Practice areas of particular emphasis in the Los Angeles office include:
Banking & Finance
The Los Angeles office represents numerous US and international banks, thrift institutions, and other financial institutions and their respective holding companies. The financial services group has a broad based general banking and financial services practice, which includes in-depth experience in asset-based lending, securitization of assets, leveraged and single investor leasing, project financing, syndicated leveraged buyouts, tender offers, and other change-of-control financings. The office's capital markets practice includes (in close coordination with the firm's London, Berlin, New York, and Chicago offices) interest rate and currency swaps, letters of credit and other credit enhancement devices, and Euronote and revolving underwriting facilities. The office also handles Federal and State regulatory matters for banks, thrifts, and other financial institutions and does US and international debt restructuring and workouts of troubled loans.
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Bankruptcy, Workout and Reorganization
Our Los Angeles office is an integral part of our varied US and international bankruptcy and business reorganization practice. We have had broad experience in representing clients in every aspect of insolvency proceedings, from the restructuring of debts outside bankruptcy to negotiating complex plans of reorganization, as well as the representation of clients in claims trading, purchasing significant assets from the bankruptcy estate, and the enforcement of rights in liquidation proceedings. Our Los Angeles office has served as bankruptcy counsel to banks and financial institutions in a range of industries including real estate, computers, leasing, healthcare, energy, telecommunications, e-commerce, and hospitality. We have also counseled landlords, franchisors, and major corporations in contracts with companies in or verging on bankruptcies.
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Corporate & Securities
The office's corporate and securities group, in addition to counseling a number of public and privately-owned companies, handles all types of acquisitions, mergers, and recapitalizations and represents issuers, investment bankers, and institutional investors in private and public offerings of securities. The corporate group is also active in the trademark and copyright area, handles major corporate transactions such as joint ventures and transfers of technology, represents regional and national franchisors and health care companies, and has a wide-range of experience in natural resources transactions and operational matters, particularly in the oil, gas and mining exploration and production industries. Attorneys in this area also oversee West Coast and certain international elements of the firm's practice representing clients in Japan and elsewhere in Asia. Much of that practice focuses on cross-border joint ventures and advice regarding US operations of such clients.
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Environmental
Our environmental law practice includes three general areas of specialty - environmental, environmental issues in transactions, and environmental compliance. We have been counseling clients on environmental matters and litigating environmental disputes since the early 1970's, when Congress first enacted the cornerstone Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act legislation. The practice regularly tries and wins high profile cases; conducts due diligence and negotiations, negotiates and appeals permitting issues; comments on and challenges proposed regulations; and advises on every kind of environmental issue, including brownfields development, cleanup requirements, spill reporting, and the siting of landfills and incinerators.
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Government
The office's recently established government practice group represents clients in legislative, regulatory, and enforcement matters involving federal, state, and local governments. The group also represents clients with respect to other government transactions, such as grants, approvals, and permits. Clients include public and private business entities, trade associations and organizations, individuals, and government entities themselves. Particular areas of practice concentration include transportation, land use, environmental, health care, trade association, and campaign and election law.
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Litigation
The extensive litigation practice of the office involves representation of corporate, commercial, and financial clients at all levels of the state and federal court systems as well as bankruptcy courts, administrative agencies, and arbitration and mediation authorities. Particular areas of expertise include accountant liability, real estate, intellectual property, insurance, antitrust and unfair competition, product liability, environmental matters, employment related disputes, franchising, ecclesiastical, and matters involving the communications, publishing, music publishing, recording, entertainment, and oil, gas, and other minerals industries.
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Real Estate
In the real estate and real estate financing area, the office represents both domestic and foreign investors, pension trusts and advisors, institutional lenders, developers, property managers, landlords, and tenants. Transactions have involved the leasing, purchase, sale, exchange, operation and financing (debt and equity) of all types of properties: office buildings, hotels, shopping centers and other retail commercial properties, industrial developments, condominiums, apartments, single family detached residential developments, and unimproved land.
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Taxation
The office has a transactionally oriented practice in federal and state taxation. This work includes mergers, acquisitions and corporate reorganizations; public and private partnership offerings; taxation of foreign operations and income (both inbound and outbound); and international transfer pricing issues, including both tax planning and litigation.
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