Fenwick

Firm Chairman: Richard L. Dickson

Managing Partner: Rodger R. Cole

Number of partners: 129

Number of lawyers: 478

Languages: Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Cantonese, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Taiwanese, Tamil, Toisan, Turkish, Urdu

For more than 50 years, Fenwick has helped some of the world’s most recognized companies become, and remain, market leaders. From emerging enterprises to large public corporations, our clients are leaders in the technology and life sciences sectors and are fundamentally changing the world through rapid innovation. With the same passion for excellence and innovation reflected in our client base, our firm is making revolutionary changes to the practice of law through substantial investments in proprietary technology tools and processes. Our clients demand—and deserve—new ways to receive best-in-class legal services more effectively. At Fenwick, we are proud to be shaping our legal services to do just that.​​​​​​

Corporate

• Capital Markets
• Compensation & Benefits
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Venture
• ESG & Sustainability
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Private Investment Funds
• Public Companies
• SPACs
• Startup & Venture Capital

Intellectual Property

• Copyright
• Patents & Emerging Technologies
• Privacy & Cybersecurity
• Technology Transactions
• Trademark

Litigation

• Appellate
• Commercial Litigation
• Consumer Class Actions & Mass Arbitration
• Copyright Litigation
• Employment
• Patent Litigation
• Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) Proceedings
• Securities Enforcement
• Securities Litigation
• Trade Secret Litigation
• Trademark Litigation
• White Collar & Regulatory Defense

Regulatory

• Antitrust & Competition
• Government Contracts & Public Sector Procurement
• Healthcare Regulatory
• Payment Systems
• Trade & National Security

Tax

Industry Focus:

• Advanced Transportation & Robotics
• AI & Machine Learning
• Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
• Climatetech
• Consumer Technologies & Retail
• Defense Innovation & Govtech
• Digital Media & Entertainment
• Fintech
• Games
• Hardware
• Healthtech
• Insurtech
• Life Sciences
• Semiconductors
• Software
• Space & Aerotech

Corporate:

Recognized among America's most trusted corporate law firms, Fenwick partners with pioneering technology and life sciences companies at all stages of development—from promising early startups to the world’s best-known publicly traded corporations. Our lawyers are recognized for practical legal and business guidance, focusing on startups and venture capital, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation and benefits and corporate governance. We represent companies, including buyers and sellers, founders, executives and investors. Collaborating across offices and disciplines, our teams work with clients on transformative transactions involving cutting-edge technologies including those related to enterprise software, SaaS/cloud, security, consumer tech, digital media and gaming, digital health and life sciences. The group has regularly been ranked in the highest tiers by Chambers USA and The Legal 500 for our capital markets, M&A, technology transactions, venture capital and startups and emerging companies work. Fenwick was also named one of the world’s most active venture capital law firms according to PitchBook’s Global League Tables.

Intellectual Property:

Fenwick's commercially savvy intellectual property lawyers partner with companies at all stages of their lifecycle to create, monetize, manage and protect their most valuable intellectual property assets to further in the context of their key business objectives. Our IP counseling, transactions and prosecution professionals represent many of the world’s most innovative technology and life sciences companies—from developers of futuristic life-prolonging technologies to those that are investing in the next wave of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, automation and robotics products and tools. We also collaborate closely with our corporate, litigation and tax teams to deliver full-service strategic advice. Fenwick’s intellectual property group is regularly recognized by leading publications for its novel work. Managing Intellectual Property named Fenwick the U.S. Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year (2023 & 2022), Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year for the western U.S. (2022 & 2021), U.S. Trademark Prosecution Firm of the Year and Trademark Prosecution Firm of the Year for the western U.S. for the third time in four years (2021 & 2020). In addition, Fenwick has been regularly named a leading U.S. firm for intellectual property, patent and privacy and data security work by Chambers Global and Chambers USA.

Litigation:

Fenwick’s litigation group helps our clients, from startups to market leaders, navigate complex, multi-jurisdiction disputes. Our technology-based clients — including leaders in the Internet, computer hardware and software, digital media and entertainment, semiconductor, biotechnology and medical device industries — routinely call upon us to handle their most critical disputes. To meet the needs of these clients, we invest heavily to ensure we understand the businesses and technologies behind their products, services and inventions. As one of the leading firms for trademark enforcement and litigation as well as copyright, securities and commercial litigation, Fenwick is frequently honored for our work in these areas by leading publications including Chambers USA, Managing Intellectual Property and World Trademark Review.

Regulatory:

Fenwick’s regulatory group comprises leaders in antitrust, government contracts, cross-border trade and national security law. We guide innovative and oftentimes pioneering companies, both emerging and established, through a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape at the state, national and international levels. The regulatory team’s advice and counsel is integrated closely with each client’s overall legal strategy and business objectives, on specific regulatory matters and as a component of a transaction or dispute. We also work with clients on regulatory strategic planning, including building and strengthening internal compliance programs, so they are well-positioned for healthy competition and growth in domestic and global markets.

Tax:

Fenwick’s tax group is consistently recognized for broad, deep and current knowledge of technical tax rules, combined with practical solutions for clients. We have extensive experience in domestic and international tax planning, offering comprehensive advice for international operations and transactions and applying U.S. tax rules to cross-border transactions. Fenwick is also nationally recognized for successful tax dispute resolution and litigation. The tax group’s exciting and sophisticated practice stems from its client base, which represents every geographic area of the U.S., as well as a number of countries across the globe. The team, which has represented well over 50 Fortune 100 companies in major federal tax matters, is recognized as a top tax practice for excellence in domestic and international tax work by Chambers USA and Chambers Global.

Fenwick routinely handles corporate transactions, venture capital financings, licensing transactions and litigation, as well as intellectual property, trademark and tax matters in foreign jurisdictions for its U.S. clients. We have particular expertise in the intellectual property issues related to outsourcing. Fenwick represents a growing number of technology companies throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East on U.S.-related transactions. Our China practice provides corporate, intellectual property and tax expertise including structuring and financings of China-based businesses, cross-border mergers, acquisitions and the representation of U.S. companies investing and doing business in China. With a designated Israel practice, Fenwick has strong ties with Israeli companies, both public and private. We also have a long history of representing U.S.-based companies on their investments in and acquisitions of Israel-based startups, as well as Israeli startups and companies with Israeli branches in their acquisitions by U.S.-based companies.

Contacts:

Corporate Group: Alan C. Smith

Intellectual Property Group: Rajiv P. Patel

Litigation Group: Jedediah Wakefield

Tax Group: Larissa B. Neumann