Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
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Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP is an international law firm with offices in New York, Washington, DC, London, Paris and Frankfurt. The firm has approximately 550 attorneys worldwide.
[edit] History
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson traces its origins back nearly a century to the predecessor firms of Riegelman & Bach, Riegelman Hess & Strasser and Strasser Spiegelberg Fried and Frank.
In 1971, the firm took its current form with name partners Walter Fried, Hans Frank, Sam Harris, Sargent Shriver and Leslie Jacobson. The Washington, DC office was opened in 1949. The London office was one of the first European offices of a U.S. law firm. The Paris office followed in 1993. A Frankfurt office was established in 2004. The three European offices tend to focus on international corporate transactions.
[edit] Practice
The New York office has established practices in public M&A and private equity; domestic and international capital markets and complex financings; asset management; corporate governance; securities regulation, compliance and enforcement; corporate reorganization, bankruptcy and debt restructuring; antitrust; intellectual property and technology; securities and shareholder litigation; whitecollar crime; commercial litigation; real estate; benefits and compensation; tax; and trusts and estates.
The Washington office has practices in corporate transactions, in addition to securities regulation and enforcement, antitrust, tax, intellectual property and technology, commercial litigation, government contracts, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, and white-collar crime and internal investigations.
As a whole, the firm has a major corporate practice, and from January 1, 2002 through the second quarter of 2006, represented clients in over 410 public merger and acquisition and private equity transactions with a combined value of over $1 trillion.
Fried Frank is well known for its securities and shareholder litigation practices in the United States, and has served as defense counsel in major class actions and securities litigation. The firm has an established white-collar practice, representing clients in many of the major internal investigations and securities enforcement matters in recent years.
Fried Frank's real estate practice is predominant in New York City, and the firm handles many of the largest transactions involving commercial office space.
[edit] Pro Bono
Fried Frank has been honored for its pro bono work and was listed as one of the top twenty firms in the United States for pro bono by The American Lawyer. The firm has worked on behalf of such organizations as the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Children’s Defense Fund, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, the Legal Aid Society, Legal Counsel for the Elderly, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Veterans Pro Bono Consortium.
