Fulbright & Jaworski
Fulbright & Jaworski
666 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10103-3198
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New York
Linda Addison
Partner-in-Charge
Warren J. Nimetz
Administrative Partner
Questions about Fulbright's New
York Office? Contact Linda Addison.Located in the heart of midtown Manhattan, Fulbright & Jaworski's New York office is comprised of nearly 130 lawyers.
Formed over 65 years ago, Fulbright's New York lawyers serve a broad client base including large publicly-held corporations, investment banking and brokerage firms, venture capital and leveraged buy-out firms, investment funds, private equity and institutional investors, life science, high-technology and other emerging growth companies, privately-held companies, partnerships, individuals, estates and charitable organizations and foundations.
The office's key practice areas include:
Corporate
Litigation
Labor and Employment Law
Intellectual Property and Technology
Equipment Finance
Bankruptcy and Insolvency
Real Estate
Public Finance
Tax
Employee Benefits
Trusts and Estates
International
Israel Companies
Corporate
Fulbright's New York corporate lawyers are leaders in providing innovative advice in complex transactions. Fulbright's corporate practice carefully guide our clients through the legal issues that affect not only their ability to obtain financing, but also to maintain their operations in today's highly competitive, high-speed business environment. Our skill and commitment to service span many industries including software, biotechnology, telecommunications and the internet, healthcare, business services and retail products. Fulbright's corporate lawyers are particularly active in:
Mergers and acquisitions
Representation of issuers and underwriters in initial and secondary public offerings of equity and debt securities
Venture capital fund formation and portfolio investments
Formation and representation of high technology companies that have grown into large organizations
Private equity funds, including leveraged buy-out and venture funds
Insurance regulatory representations, including financings, mergers and acquisitions, securitization transactions, BOLI/COLI programs, sureties and financial guaranties, as well as public and private capital markets and alternative capital market deals
Learn more about Fulbright's corporate practice.
Litigation
Fulbright's New York litigation practice is dedicated to helping clients resolve business disputes effectively and efficiently. Fulbright's New York litigators are well-equipped to do battle in the courtroom when necessary and also skilled in the arts of counseling and negotiation. Fulbright's litigation practice strive to understand the client's goals and achieve them cost-effectively, creatively and professionally in teamwork with the client.
Fulbright's New York litigators handle a wide variety of contested matters in court, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution broadly categorized as follows:
Defense of federal securities law claims
Antitrust cases
Unfair competition lawsuits
Internal corporate investigations
Attorney General actions and investigations
US Dept of Justice actions and investigations
Federal Trade Commission actions and investigations
Grand jury investigations
SEC, NYSE and NASD investigations
Customer and co-member arbitrations
Corporate and individual contract disputes
General commercial matters including UCC
Banking lender liability claims
Bank regulatory compliance and investigations
Real estate foreclosures and lien and easement disputes
Learn more about Fulbright's litigation practice.
Labor and Employment Law
Fulbright's New York labor and employment practice runs the gamut from traditional labor litigation, representing employers in relation to unions, to defending employers against discrimination claims. This practice includes the representation of employers in:
Age, race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation and disability discrimination claims
Sexual and racial harassment
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission proceedings
New York State and New York City Human Rights administrative agency proceedings
National Labor Relations Board proceedings
Labor arbitrations under collective bargaining agreements
Challenges to employment termination
Fair Labor Standards Act Claims
Plant Closing Act claims
Learn more about Fulbright's labor and employment practice.
Intellectual Property and Technology
Protecting intellectual property is integral to a company's business.
Fulbright's New York IP lawyers provide counsel in all areas of IP law for clients with properties ranging from established to emerging technologies, the life sciences, literary, artistic and other properties.
Patents
Trademarks
Copyright
Trade Secrets
Unfair Competition
IP Litigation
Technology Transfer and Licensing
Learn more about Fulbright's intellectual property and technology practice.
Equipment Finance
Fulbright's equipment finance practice is well known domestically and internationally for its experience with U.S. and cross-border leasing and financing of commercial and corporate aircraft, rail, manufacturing, mass transit and other equipment.
Learn more about Fulbright's equipment finance practice.
Bankruptcy and Insolvency
Fulbright's New York bankruptcy practice represents creditors and debtors in workouts, reorganizations and liquidations. Fulbright's bankruptcy lawyers regularly represent secured lenders, banks, creditors committees and investors in major cases throughout the Northeast and Midwest and is especially adept at the litigation aspects of Chapter 11. Fulbright's bankruptcy work includes:
Pre-bankruptcy workouts
Chapter 11 reorganizations
Liquidations
Structuring secured transactions
Learn more about Fulbright's bankruptcy and insolvency practice.
