About this office:
Stevens & Lee is a professional services firm with over 190 lawyers, each involved in a high-end area of the law, and more than 40 non-lawyer business and consulting professionals located in fifteen offices in eastern and central Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Delaware. The firm also has a dedicated captive insurance office in Charleston, South Carolina. Stevens & Lee has regional, national and international practices.
The firm has established a reputation as a preeminent provider of sophisticated legal and consulting services in the Mid-Atlantic region. Our Corporate, M&A and Capital Markets practices are among the largest and most accomplished in the region and regularly handle some of the most complex and challenging transactions. The firm represents individuals and businesses, both publicly and privately held, in a variety of industries including financial services, health care, manufacturing, communications and retail. The firm also represents a significant number of emerging growth businesses in the technology, subsidiaries of foreign companies doing business in the United States and an increasing number of transnational transactions.
Stevens & Lee's trial lawyers regularly represent clients in litigation involving our areas of expertise including antitrust, white collar crime and construction litigation. In addition, each concentrates in specific areas of the law and in many cases, a limited number of industries. The firm's strategically located offices provide local access to all state courts and federal, district and bankruptcy courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, the District of Delaware, the District of New Jersey and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Statement of Practice Summary:
Corporate, Finance and Capital Markets. Mergers and Acquisitions. Securities, Tax-Exempt Finance. Tax. Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation. Labor and Employment. OSHA. ERISA. Litigation. Bankruptcy. Environmental. Banking. Insurance. Technology. Health Care. Government Affairs. Regulatory. Higher Education. Real Estate. International Law. Intellectual Property. Antitrust and Unfair Competition. Complex Estate, Trust and Business Succession Planning. Life Sciences. Captive Insurance. White Collar Litigation and Corporate Investigations.
Documents by Lawyers at this office
New Scrutiny for Construction Companies Working on Federal ProjectsJo Bennett, Harry A. Horwitz, September 18, 2009
For many years, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs ("OFCCP") has paid scant attention to construction companies working on federal projects. That is about to change now that Congress has authorized more than $780 billion in federal spending as part of the American Recovery...
E-Verify Rule for Federal Contractors and Subcontractors Took Effect September 8, 2009Jo Bennett, Jeffrey M. Zimskind, September 17, 2009
After months of delay, a rule requiring federal contractors to verify the employment eligibility of their employees electronically took effect September 8, 2009. Under the final rule, employers are required to enroll in the E-Verify program if and when they are awarded a federal contract or...
Representative Clients:
Armstrong World Industries; Bayhealth Medical Center; Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Carpenter Technology Corp.; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; DECODE Genetics; Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries; Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc.; EnerSys; Guthrie Health; Harmony Health Plan; IBM/IBM Credit; Institute for Advanced Study; John Hancock Financial Services Company; Mercer Mutual Insurance Company; Mercy Health System; PHEAA (Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency); The Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Prudential Fox & Roach; QVC, Inc.; RJ Reynolds; Sovereign Bancorp, Inc.; Sun National Bank; Susquehanna Health System; Symbol Technologies; Teva Pharmaceutical Industries; UNUMProvident; Wachovia Corporation; WellSpan Health.
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