The Washington, D.C. office brings together prominent lawyers with decades of experience, including many with previous distinguished service in the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government. Our multidisciplinary team is a well-established part of the Washington legal, business, and government communities.

AN INNOVATIVE LEGAL TEAM

We serve our clients as business advisors, helping them overcome critical challenges and take advantage of timely opportunities—from bet-the-company litigation and investigations to first-of-their-kind cross-border deals.

Client Successes

• Served as lead U.S. counsel to Airbus in a worldwide (26 countries) investigation conducted jointly by the U.S. DOJ, French PNF, and the UK SFO into alleged corruption in the sale of commercial aircraft and other matters. This matter resulted in a history-making US$4 billion resolution with U.S., French and UK regulators, the largest simultaneous global (and also the largest simultaneous FCPA) resolution in history.

• Protected the intellectual property of a wide range of life sciences and technology clients in more than 500 post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

• Represented Canadian private equity firm Novacap TMT in its acquisition of Horizon Telcom, a U.S. fiber-optic bandwidth infrastructure services provider.

• Advised Braskem on the conclusion of its December 2016 FCPA settlement with the U.S. DOJ and the U.S. SEC. The US$957M joint U.S. DOJ, U.S. SEC, Swiss, and Brazilian resolutions amounted to the third largest case in FCPA history at the time.