Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP

About this office:

High quality, timely and responsive legal service with an ongoing dedication to close, personal client attention has defined Hinckley, Allen & Snyder's practice for over a century.

We are a regional law firm with over 100 lawyers based in five full-service offices in Boston, Providence, and Concord, NH and Hartford and Madison, CT. Our experience and resources offer clients throughout New England, as well as nationally and internationally, a full range of legal services.

Clients include several of the region's most progressive financial service institutions; publicly held corporations and emerging businesses, both domestic and foreign; privately owned businesses and partnerships; a number of the nation's largest real estate developers and construction companies; major hospitals and health care providers; non-profit organizations; colleges; state and local governments and agencies; public utilities; and individuals.

Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP today results from the combination of two well-known Providence based firms, Hinckley & Allen (founded in 1906) and Tobin & Silverstein (founded in 1917), the highly successful Boston firm of Snyder, Tepper & Comen (founded in 1947), and a significant group of lawyers from the respected Boston firm of Fine & Ambrogne.

Administrative Law, Antitrust, Banking, Bankruptcy, Business Law, Construction, Corporate, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Energy, Environmental, Financial Services, Government Relations, Health Care, Immigration, Intellectual Property, International, Non-Profit, Labor, Litigation, Municipal Financing and Bonds, Patent, Personal Financial Planning, Real Estate, Securities, Tax, Technology, White-Collar Crime.

Enhanced HIPAA Privacy and Security Provisions under the HITECH Act and its Interim Final Rule
Andrew B. Eills, October 16, 2009
While much of the media interest in the stimulus package enacted by Congress in January of this year and signed by the President in February focused on appropriations, the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 ("ARRA") has amplified the Health Insurance Portability and...

Lehman Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures: A Path to Swap Monetization?
Stephen E. Weyl, October 16, 2009
On September 17, 2009 the United States Bankruptcy Court overseeing the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy proceedings entered an order (the "Order") establishing alternative dispute resolution ("ADR") procedures for certain derivative contracts. The Order affects counterparties who...

Lehman Swaps: Too Late to Terminate?
Thomas S. Marrion, Stephen E. Weyl, October 16, 2009
Since the commencement of bankruptcy proceedings by Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. ("Holdings") in September 2008 and by Lehman Brothers Special Financing, Inc. ("LBSF" and, with Holdings, "Lehman") a few weeks thereafter, counterparties have wrestled with whether to...

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