Milbank LLP

Firm Details:

Chairman:Scott A Edelman

Number of partners:231

Number of lawyers:979

Languages:Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish

Firm Overview:

For over 150 years, Milbank has provided innovative legal solutions in many of the world’s largest, most complex, “first-ever” corporate transactions and disputes. Milbank’s clients are prominent multinational financial, industrial and commercial enterprises, governments, institutions and individuals.

Main Areas of Practice:

Corporate Finance and Securities:

Milbank represents sellers, purchasers and financial intermediaries in international debt/equity offerings, derivatives/synthetic products, public utility financings, financial institution financings, project financing in capital markets, and domestic and foreign government financings.

Corporate/M&A/Private Equity:

Milbank counsels clients on negotiated and hostile transactions in mergers and consolidations, stock/asset acquisitions and dispositions, strategic alliances, joint ventures, proxy contests/tender offers, leveraged/management buyouts, restructurings/bankruptcy reorganizations, and corporate governance and executive compensation matters. The firm represents participants in private equity investing, structuring, negotiating, executing and financing private equity, “going-private,” recapitalizations and exit transactions.

Executive Compensation & Benefits:

Milbank advises on corporate transactions and financial restructurings, including advising the boards of directors and compensation committees on the design and implementation of compensation and change-in-control programs.

Financial Restructuring:

Milbank is recognized for its expertise in connection with the largest, most complex bankruptcies and reorganizations. The firm represents companies needing financial restructuring, creditor committees, financial institutions and hedge funds, lenders, equity security holders, acquirers, trustees and receivers.

Gaming & Hospitality:

Milbank has represented the world’s most well-known names in gaming and hospitality, private equity, restructuring, bankruptcy, private/public financings, joint ventures and long-term management deals. The firm represents lenders, bondholders, opportunity funds, private equity funds, management companies, institutional investors and owners of hotel, resort and gaming properties.

Global Leveraged Finance:

Milbank advises financial institutions, companies and private equity clients on leveraged transactions, including senior, subordinated/mezzanine debt transactions, bridge financings and high yield bond offerings. This group has experience structuring complex debt instruments used in multi-jurisdictional transactions, including financings for cross-border acquisitions and multi-currency credit facilities.

Latin America:

Milbank has extensive experience in project financing, capital markets, privatizations, mergers and acquisitions, debt-for-equity conversions, corporate and public sector restructurings, and banking and financial services in Latin America.

Litigation & Arbitration:

Our Litigation & Arbitration practice thrives on complex, challenging and high-stakes cases. We are market leaders in a broad range of litigation, arbitration, regulatory and investigation matters for sophisticated entities. Deploying teams of exceptional lawyers supported by the latest litigation technology, Milbank delivers best-in-class service and strategic, innovative and practical legal advice to clients. Our litigators have obtained numerous victories both in the United States and in major global hubs, leveraging extensive trial experience to assist high-profile companies, institutions and individuals facing a wide range of complex legal disputes.

Project, Energy & Infrastructure Finance:

Milbank represents leading players, such as debt and equity investors, private sponsors and government lenders, in the financing and development of the world’s most critical and pioneering infrastructure projects. Over the past few years, we have acted as legal advisor in almost 500 transactions that have raised almost $250 billion of capital for a wide variety of transactions, including power (renewable and conventional), oil/gas, energy, transportation (roads, airports, subways, ports) and other infrastructure projects.

Real Estate:

Milbank’s real estate group advises leading financial institutions, investment banks, private equity funds, hedge funds, pension funds, REITS and sovereign wealth funds. The group has extensive experience with complex deals including structuring, negotiating and closing all varieties of equity and debt transactions.

Structured Credit:

Milbank represents both lenders and borrowers in debt financings involving distressed credits, asset-based loans secured by illiquid pools of collateral and loans to private investment funds secured by specified investments and/or capital commitments.

Structured Finance & Securitizations:

Milbank advises on an array of non-traditional financial investments, products and strategies: specialty finance (including distressed and special situations investment), structured finance, derivatives/commodities, credit arbitrage, fund formation and institutional finance/private placements.

Supreme Court and Appellate:

Milbank advises on high stakes, bet-the-company appeals across a vast array of matters, including securities, privacy, employment, corporate, constitutional, financial services, labor, criminal, antitrust, intellectual property, bankruptcy and product liability law.

Tax:

Milbank’s tax lawyers are leaders in developing innovative financial products and arrangements for corporations raising and investing funds in the international capital markets and structures for mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and both majority and minority equity investments.

Technology & Outsourcing:

Milbank advises on technology acquisitions, equity investment and strategic alliances across the globe, including IPR licensing, open innovation, collaboration agreements and joint ventures. Milbank also represents clients in a broad range of outsourcing transactions – including deal structuring, risk transfer and contract management – involving AD&AM, networks, helpdesks, procurement, asset management, human resources, finance and accounting, and research.

Transportation & Space:

Milbank’s team delivers on deals that present first-time challenges and require unique insight in the aviation, shipping and container, rail, and space and satellite industries. We advise clients representing an international array of investment banks, manufacturers, export agencies, borrowers, lenders, lessors, lessees, equity participants, hedge funds and other investors.

Trusts, Estates & Exempt Organizations:

Milbank serves prominent individuals and institutions in estate planning, trust and estate administration and litigation, and charitable giving. This group advises institutional fiduciaries and exempt organizations.