns, brand content production, and media investments. The firm advises clients at every stage of the advertising production and distribution life cycle, including campaign ideation, talent negotiation (including SAG/AFTRA), content clearance and licensing, and media strategy and placement.
• Patents: Crowell’s internationally recognized patents team offers a complete range of services that enable clients to navigate complex patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret issues across the spectrum of business operations. We see IP—and all of the work required to protect it—as a means to greater ends. As a result, our counsel is tied directly to each client’s overall mission and business strategies.