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DLA Piper LLP

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DLA Piper LLP

DLA Piper LLP

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Global Co-Chairs: Andrew Darwin and Frank W. Ryan

Co-Chief Executive Officers: Simon Levine and Frank W. Ryan

Number of partners: 1,700

Number of lawyers: 5,000

Languages: The firm speaks over 60 languages

Offices: Lawyers located in more than 60 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.

Further details can be found at www.dlapiper.com



Firm Overview:

Tenacious and driven, DLA Piper people translate legal complexities into commercial clarity: providing the right minds at the right time to help clients to navigate both risk and opportunity. Our lawyers deliverer pragmatic actionable solutions to your pressing business challenges, in every part of the globe, so you can understand, decide, and act.

Our people are as adept at spotting opportunities as they are in protecting you against risk. Our culture encourages fresh thinking, to anticipate what's next, supported by continuous investments in legal and business technology.

The result is joined-up legal counsel and informed commercial advice across multiple geographies and all sectors: creative solutions that draw on an international platform with the power to scale up and down, flexing to meet any client aspirations. We measure success one relationship at a time, serving you locally and in any location: we bring the world closer for our clients.


Main Areas of Practice:


Antitrust & EU Competition:

The firm helps clients find solutions to their antitrust and EU competition law needs around the world. The global team works closely and is able to provide a seamless service across multiple jurisdictions. It also works closely with the firm’s trade and global government relations practice, which gives it a unique perspective on the workings of governments and policymakers.


Commercial Contracts:

The firm provides commercial contract support for in-house legal teams and also handles major projects and business critical contracts for companies across sectors. The group’s advice covers all kinds of commercial agreements, including purchase and supply, partnering, agency and distribution, franchise, logistics and warehousing, facilities management, management arrangements, commercial outsourcing, joint ventures, partnerships and strategic alliances.


Construction:

The firm represents all the participants in the engineering and construction process — owners, contractors, design professionals, lenders and other supporting businesses. The team’s reach extends to the full range of construction projects and delivery methods and into all regions of the world.


Corporate:

The firm advises many of the world’s leading and emerging companies, as well as financial institutions and buyout and investment funds, on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, public and private equity and debt offerings, venture capital and private equity investments, and other transactional matters. It also advises on securities compliance, corporate governance, IT, tax, and executive compensation.


Employment, Pensions & Benefits:

The firm provides guidance through structural change; handles senior executive appointments and severance; manages employee relations, policy matters; works with councils; and handles trade union issues and disputes. The team advises on and litigates on equal employment opportunity and discrimination-based issues, and defends and prosecutes claims involving the protection of business assets and reputations.


Finance:

The firm advises on all aspects of financing across a broad range of sectors. The team has extensive experience acting for a full range of clients, including banks and arrangers, lenders, lead managers, venture capitalists, corporations, issuers, real estate trusts, funds, project developers, monoline insurers, trading houses, utilities, vendors, government entities, major airlines, shipowners, lessors, train operating companies and manufacturers, on an extensive range of cross-border and national deals.


Intellectual Property:

The firm develops asset management and protection strategies designed to help clients manage risk, continue growth and protect market share around the world. It understands the commercial issues and pressures that arise from IP disputes or related negotiations, and provides innovative and strategic solutions to deal with them.


International Trade:

The firm’s practice draws on an in-depth knowledge of both the law and the political landscape across multiple jurisdictions to provide effective global strategies for those engaged in international trade and investment. The team has an outstanding record of successfully advising companies, trade associations and governments on the full range of trade issues.


Litigation & Arbitration:

The firm’s global team understands the legal, business and procedural developments in jurisdictions around the world. It aims to reduce the uncertainties involved in commercial disputes through innovative dispute resolution strategies and effective case management.


Product Liability:

The firm handles complex multi-party, multijurisdictional cases in a wide variety of industries, including mass tort and class action litigation, and individual claims. The team’s international reach enables it to advise on laws and regulations as they relate to products wherever companies do business, and to coordinate its services in all the jurisdictions involved.


Projects & Infrastructure:

The firm represents commercial banks and investment banks, private equity funds, insurance companies, multilateral financing companies, export credit agencies, joint ventures, institutional investors, contractors, developers, sponsors, trustees, sovereigns and government agencies in a wide variety of matters. The team has participated in the development, financing, acquisition and operation of complex infrastructure projects on nearly every continent.


Real Estate:

This firm’s practice is the world’s largest and is consistently top-ranked around the world. A full range of services is offered in areas including acquisitions and disposals, construction, financing, hospitality and leisure, land use, planning and development, leasing, environmental law, insurance and tax.


Regulatory & Government Affairs:

The firm provides a complete service to address regulatory risk advice on rules and practice guidance, lobbying, corporate defence, compliance and crisis management. The team draws its experience from criminal defence lawyers, former regulators and government affairs advisors.


Restructuring:

The firm’s dedicated lawyers around the world work seamlessly to deliver innovative restructuring solutions locally and internationally. The team has in-depth experience advising on all matters relating to public and private companies in underperforming and distressed situations. It serves a diverse client base that includes debtors, lenders, government entities, trustees, shareholders, senior executives and distressed debt and asset buyers and investors.


