Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP

Managing Partner: Patricia Brown Holmes

Number of partners: 42

Number of lawyers: 99

Firm Overview:

Fortune 500 and other market-leading businesses turn to the elite trial teams and C-Suite advisors of Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP (RSHC) to resolve mission-critical legal matters and advance vital strategic initiatives. With a laser focus on their clients' business objectives, RSHC is known for providing proactive, pragmatic, and efficient counsel that yields favorable results.

A national, full-service, mid-size firm, RSHC punches above its weight in multiple nationally renowned areas of practice, including class actions, white collar defense and investigations, product liability and mass torts, commercial litigation, intellectual property, labor and employment, and business transactions. RSHC's lawyers practice in federal and state courts from coast to coast, with offices in New York, Chicago, Ann Arbor, San Francisco, and Los Angeles/Irvine, drawing on their deep knowledge of the unique characteristics of each of these markets to provide tailored business advising and legal counsel.

Noted by the Chambers Diversity & Inclusion Awards as “a true diversity and inclusion pioneer for the profession,” the firm draws from its authentic diversity to assemble bespoke teams for each engagement. This diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and experience yields legal strategies and business insights that create success in both the courtroom and the boardroom. At the same time, the firm's attorneys are united by a culture of excellence that is relentlessly client focused, dynamically innovative, and passionately committed to winning.

RSHC lawyers are regularly retained to resolve some of the most challenging, complex, and high-stakes legal issues facing clients today. Their litigation teams handle the full range of investigation and advocacy, from whistleblower allegations to government investigations, from pre-litigation demands to full-blown multi-district litigation, and from discrete internal disputes to substantial and public corporate crises. Clients rely on the firm's transactional attorneys to structure and negotiate their most sophisticated deals in real estate, finance, and other areas of business, including syndicated construction financing, airport concessions joint ventures, private equity acquisitions, asset dispositions, and many other significant transactions across the nation.

RSHC's bench of talent includes several attorneys who served in top roles in the legal departments of household-name companies and handled the panoply of matters that confront 21st century businesses: governance, regulatory, risk, expansion, competition, employment, compliance, intellectual property, transaction, and securities issues. The firm also includes several former Assistant United States Attorneys and state court prosecutors. One was an Illinois state judge. Another was First Deputy Chief of Staff and Public Safety for the City of Chicago. Another served as Deputy Corporation Counsel in charge of all City of Chicago litigation. These former public servants have judiciously exercised the power of the government and are well prepared to defend clients against it.

Deep experience with balancing the competing needs and priorities of various constituencies – customers, employees, investors, and regulators – informs RSHC’s approach to helping clients succeed. With nimble teams that hit the ground running and have a knack for executing bold strategies, RSHC delivers a winning difference.

OFFICES:

ILLINOIS

CHICAGO: 1 S. Dearborn St., Ste. 2200, 60603

Tel: 312 471 8700

Email: [email protected]

CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO: 456 Montgomery St., 16th Fl., 94104

Tel: 415 275 8550

LOS ANGELES/IRVINE:

100 Spectrum Center Dr., Ste. 650, 92618

Tel: 949 359 5500

NEW YORK

NEW YORK: 810 Seventh Ave, Ste. 3505, 10019

Tel: 212 660 1000

MICHIGAN

ANN ARBOR: 2723 S. State St., Ste. 150, 48104

Tel: 734 773 4900