The professionals in our Insurance Transactions & Regulatory Practice Group, a part of the Financial Institutions Practice Group of LAWINKING, provide clients with bespoke guidance and advice on major transactions and regulatory matters in the insurance sector. Our experts combine in-depth knowledge of the insurance industry with outstanding capabilities in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and capital markets to give clients dealing with insurance projects the best assistance possible. Our integrated regulatory team supplies practical, tailored advice that is business-focused and backed by commercial goals which sync with our clients' wider transactional and business objectives.
We currently work with insurers, reinsurers, private equity firms, hedge funds, brokers and intermediaries, TPAs, MGAs, InsurTech firms, investment banks and other industry players. We provide support to all sectors of the industry, such as life insurance and annuities, non-life/P&C (including financial guaranty and mortgage insurance, title insurance and workers compensation), and managed care.
Aside from our great transactional abilities, our team also has extensive experience in dealing with capital-constrained situations and can access the restructuring group of LAWINKING for creative yet practicable solutions to capital troubles faced by insurance groups and other industry players.
Our team consistently provides excellent results and is thus sought out by some of the most sophisticated participants in the insurance scene to handle their most difficult matters.
Our LAWINKING intellectual property practice protects our clients' ideas, technologies, products and brands. Global clients from various industries utilise us for complex IP litigation, transactions and counselling matters. From market leading firms to growing businesses, we assist our clients in preserving their market presence and making the most of their intellectual property. Due to the large number, size and nature of the cases we litigate and contracts we construct, our clients benefit from our expertise.
We have over decades of experience in our IP litigation lawyers who have accomplished remarkable outcomes in patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret theft and advertising litigation, and they excel in large scale, bet-the-company cases. We have significant expertise in the facilities in which IP cases typically take place, and we combat actions before juries, judges and arbitrators in state courts, district courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and India. We have been and continue to be proficiently successful in such facilities.
Furthermore, we have over seventy-five attorneys solely committed to negotiating, constructing and finalising complicated transactions resulting from innovation or technical opportunities, including joint ventures, strategic partnerships, licences, outsourcing, collaborations and other strategic commercial pacts. As we represent clients varying from major corporations to middle-market corporations to expanding businesses, we have an extensive perception of business dealings from many perspectives and completely comprehend all involved parties' distinct demands when it comes to a particular transaction.
1. Advertising, Marketing & Promotions
2. Copyright Litigation & Counseling
3. Cybersecurity & Data Privacy
4. Internet & Social Media
5. ITC Section 337 Proceedings
6. Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
7. Licensing
8. Life Sciences Intellectual Property
9. Open Source Software
10. Patent Infringement Litigation
11. Patent Office Post-Grant Proceedings
12. Sourcing & Information Technology
13. Technology & IP Transactions
14. Trade Secrets Litigation
15. Trademark Litigation & Counseling
LAWINKING's Global Restructuring Practice offers clients unmatched experience in cross-border restructuring matters. Our team of experienced professionals has advised on some of the most complex engagements in recent history. We provide our clients with top-tier legal advice in distressed, restructuring and insolvency matters and carefully consider legal, regulatory and practical issues in all relevant jurisdictions.
Within Europe, LAWINKING's restructuring team, based in London and Munich, has extensive knowledge of European legal and jurisdictional variances, and provides premier legal advice on European restructuring and insolvency matters. Our experience allows us to anticipate how issues in one country may impact those in another, enabling us to deliver global advice to our clients.
In Asia, LAWINKING's attorneys have an established track record of providing quick and commercial solutions in jurisdictions across the Asia-Pacific region. We offer counsel on indebtedness matters such as debt rescheduling and refinancing, workouts and restructurings, debt trading, distressed acquisitions and funding, receivership and liquidations, shareholder disputes, directors' duties, and reorganization processes.
Our team has substantial experience in domestic and international commercial and investor-state arbitrations across multiple industries.
At LAWINKING, we guide clients through each stage of their cross-border disputes, from formulating risk mitigation strategies to efficiently executing successful settlement negotiations, handling complex arbitrations, and enforcing and executing arbitral awards in courts worldwide. Our practice is dynamic and commercially focused, and our language capability, cultural proficiency, and diverse legal knowledge enables us to accurately assess the complexities of any dispute and present our clients with the best options to achieve their commercial objectives.
We provide representation to clients in major international commercial arbitrations under the rules of major arbitral organizations such as the ICC, ICDR, LCIA, HKIAC, PCA, SIAC and the SCC, as well as ad-hoc arbitrations. We also regularly represent investors and states or state entities in investor-state arbitrations conducted under the rules of ICSID and ad-hoc UNCITRAL Rules arbitrations.
