Chadbourne & Parke
Chadbourne & Parke LLP | |
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Headquarters |
GE Building New York City, New York |
No. of offices | 12 |
No. of attorneys | 400+ |
Major practice areas | General practice, Project Finance, Insurance & Reinsurance, Products Liability, Latin America |
Key people | Andrew Giaccia (Managing Partner) |
Revenue | $286 million (2008) |
Date founded | 1902 |
Company type | Limited liability partnership |
Website | |
www.chadbourne.com |
Chadbourne & Parke LLP, founded in 1902 by Thomas L. Chadbourne, currently has some 400 lawyers and tax advisors in 13 offices in ten countries. Chadbourne is probably best known for its global practice in project finance and energy, international insurance and reinsurance practice, multi-jurisdictional litigation in courts from Rhode Island to Russia, and corporate transactions.
Overview
With its global network of attorneys, Chadbourne is positioned to offer clients a full range of legal services on virtually all matters affecting them, both within the United States and internationally. In addition to its United States work, the firm has established substantial practices in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Middle East and Latin America.
In 1973 the firm moved from its original Wall Street home to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where it now occupies eight floors, to become more accessible to its national and international clients. An even earlier “move” occurred in 1935 when it formed one of the first branch offices of a New York law firm in Washington, DC. Beginning in 1990 in Moscow, Chadbourne established offices in England, Poland, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, receiving a significant boost in its Eastern Europe network from the dissolving firms Altheimer & Gray and Coudert Brothers. In March 2008, the firm acquired the Mexico City office of the New York firm Thacher Proffitt & Wood as well as an associated team of lawyers in New York focusing on Latin America-related arbitration and transactions.Its newest offices opened in São Paulo, Brazil and Istanbul, Turkey respectively. The firm also has a small satellite office in China.
Chadbourne has numbered among its individual clients Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, James Joyce and the Wright brothers. In 1924, Tom Chadbourne orchestrated the consolidation of New York City’s subway system. The firm’s success in two landmark cases before the United States Supreme Court in the 1980s created the legal framework for development of the cogeneration and independent power production industries. In its successful representation of French and U.S. clients in the De Lorean sports car fiasco in Northern Ireland, the disclosure of Cabinet minutes was compelled for the first time in British history.
Practices
Main areas of practice include arbitration, antitrust, commercial and products liability litigation, corporate finance, employment law and ERISA, energy/renewable energy, insolvency/financial restructuring, insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, private funds, project finance, real estate, securities litigation and regulatory enforcement, special investigations and litigation, trusts and estates and government contract matters and US and international tax.
In 2012, Chadbourne acted as counsel on the winning and runner-up deals of Power Finance and Risk Magazine's "Renewables Deal of the Year" Awards. Chadbourne’s project finance practice is consistently ranked in the top tier by legal guides such as Chambers Global - The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business. The firm’s primary projects focus is on energy, telecommunications and toll roads.
The firm's insolvency and financial restructuring group has an impressive record of achieving successful outcomes for its clients in Chapter 11 cases and corporate restructurings both in the United States and abroad. Chadbourne plays leading roles in mega-cases such as Tribune Company, ASARCO, Technical Olympic USA (TOUSA), VeraSun Energy, Lehman and AbitibiBowater.
Chadbourne is among the premier international law firms serving the Latin America region. Demonstrating breadth and depth in corporate, project finance, insurance and disputes related matters in the region, the firm's multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional Latin America practice was ranked across the board by legal guides Chambers Latin America - The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Legal 500 Latin America.
The firm’s European offices are predominantly staffed by nationals of those countries who provide legal services and advice on local law and foreign direct investment. Chambers Europe - The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2012) ranked 15 attorneys from Chadbourne’s Russian, Central Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) offices as leaders in their field, including partners in the Moscow, Warsaw and Kyiv offices.
In February 2008, Chadbourne formed a climate change practice, led by Gov. Pataki and Mr. John Cahill. The practice draws on the experience of Chadbourne’s transactional, insurance, regulatory, energy, environmental, litigation and public policy attorneys, and includes expertise in market-based carbon cap and trade programs. This was closely followed by the launch, in April 2008, of a firm-wide "Green Initiative." to implement more environmentally-sustainable practices in the firm's daily practices. This implemented sustainable work-place practices that enabled the firm to reduce its carbon footprint and make a significant positive impact on the environment.
In April 2008, Chadbourne formed a nanotechnologies practice, drawing on the firm's existing practices in energy, insurance, private equity, intellectual property, litigation and products liability.
Notable mandates
- Represented the lenders in connection with the $6 billion Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC Project in Cameron Parish, La. This will be the world's first LNG terminal able to import and gasify LNG and Liquefy and export natural gas.
PepsiCo in its acquisition of JSC Lebedyansky, a Russian juice manufacturer.
- Counsel to Gazprom in the $20 billion project finance to develop the Shtokman field.
- Advised the Asian Development Bank in the $412 million project finance for an electrical generating plant in Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province, Vietnam.
- Antitrust counsel in Brazilian mining company Companhia Vale do Rio Dolce's tender offer for Canadian nickel company Inco, now called CVRD Inco.
- Products liability counsel for British American Tobacco in the $280 billion government Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) action against cigarette manufacturers.
- Arbitration on behalf of Lloyd's of London related to the Enron and Worldcom losses.
Pro bono
- In 1999, Chadbourne was one of the first law firms to name a Pro Bono Partner entirely devoted to structuring and developing a pro bono program.
- Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Chadbourne housed more than 100 attorneys and staff of the City of New York’s Law Department for almost eight months, after their offices near Ground Zero could not be used.
- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg later officially proclaimed May 17, 2002 "Chadbourne & Parke Day" in New York.
- In 2005, Chadbourne established a fellowship program to place attorneys at the Legal Services Center of The Door, a youth development agency in New York.
- Other notable pro bono clients include: Service Members Legal Defense Network (SLDN), Human Rights First, Appelate Advocacy Program, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone
Notable attorneys
- Ed Muskie, Secretary of State and a Vice Presidential candidate in 1968, was for many years senior partner of the Washington office.
- George Bundy Smith joined Chadbourne in December 2006, as a partner in the litigation practice in New York, after retiring as an Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals (the highest court in New York state).
- George Pataki, New York Governor
- George A. Spater, American Airlines chairman who earlier advised airlines for the firm from the 1930s through the 1960s
- John Cahill, Pataki's chief of staff
Offices
- New York (1902)
- Washington, D.C. (1935)
- Los Angeles (1987)
- Moscow (1990)
- Beijing (1990) (representative office)
- London (1994)
- Kiev (2004)
- Warsaw (2004)
- Dubai (2007)
- Mexico City (2008)
- São Paulo (2010)
- Istanbul (2011)
External links
- Chadbourne & Parke LLP - official site