Practice Areas & Industries: Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP has a leading Corporate Finance practice handling transactions throughout the world and across borders. The Corporate Finance Group consists of more than 200 lawyers located in our offices in the major financial and commercial centers of the world, including New York, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Beijing, Milan, Rome, Paris, Dubai, Riyadh, Moscow, Almaty and Warsaw. We are one of the top law firms in the world for representing issuers and underwriters in capital markets transactions, and are consistently ranked by Thomson Financial, The American Lawyer and Chambers USA as among the leading legal advisors to issuers and underwriters of debt, equity and equity-related securities.

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The Corporate Finance Group has developed extensive experience representing all categories of participants in financing transactions. We advise a broad range of issuers and borrowers, including major international corporations, sovereign issuers, regional issuers in markets throughout the world and early-stage private companies. We provide counsel to leading investment banks, commercial banks and other financial institutions, acting as underwriters, arrangers, placement agents or lenders in corporate finance transactions. We are active in all types of capital-raising transactions in the United States, Europe, Asia and a large number of emerging markets. Our lawyers have well-recognized experience financing merger and acquisition transactions through bank, debt and equity security and mezzanine finance transactions, often in unique multijurisdictional circumstances for which there is no ready precedent.

Our Corporate Finance Group is distinguished in several key ways. We have developed knowledge of targeted industry sectors such as insurance, healthcare and global power, where complex and pervasive regulation and business sophistication make truly experienced legal counsel of particular benefit to clients. We are noted for our extensive and innovative practice in the international emerging markets. We deliver seamless advice in large, complex, multijurisdictional transactions, with experienced lawyers from our various geographies and disciplines functioning as a unified team to provide outstanding client service in the most demanding circumstances. Our lawyers are committed to providing highly efficient and highly effective representation for every situation, whether it is an initial public offering in a single market, a highly tailored product unique to a particular regulated industry, or concurrent financings using differing financial instruments and involving several markets and regulatory systems.