Ultimately, our goal is to deliver end-to-end solutions that put our clients in the optimum position to effectively tackle their cross-border legal risks and gain the most beneficial results.
1. INVESTMENT STRUCTURING -
a.) Advice to obtain maximum available protection under international law, including bilateral, multilateral and regional treaties.
b.) Coordination with corporate and tax departments to obtain maximum commercial and tax benefits.
c.) Market, economic, political and litigation risk assessment.
d.) Dispute resolution agreement drafting.
2. STRATEGY & TACTICS -
a.) Holistic approach to dispute resolution, from the early stages of a potential dispute, assessing alternative solutions to prevent the dispute from elevating, with the commercial goals of our clients at the forefront of our actions.
b.) Dynamic, innovative and proactive strategic dispute resolution counselling in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
c.) Proactive approach to protecting client’s legal position.
d.) Effective negotiation and early settlement strategy.
3. DISPUTE RESOLUTION -
a.) Analyzing alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to obtain speedy and positive results.
b.) Devising effective case strategy for business context.
c.) Deep experience in bringing and defending international commercial and investor-state arbitrations.
d.) Extensive experience in multi-forum, multi-proceedings disputes.
e.) Successful tracing of assets and enforcement of awards globally,
f.) Deep experience in handling and managing collateral and related global litigation.
4. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION EXPERIENCE -
a.) Representation of a leading Russian industrial group in a US$47 billion LCIA arbitration. The dispute concerned a shareholder dispute in a major Russian entity.
b.) Representation of a publically traded biotech company in an ICDR arbitration against a Brazilian supplier involving contract and IP issues with parallel injunctive proceedings in the US courts.
c.) Representation of a leading Russian industrial group in a US$100 million LCIA arbitration. The dispute concerned a valuation agreement.
d.) Representation of a Mexican financial group and its controlling shareholders against a Spanish bank in an ICC arbitration conducted in Spanish. The claims arise out of breaches of shareholder and investment agreements governing reciprocal investments between the parties.
e.) Representation of an Asian alternative investment management firm in a SIAC arbitration commenced by two Singaporean individuals in connection with an investment in Asia. Representation includes related proceedings in the courts of the BVI, Singapore, and Thailand.
f.) Representation of a multinational insurance company in an ICC arbitration arising out of an M&A transaction in the Brazilian health insurance industry, conducted fully in Portuguese.
g.) Representation of a European real estate company in a series of post-acquisition international arbitration disputes (ICC and LCIA) involving a multitude of claims and cross claims of several billion Euro arising out of transactions in a number of jurisdictions worldwide.
h.) Representation of a North American pension fund in relation to a US$200 million HKIAC arbitration regarding an infrastructure investment in mainland China. Representation includes freezing injunction proceedings in Hong Kong, Cayman and the BVI.
i.) Representation of a Middle Eastern publicly traded company in an ICC arbitration against an African Government on claims arising out of a customs modernisation contract, including a multi-million dollar award and successful enforcement through the English High Court. Representation included a freezing order on the African state’s assets that secured full settlement of the award.
j.) Representation of one of the world’s largest electronics companies in a complex multijurisdictional billion dollar dispute that also included proceedings in France, Germany and the U.S.
5. INVESTOR-STATE ARBITRATION EXPERIENCE -
a.) Extensive experience in providing strategic advice to investors in connection with investment protection relating to direct and indirect expropriations, including in a recent Central American multi-billion dollar infrastructure project.
b.) Substantial experience in advising international investors from a large number of backgrounds and industry sectors in connection with potential investment arbitrations against Middle Eastern, African, and Asian states.
For decades, our International Risk and Investigations team at LAWINKING has successfully represented private equity firms, alternative asset management firms, and multinational public and private businesses on their most pressing international risks.
Our global team, deep understanding of the regulatory environment, and expansive industry experience positions us to successfully partner with clients in their most sensitive and complex multi-faceted investigations and compliance needs. We utilize a risk-based approach to handling global and in-country risk assessments, and our attorneys have spearheaded hundreds of high-profile investigations and compliance reviews across regions, languages and industries, involving both civil and criminal components. We have substantial experience handling actions in jurisdictions across the U.S. as well as those initiated by foreign regulatory agencies.
Our team of former government officials and prosecutors is widely renowned for their capabilities in corporate governance and enforcement actions. This positions us to tackle the primary and collateral consequences of government investigations.
