Baltimore
Duane Morris LLP
Suite 2000
111 South Calvert Street
Baltimore, MD 21202-6114
USA
Phone: 410.949.2900
Fax: 410.949.2901
Duane Morris' global expansion includes broadening its presence in the United States by growing its existing offices and making strategic entries into new markets, as evidenced by the opening of an office in Baltimore. The attorneys in Duane Morris' Baltimore office provide counsel and services to businesses in a wide range of industries, including the area's renowned medical and life sciences community and its growing high tech sector. From entrepreneurs and newly emerging businesses to financial institutions and multinational corporations, Duane Morris' Baltimore attorneys call upon their experience and the resources of one of the world's 100 largest law firms to serve clients locally and globally.
Range of Services
Corporate, Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions
Our corporate law attorneys advise early-stage and mature companies on a wide variety of corporate and securities matters. Members of our Corporate Practice Group are experienced with mergers and acquisitions, including negotiated acquisitions and divestitures, hostile acquisitions and defense against takeover attempts. Our lawyers regularly represent international clients in both domestic and transnational transactions. They are experienced with venture capital and private equity transactions and work with our entrepreneurial clients in developing and implementing creative strategies to accomplish their corporate finance and acquisition objectives. We also represent clients in a range of securities offerings and advise public companies on compliance with ongoing reporting obligations and other securities laws.
Complex Financial Transactions
Our attorneys represent clients in numerous types of transactions covering nearly every aspect of project and structured finance transactions. The firm's lawyers have extensive experience with financings involving corporations and financial institutions on a regional, national and international level. Our project and structured finance attorneys represent clients in acquisition financings, securitized and syndicated loans, and other complex finance transactions. In addition, the firm's lawyers are experienced in structuring and effectuating complex transactions from a tax perspective.
Information Technology and Telecommunications
Duane Morris has assembled a dedicated group of attorneys possessing specific industry knowledge and interdisciplinary skills to address the transactional, finance, regulatory and dispute resolution aspects of structuring and implementing a wide range of information technologies and telecommunications projects.
Banking and Financial Services
Duane Morris attorneys have represented banks, savings associations and their holding companies in jurisdictions across the U.S. and around the world. Our lawyers also have represented other providers of financial services, including investment banking and brokerage firms, commercial finance companies, insurance companies and credit unions in a broad range of regulatory, legislative and business law areas. The firm serves as counsel in a wide range of expansion and restructuring transactions, including domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, strategic divestitures, merger/conversion transactions, purchases and sales of branches and branch systems, product development, the pursuit of new powers and antitrust counseling and litigation.
Financial Markets
The firm's attorneys represent securities, futures and derivatives firms and professionals in these industries. We provide start-up services, assisting clients in registration and formation. We also counsel clients regarding regulatory compliance and enforcement, criminal investigations and related arbitration and litigation. We focus on problem prevention, including comprehensive reviews of clients' existing policies and procedures and regulatory-style examinations to detect inappropriate practices and help clients prepare for compliance audits.
For More Information
For more information, please contact Wilbert H. Sirota, George J. Nemphos or any of the lawyers referenced in the Attorney Listing.