Lowenstein Sandler LLP

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New York City

Washington, D.C.

Practice Areas

• Acquisition Finance
  Mergers and acquisitions are often key components of the growth strategies implemented by some of today's most successful companies. Such an approach requires legal capabilities that are flexible, broad-based, and capable of optimizing capital and speed. Lowenstein Sandler's Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyers in its Practice Group represents major corporations and private equity sponsors as they plan and execute a broad range of strategic acquisitions and dispositions. Read more.

   

• Advertising Law

  Intangible business assets–including all manner of brand names, logos, and trade dress–are of inestimable value. An effective trademark promotes goodwill in the marketplace, distinguishes your business from its competitors, and confers value, exclusivity, and quality. Read more.

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
  The cost of going to trial can be steep—often with significant impact to a company’s budget, business relationships, and corporate reputation. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) allows parties to expedite settlements, minimize expenses, and stay focused on their overall business objectives. Read more.
• Antitrust Law
  Lowenstein's Antitrust/Competition lawyers take pride in having expansive knowledge and extensive experience handling the full range of antitrust regulation challenges facing businesses in today’s highly competitive and changing landscape. Read more.
• Appellate Practice
  Lowenstein represents clients in a variety of appeals involving civil and white collar matters. The firm has an outstanding record of successful outcomes, both in defending clients in appeals of lower-court rulings favorable to them and in obtaining reversals of adverse rulings for clients who sought Lowenstein's help at the appellate stage. Read more.
• Banking and Finance Law
  Lowenstein Sandler's Investment Management Group is one of the leading practices of its kind in the United States. With more than 100 of its 350+ lawyers dedicated to serving funds and investor clients worldwide from the firm's headquarters in New York City and offices across the nation, Lowenstein is a force in the industry. Read more.
• Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
  Lowenstein’s bankruptcy lawyers are in demand by business leaders, credit managers, financial advisors, institutional investors and restructuring professionals seeking a resourceful, aggressive, well-connected law firm. The firm understands how to reach a negotiated resolution yet have a strong track record at trial. Read more.
• Bet-the-Company Litigation
  Businesses or individuals faced with a government investigation, indictment, or trial need rapid, creative, and sound legal advocacy. Lowenstein Sandler's white collar defense team draws on a deep well of collective knowledge enhanced by battle-tested experience to safeguard the firm's clients' reputations and protect their futures. Read more.
• Biotechnology
  Participants in the life sciences sector operate in an increasingly challenging environment that requires a broad spectrum of sophisticated legal services. Lowenstein Sandler's life sciences lawyers counsel emerging and mature companies, investors, and investment banks in areas ranging from financing and venture capital to intellectual property, FDA regulatory and sales and marketing compliance, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, employment, litigation, antitrust, product liability, and other general commercial and clinical matters relevant to the life sciences industry. Read more.
• Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice
  Participants in the life sciences sector operate in an increasingly challenging environment that requires a broad spectrum of sophisticated legal services. Lowenstein Sandler's life sciences lawyers counsel emerging and mature companies, investors, and investment banks in areas ranging from financing and venture capital to intellectual property, FDA regulatory and sales and marketing compliance, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, employment, litigation, antitrust, product liability, and other general commercial and clinical matters relevant to the life sciences industry. Read more.
• Cannabis Law
  As the legalized cannabis industry expands across the U.S., entrepreneurs, investors, and other stakeholders require sophisticated and experienced counsel to guide them across a rapidly changing legal and regulatory landscape. Lowenstein Sandler’s multidisciplinary Cannabis Practice offers a comprehensive range of regulatory, transactional, and litigation services to help clients manage the full spectrum of issues and opportunities inherent in the cannabis ecosystem, both medical and recreational. Read more.
• Class Actions

  Class actions and other multi-plaintiff litigation can cause irreparable damage to a company's brand and reputation. Lowenstein Sandler is committed to helping its clients address these challenges, protecting their reputations and all that their businesses have achieved. Read more.