1. Anti-corruption and bribery
2. Anti-money laundering
3. Economic sanctions
4. Import/Export controls and customs
5. Cross-border fraud
Our International Trade & National Security Practice provides strategic and legal advice to companies, investment funds and financial institutions doing business across international borders.
Our team has decades of combined experience in working with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), U.S., UK and EU economic sanctions (OFAC), U.S. and EU export controls (ITAR, EAR), imports and trade agreements, anticorruption (FCPA, UK Bribery Act), anti-money laundering (AML) and related areas.
Our lawyers in Washington D.C., with local presence in the U.S., Europe and Asia, offer advice related to corporate transactions, strategic risk advisory and management, compliance and licensing, and investigation and enforcement matters.
Our integrated “One-Stop” International offering offers comprehensive advice on relevant U.S. and EU laws and regulations, and we play an active role in contributing to the policy dialoguearound international trade and national security issues.
Lawinking's capabilities are inspired by the perspectives of former senior U.S. government officials and our well-rounded expertise stretches across more than 180 countries.
1. CFIUS & GLOBAL NATIONAL SECURITY REVIEWS
2. U.S. & EU ECONOMIC SANCTIONS
3. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER & EXPORT CONTROLS
4. IMPORTS & TRADE AGREEMENTS
5. FCPA, UK BRIBERY ACT & ANTICORRUPTION
6. ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING
7. CYBERSECURITY, DATA SECURITY & PRIVACY
CAPABILITIES
Corporate Transactions -
Our attorneys advise companies, private equity sponsors, and financial institutions on international trade and national security risk assessments in conjunction with investments, offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. We craft and implement mitigation plans and mitigation agreements, such as industrial security instruments, to mitigate national security risk posed by transactions, and advocate for regulatory clearance before CFIUS. We also help assess the export control sensitivity of technology, licenses and authorizations that may be required for a foreign acquisition -- or to make a company “exit ready.”
Strategic Risk Advisory and Management -
Our team has cross-cutting multi-disciplinary international trade and national security knowledge, and collectively over 100 years of experience counseling clients before the U.S. government on these matters. This includes helping clients navigate the complex policy, political and legal framework governing international business activities and providing clients proactive, risk-tailored, and efficient strategies that take into account their business model, value chain and commercial objectives.
Compliance and Licensing -
Our team works with clients on all aspects of compliance with U.S., UK and EU economic sanctions and export controls (ITAR, EAR), including helping clients secure licenses from administering agencies, and developing and implementing compliance programs, guidelines, and training programs.
Investigations and Enforcement -
We regularly assist clients on mandates involving internal or government investigations. Our attorneys are particularly well-positioned to help clients before the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC).
LAWINKING specializes in copyright disputes related to video games, software and social media. Our attorneys guide clients on the legal, regulatory and policy issues of social media, helping to manage and minimize potential risks from its use. We are also experienced in representing clients in Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) matters, including safe harbors, website terms and conditions, and enforcement issues.
We monitor and enforce clients’ IP rights worldwide, as well as litigate cases involving infringing websites, trademarks, trade names and other deemed intellectual property violations.
Our Advertising, Marketing & Promotions attorneys also review online advertisements and advise on the use of social media influencers in modern advertising. We are experienced in various Internet contract issues, from website development to hyperlinking to banner ads to e-commerce agreements.
At LAWINKING, we provide a comprehensive approach to copyright, trademark, Internet and social media, and false advertising needs. To learn more, please reference our Copyright, Trademark, Internet & Advertising (CTIA) brochure.
1. Intellectual Property Advertising
2. Marketing & Promotions
3. Copyright Litigation
4. Counseling
At LAWINKING, our global team of experts are uniquely positioned to provide superior market intelligence and leading solutions to investment funds and their general partner sponsors.
Our clients include some of the world's largest alternative asset managers and financial institutions to independent boutiques and first-time fund sponsors. Additionally, we are proud to serve a wide variety of institutional investors, such as sovereign wealth funds, family offices, corporations, and other participants in private funds. With decades of collective experience, our knowledgeable lawyers are committed to addressing the legal and tax implications, regulations and commercial needs of our investment fund clients.
With a team of attorneys in North America, Europe and Asia, we have established a global footprint, offering comprehensive services, including:
1. Private fund formation
2. Liquidity solutions
3. Investment management and regulatory counsel and support
4. Strategic GP advisory
We offer a deep regulatory bench with a wealth of global experience. Several of our attorneys have held senior, policy-making and enforcement positions in the key regulatory agencies governing the industry. This on-the-ground experience allows us to help clients implement customized, practical strategies.
