McCarter & English, LLP

Chairman: Joseph Lubertazzi Jr.

Managing Partner: Joseph T. Boccassini

Number of partners: 216

Number of other lawyers: 167

Firm Overview 

McCarter & English, LLP’s more than 375 lawyers in 12 offices deliver innovative solutions to clients nationwide. Fortune 100, mid-market, and emerging growth companies rely on McCarter to handle their cutting-edge transactional, intellectual property, and complex litigation matters. Clients benefit from the firm’s relationship-driven approach, deep understanding of their businesses and legal needs, lean and efficient service model, and determination to help them move their businesses forward.

Main Areas of Practice 

Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Litigation 

The team addresses a broad range of bankruptcy and distressed debt matters, helping clients protect their interests in assets, acquisitions, or contracts. From advancing creditors’ claims, to defending against debtor and trustee actions in bankruptcy proceedings, to handling loan workouts and foreclosures, the lawyers assist clients across industries.

Business Litigation 

The team represents clients in courtrooms and arbitration forums nationwide. Clients value their business-minded approach to resolving disputes—whether complex commercial cases and class actions, securities litigation, white-collar defense actions, or related appeals—and rely on them to handle internal investigations and corporate compliance evaluations.

Corporate 

The team serves clients ranging from startups to multinational public companies in varied areas, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, debt finance and commercial banking, and public capital and securities law matters. The team guides venture capital and emerging growth companies through the development cycle—from ideation to creation, capitalization, implementation, commercialization, and monetization.

Environment & Energy 

Clients rely on McCarter’s environmental lawyers to assess environmental risks, resolve litigation, and address their permitting, enforcement, and remediation needs. McCarter’s energy lawyers advise on electric, natural gas, and renewable energy regulation; compliance; litigation; financing; transactions; and project development.

Government Affairs 

The team advises clients on legal and legislative issues that affect their businesses and provides them with regulatory and strategic counseling to help them achieve their objectives. The team has extensive familiarity with government processes and has worked with key individuals at the federal, state, and local levels.

Government Contracts & Global Trade 

The team helps clients navigate the complexities of all federal, state, and municipal government contract regulations along with export control- and trade-related regulations. The lawyers develop robust compliance programs to satisfy the regulatory requirements in this ever-changing landscape to reduce clients’ liability exposure.

Insurance Recovery, Litigation & Counseling 

The team helps clients maximize their recoveries for liabilities and losses, having secured billions of dollars in insurance under all types of commercial policies, ranging from comprehensive general liability, to environmental, to D&O and E&O policies. The lawyers also assist clients in assessing new insurance products and programs.

Intellectual Property 

The firm’s 130 intellectual property professionals, most with advanced degrees in science and engineering, includes PhDs, MDs, and engineers. Companies in biotechnology, life sciences, technology, and consumer goods rely on the firm to build and manage complex patent and trademark portfolios to protect blockbuster drugs, critical technologies, and global brands.

Labor & Employment 

Employers trust the team’s lawyers to develop employment policies and procedures designed to prevent lawsuits, conduct internal investigations, and defend against employment-related litigation, including wage and hour, restrictive covenant, and discrimination suits. The firm also assists organizations in managing their business immigration needs.

Products Liability, Mass Torts & Consumer Class Actions 

Manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, chemicals, industrial machinery, and consumer products rely on the team’s lawyers to defend their interests in litigation. The lawyers have extensive trial and appellate experience and serve as lead or local defense counsel in large, multidistrict class action suits. They advise on risk avoidance, clinical trials, consumer safety standards, recalls, and compliance issues and defend complex personal injury and property damage cases.

Public Finance 

The team has participated in virtually every type of publicly funded financing transaction. The firm maintains a sophisticated knowledge of health care, higher education, housing, aviation, utilities, and environmental financings.

Real Estate 

The team addresses all areas of commercial real estate, including leasing, acquisitions and dispositions, development, land use, financing, and affordable housing. The lawyers negotiate every type of transaction, from complex build-to-suit leases and ground leases; to air rights, sale/leasebacks, and development and construction agreements; to syndicated and other complex financings.

Tax & Employee Benefits 

The team advises clients on all aspects of federal, multistate, and local taxation and tax structuring and appeals; represents companies and tax-exempt entities in developing, implementing, and administering employee benefit plans and executive compensation arrangements; and advises high-net-worth individuals, closely held businesses, and financial institutions on varied matters.