• Commercial Litigation
  Business disputes can be complicated, disruptive, and expensive. They impact business relationships, divert crucial time and resources away from a company's business goals, and create risk in terms of publicity and the bottom line. Lowenstein Sandler's Business Litigation group understands these realities and, from day one, assesses the risks and rewards to determine the best solutions for clients, while always demonstrating a readiness to take each case to trial or hearing. Read more.
• Copyright Law
  Intangible business assets–including all manner of brand names, logos, and trade dress–are of inestimable value. An effective trademark promotes goodwill in the marketplace, distinguishes your business from its competitors, and confers value, exclusivity, and quality. Read more.
• Corporate Compliance
  From regulatory requirements to shareholder disputes, companies face greater challenges now than ever before. Lowenstein's Corporate Governance & Compliance lawyers help clients meet these challenges, providing experienced, proactive legal advice to leaders of large public companies, emerging growth businesses, and startups. Read more.
• Corporate Compliance Law
  From regulatory requirements to shareholder disputes, companies face greater challenges now than ever before. Lowenstein's Corporate Governance & Compliance lawyers help clients meet these challenges, providing experienced, proactive legal advice to leaders of large public companies, emerging growth businesses, and startups. Read more.
• Corporate Governance
  From regulatory requirements to shareholder disputes, companies face greater challenges now than ever before. Lowenstein's Corporate Governance & Compliance lawyers help clients meet these challenges, providing experienced, proactive legal advice to leaders of large public companies, emerging growth businesses, and startups. Read more.
• Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
  From regulatory requirements to shareholder disputes, companies face greater challenges now than ever before. Lowenstein's Corporate Governance & Compliance lawyers help clients meet these challenges, providing experienced, proactive legal advice to leaders of large public companies, emerging growth businesses, and startups. Read more.
• Corporate Governance Law
  From regulatory requirements to shareholder disputes, companies face greater challenges now than ever before. Lowenstein's Corporate Governance & Compliance lawyers help clients meet these challenges, providing experienced, proactive legal advice to leaders of large public companies, emerging growth businesses, and startups. Read more.
• Corporate Law

  Lowenstein Sandler’s Corporate practices are dedicated to providing solutions to the myriad challenges faced by public and private companies, investors, and funds on a daily basis, from accessing capital to acquiring other organizations to maintaining compliant and profitable operations. Read more.

• Criminal Defense: White-Collar
  Businesses or individuals faced with a government investigation, indictment, or trial need rapid, creative, and sound legal advocacy. Lowenstein Sandler's white collar defense team draws on a deep well of collective knowledge enhanced by battle-tested experience to safeguard the firm's clients' reputations and protect their futures. Read more.
• Derivatives and Futures Law
  Lowenstein Sandler’s Commodities, Futures & Derivatives Group has deep experience helping clients navigate the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and rules and regulations of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Read more.
• Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law

  Lowenstein Sandler's Employee Benefits practice has extensive experience advising employers on employee benefits matters, including:

  • Keeping clients’ qualified and nonqualified plans in compliance with tax and other legal requirements, filing determination letter applications and, when necessary, making needed corrections to preserve the tax-qualified status of plans or responding to IRS or DOL inquiries
  • Advising private equity funds and investment advisers with respect to ERISA’s plan asset rules, fiduciary obligations, and prohibited transaction restrictions
  • Drafting health and welfare plans, including cafeteria plans, wrap plans, and flexible spending plans, and assisting with ongoing compliance
  • Representing clients (whether they are employers or fiduciaries) in ESOP transactions
  • Representing clients with respect to managing pension plan withdrawal liability and challenging withdrawal liability assessments, including arbitration of withdrawal liability disputes
  • Representing companies with respect to employee benefits issues and liabilities in bankruptcy proceedings
  • Representing clients in connection with ERISA claims and litigation

  Read more.

• Environmental Law

  Environmental liabilities pervade multiple aspects of today's business world. They can complicate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and real estate transactions and bring manufacturing operations to a grinding halt. They can also give rise to protracted litigation and significant liabilities. Lowenstein Sandler's Environmental Law & Litigation group has been on the cutting edge of these issues since the inception of environmental law. Read more.

• Estate Planning
  Lowenstein Sandler lawyers tailor estate plans to each client's circumstances, goals, and dynamics, addressing complex, evolving federal and state laws with the goal of minimizing taxes. The firm represents family businesses and other privately owned firms, helping them create tax-smart strategies that achieve the owners' goals, from preserving the business for future generations to selling the company. Read more.
• FDA Law

  Lowenstein Sandler's highly experienced team guides life sciences clients through every aspect of the complex and evolving FDA regulatory landscape. With extensive understanding of the development and life cycle management of pharmaceutical products and medical devices, the firm's lawyers understand the risks and rewards facing clients in this sector. Read more.

