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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is a full-service law firm with market-leading strengths in the energy, financial services, real estate and technology sectors. With a presence in the world's major financial and technology centers, we counsel clients on all aspects of global business and litigation. We work in multidisciplinary teams that allow us to anticipate trends and offer a 360-degree perspective to complex business and legal issues--helping clients to take greater advantage of new opportunities and better mitigate risk. This collaborative work style helps produce the results our clients seek.
Who We Are
Throughout our long history, we have helped create and guide some of the world’s most successful companies, delivering groundbreaking work on their behalf.
Pillsbury is indelibly linked to the development of the industrial age and the evolution of today’s global digital economy. In the late 1800s we helped long-time client AT&T install the first telephone wires on city streets; incorporated the predecessor to Chevron in 1900; and 105 years later advised Chevron in its $18.5B acquisition of Unocal. We enforced the first patent for an X-ray machine used in the treatment of cancer in 1940; co-authored the 1952 Patent Act; launched the nation’s first nuclear energy practice in 1960; and advised on the formation of Intel Corporation in 1968. In 1970, we took the first New York Stock Exchange member firm public; in 1987, won an important decision from the U.S. Supreme Court allowing states to regulate corporate takeovers; registered the first trademark for a dotcom in 1994; and facilitated a record $2.2B public offering for Network Solutions, Inc. in 2000.
More recently, we have facilitated the first-ever export of nuclear reactor technology from Japan; negotiated regulatory and operations hurdles to enable China’s only commercial airline to take its first historic flight between China and the United States; handled the largest-ever private disposition of real estate assets in Washington, DC ($2.3B); and helped convince the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that foreign detainees being held without charge at Guantanamo Bay are entitled to habeas corpus rights under the U.S. Constitution. Pillsbury lawyers have influenced and shaped not just the law, but the geopolitical landscape, helping to set policy on everything from the environment to securities reform and international banking regulations. Among the firm’s illustrious alumni are two Secretaries of State, two Secretaries of War, a Secretary of Defense, a Supreme Court Justice, and a Nobel Laureate. Today, more than 100 Pillsbury lawyers have held previous top positions at various government and regulatory agencies, including the DOJ, EPA, FAA, FERC, IRS, NOAA, SEC and USPTO, as well as serving in Congress and as senior White House staff and advisors.
Our Offerings
Business
From entity formation and expansion to project and commodities finance, alternative investing to negotiating outsourcing agreements, Pillsbury’s Business Department advises emerging, middle market and multinational clients on all types of corporate, securities, finance and IP transactions, particularly in the banking, energy, insurance, life sciences, retail, real estate, and technology sectors. Based on both deal value and the number of transactions, American Lawyer’s 2008 Corporate Scorecard ranked Pillsbury in four categories: Equities Issuer's Counsel, Investment Grade Debt Issuer's Counsel, Investment Grade Debt Underwriter's Counsel and REIT Equities Issuer's Counsel. 2008 Chambers Global hailed our Asset Finance, Business Process Outsourcing, Technology, Media & Telecommunications, Nuclear Energy, Oil & Gas, International Trade and IT & IT Outsourcing practices as the among the world’s finest.
Litigation
Pillsbury’s Litigation Department boasts more than 200 lawyers throughout the 14-office network. From corporate defense and special investigations to tax controversy, environmental litigation to IP counseling, our litigators have substantial trial experience at the state, federal and appellate level, as well as with the bankruptcy courts. We have conducted dispute resolutions before the world’s arbitration bodies, and are particularly noted for representing energy, financial services, government contractors, technology in complex litigation matters, restructuring, employment-related suits, land use conflicts, and patent or trademark disputes. 2008 Chambers USA ranks Pillsbury’s Appellate, ERISA Litigation, Securities Enforcement & Investigations, and Tax Litigation practices as among the best in the nation.
Regulatory
Pillsbury’s Regulatory Department offers a wide range of counseling related to compliance, regulatory hearings and investigations and public policy. 2008 Chambers USA ranked our Aviation Regulatory, Banking & Securities Regulatory Compliance, Food & Beverages: Alcohol, Government Relations, International Trade, Native American Law and Political Law among the nation’s best. We regularly negotiate trade agreements under WTO and NAFTA, advise on export and technology transfer controls, and represent clients in trade remedy proceedings before the International Trade Commission and the Court of International Trade, including antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard proceedings.
Focus on Emerging Issues
Be it climate change & sustainability, litigation arising from the subprime meltdown, hedge fund reform, privacy and data protection or land use and historic preservation, our attorneys embrace change in order to meet the evolving needs of the market and our clients. A 2008 Corporate Counsel survey of in-house counsel at Fortune 500 companies named Pillsbury a “Go-To Firm” in six practice areas--corporate transactions, litigation, international, IP, labor and employment and securities, while the Black Book of Outsourcing named us the number #1 Outsourcing Firm and Global Trade Review recognized us as the number #1 ECA Finance Firm.
Our Values
- Exceptional performance. We seek to be the best in all we do.
- Authentic interactions. We accept only one way to conduct business—maintaining open, straightforward communications and demanding fair, honest actions.
- Collaborative work style. Since collaboration produces the best results, we work as a team—sharing knowledge and diverse viewpoints with one another and with clients.
- Unwavering commitment. We have a passion for our work, a strong bond with our colleagues and an unshakable dedication to our clients’ interests.
- Ethical foundation. Our experience at work is inspired and guided by opportunities to help other people, our communities and society at large.
- Strategic vision. We see opportunities where some may only see problems. Our people have the ability to imagine, plan for and help our clients and one another realize a better future.
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