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| Address: |
265 Strand |
| Town: |
London WC2R 1BH |
| Phone: |
(020) 7067 2000 |
| Web: |
http://www.cov.com |
| Fax: |
(020) 7067 2222 |
| Areas of law: |
Acquisitions, Mergers & Disposals, Anti-Trust, Biotechnology, Corporate Finance, Employment, Financial Services, Food Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Media & Entertainment, Pharmaceuticals, Taxation (Corporate), Technology, Telecommunications |
| Client Sector Served: |
SME/Small Business, Corporate/Commercial |
| Correspondent Offices: |
August & Debouzy, Paris, France |
| Other Offices: |
Brussels; Washington; New York; San Francisco |
| Overseas Offices: |
Washington DC, USA; New York, USA; San Francisco, USA; Brussels, Belgium |
| Web Profile: |
Covington & Burling, founded in 1919, is a multinational firm of more than 500 lawyers with offices in Washington, New York, San Francisco, London and Brussels. The firm represents approximately half of the Fortune 500 companies throughout the world on corporate, regulatory, public policy and litigation matters in almost all industry sectors.
Our London office represents clients on a broad array of transactions and leading edge legal issues, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity, investment funds, public and private securities offerings, licensing transactions and joint ventures for software, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, international tax, employment, Internet policy, data protection, intellectual property policy and enforcement, international trade, competition law, legislative advocacy, telecommunications and electronic commerce. The IP group acts for major technology clients in IP enforcement litigation and co-ordinates anti-piracy programmes in more than 50 countries on behalf of various clients. The thriving life sciences practice has unique expertise in pan-European regulation of pharmaceutical and biotech products as well as food, cosmetics, consumer and borderline products.
Main Areas of Practice: corporate and commercial; private equity funds; financial services regulation; tax; employment; securities and finance; competition/antitrust; e-commerce and internet; IT and telecommunications; litigation and arbitration; intellectual property; life sciences; trade and WTO. |
| No. of fee earners: |
54 |
| Languages Sector Served: |
Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tamil |
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