Nixon Peabody LLP

CEO & Managing Partner: Stephen D Zubiago
Number of lawyers: 650

Firm Overview:
Nixon Peabody sees the law as a tool to help shape the future for its clients and its communities. Nixon Peabody’s lawyers navigate businesses through today’s exciting and challenging times, foresee obstacles, and ensure they are equipped with winning legal strategies. The firm is driven by an extreme understanding of its clients and their industries, and a forward-thinking culture that taps collective intelligence and connects networks to create value for clients. NP provides counsel on the full range of corporate transactions, disputes, and regulatory challenges.

Main Areas of Practice:
Affordable Housing:
National leaders in affordable housing development and preservation for more than 40 years. Lawyers and advisors from HUD, the IRS and state housing agencies cut through complex regulations and keep developments moving forward.

Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring:
Focused on protecting and preserving value for companies in distress, protecting creditor interests and uncovering investment opportunities that involve troubled assets—all with a focus on future growth.

Business & Finance:
Collaborating across multiple disciplines and geographies on financing municipal and infrastructure projects, M&A, public offerings, innovative financing structures, long-term tax planning strategies and new business strategies.

Data Privacy & Cybersecurity:
A national practice focused on preventing attacks through proactive mitigation programs, monitoring and detecting potential cyber risks and responding to breaches and other adverse events.

Energy:
Award-winning counsel on financing, development, siting and permitting, regulatory compliance, M&A, divestitures and operating agreements for both traditional and renewable energy assets.

Food, Beverage & Agriculture:
National team working with clients across all industry segments to leverage opportunities and build the food, beverage and agribusiness brands of the future.

Franchise & Distribution:
A recognized leader in national and global franchising, comprised of lawyers with extensive knowledge across a multitude of industries advising franchisors on all aspects of franchising.

Government Investigations & White-Collar Defense:
National team with extensive proficiency in counselling, investigating and litigating all forms of government inquiry.

Health Care:
National Health Care team delivering innovative legal solutions to clients navigating the regulatory environment, evolving delivery and payment systems, reimbursement programs, shrinking capital sources and other competitive pressures.

Intellectual Property:
IP lawyers with strong technical backgrounds and insightful industry-specific business knowledge strategically manage patent portfolios, advise fashion and entertainment clients on trends impacting brands and vigorously defend IP rights.

Labor & Employment:
National team offering services ranging from employment counselling and litigation to organized labor, audits, training, ERISA, immigration and employee benefits.

Life Sciences:
National cross-practice team providing legal solutions in biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device and digital space while sensing ahead to maintain clients’ innovative advantage.

Litigation:
National counsel, co-national counsel and regional counsel representing clients in federal and state courts, the US Supreme Court and the US Courts of Appeals.

M&A:
Representing companies, nonprofits, private equity and venture capital funds and family offices in sophisticated strategic transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital financing, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and other complex transactions.

Private Clients:
Providing comprehensive and practical estate and tax planning strategies for families and their assets. Serving individuals and families, businesses, banks and trust companies, charitable organizations and executors and trustees nationwide.

Private Equity & Investment Funds:
Advising middle-market investors, funds, family offices and portfolio companies on fund formation, transactions, litigation and executive compensation. The firm sources and refers proprietary deals through NP Capital Connector®.

Public Finance:
Recognized for innovative counsel in public works and infrastructure, including P3 projects. Ranked consistently among the ten most active bond, underwriters and disclosure counsel in dollar value of bonds issued.

Real Estate:
Assisting clients nationally with real estate acquisitions and dispositions, development, leasing, financing, restructuring and workouts, foreign investment, joint ventures and land use.

Tax Credit Finance & Syndication:
National leaders in structuring transactions involving the new markets tax credit, and tax credits leveraged for historic rehabilitation, renewable energy projects and development of low-income housing.

International:
Sought after counsel for clients in Asia, Europe and around the globe investing in and doing business in the US. The firm also provides comprehensive support for domestic clients expanding internationally.