Bingham McCutchen (London) LLP

About this office:

Bingham represents clients in cross-border restructurings and insolvencies; complex securities and financial regulatory matters; high-stakes litigation; environmental issues; government affairs; and sophisticated corporate, financing and technology transactions.

We have built our firm, on a global basis, in the areas where we are strongest and are able to counsel our clients most effectively. Our 1,000 lawyers are based in the world's major financial centers — New York, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong — as well as on both coasts in the United States.

At Bingham McCutchen LLP, we offer you focused strengths in a broad range of critical disciplines. Our practices include: Antitrust and Trade Regulation; Appellate; Banking; Base Reuse; Bioscience; Broker-Dealer Litigation; Business Regulation and White Collar Defense; Commercial Technology; Construction and Project Finance Litigation; Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions Group; Emerging Growth Companies; Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation; Energy and Resources; Environmental; Environmental and Land Use Litigation; Estate Planning; Financial Institutions Regulatory and Corporate; Financial Restructuring; General Corporate and Securities; Insolvency and Financial Services Litigation; Institutional Finance; Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation; International Trade Law; Investment Management; Japanese Practice; Labor and Employment; Land Use; Privacy and Security; Private Equity; Product Liability; Project and Structured Finance; Project Development; Real Estate; Real Estate Litigation; Securities and Corporate Governance Litigation; Sports, Entertainment and Media; Tax.

Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive: Update
Peter Bibby, Helen J. Marshall, Christopher Phillip Leonard, Roger P. Joseph, Neal E. Sullivan, September 28, 2009
On 30 April 2009, the EU Commission published a proposal for a directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (the "AIFM Directive"). As we described in our alert of 6 May 2009, in its current form the AIFM Directive would significantly reshape the European investment management...

English Court Dismisses Objections of Junior Creditors to a Transfer Scheme
James H.D. Roome, Barry G. Russell, Thomas E .J. Bannister, James D. Terry, August 27, 2009
In a decision this week, the English High Court has rejected junior creditors' objections to a transfer scheme of arrangement between companies in the IMO Carwash group and its senior lenders. The court held that it is appropriate to disregard the objections of a junior creditor to such a scheme...

UK Short Selling Disclosure Regime Extended
Helen J. Marshall, Christopher Phillip Leonard, Roger P. Joseph, Neal E. Sullivan, June 25, 2009
The FSA has announced today that it intends to extend indefinitely its short selling disclosure regime for UK financial companies.

Return to the Bingham McCutchen (London) LLP Firm Overview