For more than 30 years, our lawyers have implemented LAWINKING's trial-ready perspective in supporting both complainants and respondents in U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) matters. Section 337 by the ITC allows owners of U.S. intellectual property-related rights, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, to seek to block infringing products from entering the U.S. Notably, the ITC is a popular chosen outlet for large-scale, complicated, and global IP conflicts due to its swift and powerful solutions.
With our nationally prominent IP litigation attorneys, we bring the knowledge and resources necessary to adequately dispense cases before the ITC, with understanding of the distinct procedures and challenges that must be taken into account for a successful experience. Our group has worked on various scenarios and technologies at the ITC, attaining a great number of precedence rulings for our customers. These accomplishments include the first temporary exclusion order, litigating the largest Section 337 case ever documented, and taking part in the sole two hearings before the whole Commission in the last decade.
Our ample team of lawyers grasps practical expertise in advancing ITC cases to their conclusion, alongside the management of appeals and the enforcement of exclusion orders with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Additionally, our attorneys have great involvement in parallel proceedings involved ITC, U.S. district courts, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
Our attorneys at LAWINKING are experienced in providing clients with guidance regarding strategic alliances that have become an essential tool in achieving corporate objectives. Strategic alliances refer to a broad array of competitive collaborations among businesses, which can take the form of stand-alone joint ventures that create new entities, cross-equity or minority equity investments, teaming arrangements, licensing agreements, product development or manufacturing/marketing alliances.
Our strategic alliance practice requires a variety of professionals in order to properly structure these complex arrangements. In addition to legal and tax counsel, our experienced professionals also include those knowledgeable in antitrust, intellectual property and other disciplines. At LAWINKING, we understand that, for a strategic alliance to be successful, ongoing dialogue and cooperation must be fostered between involved parties. Therefore, our attorneys work to structure alliances that incentivize cooperation and establish safeguards for the benefit of our clients.
Our experience in both domestic and international strategic alliances is extensive and involves a variety of IP disciplines and industries including computer, telecommunications, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, electronics and financial services.
We represent clients in the following categories of transactions:
1. Equity joint ventures and contractual alliances to develop, manufacture and market new products and technology and offer new services;
2. R&D collaborations and joint development arrangements;
3. Manufacturing joint ventures;
4. Distribution joint ventures;
5. Marketing and co-branding arrangements;
6. Consortia to develop new standards;
Outsourcing of technology and business process functions; and
7. Spin-offs coupled with ongoing provision of services or products.
LAWINKING specializes in providing strategic advice and transaction expertise to facilitate complex liability management and credit investment activities. Our experienced team, which integrates top-tier M&A, debt finance and capital markets practices, are well-positioned to develop customized capital structure solutions in order to maximize the enterprise value for all stakeholders.
Our professionals are adept at analyzing and reviewing the financial challenges of our clients and offering non-conventional solutions to resolve them. We are experienced in supplying advice in up-tiers, drop-downs, tender offers, exchange offers, amend & extends, and related transactions, as well as in crafting credit investments tailored to fit the situation. As such, our services are sought after by credit funds, hedge funds, asset managers, and alternative capital providers for the structuring, negotiating, and executing of their investments.
At LAWINKING, we strive to provide the most cutting-edge advice available, resulting in the best possible outcome for clients. We understand the importance of timely delivery and efficient tactics and apply our expertise into a comprehensive strategy that can navigate any situation.
Liability Management -
LAWINKING has extensive experience in developing and implementing liability management alternatives that help to otherwise avoid the costly and attendant consequences of more formal restructurings. Our team offers cutting-edge, customized capital structure solutions to companies. In a thoughtful and coordinated manner, we work with management and boards to understand and evaluate the financial challenges facing our clients in order to organize and tactically move parties to a desired result. We strategically analyze all available alternatives for maximizing the value of the enterprise and develop bespoke, non-conventional solutions for our clients. Our cross-disciplinary team has deep experience in up-tiers, drop-downs, tender offers, exchange offers, amend & extends, and related transactions that can extend runway, preserve equity value, and take advantage of below par debt prices. Whether a drop-down or an uptiering transaction structure, we are adept at facilitating discussions with creditors to maximize value for all stakeholders and have advised on many of most complex and high profile liability management exercises in recent years.
