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.

Proposed Senate Bill to Regulate Offerings of Asset-Backed Securities Focuses on Risk Retention, More Detailed Disclosure
Edward E. Gainor, November 18, 2009
Draft legislation released this week by the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs would, like a similar measure circulated in draft form two weeks ago by the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, mandate retention of economic risk by securitizers, provide for increased...

The Applicability of the Attorney-Client Privilege before Congress
James Hamilton, Randall Mark Levine, November 6, 2009
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, recently asserted, as other Congressional leaders before him have done, that "Congress has the right to refuse to recognize an assertion of the attorney-client privilege."

Proposed Legislation Would Require Risk Retention, Increased Disclosure in Offerings of Asset-Backed Securities
Edward E. Gainor, November 5, 2009
Draft legislation released this week by the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services would, among other things, amend the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") to impose new regulations on securitization...

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