Tax:

The firm advises on local and national tax as well as a commercially integrated approach to cross-border structures and tax efficiency. It offers the full range of tax services that address the challenges of international commerce and business operations, including arranging operations to reduce effective global tax rates, transfer pricing, tax disputes and post-acquisition integration.


Technology & Media:

The firm’s technology and sourcing practice advises on complex transactions and multi-party, high-value, project work, frequently spanning multiple jurisdictions. It focuses on the development, protection, exploitation and use of technology related assets through various stages of a company’s growth, as well as the sourcing of strategic assets and services for use in a company’s operations. The firm’s media practice counts many of the world’s largest, most high-profile entertainment and new media companies, sports bodies and major financial institutions as clients. It provides legal advice covering many areas, including: telecommunications, patents, trademarks, copyright, intellectual property, film financing, M&A, anticounterfeiting, e-business, sports litigation and privacy.


White Collar, Corporate Crime & Investigations:

The firm’s global practice comprises a team of partners and associates who focus on criminal, regulatory and compliance problems affecting major corporations, their officers and employees. It represents corporations, business entities and individuals at every stage of the business risk cycle — from legislative monitoring and lobbying; to developing proactive compliance programs and conducting internal audits and investigations, providing advice during criminal or regulatory investigations; and defending clients in court when necessary.

Ranked Offices

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UK - Head office
Australia
  • Brisbane
    Level 9, 480 Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, QLD 4000
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    Melbourne
    Level 21, 140 William Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, VIC 3000
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    Perth
    Level 21, 240 St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, WA 6000
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    Sydney
    Level 22, No1 Martin Place, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, NSW 2000
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Austria
Bahrain
  • Manama
    Office 701, Level 7, The Address Tower, Building 655, Road 3614, Block 436, Al Seef District, Manama, Bahrain, Bahrain
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Belgium
  • Brussels
    WOLSTRAAT - 70 – RUE AUX LAINES, Brussels, Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium, 1000
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China
  • Beijing
    20th Floor, South Tower, Beijing Kerry Center, No. 1 Guanghua Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, Beijing, China, 100020
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    Hong Kong
    25th Floor, Three Exchange Square 8 Connaught Place 15 Queen's Road Central , Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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    Shanghai
    36/F, Shanghai World Financial Center, 100 Century Avenue, Pudong, Shanghai, Shanghai, China, 200120
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Denmark
  • København
    Oslo Plads 2, 2100 København Ø, Denmark, København, Hovedstaden, Denmark, DK-1550
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Finland
France
Germany
Hungary
  • Budapest
    Csörsz u. 49-51., Budapest, Budapest, Capital City, Hungary, H-1124
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Ireland
  • Dublin
    The Greenway, Block C, Ardilaun Court, 112-114 St Stephen's Green, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, D02 TD28
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Italy
Japan
  • Tokyo
    Meiji Seimei Kan, 7F, 2-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Tokyo-to, Japan, 100-0005
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Luxembourg
  • Luxembourg
    37A, Avenue John F. Kennedy, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, L-1855
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Morocco
  • Casablanca
    Casa Marina Business Center, Tour Crystal 3, 2ème étage, Boulevard des Almohades, Casablanca, Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco, 20000
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Netherlands
  • Amsterdam
    Gebouw Meerparc, Amstelveenseweg 638, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands, 1081 JJ
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Norway
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
  • Doha
    PO Box 25800 Level 11, Alfardan Office Tower West Bay , Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar
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Romania
  • Bucharest
    Metropolis Center, 89-97 Grigore Alexandrescu Str., East Wing, 1st Floor, Sector 1, Bucharest, Bucureşti, Romania, 010624
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Saudi Arabia
  • Riyadh
    Suite #403A, Level 4, Centria Mall Office Tower Olaya Street, Al Olaya PO Box 300002 , Riyadh, Al Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 11372
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Singapore
  • Singapore
    80 Raffles Place, #48-01 UOB Plaza 1, Singapore, Singapore Island, Singapore, 048624
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South Africa
  • Sandton
    6th Floor, 61 Katherine Street, Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa, 2196
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South Korea
  • Seoul
    Foreign Legal Consultant Office, 32F, Mirae Asset Center 1, West Tower, 67, Suha-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, 100-210
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Spain
Sweden
  • Stockholm
    Sveavägen 4 PO Box 7315 , Stockholm, Stockholms Län, Sweden, SE-111 57
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Thailand
  • Bangkok
    47th Floor, Unit 4707 Empire Tower, 195 South Sathorn Road, Yannawa, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand, 10120
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UK
Undefined
United Arab Emirates
  • Abu Dhabi
    14-105, 14, Wework/Hub71 Al Khatem Tower Abu Dhabi Global Market Square Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, PO Box 109950
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    Dubai
    Level 9, Standard Chartered Tower Emaar Square PO Box 121662 , Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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James O'Donnell
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Portugal expertise based abroad
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