As counsel to companies issuing or underwriting securities, we provide advice on all aspects of U.S. and international securities regulation, as well as representation in lawsuits brought throughout the United States. These cases, which often present significant potential liability, involve matters arising from the internationalization of securities markets, disclosure, insider trading, broker-dealer regulation and many aspects of derivatives and related products.
As international mergers and acquisitions become increasingly common, and as more foreign governments enact merger laws like those of the United States, our long, successful experience in defending transactions before domestic antitrust agencies is being applied in our international practice. We also assist non-U.S. counsel in evaluating relevant foreign and U.S. laws.
We have an active international business arbitration practice, which often involves complex fact patterns and multiple issues of law. Here, as in other parts of our litigation practice, we have dealt with a wide range of industries, including petrochemicals, mining, manufacturing, ship building, project engineering and construction. Many of these disputes are over joint venture arrangements. Also, we frequently handle asset valuation arbitrations concerning shareholder buyouts.
Our litigation work for banks in recent years includes sovereign litigation in the context of international political and economic crises, and advice and litigation concerning asset freezes. We have worked on the LDC debt crisis, issues concerning the presence of foreign banks in the United States and disputes concerning derivatives, letters of credit and interest rate and currency swaps. We have participated in investigations of bank fraud and money laundering, letters rogatory (including extensive offshore discovery), the activities of banks as indenture trustees and cross-border insolvencies.
All international litigation matters are handled out of our New York and Menlo Park offices.
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