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DLA Piper LLP (US)

Global 2023
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Americas Chair, Global Co-Chair and Global Co-CEO: Frank Ryan
Americas Co-Managing Partners: Rick Chesley and Jackie Park
Chief Operating Officer: Bob Bratt
Number of partners worldwide: 1,621
Number of lawyers worldwide: 3,792
Languages: More than 60 languages

Firm Overview:
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, positioning the firm to help clients with their legal needs around the world.

The firm has lawyers in more than 25 offices across the United States with local and national experience. DLA Piper core practices in the US include corporate and finance; employment; government affairs; intellectual property and technology; litigation and arbitration; real estate; and tax. The firm strives to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value to clients. This is achieved through practical and innovative legal solutions that help the firm’s clients.

DLA Piper represents many of the world’s leading companies across industries, as well as emerging businesses, financial institutions, and professional firms. The firm’s work encompasses the country’s major business, financial, and technology centers.

Responsible Business and Pro Bono:
Different sectors and geographies face different sustainability challenges, and the firm provides clients with a clear understanding of how, by working with DLA Piper, the firm is enabling them to take climate action or make progress on diversity or business and human rights.

DLA Piper is deeply committed to pro bono. Efforts focus on three areas: the rights of children, access to justice and the rule of law, and assisting asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless people. New Perimeter is the firm’s nonprofit affiliate that provides long-term pro bono legal assistance in under-served regions around the world.

Diversity & Inclusion:
DLA Piper’s drive to establish growth and create forward-looking opportunities is evidenced by the firm’s active D&I team. Firm resources − including Professional Development, Marketing and Recruiting departments − are aligned to actively support the implementation of Practice Group Diversity and Inclusion Action Plans. Plans are tailored to each group’s unique D&I priorities, needs and culture, demonstrating how each group would focus on such goals as advancement, retention, and equitable utilization of team expertise.

Main Areas of Practice:
Corporate
DLA Piper supports the world’s leading enterprises, emerging startup companies and financial institutions in their development and investment activities. The firm assists clients through all stages of their transactions to ensure successful deal outcomes.

Finance:
DLA Piper advises on all aspects of financing, across borders, sectors, and financial products. This includes sharing knowledge and skills in deals involving, for example, lending and borrowing, debt securities, derivatives, funds, portfolios and FinTech solutions, as well as energy, infrastructure, and other projects.

Employment:
DLA Piper's global employment practice advises clients worldwide on employment legislation, helping them meet their workforce objectives.

Regulatory and Government Affairs:
DLA Piper's Regulatory and Government Affairs team provides advice at all stages of the regulatory process. The firm focuses on areas such as international trade, antitrust and competition, global governance and more. Firm lawyers and policy professionals often work across borders and practice groups in interdisciplinary teams, ensuring the most efficient and effective results for its clients.

Intellectual Property and Technology:
DLA Piper is one of the most widely recognized providers of a full range of commercial, intellectual property law, privacy, sourcing, and technology law services for leading businesses worldwide. The firm helps clients from emerging technology and pharmaceutical companies to established banks and financial institutions achieve their objectives wherever they do business.

Litigation, Arbitration, and Investigations:
DLA Piper's lawyers are skilled in litigation, arbitration, investigations, and ADR and will deploy that experience to help you devise the best strategies. The firm has the local knowledge to apply the regulatory, economic, political, and cultural context to legal issues and develop case strategies.

Real Estate:
DLA Piper's market-leading real estate group offers a full range of real estate services, including single asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, single asset and multi-property/programmatic joint ventures, fund formation, operating company investments, cross-border investments, REITs, financing, construction and design, leasing, zoning/land-use, environmental law, real estate litigation and tax.

Tax:
DLA Piper provides the full range of tax services that address the complex challenges of international commerce and business operations as well as manage and resolve tax disputes.

Sectors:
DLA Piper has 10 global and one US-focused sectors. The firm’s sector approach is critical to tackling the needs of clients and is a key reason why companies seeking a strategic partner in the legal arena turn to DLA Piper.

Ranked Offices

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USA - Head office
Argentina
  • Buenos Aires
    Torre Catalinas Plaza Av. Eduardo Madero 900. Piso 16 , Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina, C1106ACV
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Chile
  • Santiago de Chile
    El Golf 150, 10th Floor, Las Condes, Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 7550107
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Mexico
  • Mexico City
    Paseo de las Palmas 405-1901 Col. Lomas de Chapultepec , Mexico City, Ciudad de México, Mexico, 11000
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Peru
Puerto Rico
  • San Juan
    Ochoa Building, 500 Calle de la Tanca, Suite 401, San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00901-1969
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USA
  • Austin
    303 Colorado Street, Suite 3000, Austin, Texas, USA, TX 78701-4653
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    Boston
    33 Arch Street, 26th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, MA 02110-1447
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    Chicago
    444 W. Lake Street, Suite 900, Chicago, Illinois, USA, IL 60606-0089
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    Dallas
    1717 Main Street, Suite 4600, Dallas, Texas, USA, TX 75201-4629
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    Los Angeles
    2000 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 400 North Tower, Los Angeles, California, USA, CA 90067-4704
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    New York
    1251 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, USA, NY 10020-1104
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    San Diego
    4365 Executive Drive, Suite 1100, San Diego, California, USA, CA 92121-2133
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    San Diego
    401 B Street, Suite 1700, San Diego, California, USA, CA 92101-4297
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    Silicon Valley
    2000 University Avenue, Silicon Valley, California, USA, CA 94303-2214
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    Washington, DC
    500 Eighth Street, NW, Washington, DC, District of Columbia, USA, 20004
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DLA Piper LLP (US) rankings

Global Guide 2023
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Africa-wide
Investment Funds
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
1
Mara Topping
1
Band 1
Argentina
Banking & Finance
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Banking & Finance
3
Banking & Finance
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Marcelo Etchebarne
2
Marcelo Etchebarne
2
Band 2
Justo Segura
4
Justo Segura
4
Band 4
International & Cross-Border Capabilities
1 Department
Department
International & Cross-Border Capabilities
International & Cross-Border Capabilities
Spotlight
Chile
Corporate/M&A
2 Ranked Lawyers
Lawyers
4
Matías Zegers
4
Band 4
5
Marco Salgado
5
Band 5
Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded
1 Department
Department
Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded
1
Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded
1
Band 1
Tax
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
4
Rodrigo Álvarez
4
Band 4
Israel
Corporate/M&A: International Firms
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Corporate/M&A: International Firms
2
Corporate/M&A: International Firms
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Jeremy Lustman
USA expertise based abroad
Japan
Real Estate
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
Michael Haworth
USA expertise based abroad
Latin America - International Counsel
Arbitration (International)
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
4
Gabriela Alvarez-Avila
4
Band 4
Corporate/M&A
1 Department
Department
Corporate/M&A
4
Corporate/M&A
4
Band 4
Mexico
Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
3
Gabriela Alvarez-Avila
3
Band 3
Energy & Natural Resources
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
3
Marcelo Páramo Fernández
3
Band 3
Peru
Banking & Finance
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Banking & Finance
4
Banking & Finance
4
Band 4
Lawyers
3
Sergio Barboza
3
Band 3
Capital Markets
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Capital Markets
3
Capital Markets
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Nelly Espinoza
Star Associates
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