Real Estate
Fulbright's New York real estate practice represents partnerships, corporations, joint ventures and individuals in connection with commercial, industrial and residential real estate. Clients include lenders, borrowers, landlords, tenants and developers of office buildings, shopping centers and other complexes. Representation of major financial institutions in real estate transactions and restructurings is a primary area of Fulbright's real estate experience. Fulbright's real estate lawyers provide representation regarding:
Development
Syndication
Investment
Financing
Restructuring
Leasing
Construction loans
Permanent or term loans
Revolving credit
Troubled real estate loans
Creditor's rights enforcement and litigation
Learn more about Fulbright's real estate practice.
Public Finance
Fulbright's municipal securities practice represents clients in financings by state and local government, including financings of privately-owned projects that qualify for tax-exempt financing. Fulbright acts as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and general counsel to issuers and also represents underwriters, financial advisors, institutional purchasers, banks, insurers, borrowers, developers, corporate trustees, investment contract providers and interest swap providers, among others.
In the past five years, Fulbright has had one of the nation's ten most active bond counsel practices. We have participated in numerous municipal securities offerings to finance states and local governments, public power, municipal enterprises, transportation, public improvements, schools, health care, housing, economic and industrial development and special facilities.
Learn more about Fulbright's public finance practice.
Tax
Fulbright's New York tax lawyers work closely with other practice groups and are involved in planning and structuring corporate, individual and partnership transactions. Fulbright offers advice on the structuring of investments by foreign persons.
Fulbright's tax lawyers also have substantial experience in representing clients in controversies before the Internal Revenue Service, state tax authorities, the U.S. Tax Court and other federal courts.
Learn more about Fulbright's tax practice.
Employee Benefits
Fulbright's New York employee benefits/executive compensation practice provides comprehensive tax- and ERISA-oriented benefits and compensation services, with particular emphasis on creative planning for executives and other high income earners. The group works closely with other lawyers as part of the firm's transactional and securities practices and directly with general business, financial services and individual clients of the firm in connection with a broad range of matters, including:
Tax-qualified pension and profit sharing plans and 401(k) arrangements and multiple qualified plan constructs designed to maximize tax-favored retirement savings for high-income earners.
Tax-oriented "non-qualified" deferred compensation plans and funding arrangements
Equity-based compensation arrangements, including stock option, stock bonus, ESOP, restricted stock, phantom stock and employee stock purchase plans and agreements
Executive employment, change in control and separation/termination agreements
Compensation and benefit plan issues in corporate merger, acquisition, spin-off, financing and other transactions
Start-up and pre-IPO compensation strategies
Prototype defined contribution plan and IRA design and marketing
Welfare and fringe benefit plans and arrangements
ERISA fiduciary and prohibited transaction issues relating both to investments made by plan fiduciaries and to investment funds, products and services marketed to IRAs and employee plans
Compliance with ERISA, COBRA, Internal Revenue Code, securities law and other legal requirements applicable to benefit and compensation plans and arrangements
Representation before IRS, DOL and PBGC regarding agency audits and investigations, voluntary compliance, plan termination, prohibited transaction exemption requests and other proceedings
Income tax and estate planning strategies for executives and other high income or high net worth individuals, including IRA and retirement plan distribution planning, split dollar life insurance and other individual arrangements
Learn more about Fulbright's employee benefits practice.
Trusts and Estates
Fulbright's New York trusts and estates practice represents individuals in matters involving tax-sensitive estate planning for privately-held business organizations, supervising estate and trust administration, representing private and public charitable organizations and handling related litigation.
Learn more about Fulbright's trusts and estates practice.
International Practice
Fulbright's international lawyers represent U.S. clients in international business activities and non-U.S.-based clients in U.S. investments, including non-U.S.-based commercial banks, investment banks and investment groups. The international practice has included significant acquisitions by non-U.S.-based buyers of U.S. corporations, U.S. securities offerings by non-U.S.-based firms and the establishment of U.S. subsidiaries for non-U.S.-based corporations.
Fulbright's international practice includes representing foreign companies in:
Public and private financings
Acquisitions
Litigation
Antitrust issues
Venture capital
Private investment funds
Organizational and restructuring activities
Early stage business strategies and financings
Marketing and distribution agreements
Employment agreements
Intellectual property-related matters
Learn more about Fulbright's international practice.
Israel Companies
Fulbright's New York lawyers have a time-proven history of representing Israeli entrepreneurs and businesses in connection with their activities in the United States.
Fulbright represents companies with shares that are publicly-traded on exchanges in the United States, as well as investment banks involved in Israeli-related transactions. Fulbright's lawyers are widely noted for their corporate finance achievements, and Fulbright has acted for both issuers and underwriters in many public offerings for Israel-based companies.
Learn more about Fulbright's Israel practice.
Awards
For the eighth year, Fulbright was chosen as one of the top 20 corporate law firms in the nation. (Corporate Board Member, 2009).
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Michael Conlon, Partner-in-Charge, Houston
"I have no doubt that the feeling of family at Fulbright contributed to our ranking as 'Best Place in Houston to Work.'"
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