Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Chairman: Paul C Rosenthal

Managing Partner: Dana B Rosenfeld

Firm Overview: 

Founded in 1836, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP represents U.S. and international companies across a wide spectrum of practice areas. The firm has more than 300 lawyers and other professionals. Skilled practitioners in the areas of litigation, regulatory, real estate, corporate, and bankruptcy combine talents to address the unique complexities of their clients’ legal challenges.

Main Areas of Practice:  

Advertising Law:  

Counsels on all aspects of advertising, promotions, and consumer protection law, representing clients in regulatory matters before the FTC and state attorneys general, and in challenges by competitors or consumers.

Antitrust:  

Represents companies, trade groups, and individuals in antitrust transactions, government investigations, civil litigation, and counseling and compliance

Bankruptcy & Restructuring:  

Guides creditors through out-of-court and court supervised insolvency proceedings, liquidations, and post-confirmation matters.

Cannabis Law: 

Helps clients navigate the rapidly-changing cannabis industry; represents stakeholders in the hemp and CBD ecosystem and counsels financial institutions regarding compliance with laws and regulations.

Communications:  

Advises communications companies in the areas of regulatory, compliance, and litigation matters; contracts and strategic advice; and corporate and financial transactions at the state, federal and international level.

Corporate: 

Represents companies across all business lifecycle stages including start-up, growth, maturity, and exit via acquisition or IPO.

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation:  

Advises on a broad spectrum of issues including retirement and welfare programs, executive compensation, and associated legal and tax issues.

Energy: 

Serves the conventional energy industries and advises on emerging issues relating to hydrocarbons, as well as wind, solar, biofuels, ethanol, hydropower, nuclear, clean coal, carbon capture and sequestration, and energy/fuel efficiency.

Environmental:  

Provides comprehensive solutions to private and public entities facing complex natural resource and environmental litigation, administrative, and regulatory matters.

Food & Drug: 

Counsels on the regulatory and legal issues that food and drug companies must navigate to succeed in the U.S. market, including compliance with FDA, USDA, and FTC requirements.

Georgetown Economic Services: 

Our ESG team has decades of experience advising clients how to meet their own unique challenges of extended responsibility, from environmental, health and safety issues, to questions of pay equity and board diversity, to eradicating forced and child labor from supply chains.We advise on the full suite of voluntary and mandatory sustainability and ESG reporting, advertising risks and opportunities, and government relations strategies.We help design integrated solutions that safeguard corporate reputation, minimize risk and leverage opportunity.

Government Contracts:  

Provides counseling and representation relating to federal, state, and local government procurement matters, as well as federal assistance agreements and grants.

Government Relations & Public Policy:  

Pursues client objectives through multiple strategies including issue monitoring and outreach; coalition building; representation before federal agencies; and influencing implementation and enforcement of regulations.

India:  

Represents U.S. and other clients in their Indian business relationships and Indian businesses operating in the U.S.

Intellectual Property:  

Helps clients manage and defend their most important IP assets, including in matters involving trademarks, copyright, patent, publicity rights, and trade secrets.

International Trade:  

Protects industries injured by unfair trade practices by initiating antidumping, countervailing duty, and other trade remedy actions, and guides clients through complex trade rules and restrictions, helping them successfully import and export products.

Labor & Employment:  

Advocates for the interests of employers in state and federal courts, before federal, state and local agencies, and in arbitrations and mediations. Guides clients on the full spectrum of workplace and employment issues, as well as traditional labor relations matters.

Litigation:  

Courtroom-tested trial lawyers who have tried significant and challenging cases in federal and state courts, arbitration tribunals and administrative bodies. In-depth experience in class actions, employment, False Claims Act, intellectual property, securities litigation, international arbitration, white collar criminal defense, and corporate investigations.

Privacy & Information Security:  

Counsels on laws governing the collection, use and protection of personal information, and on managing risks and reducing exposure to investigations and litigation.

Real Estate:  

Represents financial institutions and investors in acquisitions and sales, all varieties of financing, credit tenant leasing, preferred equity investments, fund formation, and investments.

Tax:  

Advises U.S. and international clients in regard to business formation, mergers, equity and debt financing, restructurings, and other matters.

Technology Transactions & Outsourcing: 

Guides clients through the entire technology or sourcing transaction, from strategic planning and the RFP stages, through contract negotiation, deal closing, and post-signing issues.

White Collar, Investigations & Compliance: 

Advises and defends corporations and individuals facing criminal charges—as well as civil and administrative claims—quickly, comprehensively and discreetly.