Established 1866
Tel: +1-212-530-5000
Website: www.milbank.com
Practice Areas: • Bankruptcy • Insurance • Antitrust • Intellectual Property • White Collar Crime • International Arbitration • General Commercial • Securities
Office Locations: New York, São Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, Washington, D.C., Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich
Milbank LLP is a leading international law firm providing innovative legal solutions to clients throughout the world for over 150 years. Milbank is headquartered in New York and has offices in Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Munich, São Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, DC.
The firm’s lawyers provide a full range of legal services to the world’s leading commercial, financial and industrial enterprises, as well as to institutions, individuals and governments. Milbank’s lawyers meet the needs of our clients by offering a highly integrated and collaborative range of services across key practice groups throughout our global network. Milbank’s integrated practice is underpinned by our attorneys’ acknowledged technical excellence, sectoral expertise and a strong tradition of innovation and client service.
Milbank’s key areas of practice include: Corporate, Finance, Financial Restructuring, Litigation and Arbitration, Securities, Tax, and Trusts, Estates and Exempt Organizations. Milbank’s lawyers have extensive experience in particular industries, including: Aviation, Biotechnology, Finance, Gaming, Healthcare, Hospitality, Infrastructure, Mining and Metals, Oil and Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Power and Energy, Renewable Energy, Space and Satellite, Technology, and Telecommunications.
Litigation:
With over 30 litigation partners and nearly 200 attorneys, Milbank litigators serve as lead counsel in some of the largest, most significant and highest profile disputes in the world. The Firm regularly represents clients in “bet the company” cases ranging from multi-jurisdiction securities litigations to white collar/regulatory investigations to complex disputes involving intellectual property, international arbitration, insurance, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust, and other commercial litigation.
The attorneys in Milbank’s Litigation Department pride themselves on being trial lawyers. We frequently try cases in federal and state courts throughout the country, and before domestic and international arbitral tribunals in many different kinds of matters. Our lawyers have tried prominent cases involving federal securities laws, patent infringement, corporate control contests, accounting fraud and financial restructuring.
We tailor our strategies to each client’s goals and risks. Crucial to our Firm’s effective representation of clients is our development, at the outset of a case, of an approach that will maximize a client’s likelihood of success and reduce its risk exposure. Our department has the ability to respond to a crisis facing a client by assembling an integrated team of attorneys who are able to explore a wide range of strategic alternatives, from pursuing a consensual resolution to seeking immediate recourse to courts, where appropriate.
We routinely represent major US and non-US corporations. Clients of note include: Ambac Assurance, American Renal Associates, Atrium Holding Company, Auven Therapeutics, AXA, Broadcast Music, Inc., Bloomberry Resorts and Hotels, Inc., Cerberus Capital Management, Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Helix Generation, LLC, JPMorgan Chase, Lincoln Financial, Morgan Stanley, Rabobank and VEREIT.
Our Worldwide Offices
Beijing
Unit 06, 15th Floor, Tower 2,
79 Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100025, China
T: +8610-5969-2700
Frankfurt
Neue Mainzer Straße 74, Frankfurt am Main 60311, Germany
T: +49-69-71914-3400
Hong Kong
30th Floor Alexandra House, 18 Chater Road, Central, Hong Kong
T: +852-2971-4888
London
10 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7JD, England
T: +44-20-7615-3000
Los Angeles
2029 Century Park East, 33rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067
T: +1-424-386-4000
Munich
Maximilianstrasse 15, (Maximilianhöfe), Munich 80539, Germany
T: +49-89-25559-3600
São Paulo
Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 4100, 5th Floor, 04538-132, São Paulo, Brazil
T: +55-11-3927-7700
Seoul
Foreign Legal Consultant Office Level 33, Three IFC ,
10 Gukjegeumyung-ro, Youngdeungpo-gu , Seoul 07326 Korea
T: +822-6137-2600
Singapore
12 Marina Boulevard, Marina Bay Financial Centre, #36-03 Tower 3, 018982 Singapore
T: +65-6428-2400
Tokyo
21F Midtown Tower, 9-7-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-6221, Japan
T: +813-5410-2801
Washington, DC
1850 K Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20006
T: +1-202-835-7500
Last Updated September 2019
Milbank
With domestic offices in New York, Washington, DC and Los Angeles, Milbank has a steady and uninterrupted ascent in its profile. “Milbank remains a force to be reckoned with,” confirms a peer. Another adds, “They occupy a space in the market that is kind of unique to them, a very interesting offering of practices.” Clients are equally appreciative, with one offering the plum accolade, “They have a deep bench of very skilled litigators that have actually gone to trial.
The firm’s LA office, and its intellectual property practice overall, got a significant boost in August 2019 when it lured a sizeable IP team from Irell & Manella to the firm’s bench. This includes the especially auspicious acquisition of David Gindler, a routinely revered patent and licensing partner. “This is big news,” offers a peer in the IP space. “Milbank definitely scored here, and their already strong IP team in New York is now complemented by a West Coast component.”
