Chicago
Duane Morris LLP
Suite 3700
190 South LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60603-3433
USA
Phone: 312.499.6700
Fax: 312.499.6701
The Chicago office of Duane Morris provides a broad array of services to organizations in a wide range of industries, with a client base that includes Fortune 500 companies, privately held middle-market companies, emerging growth companies and entrepreneurs. The intensity and experience of the senior attorneys in the Chicago office, much of it enhanced by prior positions with city, state and federal legal departments and as corporate counsel to large companies, help fuel the energetic atmosphere that sets the firm apart in the highly competitive Chicago legal arena.
Range of Services
Complex Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Members of the Trial Practice Group in the Chicago office have been involved in litigation in an array of areas, including securities and commercial disputes, professional liability and intellectual property, products liability and real estate controversies. Duane Morris' litigators often represent insurance companies and work closely with the firm's corporate and bankruptcy lawyers in the representation of financial institutions. In addition to representing clients in U.S. forums and before international tribunals, we also provide counsel on settling disputes without conventional litigation by using alternative dispute resolution and advise on methods to anticipate and avoid litigation.
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 municipal, project and structured finance transactions. The firm's lawyers have extensive experience with the financing of affordable housing and public projects, as well as 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.
Real Estate Law
Duane Morris' real estate lawyers in the Chicago office represent a broad range of high-profile institutional and individual clients in all aspects of real estate transactions and related matters. Our practice handles real estate acquisitions and dispositions, financings, workouts and restructurings, development, leasing, land use and zoning issues.
Tax
The attorneys in the firm's Tax Practice Group work closely with our corporate and finance lawyers to structure and effectuate complex transactions from a tax perspective. Many of our lawyers routinely lecture and publish in their fields, and serve as consultants to other professional advisors.
Estates and Asset Planning
Our Estates and Asset Planning Practice Group represents a broad range of closely held business owners and other high-net-worth individuals with respect to their personal and professional planning. Duane Morris provides estates, trusts, asset planning and related litigation services to individuals, business owners, charitable organizations and fiduciaries. In each relationship with our clients, we work to minimize tax exposure and implement creative strategies to preserve capital and transfer resources within the client's family and to next generations if so desired by our clients.
Bankruptcy and Reorganization
Lawyers in our Reorganization Practice Group work in tandem with each client, whether debtor, trustee, lender or other creditor, to determine the best strategy for seeking maximum value from a troubled entity, while simultaneously meeting each client's goals. Clients draw on the firm's extensive reorganization experience gained during its involvement in many of the largest restructurings of the past three decades.
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.
Employment and Labor Law
Duane Morris lawyers advise employers of all sizes in such areas as equal employment opportunity compliance and litigation, statutory compliance and litigation defense, and employment termination, as well as a full range of labor relations services. Our lawyers emphasize policies to prevent employment problems through our problem prevention programs and services.
Healthcare Law
Our Healthcare Practice Group represents a wide range of healthcare providers in regulatory, transactional and litigation matters. Our clients include providers such as hospitals, nursing facilities, assisted living centers, ambulatory surgery facilities and physician groups, as well as ancillary practice providers such as physical therapists, occupational therapists, massage therapists and dentists. Our lawyers provide a full range of legal services to the operators of health facilities and providers of healthcare in all phases of their operations. We also represent nonprofit corporations providing healthcare and related services.
Financial Markets
The firm's Financial Markets Practice Group works with our Trial and Corporate practices to 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.
Intellectual Property
Duane Morris' intellectual property lawyers recognize the importance of our clients' intellectual capital to the success of their business and are available to work with clients to uphold intellectual property rights to increase opportunities for our clients to endeavor to enhance market share. Our experience includes trademark and copyright, patent matters and brand protection, domestic and international.
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 media has recognized that Duane Morris lawyers in Chicago are "renowned for real estate finance and secured and unsecured lender work." 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.
For More Information
For more information, please contact David B. Yelin or any of the lawyers referenced in the Attorney Listing.