Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Managing Partner: Graciela Gomez Cowger

Number of lawyers: 160+

Offices Portland, Bend, and Salem, Oregon; Seattle and Vancouver, Washington; Mountain View, California; and Anchorage, Alaska.

Schwabe is a Pacific Northwest law firm that offers a new type of client experience based ‎on a ‎deep industry focus. We provide a wide range of legal services to our clients through ‎‎‎comprehensive, ‎proactive, and industry-focused advice to help them achieve their goals. We ‎‎focus onseven industry sectors: Real ‎‎Estate and ‎Construction; Consumer Products, Manufacturing, and Retail; Indian Country and Alaska Native Corporations; Healthcare and Life Sciences; Technology; Natural Resources; and Ports and Maritime.

Business & Corporate 

We regularly serve as outside general counsel, advising clients in all areas of business law, including formation and choice of entity, mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions, corporate finance and securities, capital markets, governance and corporate responsibility, international business, and privacy and data security. We also understand that many of our clients’ challenges and opportunities involve multiple, overlapping legal issues. We work closely with attorneys from our other service areas to provide solutions that address a broad range of matters.

Corporate Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Litigation 

With decades of experience devising creative solutions and its breadth of industry resources, Schwabe is one of the Pacific Northwest’s leading corporate restructuring and Chapter 11 bankruptcy firms.

At Schwabe, our attorneys understand the Pacific Northwest’s business climate. This local knowledge coupled with our firmly established credibility among the bankruptcy bar and experience with companies facing restructuring, insolvency, or a business partner’s insolvency, ensures our clients receive practical and action-oriented advice.

Employment 

From quick legal questions on daily human resources operations to holistic counsel on transformational business events like major transactions and executive hires or departures, our employment lawyers help clients manage and adapt to the changing world of work with added confidence.

Environmental & Natural Resource Regulation 

As ‎environmental laws and regulations become more complex and demanding, ‎our team’s broad range of skills and experience can provide businesses ‎with important legal advice for compliance, permitting and more.‎

We ‎advise clients on issues such as handling and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes, health and safety regulations, permitting (stormwater, process water, ‎air emissions, health and safety), investigation and remediation of contaminated properties, ‎and regulatory enforcement actions with state and federal agencies.

Intellectual Property 

Schwabe helps clients create, build, and protect the value of intellectual property. Paired with deep industry experience, Schwabe offers a full arsenal of proactive and defensive strategies and tactics for prized intellectual assets. Ours is a track record of client relationships that outperform expectations for service and deliver results in ways not imagined possible.

Litigation 

To be represented by Schwabe means you have a deep bench of powerful advocates who are resourceful, creative, and fully engaged in guiding your case. Schwabe’s litigation practice is widely recognized and respected in the Pacific Northwest. Many of our professionals and lawyers litigate and practice across industries.

Land Use & Development 

Schwabe is a leading land use law firm in the Northwest, committed to helping clients navigate the complex web of regulations and maximize the value and utility of their investments. Our land use development lawyers work cooperatively with local governments and state and federal agencies to find innovative solutions to a myriad of land use development permitting challenges. When speaking softly proves insufficient, we have the experience and skills to wield the “big stick” of litigation with precision and effectiveness.

Real Estate 

Known as one of the Northwest’s premier real estate firms, we represent clients in all aspects of development, financing, ownership and disposition of commercial, industrial and office properties. Our focus is on what needs to happen—and what does not need to happen—to achieve client goals and complete a transaction effectively.

Tax & Estate Planning 

Taxes are a given. We handle them with the skill and dedication to our clients’ interests that allows clients to focus on other important matters. Our tax lawyers provide goal-oriented tax, trust, and estate planning services to for-profit and nonprofit corporations, limited liability companies, professional corporations, partnerships, trusts, and estates, as well as individuals. Much of our work involves protecting family legacies through thoughtful succession planning.

Industry Group Leaders 

Consumer Products, Manufacturing & Retail | Mike Cohen

Healthcare & Life Sciences | Anne Talcott

Indian Country and Alaska Native Corporations | Connie Sue Martin / Christopher Slottee

Natural Resources | Ryen Godwin

Ports & Maritime | Noah Jarrett

Real Estate & Construction | Kenneth Katzaroff

Technology | Stephen Sullivan