• Finance
  Lowenstein Sandler’s Corporate practices are dedicated to providing solutions to the myriad challenges faced by public and private companies, investors, and funds on a daily basis, from accessing capital to acquiring other organizations to maintaining compliant and profitable operations. Read more.
• FinTech Practice
  Lowenstein Sandler's FinTech group works with the industry’s most innovative and successful financial technology companies, venture capital funds, and financial institutions. With an extensive focus on venture-backed technology companies, the firm helps its clients innovate, invest, and thrive. Read more.
• General Corporate
  Lowenstein Sandler’s Corporate practices are dedicated to providing solutions to the myriad challenges faced by public and private companies, investors, and funds on a daily basis, from accessing capital to acquiring other organizations to maintaining compliant and profitable operations. Read more.
• Hedge Funds
  Lowenstein Sandler's Investment Management Group is one of the leading practices of its kind in the United States. With more than 100 of its 350+ lawyers dedicated to serving funds and investor clients worldwide from the firm's headquarters in New York City and offices across the nation, Lowenstein is a force in the industry. Read more.
• Insurance
  Since the 1980s, the Lowenstein Sandler Insurance Recovery Group has represented corporate and governmental policyholders and has obtained billions of dollars in insurance recoveries. The firm strategically untangles the complex web of insurance issues that businesses face in today's global economy, from policy audits to claim negotiation to high-stakes coverage litigation. Read more.
• Insurance Law
  Since the 1980s, the Lowenstein Sandler Insurance Recovery Group has represented corporate and governmental policyholders and has obtained billions of dollars in insurance recoveries. The firm strategically untangles the complex web of insurance issues that businesses face in today's global economy, from policy audits to claim negotiation to high-stakes coverage litigation. Read more.
• Intellectual Property Law
  Lowenstein Sandler attorneys are not only legal advisors, but also investors and entrepreneurs within the venture community. The IP team’s combination of hands-on experience, market knowledge, and business acumen gives the firm's attorneys an insider’s perspective on the most productive and profitable ways to invent, monetize, finance, and defend the most innovative products and services. Read more.
• Investment Management
  Lowenstein Sandler's Investment Management Group is one of the leading practices of its kind in the United States. With more than 100 of its 350+ lawyers dedicated to serving funds and investor clients worldwide from the firm's headquarters in New York City and offices across the nation, Lowenstein is a force in the industry. Read more.
• Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
  Lowenstein Sandler's Private Equity lawyers work with the financial sponsor and fund community to structure, negotiate, and consummate acquisitions and financings of private and public companies, exit transactions, going-private transactions, stock-for-stock acquisitions, spinoff transactions, and acquisitions of minority interests. Read more.
• Life Sciences Practice
  Participants in the life sciences sector operate in an increasingly challenging environment that requires a broad spectrum of sophisticated legal services. Lowenstein Sandler's life sciences lawyers counsel emerging and mature companies, investors, and investment banks in areas ranging from financing and venture capital to intellectual property, FDA regulatory and sales and marketing compliance, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, employment, litigation, antitrust, product liability, and other general commercial and clinical matters relevant to the life sciences industry. Read more.
• Litigation

  Success in litigation is about facts, strategy, and preparation. Lowenstein Sandler's Litigation lawyers quickly zero in on critical issues to formulate the approach most likely to ensure a positive outcome. With a proven track record at trial and relentless commitment to exceeding expectations, the firm inspires confidence in clients and poses a serious threat to adversaries. Read more.

• Litigation - Bankruptcy

  In a typical bankruptcy and restructuring practice, litigators are brought in from a wide array of practice areas on an ad hoc basis. That approach fails to appreciate the technical and specialized nature of bankruptcy law; it also views litigation as reactive and/or value destructive. Lowenstein Sandler's approach to bankruptcy and fiduciary litigation is different. Rather than simply staffing litigators on bankruptcy matters when disputed issues arise, the firm has a dedicated team of litigators who work hand in hand with the Bankruptcy & Restructuring Department on a regular basis. Read more.

