BakerHostetler attorneys

The Business Practice Group is a full-service practice that handles thousands of corporate transactions each year - from emerging companies and early funding to real estate, debt finance, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, restructuring, commercial transactions, and other matters central to a company’s success. No matter the type or complexity of a deal, we get it done.

Business attorneys practice out of each of BakerHostetler’s 18 offices and have ties to the communities in which our clients operate. Ours is a national practice with international scope. Almost all our transactions involve multijurisdictional acquisitions or sales, and we maintain cross-border partnerships to facilitate successful international deals. We handle transactions of all sizes, from multibillion-dollar deals to middle-market deals where our ability to be efficient and work with less-sophisticated counterparties sets us apart.

Our success is rooted in deep experience and seamless collaboration. Members of the Business Practice Group work closely with attorneys from all practice areas across our firm to ensure that each transaction, matter and issue is handled by those who have the in-depth knowledge and experience to be most effective. Clients value our extensive knowledge of their businesses and industries and our proven track record of removing barriers to their strategic and business objectives. But we don’t just solve problems; we also become partners and key advisors, developing lasting relationships based on trust and a shared commitment to our clients’ continued success.

BakerHostetler’s debt finance attorneys represent a wide range of clients throughout the United States and around the world in all types of commercial and real estate financing transactions. We provide sophisticated, experienced counsel and attentive client service informed by our knowledge of market norms and expectations, along with a firmwide commitment to understanding and responding to our clients’ needs and goals.

Our borrower clients are a diverse group of established, growing, transitioning or emerging businesses situated across all levels of the economy. They include investment-grade, highly leveraged, distressed, middle-market or emerging entities and are owned as public companies, private companies or portfolio companies of private equity clients.

We also represent arrangers, agents, underwriters, lenders, participants and note purchasers. These clients include large money center banks, regional and local banks, private equity funds, hedge funds, insurance companies, finance companies, strategic lenders, and other alternative sources of debt capital. Our clients are drawn from, or provide capital to support, almost all major sectors of industry, including commodities, energy, healthcare, technology, hospitality, manufacturing, services, equipment, media and telecommunications, real estate, and retailers.

BakerHostetler’s Labor and Employment Practice Group offers a bespoke solutions-oriented approach to client service. As a client, you are unique, and while we leverage the knowledge we have acquired partnering with our clients across a myriad of industries, we remain laser focused on your unique footprint, needs and objectives.

We stay aligned with our clients as we serve as a seamless extension of their leadership team. Our advice is not cookie-cutter style; there is no database at BakerHostetler of uniform guidance that we pull from. Instead, we provide a dedicated, tailored offering that is truly advice, counsel and litigation support developed specifically for your company.

BakerHostetler’s intellectual property attorneys work with many of the largest global innovators in software, artificial intelligence (AI), pharmaceuticals, medical devices, robotics, battery and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, communications, and many other industries. We help these international pioneers protect and enforce their IP and go to market with unique strategies that are transforming their industries and the world.

We understand the market challenges our clients face, all aspects of IP and all phases of the intellectual property life cycle. Companies rely on BakerHostetler to safeguard their technological advances and unique brands as well as the innovative products and processes that help them maintain their competitive edge and provide a solid foundation for continued growth.

The 400 lawyers of BakerHostetler’s Litigation Practice Group possess solid judgment skills to guide our clients toward the best decisions for their businesses. We partner with clients and invest time to deeply understand their unique needs, helping them anticipate and prepare for problems before they occur and acting quickly and decisively when urgent assistance is needed.

From concept through construction to occupancy, BakerHostetler’s multidisciplinary real estate practice offers an integrated approach, a national practice and a documented record of success.

With decades of experience in the acquisition, disposition, financing, leasing, development, construction and operation of all property types, our nationally recognized team of more than 50 attorneys provides a full spectrum of legal services and a well-earned reputation for responsiveness and efficiency.

We make it our mission to understand our clients’ businesses as well as they do. We are proactive, creative and collaborative in assisting our clients in achieving their strategic goals. We focus our legal expertise and experience on “seeing the big picture” while getting the details right, overcoming obstacles without complicating the issues, and getting the deal done with efficiency and professionalism.

BakerHostetler’s White Collar, Investigations and Securities Enforcement and Litigation team is among the nation’s leaders in all aspects of corporate criminal defense and enforcement-related litigation in the U.S. and around the world.

Our team includes some of the country’s most experienced and seasoned lawyers who are dedicated to protecting businesses and individuals by preventing violations before they occur. We see beyond the horizon to help clients minimize the legal, economic and reputational risks that corporate investigations and enforcement actions pose by working to quickly identify, contain and correct potential misconduct.

Our more than 75 team members from coast to coast have served as legal advisors to Fortune 50 companies and major hedge funds, as well as former advocates for the government. This deep bench of talent allows us to better advise our clients on corporate criminal laws and legal regulatory standards, both nationally and internationally.