Bingham McCutchen LLP

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.

CARB Issues Preliminary Draft Regulation for a California Cap-and-Trade Program
Michael S. McDonough, Kevin J. Poloncarz, Rick R. Rothman, Edward L. Strohbehn, December 8, 2009
On November 24,2009, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) issued its “Preliminary Draft Regulation for a California Cap-and-Trade Program” (Draft Regulation) for public review and comment. The comment deadline is January 11, 2009. CARB will hold a workshop for the Draft Regulation...

Decision Overturning City’s Affordable Housing Fee Withstands Petition to U.S. Supreme Court
Cecily Talbert Barclay, Marc R. Bruner, Matthew Gray, Geoffrey L. Robinson, Barbara J. Schussman, December 8, 2009
Earlier this year, in Building Industry Association of Central California v. City of Patterson, the California Court of Appeal struck down a local affordable housing requirement imposed on residential development. The California Supreme Court decided in June 2009 not to take the case, and the...

In an Effort to Encourage Unsolicited Ratings, SEC Requires Disclosure of All Information Provided to NRSROs Hired to Provide Credit Ratings; Also Adopts and Proposes Various New Disclosure Requirements for NRSROs
Charles A. Sweet, December 8, 2009
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has continued its recent history of incremental changes to the credit rating process by adopting additional rules that further address perceived conflicts of interest on the part of nationally recognized statistical rating organizations...