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.

IRS Addresses CMBS Pre-Default Loan Modification Rules...But Will It Help?
Hamilton (Scott) Miller, October 26, 2009
On September 15, 2009, the Internal Revenue Service issued Revenue Procedure 2009-45 ("Revenue Procedure"), in an attempt to address concerns about the tax code-based restrictions on the ability of mortgage borrowers, whose loans have been securitized, to negotiate with their servicers in...

General Growth Properties and the Boundaries of Bankruptcy Remoteness
Hamilton (Scott) Miller, August 28, 2009
On August 11, 2009, Judge Allan L. Gropper of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued a decision denying several motions to dismiss filed in the bankruptcy of General Growth Properties (GGP) and its various subsidiaries.

New Equal Pay Law - Ledbetter Overturned
Deborah Samuels Freeman, February 26, 2009
On January 29, President Barack Obama signed into law new legislation to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter, limiting the time for bringing a pay discrimination claim.

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