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Goodwin Procter LLP is a global law firm. It is one of the largest law firms in the world as measured by revenue and consists of more than 1,800 lawyers across offices in Boston, Cambridge, Frankfurt, Munich, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, New York City, Paris, Santa Monica, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Singapore, and Washington, D.C. Goodwin focuses on complex transactional work, high-stakes litigation and advisory services in matters involving financial institutions, intellectual property, private equity, real estate capital markets, securities litigation, white collar defense, technology and life sciences. Goodwin currently has over 2,800 employees worldwide, representing a nearly 30% increase in lawyers and staff since January 2021, and more than a 60% increase overall since 2017. This growth has been mirrored by the firm’s rising revenues, which increased from 1.33billionin2019to1.33 billion in 2019 to 1.33billionin2019to1.49 billion in 2020, and reaching $1.97 billion in 2021. Between 2010 and 2021, Goodwin’s annual revenue nearly tripled. The firm is particularly known for advising high-growth businesses in the technology, life sciences and real estate sectors, as well as the private equity and venture capital investors that finance them. The firm sits “at the top in the tech and capital arena,” and is “a known entity, and frequent adviser, to Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs.” Goodwin’s transactional lawyers represent public and private companies across their entire lifecycles, including financings, capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, collaborations and licensing, intellectual property and regulatory matters. The firm’s litigation lawyers assist clients in a wide range of industries, with particular expertise in consumer financial services, intellectual property, white collar defense, securities, commercial and business litigation, appellate litigation, products litigation and counseling, labor and employment, ERISA litigation and antitrust. In 2018, Goodwin became one of the first major law firms to launch a dedicated proptech practice to serve the growing real estate technology industry. The firm also has practices dedicated to the fintech industry as well as digital currency and blockchain, and claims it represents about 40 percent of the companies on the Forbes Fintech 50 list. Goodwin has been named “Biotech Firm of the Year” by U.S. News & World Report - Best Lawyers seven times, Life Sciences and Intellectual Property "Practice Groups Of The Year" by Law360, "IP Law Firm of the Year" and "US Life Cycle Firm Of The Year" by LMG Life Sciences. The firm also ranked first in Refinitiv’s full-year 2021 league tables for global M&A by deal count. Goodwin has also been recognized as a “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality” by the Human Rights Campaign for nine consecutive years, and the firm has been included on Seramount’s annual list of “Best Law Firms for Women” 11 times. (en) |
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Goodwin Procter LLP is a global law firm. It is one of the largest law firms in the world as measured by revenue and consists of more than 1,800 lawyers across offices in Boston, Cambridge, Frankfurt, Munich, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, New York City, Paris, Santa Monica, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Singapore, and Washington, D.C. Goodwin focuses on complex transactional work, high-stakes litigation and advisory services in matters involving financial institutions, intellectual property, private equity, real estate capital markets, securities litigation, white collar defense, technology and life sciences. (en) |
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