MORGAN LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP

Our global mergers and acquisitions practice encompasses over 350 lawyers serving clients from offices across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia on the full spectrum of issues arising in M&A transactions. Morgan Lewis’s global footprint-bolstered by substantial M&A capabilities for deals in Latin America, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and other regions-means that we can be there when and where our clients need us. We work across industries on transactions ranging from millions of dollars to multibillion-dollar deals, including thousands of M&A transactions with a combined market value of hundreds of billions of dollars in the last five years alone.

The group is supported by approximately 1,700 lawyers and professionals in areas such as labor and employment, benefits, government contracts, regulatory, environmental, intellectual property, international trade, real estate, antitrust, litigation and tax. These lawyers do much more than support M&A deals. They are sought-after leaders in their areas of the law who provide perspective and insights that go far beyond the confines of an M&A agreement. Together we work seamlessly across borders, which frequently enables us to satisfy all the needs of an M&A transaction without engaging local counsel or separate specialized firms.

Consumer-facing companies confront an array of challenges in complying with federal, state, and local regulations, and in dealing with the overlapping and sometimes conflicting investigations, enforcement actions, and litigation that may result. Our Consumer Protection Defense practice brings together lawyers from across our firm with extensive backgrounds in assisting consumer-facing businesses navigate the increasingly complex and highly regulated business environment.

Morgan Lewis lawyers have successfully defended hundreds of consumer protection matters throughout the United States in federal and state courts, and in administrative tribunals. We also have broad experience representing clients in regulatory investigations, and enforcement actions. We recognize that these matters must be responded to and defended with the big picture in mind. The reality is that whether consumer protection challenges begin with a federal, state, or local subpoena-or a class action complaint, pattern individual lawsuits, or more quietly with an inquiry from a consumer or government agency-they can rapidly change into complex, multifront battles with multiple agencies and plaintiffs pursuing the same conduct.

Successful outcomes are best achieved with a defense team that understands and handles the full range of potential issues and presents a unified defense. We have the capabilities to help clients achieve favorable outcomes and finality in these matters, and we are poised to handle our clients’ consumer protection defense needs whether they arise in the context of a single inquiry, investigation, or lawsuit-or from a multitude of parallel matters.

Our real estate team handles transactions of all sizes and degrees of complexity for a wide range of clients, including developers, corporate end-users, real estate investment trusts (REITs), private equity and pension funds, institutional lenders, advisers, servicers, and colleges and universities. We advise clients on land assemblage, ownership, use, and development; leasing; dispositions; financings, including global investments; workouts; restructurings; and real property tax matters.

Our team serves clients in the real estate industry as well as those whose business models use real estate as a strategic asset. Our clients benefit from our ability to collaborate with other practices across Morgan Lewis to provide coordinated and efficient service-whatever the demands of the transaction.

With more than 200 lawyers and other professionals, Morgan Lewis has one of the largest intellectual property practices of any full-service law firm in the world.

We provide a range of IP services, including the following:

• Litigation at the district court, International Trade Commission, and appellate levels
• Patent preparation and prosecution
• Trademark and copyright counseling and portfolio management
• Post-grant and other administrative proceedings before the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
• Licensing, technology transfer and other transactions
• Litigation under the Hatch-Waxman Act and Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA)
• Addressing IP issues in corporate transactions

Our labor, employment, executive compensation, and benefits practitioners help employers around the world navigate the constantly changing landscape of global, US, state, and local laws and regulations that govern the workplace. With more than 375 lawyers and other professionals throughout our offices in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, we apply a solution-oriented approach to give our clients a competitive edge as we work with them to address the full range of workforce matters that affect the bottom line.

We approach workplace challenges with an understanding of our clients’ businesses and the unique, industry-specific regulatory and competitive pressures they face. Our industry knowledge is particularly deep in the areas of financial services, technology, energy, healthcare, retail, pharmaceuticals, transportation, defense, food and hospitality, insurance, and manufacturing. We proactively identify risks and develop strategies and solutions to help employers avoid litigation and other employee disputes, including those that involve unions or organizing campaigns.