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Bingham McCutchen LLP
HeadquartersBoston, Massachusetts
No. of offices14
No. of attorneysapproximately 1,000
No. of employeesapproximately 870[1]
Major practice areasFinancial restructuring, securities, litigation, private equity, corporate finance, government affairs
Key peopleJay S. Zimmerman (Chairman)[1]
Date founded1891[2]
Company typeLimited Liability Partnership
WebsiteBingham.com

Bingham McCutchen LLP is an international law firm with approximately 1,000 attorneys in eleven US offices and three international offices.[3] It represents clients in corporate litigation, cross-border restructurings and insolvencies, financing and securities, government affairs and a wide variety of corporate and technology transactions.[4]

The law firm was named 41st best company to work for in the 2008 Fortune magazine article, "100 Best Companies to Work For."[5] This was the fourth consecutive year on the list for Bingham McCutchen, ranking 78th in 2005, 82nd in 2006, and 94th in 2007.[6] The firm has been awarded similar accolades by the San Francisco Chronicle and Boston Business Journal.[7][8]

Since 1997, the company has experienced sharp growth in the number of attorneys, offices, and revenues by absorbing other law firms.[2][9] Bingham McCutchen has offices in Boston, Hartford, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, Portland, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Walnut Creek, and Washington, D.C.[3] Its offices are mainly concentrated in the California and East Coast areas. It also offers consulting services through subsidiaries Bingham Consulting Group, Bingham Strategic Advisors and Bingham Sports Consulting.[2]

History

In the 1990s, old line Boston-based firm Bingham, Dana & Gould embraced a growth strategy that would transform the firm from a regional heavyweight into a national and then international success story. In 1997, Bingham Dana acquired internationally-focused boutique law firm Marks & Murase with its list of Japanese clients. Bingham Dana opened in New York City with the 25-lawyer team from Marks. Then the next outpost was established in Hartford, Connecticut through a merger with 55-lawyer Hebb & Gitlin, a firm that concentrated on international bankruptcy work. In 2001, Bingham Dana bulked up in New York City through a merger with Richards & O'Neill, a boutique law firm of 55 attorneys known for its litigation and Japanese practice groups. The next year, in 2002, Bingham Dana merged with San Francisco-based law firm McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen to form 800-lawyer strong Bingham McCutchen. McCutchen Doyle brought 10 offices and a strong litigation and intellectual property focus as well as offices in London, Singapore and on the West Coast. In 2003, the firm expanded in Southern California by merging with corporate boutique Riordan & McKinzie. It also welcomed a group of lawyers in its San Francisco office from disbanding Chicago firm Altheimer & Gray. In order to build a more sophisticated hedge fund practice, Bingham raided rival Bryan Cave for a team of attorneys who joined the New York office in 2005. Further lateral teams arrived from Morrison & Foerster and DLA Piper. More recently, 2006 saw a merger between Bingham McCutchen and Swidler Berlin, a Washington, D.C.-based firm which brought greater capabilities in the nation's capital as well as a strong regulatory group. Bingham also launched in Hong Kong that same year. In 2007, the firm acquired Los Angeles litigation shop Alschuler Grossman and merged with two Tokyo-based firms to build one of the largest US presences in the Japanese capital.

Notable Mandates

  • Stephen M. Ross in his $1.1 billion purchase of 50% of the Miami Dolphins franchise and Dolphin Stadium.
  • The Ad Hoc Committee of Senior Secured Lenders who held nearly $1.6 billion in Delta Air Lines' secured debt backed by its aircraft in the company's Chapter 11 restructuring. Jane's Transport Finance awarded Bingham its Airline Restructuring Deal of the Year Award for the firm's role in Delta.
  • Appointed by the court, Hideyuki Sakai served as trustee in one of Japan's largest bankruptcy cases, the corporate reorganization of Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance Col, a leading Japanese company with more than 2.94 trillion yen (approximately $27 billion) in liabilities.
  • Platinum Equity LLC in numerous acquisitions and sales, including a $1.1 billion sale of PNA Group to Reliance Steel & Aluminum, and a $2 billion purchase of Ryerson Inc., a metals distributor and processor.
  • Cognos Inc. in its $5 billion acquisition by IBM Corp.
  • Bondholders committee in the €200 million restructuring of Schefenacker AG, a German auto parts maker.
  • Energy Investors Fund in the $850 million EIF Calypso power portfolio acquisition financing.
  • Filmmaker Michael Moore in a successful appeal of a defamation suit brought by a former soldier over the use of a television news interview clip in the documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11".
  • AT&T in its $47 billion acquisition by Cingular.
  • Time, Inc. in successful defense of a libel suit brought by a former bodyguard of Madonna over claims about him in her biography.

Guantanamo captive representation

Susan Baker Manning and Sabin Willett both played a lead role in the efforts to provide legal assistance to captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[10][11][12][13][14] Manning and Willett have played roles in the challenges to the procedural flaws in captives Combatant Status Review Tribunals. They have also played a part in the challenges to the extrajudicial detention of captives in American custody in the Bagram Theater detention facility outside of Kabul.

Notable people

Stan "The Man" Bindman

Offices

References

  1. ^ a b "Bingham McCutchen - Company Overview - Hoover's". Hoover's, Inc.
  2. ^ a b c "Bingham McCutchen - Company Description - Hoover's". Hoover's, Inc.
  3. ^ a b "Bingham McCutchen | Offices". Bingham web site. Retrieved 2008-01-16.
  4. ^ "LawPeriscope - Bingham McCutchen LLP". LawPeriscope.
  5. ^ "100 Best Companies to Work For 2007: Bingham McCutchen snapshot | FORTUNE". CNN Money.
  6. ^ "100 Best Companies to Work For: Bingham McCutchen". CNN Money.
  7. ^ "Boston Business Journal, Best Places to Work".
  8. ^ "Employers of Excellence / #1 Large-Size Company Award Winner: Bingham McCutchen". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-01-16. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. ^ "Charting Our Growth". Bingham web site. Retrieved 2008-01-16.
  10. ^ William Glaberson (Wednesday, September 12, 2007). "Officials Cite Danger in Revealing Detainee Data". New York Times. p. A18. Retrieved 2007-09-12. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ Josh White (Saturday, December 24, 2005). "Detainees Face Limited Access to Courts: But Bill Awaiting Bush Signature Would Shield Terror Suspects from U.S. Abuse". Washington Post. pp. page A04. Retrieved 2008-01-05. {{cite news}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ Sabin Willett (Wednesday, September 27, 2006). "The Innocent Man at Guantanamo". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 2008-01-19. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ P. Sabin Willett (Monday, November 14, 2005). "Detainees Deserve Court Trials". Washington Post. pp. A21. Retrieved 2008-01-19. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  14. ^ Sabin Willett (December 3, 2007). "I will never leave Guantanamo". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2008-01-19. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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