Bingham McCutchen LLP

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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.

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.

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Creates Further Split Among Circuit Courts Regarding Prerequisites to Invoking Fraud-on-the-Market Presumption at Class Certification
Todd E. Gordinier,Craig A. Taggart, December 7, 2011
In Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds v. Amgen Inc., No. 09¿56965, 2011 WL 5341285 (9th Cir. Nov. 8, 2011), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that plaintiffs do not have to prove that an alleged misstatement is material in order to obtain the benefit of the...

SEC Will Permit “Proxy Access” Shareholder Proposals
Laurie A. Cerveny,Chris Cox,Janice A. Liu,Michael P. O'Brien,David K. Robbins,Charles A. Sweet, September 27, 2011
An amendment to SEC Rule 14a-8 that will enable shareholders of U.S. public companies (including investment companies) to submit proposals calling for some form of “proxy access” — that is, a procedure permitting shareholders to include alternative nominees for director in the...

SEC Seeks Comments on Review of Existing Regulations
W. Hardy Callcott,Laurie A. Cerveny,Chris Cox,Roger P. Joseph,Michael P. O'Brien,Neal E. Sullivan,Charles A. Sweet, September 20, 2011
On Sept. 6, 2011, the SEC issued a "request for information" about its process for reviewing existing regulations to determine if those regulations continue to be useful and effective. While one may question the SEC's ability, in the midst of so much new Dodd-Frank rule making, to conduct...

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