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; Litigation and Dispute Resolution; 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, 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.
Lawyers in our Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice handle complex and class action litigation and have extensive experience in product liability litigation, financial services litigation, complex business disputes, employment law matters, and real estate disputes.
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, health care, 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.