A member of the New York IP team, Errol Taylor, scored in the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for Tris Pharma in a lawsuit concerning patents that cover Tris's ADHD treatment. In November 2018, the appellate court cemented Taylor’s hard-fought victory. “Errol is underrated and deserves more notice,” ventures a peer. “He is just awesome.” In a particularly novel matter spanning IP and international arbitration, New York IP specialist Chris Gaspar and DC-based international arbitration partner Michael Nolan chalked up a win in March 2017, when the Federal Circuit affirmed a $450 million arbitration award on behalf of client Bayer CropScience in an international-level dispute concerning infringement of a patent on a gene used by farmers to modify their crops to withstand weed-killing herbicides. The two cemented that win with a December 2017 order from Supreme Court denying certiorari. Nolan also represented the Government of Mongolia, prevailing in an arbitration brought by Chinese state-owned entities pursuant to the investment-protection treaty between the two countries over Mongolia’s revocation of a license for the Chinese entities to mine a vast iron ore deposit. The leases were cancelled in 2006 after the Chinese entities allegedly breached Mongolian laws and the terms of the license. The Chinese entities sought to recoup their investment, as well as potential profits and arbitration costs. The tribunal’s issued a unanimous award as of June 2017, dismissing all claims. Nolan logged another win for the developers and owners of a 148.5-MW wind farm in northeast Mexico against a subsidiary of the Spanish conglomerate Abengoa. In the award issued in the summer of 2018, the Arbitral Tribunal ruled that Abengoa had breached its obligations as general contractor for the construction of the wind farm. In 2019, the Southern District of New York confirmed the award in favor of Nolan’s clients. Fellow New York partner and securities enforcement and white-collar practitioner, George Canellos, who returned to the firm in 2014 after a stint with the SEC, receives plentiful plaudits from peers. “George has really built a nice practice over there,” confirms one, who concedes, “More litigators should try to be like him, not just in his work but in his approach. You feel like you can trust him, he has immediate credibility.” Another peer reinforces this claim. “George is just fantastic - one of the best and most experienced enforcement lawyers you’ll find, and, it should be said, one of the nicest and most easygoing. That’s a rare find.” Canellos represents the founder and managing partner of a private equity firm in connection with a federal government investigation of insider trading activity in the securities of a semiconductor entity. In January 2019, the court rejected the prosecution's request for a sentence of between six and a half to eight years' imprisonment, and sentenced the client to just three months’ imprisonment. New York’s Dan Perry is representing Primero Mining in a putative securities class action in the Central District of California, related to the Canadian company’s allegedly false or misleading disclosures regarding its Mexican subsidiary, which allegedly harmed investors when the company’s share price dropped. The matter is currently on appeal in the Ninth Circuit. A client weighs in on Perry’s behalf, “Dan is a highly skilled trial lawyer who strikes the right balance of taking the time to understand the details/nuances of a matter or issue while still being efficient and mindful of costs. He also communicates well with the business side where necessary.”
Managing partner of the Washington, DC office, Andrew Leblanc was recently a part of the lead counsel team (which also included Dennis Dunne and Atara Miller) who achieved a significant victory on behalf of Ambac Assurance Corporation before the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in a case that threatened to derail Puerto Rico’s efforts to reach consensual resolutions with its creditors. This decision allows negotiations to move forward without the distraction of creditor litigation, and supports important principles concerning the application of the Bankruptcy Code’s automatic stay. Leblanc enjoys a unanimous reputation as one of the leading genuine bankruptcy litigators in the US. “Andy is the real deal,” confirms a competitor. “He’s not just a restructuring lawyer, he’s not a litigator who just dabbles in bankruptcy, he is a true insolvency court fighter. Other clients go out of their way to avoid him - they didn’t want him cross-examining their CEO!” One peer quips, “Andy Leblanc is the one bankruptcy litigator that I’m really worried about going up against.”
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Attorney | Ranking | Practice Area |
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Apps, Antonia | Future Star | |
Brod, Matthew | 40 & Under Hot List 2019 | Bankruptcy, Commercial and Transactions |
Canellos, George | National Practice Area Star, Local Litigation Star | General Commercial, Securities, White Collar Crime |
Cohen, David | Local Litigation Star | Bankruptcy |
Dunne, Dennis | National Practice Area Star, Local Litigation Star | Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Insolvency |
Edelman, Scott | National Practice Area Star, Local Litigation Star | General Commercial, Securities, White Collar Crime |
Fee, Adam | 40 & Under Hot List 2019, Future Star | Securities, White Collar Crime |
Fleck, Evan | National Practice Area Star, Local Litigation Star | Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Insolvency |
Gaspar, Christopher | Local Litigation Star, National Practice Area Star | Intellectual Property |
Gelfand, David | National Practice Area Star, Local Litigation Star | General Commercial, Securities |
Gindler, David I. | Local Litigation Star, National Practice Area Star | Intellectual Property |
Goldstein, Katherine | Future Star | |
Leblanc, Andrew | National Practice Area Star, Local Litigation Star | Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Insolvency |
Lees, Alexander | 40 & Under Hot List 2019 | Bankruptcy, Commercial and Transactions |
Marks, Jerry | Local Litigation Star | General Commercial |
Miller, Atara | 40 & Under Hot List 2019, Future Star | Bankruptcy, General Commercial |
Murphy, Sean | National Practice Area Star, Local Litigation Star | General Commercial, Insurance, Securities |
Nolan, Michael | Local Litigation Star, National Practice Area Star | International Arbitration |
Perry, Daniel | National Practice Area Star, Local Litigation Star | General Commercial, Securities, White Collar Crime |
Schaeffer, Fiona | National Practice Area Star, Local Litigation Star | Antitrust |
Schwartz, Jed | 40 & Under Hot List 2019 | Bankruptcy, General Commercial, Securities |
Stone, Alan | Local Litigation Star | Bankruptcy, General Commercial |
Taylor, Errol | Local Litigation Star, National Practice Area Star | Intellectual Property |
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