Husch Blackwell LLP

Chief Executive: Jamie Lawless

Chair: Joe Glynias

Number of partners: 389

Number of lawyers: 861

Firm Overview:

Husch Blackwell is not just a law firm; we are a dynamic team of legal professionals who prioritize our clients' success above all else. Our approach goes beyond legal proficiency; we immerse ourselves in our clients' worlds, ensuring that every strategy we develop is aligned with their goals.

By proactively organizing our firm around our clients’ industries (instead of our own legal practices) and building multi-disciplinary teams, we empower our attorneys to stay entrenched in each industry’s unique trends and collaboratively craft solutions that are custom-tailored to each client’s challenges. We supplement these cross-functional teams with nonbillable support, providing additional value, heightened service, and creative ideas that help clients stay ahead of what’s next.

Everything we do traces back to people—our clients, communities and colleagues. This commitment to putting people first has stayed with us for over a century, through strategic mergers and expansion aimed at making ourselves available where our clients need us most. With our recent growth into Los Angeles (2021), the San Francisco Bay Area (2021), Boston (2021), Providence (2021), Minneapolis (2023), and Nashville (2024), we now have more than 20 offices nationwide, including our virtual office, The Link, ensuring that we are always within reach.

Main Areas of Practice:

• Banking & Finance
• Benefits & Compensation
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate, M&A & Securities
• Education
• Energy & Natural Resources
• Environmental
• Financial Services & Capital Markets
• Food Systems
• Government Compliance, Investigations & Litigation
• Government Contracts
• Healthcare Regulatory
• Insolvency
• Intellectual Property
• Labor & Employment
• Mass Tort & Product Liability
• Private Wealth
• Public Policy, Regulatory & Government Affairs
• Real Estate, Development & Construction
• Tax
• Tax Credit Finance

Energy & Natural Resources:

From established companies to innovative startups, our energy and natural resources industry team advises clients across a variety of operations, including renewable energy, biofuels, electric transmission, and mining and minerals. The team includes former regulatory commissioners and legislators who have led key energy policies and initiatives. The firm’s attorneys have extensive experience guiding companies in multiple jurisdictions and across national boundaries through the complex business and regulatory issues that define the industry’s operating landscape.

Contact: Anna Kimbrell

Email: [email protected]

Financial Services & Capital Markets:

Husch Blackwell’s financial services and capital markets industry team represents clients across the financial industry, from large regional banks, insurance companies and credit unions to middle-market private equity groups and private wealth managers. The firm handles complex transactions, such as M&A, tax-credit financings, public offerings, restructurings, syndicated loans, and asset-based lending, as well as routine bank transactions that require speed and efficiency. The firm also represents a multitude of companies outside the financial sector seeking capital or engaging in corporate transactions.

Contact: Sverre Roang

Email: [email protected]

Food Systems:

From family farms to multinational companies, Husch Blackwell’s food systems industry team has earned a stellar reputation as a go-to law firm capable of handling virtually any legal issue impacting the industry. The firm’s footprint largely overlaps with that of America’s most fertile and productive farmland, and this has led to its involvement in most of the trends shaping the industry, including the emergence of precision agriculture, genetically modified crops, and animal health advancements, as well as the emergence of new areas of growth and investment, including cannabis.

Contact: Steve Levine

Email: [email protected]

Healthcare & Life Sciences:

Husch Blackwell provides full-service legal representation for a variety of healthcare and life sciences businesses, including hospital systems, pharmacies, physician groups, academic medical centers, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and biotechnology companies. The firm handles mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, private equity investments, regulatory compliance, Medicaid reimbursement issues, technology transfer, restructuring, and a variety of litigation.

Contact: Curt Chase

Email: [email protected]

Real Estate, Development & Construction:

The firm’s principal areas of focus include corporate real estate—including portfolio management, campus planning and development, and facilities operations— as well as real estate investment and funds, development incentives and tax credits, arenas and stadiums, public-private partnerships, levee and flood protection, and construction. The firm’s clients range from local/regional contractors, developers, and governments to global companies with vast real estate portfolios.

Contact: Jonathan Giokas

Email: [email protected]

Technology, Manufacturing & Transportation:

The firm’s TMT industry team counsels companies that comprise a broad swathe of the ‘real’ economy, those that provide the goods and services we all depend on. From incubator-stage start-ups to multinational giants, its clients turn to it for advice on business and legal issues at every point of their operations, including business formation and finance, supply chain and logistics, international trade, intellectual property protection, corporate transactions, environmental, labor and employment, regulatory and government affairs, and toxic tort and product liability litigation.

Contact: Jeffrey Sigmund

Email: [email protected]