Steptoe & Johnson LLP, USA, District of Columbia

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Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and professionals in offices in Beijing, Brussels, Century City, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix and Washington, D.C.

International Trade and Investment: With a leading international practice ranked in Tier 1 by Chambers, Steptoe is noted for its ability to develop and implement effective cross-border legal, policy and commercial strategies. The firm has long been involved in high-profile international trade cases, international trade policy and strategy, WTO and EU matters, as well as trade matters in China. It has a sophisticated counseling, compliance, and enforcement practice in FCPA and anti-corruption, antitrust, export controls, economic sanctions, anti-money laundering, customs, immigration, arbitration and CFIUS/foreign investment review.

Litigation: Steptoe is a leading international firm for complex litigation, arbitration and controversy work. A recent National Law Journal survey ranks Steptoe among the most often used outside litigation counsel for many Fortune 500 companies. The firm’s litigation experience includes insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, white-collar criminal defense, securities, toxic torts, tax controversy, mass torts, ERISA, labor and employment, government contracts, bankruptcy and class actions. Our antitrust and competition practice represents clients in merger and cartel investigations before governmental bodies in the U.S. and EU, as well as in China, Japan and Korea.

Energy, Environment and Natural Resources: Steptoe serves the needs of clients in energy (including major electric utilities, renewable power companies and pipelines); transportation (representing rail, motor and air carriers); natural resources (including mining, mineral leasing, forestry matters, endangered species and water rights); and clients with a full range of environmental and antitrust issues. We also represent clients across the main regulatory fields governed by U.S. and EU laws and have significant capability in government relations.

Telecommunications, Internet and Media: Steptoe is at the forefront of the era’s large Internet issues – open Internet rules that govern Internet access, efforts by content providers to control Internet distribution, privacy and cybersecurity. We also represent large satellite distributors and wireless companies in rulemakings and adjudications before the FCC and the federal courts.

Intellectual Property: Steptoe represents clients in patent litigation and prosecution as well as on trademark, copyright and licensing matters. Representing complainants and respondents, the firm has litigated a wide variety of Section 337 cases at the ITC, gaining a favorable result in every case taken to trial since 2004.

Business Solutions: Steptoe’s transactional and tax lawyers represent clients in complex financial transactions, including: cross-border and multi-party arrangements; mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures; public and private offerings of debt and equity securities; and bankruptcy and restructuring, as well as representation of issuers, underwriters and investors. Steptoe is known for international tax planning, compliance and controversy representations.

Government Affairs and Public Policy: Steptoe is known for its ability to fashion creative solutions to problems involving governmental entities, in the U.S. and in the EU.

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