Bingham McCutchen 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.

Land Use Implications of the Delta Bills
Marie A. Cooper, Sean Marciniak, Geoffrey L. Robinson, November 18, 2009
The five bills the California Legislature recently passed to fix the Delta during its seventh extraordinary legislative session will have significant implications for land use projects...

Ninth Circuit Rejects Statistical Significance as Standard for Pleading Materiality
Meg Bailey, Dale E. Barnes, November 18, 2009
In Siracusano v. Matrixx Initiatives, Inc., et al., No. 06-15677, 2009 WL 3448282 (Oct. 28, 2009), the Ninth Circuit reversed the dismissal of a Rule 10b-5 action against Matrixx Initiatives Inc. and three of its executives (collectively "Matrixx"), makers of the popular cold medicine...

Court Muddies the Waters on Federal Shoreline Jurisdiction
Marc R. Bruner, Ella Foley Gannon, November 5, 2009
In United States v. Milner, the Ninth Circuit ruled that federal jurisdiction under the Rivers & Harbors Act is defined by where the mean high water line would have been had shore-defense structures such as seawalls and levees never been built, while jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act is...

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