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.

FDIC Legacy Loan Program Delayed, Being Reassessed
Daniel J. Curtin, June 25, 2009
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced on Wednesday, June 3, 2009, that development of the Legacy Loan Program will continue, but will be delayed.

Contract Allowing Waiver of Recording of Final Map Void
Geoffrey L. Robinson, Matthew S. Gray, Marie A. Cooper, February 26, 2009
The California Court of Appeal has held that a real estate contract that allowed the buyer to waive the recordation of a final map before purchasing a portion of a legal lot violated the Subdivision Map Act and was therefore void at its inception.

President's Working Group on Financial Markets: Best Practices for the Hedge Fund Industry
Richard Goldman, Matthew S. Gray, Steven Vecchio, February 26, 2009
On January 15, 2009, the Asset Managers' Committee ("AMC") and the Investors' Committee ("IC") of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets ("PWG") issued separate reports concerning best practices.

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