Pillsbury

Managing Partner: Matthew Oresman

Number of partners: 19

Number of assistant solicitors: 20

Number of other fee-earners: 9

THE FIRM

Pillsbury is one of the world’s foremost law firms, advising Technology companies and their investors, as well as clients in the Energy & Infrastructure, Financial, Life Sciences & Digital Health, and other dynamic industries. From microchips to blue chips, Pillsbury advises clients ranging from entrepreneurs working out of a garage to the largest public and private companies. Pillsbury lawyers are known for their collaboration across disciplines, providing integrated offerings and authoritative commercial awareness. Operating across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the firm’s market-leading practices are consistently recognized for excellence by Chambers & Partners, Financial Times and other publications.

PRINCIPAL AREAS OF WORK

Technology, Media & Telecom: Pillsbury helps innovators, entrepreneurs and disruptors drive the innovation that changes our world. Our global Technology industry team brings together leading practitioners across all sectors, geographies, and disciplines to help clients emerge, adapt and advance in an ever-changing market. With more than 300 industry-focused lawyers across the United States, Europe and Asia, Pillsbury provides the comprehensive advice required to meet the progressive needs of technology companies around the world. In recent years, we have completed more than $400 billion in M&A transactions, over $20 billion in venture financings and nearly 100 IPOs.We have led in excess of 1,000 strategic outsourcing and technology transactions worth more than half a trillion dollars in contract value and filed approximately 30,000 patents for more than 1,000 clients—almost all of them technology companies.

Energy: Described as thought leaders in the modernization of energy and advanced technologies, our multidisciplinary industry group is working with clients to develop and harness new sources of power. As one of the few legal firms serving all industry fuel lines, our clients benefit from our lawyers’ comprehensive understanding of the commercial, political and technical issues specific to carbon-based fuels (fossil fuels and biobased fuels) and power (whether generated from hydrogen, gas, hydro, coal, nuclear or renewable sources). More than half of our work is cross-border in nature. We have advised on legal issues in more than 75 countries worldwide, assisting inbound clients on U.S. regulatory requirements as well as on projects in North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

Financial: Pillsbury has extensive experience in advising and representing financial institutions regarding the full spectrum of their business, from transactions to regulatory compliance issues to corporate operations. Pillsbury provides business-critical advice to a wide variety of financial institutions — from large multinational banks to local and regional banks to private equity and investment funds — headquartered around the world. Our broad industry experience spans all facets of compliance, transactional, corporate operations and litigation-related challenges encountered by financial services industry clients.

Life Sciences & Digital Health: Pillsbury possesses the legal experience, business acumen and scientific knowledge needed for Life Sciences & Digital Health companies to achieve a simple but profound goal—the radical improvement of health care outcomes for everyone. Advising on an array of transactional (corporate formation, startup funding, venture financing, IPOs, private investment in public equity, credit facilities, corporate governance, SEC compliance, licensing, collaborations, mergers and acquisitions), Intellectual Property (U.S. and international IP protection, patent filing and prosecution, trade secrets) and disputes matters, Pillsbury helps industry participants overcome hurdles, leverage opportunities and reach their full potential.

Real Estate & Construction: Pillsbury offers clients a team of more than 250 attorneys capable of addressing all facets of the Real Estate & Construction industry, in the United States and beyond. Offering in-depth market knowledge and a global reach, it is one of the few firms with the size and geographic footprint to handle the full range of Real Estate & Construction assignments, whether those are single asset deals in major metros, multijurisdictional portfolio transactions, large scale energy & infrastructure projects or complex litigation and disputes.