Raleigh is North Carolina's capital, its second largest city, and one of the
fastest growing cities in the United States. With its proximity to major
universities and research facilities, our Raleigh office serves the legal needs
of educational institutions and businesses in numerous industries in key
practice areas, including Corporate; Labor, Employment, and Workplace Safety;
Environment, Land, and Natural Resources; Intellectual Property; Real Estate;
and Restructuring and Insolvency. In collaboration with our colleagues across
the globe, we offer our clients substantive experience and geographic
intelligence locally, nationally, and globally.
Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial technology and sourcing,
contracts, licensing, technology transfer, and corporate governance are
mainstays of our Corporate practice, along with providing sophisticated
securities advice.
From workplace safety and harassment, to fair labor standards and layoffs, to the
enforcement and defense of noncompete agreements, our Labor, Employment, and
Workplace Safety lawyers assist employers in solving the full range of complex
employee relations issues.
Nationally recognized lawyers specializing in environmental matters frequently
coordinate with our Real Estate and Corporate practice lawyers on real estate
development and business transactions, in addition to handling environmental
litigation, regulatory compliance, and enforcement defense.
Our IP practice is on the leading edge of technology and law, helping clients to
develop, commercialize, and protect their patents, trademarks, copyrights, and
trade secrets.
Possessing a longstanding reputation as leaders in the field, our Real Estate
lawyers are active participants in the region's ongoing growth. They assist
clients with all phases of real estate development, including debt financings,
joint ventures, leasing, and complex asset acquisitions and dispositions.
The lawyers in our Restructuring and Insolvency practice assist clients with
litigation in bankruptcy courts, loan restructuring, senior and mezzanine debt,
equity investments, and any other financing and investment transactions, as well
as distressed acquisitions.
While the scope of the office's practice is broad, many of our lawyers
routinely work in the life sciences area, where they meet the legal needs of an
industry spanning clinical research, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals,
diagnostics, healthcare, biomanufacturing, agricultural sciences, medical
devices, and information technology. Our clients range from multinational
biotechnology enterprises, to mid-market pharmacogenomics companies, to local
emerging growth drug discovery companies.
