Our attorneys provide a full range of general business services to individuals as well as regional, national and international companies. Our delivery of legal services is organized around one or more industry groups or areas of practice.

Banking and Financial Services
Our attorneys focus on banks, pension funds and other financial organizations, providing clients in that industry with legal services for corporate, regulatory, investment, transactional and operational matters.

Construction
We provide legal services to owners of industrial and commercial facilities, private developers, public bodies and contractors who are undertaking construction projects.

Corporate Finance and Securities
We provide corporate finance and securities representation to public and private companies and investors in a number of industries. Included among our corporate clients are apparel, biotechnology, electronic commerce, fisheries, forest products, healthcare, insurance, Internet, manufacturing, retail, services, software, telecommunications and other businesses, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Our investor clients include private and angel investors, venture capital firms and various lenders.

Emerging Companies and Venture Investment
Our attorneys are experienced in handling the unique legal concerns of emerging and high-growth companies, with an emphasis on the needs of technology-based companies and venture capital investors.

Franchising
We provide advice and services on all aspects of franchising, with an emphasis on a practical approach that takes into account the legal and commercial realities of franchise arrangements. We have handled numerous franchise matters involving managing franchise networks, drafting franchise agreements and offering circulars, working with troubled franchisees, advising clients on the rights and obligations of franchisors and franchisees and enforcing terms of franchise agreements.

Government and Regulatory
Our attorneys use their technical knowledge and practical understanding of public law to assist clients in dealing with the government, including influencing rule making, representation before administrative and regulatory bodies, and court challenges to governmental action.

Health Care
We focus on the full range of organizational, transactional and health law issues confronting health care providers, contractors, insurers and others in the healthcare industry.

Immigration
Immigration attorneys at Lane Powell are experienced in providing a full range of business-related immigration services to individuals, as well as to regional, national and international corporations. Depending on the immigration service required, our immigration attorneys are able to assist clients with submission of petitions to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") or Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") under the Department of Homeland Security, representation in administrative hearings, as well as appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Our immigration attorneys have experience in assisting clients with non-immigrant visas, extensions and change or adjustment of status, employment-based immigrant ("Green Card") visas, labor certification and labor condition applications, employer sanctions and consular processing.

Intellectual Property and Technology
We provide the highly specialized legal services required by developers, users, providers of financing and others who deal with patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing and other aspects of intellectual property generally, focusing in particular on the electronics, high-tech and biotech industries.

International Business and Investment
Lane Powell's broad area of experience encompasses the provision of legal services to foreign individuals and businesses investing into the U.S. as well as domestic individuals and businesses investing outside of the U.S., with an emphasis on Pacific Rim matters.

International Tax
Our attorneys have considerable experience in dealing with the tax consequences of business transactions that cross international borders. Members of the Firm are actively involved in advising U.S. and foreign companies on structuring their business activities so as to minimize foreign taxation and take maximum advantage of U.S. tax benefits. The Firm also regularly advises clients on the tax consequences of international joint ventures, whether located in or outside the United States.

Life Sciences and Biotechnology
We serve clients in all stages of growth, both publicly traded and privately held. Our attorneys work together to provide a full range of legal services in areas such as: technology licensing and strategic collaborations, research and development agreements, intellectual property counseling, commercialization and distribution agreements, employment issues, facilities and environmental compliance and financing and securities.

Mergers and Acquisitions
Lane Powell advises clients on all aspects of corporate mergers, acquisitions and other business combinations. Our work has included advice on anti-takeover strategies and protections (including rights plans, poison pills and state control share acts), proxy contests, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, tender offers and negotiated stock, asset and merger transactions. We represent public and private companies, investors, financial advisors, bidders and targets, hostile and friendly parties, and others.

Real Estate and Land Use
We provide legal services to developers, owners, lenders, contractors, brokers, insurers and others in all aspects of real estate development, land use, operations, purchases and sales, leasing and finance.

Retailing, Distribution and Trade Regulation
We specialize in addressing the legal needs of local, regional, national and international retailers, distributors and manufacturers in organizational, operational and transactional matters, including trade regulation and customs matters.

Tax, Compensation and Personal Planning
Our attorneys work with individual, partnership and corporate clients requiring specialized tax, employee benefit and executive compensation advice, assisting with tax dispute resolution, wealth transfer and other planning for business owners and estate planning and probate matters.

Lane Powell has more than 135 years of commitment to our communities. This commitment is reflected in Lane Powell's hiring and promotion of women and individuals from diverse backgrounds. The Firm has established an attorney Diversity Committee. The Committee is tasked with designing and implementing programs and strategies that promote an inclusive work environment and encourage the development and success of all employees.

MultiCultural Law Magazine Recognizes Lane Powell for Diversity

Lane Powell ranked as one of the country’s top 100 firms for diversity in a recent poll by MultiCultural Law magazine. The annual issue featuring the top ranking firms will be received by many Fortune 500 general counsels, all ABA-approved law schools, as well as a host of national minority and women’s legal organizations. The magazine highlights successful minority and women lawyers. Readers get straightforward interviews with some of the nation’s leading minorities in the legal community. Look for this issue of MultiCultural Law magazine in April 2005.

We are proud of our Firm’s commitment to diversity and our communities. This commitment is reflected in Lane Powell’s hiring and promotion of women and individuals from diverse backgrounds.

The Diversity Committee's mission statement is as follows:

• Promote, focus and improve the Firm's efforts to recruit, retain and advance attorneys from diverse backgrounds;
• Promote, both inside and outside the Firm, our commitment to diversity;
• Provide training to Lane Powell attorneys and staff on issues related to our increasingly diverse community, both inside and outside the Firm;
• Promote efforts to reach out to the larger legal community to increase diversity in the legal profession;
• Coordinate firm and individual attorney membership in local and national organizations committed to diversity in the legal profession;
• Ensure that Lane Powell is represented at local and national events and conferences that focus on and promote diversity in the legal profession; and
• Serve as a resource for the attorneys within the Firm with regard to developing and implementing strategies and tactics to promote, focus and improve our efforts to recruit, retain and advance attorneys from diverse backgrounds, particularly with regard to mentoring and training attorneys from diverse backgrounds.

Diversity Program

To illustrate Lane Powell’s continuing commitment to diversity, our attorneys have volunteered to participate in a cutting-edge program on racism, race relations, and racial problems in the legal profession. The six-week program, conducted by the Understanding Racism Foundation, included large law firms and was geared toward creating an understanding of the problems faced by minorities in our society. The program’s goal is to awaken participants to the awareness that racial problems still exist in our society, both overtly and subtly. And many individuals are unaware and are influenced by prior generations’ prejudice. It is hoped that this increased awareness will result in a more comfortable work environment for minorities and lead to greater attraction and retention of minorities. This program is ongoing, and Lane Powell is proud to have been the first firm to host it. Our attorneys have also participated in the Pre-law Conference for High School Students of Color sponsored by the American Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Association’s Young Lawyers’ Division.

To incorporate diversity at all levels of staffing, we actively recruit candidates from diverse backgrounds; this supports our commitment to diversity while also creating a team of qualified professionals, a team which we are extremely proud to call Lane Powell.