Bingham McCutchen

Infobox Law Firm
firm_name = Bingham McCutchen LLP
firm_
headquarters = Boston, Massachusetts
num_offices = 14
num_attorneys = approximately 1,000
num_employees = approximately 870cite web |url=http://www.hoovers.com/bingham-mccutchen/--ID__54412--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml |title=Bingham McCutchen - Company Overview - Hoover's |publisher=Hoover's, Inc]
practice_areas = Financial restructuring, securities, litigation, private equity, corporate finance, government affairs
key_people = Jay S. Zimmerman (Chairman)
revenue =
date_founded = 1891cite web |url=http://www.hoovers.com/bingham-mccutchen/--ID__54412--/free-co-profile.xhtml |title=Bingham McCutchen - Company Description - Hoover's |publisher=Hoover's, Inc]
founder =
company_type = Limited Liability Partnership
firm_slogan = Legal insight. Business instinct.
homepage = [http://www.bingham.com Bingham.com]
dissolved =

Bingham McCutchen LLP is an international law firm with approximately 1,000 attorneys in eleven US offices and three international offices.citeweb |url=http://www.bingham.com/LocationMain.aspx |title=Bingham McCutchen ! Offices |accessdate=2008-01-16 |publisher=Bingham web site] 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.citeweb |url=http://www.lawperiscope.com/profiles/035.html |title=LawPeriscope - Bingham McCutchen LLP |publisher=LawPeriscope]

The law firm was named 41st best company to work for in the 2008 Fortune magazine article, “100 Best Companies to Work For.”citeweb |url=http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2007/snapshots/94.html |title=100 Best Companies to Work For 2007: Bingham McCutchen snapshot ! FORTUNE |publisher=CNN Money] This was the fourth consecutive year on the list for Bingham McCutchen, ranking 78th in 2005, 82nd in 2006, and 94th in 2007.citeweb |url=http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/snapshots/3944.html |title=100 Best Companies to Work For: Bingham McCutchen |publisher=CNN Money] The firm has been awarded similar accolades by the "San Francisco Chronicle" and "Boston Business Journal".citeweb |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/event/2313 |title=Boston Business Journal, Best Places to Work] citeweb |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/09/18/eoe_bingham.DTL |title=Employers of Excellence / #1 Large-Size Company Award Winner: Bingham McCutchen |accessdate=2008-01-16 |publisher="San Francisco Chronicle"]

Since 1997, the company has experienced sharp growth in the number of attorneys, offices, and revenues by absorbing other law firms. [citeweb |url=http://www.bingham.com/Page.aspx?PageID=4 |title=Charting Our Growth |accessdate=2008-01-16 |publisher=Bingham web site] 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. 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.

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.cite news
url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/washington/12gitmo.html?ref=todayspaper
publisher=New York Times
author=William Glaberson
title=Officials Cite Danger in Revealing Detainee Data
date=Wednesday, September 12, 2007
accessdate=2007-09-12
page=A18] cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/23/AR2005122301503.html
title=Detainees Face Limited Access to Courts: But Bill Awaiting Bush Signature Would Shield Terror Suspects from U.S. Abuse
pages=page A04
publisher=Washington Post
author=Josh White
date=Saturday, December 24, 2005
accessdate=2008-01-05] cite news
url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/27/opinion/edwillett.php
title=The Innocent Man at Guantanamo
publisher=International Herald Tribune
author=Sabin Willett
date=Wednesday, September 27, 2006
accessdate=2008-01-19] cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/13/AR2005111301061.html
title=Detainees Deserve Court Trials
pages=A21
publisher=Washington Post
author=P. Sabin Willett
date=Monday, November 14, 2005
accessdate=2008-01-19] cite news
url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/12/03/i_will_never_leave_guantanamo/
title=I will never leave Guantanamo
page=
pages=
publisher=Boston Globe
author=Sabin Willett
date=December 3, 2007
accessdate=2008-01-19] 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

*Meghan S. Bailey
*Robert Dombroff
*F. Mark Fucci
*Barry Goode (retired from the firm in 2001 to join state government, and now is a Contra Costa County judge)
*Marshall Grossman
*Roger Joseph
*James Loss
*Susan Baker Manning
*Thurgood Marshall, Jr.
*Michael Reilly
*James Roome
*Hideyuki Sakai
*Edwin Smith
*Neal Sullivan
*Richard Welch
*Sabin Willett
*Pete WilsonStan "The Man" Bindman

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References

External links

* [http://www.bingham.com Bingham.com] – Company website