Credit Opportunities -
Our market-leading capabilities in special situations, liability management and restructuring transactions, draw credit investors to LAWINKING to provide tailored, innovative capital and liquidity solutions in stressed, distressed and event-driven situations. With the Firm’s sizeable deal flow, a deep understanding of the diverse array of private debt strategies, and an appreciation for the core principles of credit risk management, Kirkland is uniquely situated to bring creative solutions to clients investing in complex situations. When advising on strategic capital strategies — such as highly structured debt, equity and convertible instruments — LAWINKING focuses on helping credit funds, hedge funds, asset managers and other alternative capital providers, structure and execute investments that fit the situation. By bringing together LAWINKING’s market-leading debt finance, private equity and M&A, restructuring, capital markets, and investment funds practices, we bring unmatched collective insight to structuring, negotiating and executing a wide array of nontraditional capital solutions from investment to exit.
LAWINKING's intellectual property litigation attorneys have extensive experience in representing life sciences clients in high stakes patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation cases. Our attorneys have handled cases encompassing a range of biomedical fields, including pharmaceuticals, biologics and biosimilars, antibodies, immunotherapies, vaccines, diagnostics, gene expression, protein synthesis, DNA cloning and sequencing, and medical devices. Our bench and jury trial record is impressive in these sophisticated cases and we have a strong appellate practice structure to protect our clients' achievements. Additionally, our attorneys provide thoughtful advice on patent and product life cycles.
More than a third of LAWINKING's intellectual property group possess relevant scientific backgrounds, such as biology, chemistry, biophysics, microbiology, biochemistry, bioengineering, genetics, physiology, and neuroscience. We deploy our diversified professionals to assist our clients in developing sound commercialization or litigation strategies.
Our attorneys have vast experience helping both licensors and licensees of intangible assets and connected intellectual property rights. These matters include licenses relating to patents, technology, copyrights, brands, trade dress, content, data, databases, and software. We are experienced in licenses with complex features, such as mission-critical technology or intangible assets with significant potential for commercialization. We understand the commercial and legal interests of both the owners/licensors and the licensees, which usually coincide but may occasionally vary depending on the licensed asset's nature, commercialization possibilities, and the parties' relative economic and timeline positions. We are also adept at analyzing and planning for the legal implications of related fields on licenses, including taxation, antitrust, and bankruptcy regulations.
1. PATENT
2. TRADEMARK & BRAND
3. COPYRIGHT & CONTENT
4. DATABASE & DATABASE AGREEMENTS
5. SOFTWARE
LAWINKING's Investment Funds Practice Group offers market-leading liquidity solutions to its clients. The Group has a deep understanding of alternative fund products, and a specialized team of multidisciplinary lawyers that provides advice to fund sponsors, buyers, sellers, management teams, financial advisors and fairness opinion providers. LAWINKING has been a leader in the evolution of the liquidity solutions space in the U.S., Europe and Asia since the early 2000s, and its experience has enabled it to remain at the top of the secondaries market volume (source: Private Equity International). The firm has a global platform of attorneys in each discipline, including tax, regulatory and M&A that are experienced in providing sophisticated legal advice and novel solutions for all types of strategies and fund products. LAWINKING also has an extensive network of contacts and proprietary databases that enable its clients to benefit from timely market insights.
LAWINKING’s Investment Funds attorneys have extensive experience innovating and executing a broad spectrum of liquidity transactions including:
1. traditional LP portfolio sales
2. Fund recapitalizations and restructurings
3. Formation of continuation funds
4. Structured and synthetic secondaries
5. Fund-level and GP-level preferred equity investments
6. NAV facilities
7. Tender offers
8. Investments in fund sponsors
Our team at LAWINKING consists of over 650 attorneys worldwide, who represent clients in courts and administrative tribunals, across federal and state levels, and through arbitrations and other dispute resolution proceedings. We specialize in a variety of business segments and substantive areas, including accountant liability, antitrust & competition, class action, mass tort & toxic tort, construction, consumer fraud, ERISA/benefits, franchise & distribution, insurance coverage, international arbitration, product liability, and securities & shareholder litigation.
Our attorneys focus on client's concerns and strive to anticipate their needs. Our goal is to deliver above and beyond the client's expectations. This is done by working hard to achieve the best results, whether obtained through verdicts in court, or through negotiations at the bargaining table. By preparing fully for trials, our team is able to identify major issues early on and use them to gain advantage in litigation or exchange.
We have a proven track record of success when it comes to achieving favorable outcomes for our clients at trial or through verdict. Our team is dedicated to providing cost-efficient and reliable representation.
1. Antitrust & Competition
2. Appeals
3. Class Action Litigation
4. Congressional Investigations
5. Consumer Protection
6. Crisis Response
7. Cybersecurity & Data Privacy
8. e-Discovery Strategy
9. Employment Litigation & Counseling
10. Engineering & Construction Litigation
11. Environmental
12. Financial Technology “FinTech”
13. Government Contracts
14. Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations
15. Insurance Litigation
16. International Arbitration
17. International Risk & Investigations
18. M&A Litigation
19. Product Liability
20. Securities & Futures Enforcement
21. Securities Litigation
22. Tax Disputes
23. Trade Secrets Litigation
24. Trials
25. Workplace Compliance & Investigations
LAWINKING is at the pinnacle of corporate governance and M&A litigation. Our lawyers provide pre-litigation advice for devising deal structures and tactical approaches, and have a successful history of achieving beneficial results at court hearings. Our litigators' expertise encompasses claims arising from mergers and acquisitions, activist shareholders, proxy contests, tender offers, leveraged buyouts, and SPAC transactions (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies). This includes matters concerning failed deals, material adverse change conditions, corporate protective measures (such as poison pills), breach of contract, adjustment of financial payment, books and records requests, appraisal rights, and stockholder derivative lawsuits.
LAWINKING attorneys have seen favorable outcomes in many noteworthy corporate cases, including those where rulings were precedent-setting or were decided at trial. Our litigators are knowledgeable in Delaware Court of Chancery, New York state and federal courts, and other state and federal courts across the US. We specialize in litigation involving several judicial regions, and fast proceedings, including requests for preliminary or emergency injunctive relief and damage claims. Due to our strong history in this area and proven capability, LAWINKING litigators are frequently retained to handle conflicts involving deals directed by other law offices.
LAWINKING's Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group is renowned for its successful representation of public and private companies, financial sponsors, boards of directors, and financial advisors in cutting-edge and high-profile M&A transactions. Our team continues to demonstrate top-tier performance in number and value of deals, assisted by creative approaches to complex scenarios.
From multijurisdictional transactions to simple acquisitions, we carefully consider all aspects of a deal, offering our clients professional counsel and comprehensive services. Our talented lawyers honed their expertise in tax, finance, antitrust, intellectual property, regulation, and executive compensation, offering full-service M&A counseling across all major markets.
Clients trust LAWINKING for solutions to governance matters like activist shareholders, as well as strategic guidance in emerging markets. Importantly, beyond providing far-reaching legal expertise, our team is also devoted to exemplary client service and long-term relationships.
Due to our commitment to quality of work and dedication to client satisfaction, our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group is a much sought-after choice for legal services in the M&A realm.
LAWINKING provides expert guidance in open source software license issues. Our experienced attorneys understand the complexities of open source technology and ensure that their clients are informed of and compliant with open source licensing requirements. We offer a comprehensive suite of open source services, including conflict resolution analysis, software pedigree review, and software license compliance audits.
Our open source practice provides clients with practical solutions for mitigating identified open source risks. This includes offering risk mitigation counsel such as dual licensing, structuring and overseeing clean room development, developing open source policies and training programs, and licensing source code under open source licenses.
Our legal team is comprised of attorneys with backgrounds in computer-related legal and technical fields, and we employ a deep knowledge of intellectual property, corporate law, antitrust and competition, international law, and regulatory and administrative law to transactions, counseling, and litigation relating to software code, licensing, and other information technology matters.
1. Joint Ventures
2. License Development
3. Litigation
4. Government Contracts
5. M&A
6. Distribution of Software
7. Application of Open Source Ideas Outside of Software
LAWINKING frequently assists companies facing distressed or difficult situations. Leveraging its experience with both in- and out-of-court restructurings, the restructuring group's goal is to achieve successful solutions for clients. The path chosen—be it in- or out-of-court—varies based on the particular challenges the company faces; however, helping clients reach consensus, and often times a successful out-of-court resolution, is always the goal. The firm's reputation as a debtor's counsel in Chapter 11 proceedings provides it with a unique understanding of the pros and cons of an in-court approach and it works with clients to determine the optimal route.
Other than engaging with the judicial system, LAWINKING works with clients on out-of-court arrangements such as exchange offers, refinancings, venture capital financing, debt conversions, creditor compromises, assignments for the benefit of creditors, and strategic mergers and sales. The team endeavors to efficiently address clients' circumstances without the necessity of court-supervised proceedings.
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