• Litigation - Environmental
  Environmental liabilities pervade multiple aspects of today's business world. They can complicate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and real estate transactions and bring manufacturing operations to a grinding halt. They can also give rise to protracted litigation and significant liabilities. Lowenstein Sandler's Environmental Law & Litigation group has been on the cutting edge of these issues since the inception of environmental law. Read more.
• Litigation - ERISA

  Lowenstein Sandler's Employee Benefits practice has extensive experience advising employers on employee benefits matters, including:

  • Keeping clients’ qualified and nonqualified plans in compliance with tax and other legal requirements, filing determination letter applications and, when necessary, making needed corrections to preserve the tax-qualified status of plans or responding to IRS or DOL inquiries
  • Advising private equity funds and investment advisers with respect to ERISA’s plan asset rules, fiduciary obligations, and prohibited transaction restrictions
  • Drafting health and welfare plans, including cafeteria plans, wrap plans, and flexible spending plans, and assisting with ongoing compliance
  • Representing clients (whether they are employers or fiduciaries) in ESOP transactions
  • Representing clients with respect to managing pension plan withdrawal liability and challenging withdrawal liability assessments, including arbitration of withdrawal liability disputes
  • Representing companies with respect to employee benefits issues and liabilities in bankruptcy proceedings
  • Representing clients in connection with ERISA claims and litigation

  Read more.

• Litigation - Health Care
  Businesses or individuals faced with a government investigation, indictment, or trial need rapid, creative, and sound legal advocacy. Lowenstein Sandler's white collar defense team draws on a deep well of collective knowledge enhanced by battle-tested experience to safeguard the firm's clients' reputations and protect their futures. Read more.
• Litigation - Insurance
  Since the 1980s, the Lowenstein Sandler Insurance Recovery Group has represented corporate and governmental policyholders and has obtained billions of dollars in insurance recoveries. The firm strategically untangles the complex web of insurance issues that businesses face in today's global economy, from policy audits to claim negotiation to high-stakes coverage litigation. Read more.
• Litigation - Labor and Employment
  Lowenstein Sandler is known for its substantive knowledge and in-depth understanding of the business interests, market opportunities, and operational considerations that go into client employment decisions. The firm provides practical and strategic advice to its clients on the development of HR policies and employee handbooks, and counsel on preventive strategies such as reasonable accommodation, performance management, and strategic negotiations to position clients against litigation. Read more.
• Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)
  Businesses or individuals faced with a government investigation, indictment, or trial need rapid, creative, and sound legal advocacy. Lowenstein Sandler's white collar defense team draws on a deep well of collective knowledge enhanced by battle-tested experience to safeguard the firm's clients' reputations and protect their futures. Read more.
• Litigation - Securities
  Lowenstein Sandler’s Securities Litigation Group helps clients leverage litigation to advance or defend their investment strategies and strategic business objectives. The firm does so by providing top-tier counsel, focused chiefly on class action opt-outs and direct actions, shareholder activism and fiduciary duty matters, litigation arising from mergers and acquisitions, structured finance, and debtholder rights matters. Read more.
• Litigation - Trusts and Estates
  Lowenstein Sandler lawyers tailor estate plans to each client's circumstances, goals, and dynamics, addressing complex, evolving federal and state laws with the goal of minimizing taxes. The firm represents family businesses and other privately owned firms, helping them create tax-smart strategies that achieve the owners' goals, from preserving the business for future generations to selling the company. Read more.
• Litigation and Controversy - Tax
  The quality of tax advice that businesses, founders, and investors receive can mean the difference between a bearable and an unbearable tax burden–indeed, between success and failure. Lowenstein Sandler advises public and private companies, individuals, and investment firms on the tax consequences of their business matters while minimizing risk and advancing their strategic visions. Read more.
• Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
  Products liability and specialty tort litigation can wreak havoc on a business, even when lawyers do everything possible to ensure superior quality standards and avoid risk. From individual products liability and chemical exposure actions to multidistrict litigation, mass tort consolidation, and class actions, Lowenstein Sandler defends companies in lawsuits in federal and state courts. Read more.
• Mergers & Acquisitions

  Mergers and acquisitions are often key components of the growth strategies implemented by some of today's most successful companies. Such an approach requires legal capabilities that are flexible, broad-based, and capable of optimizing capital and speed. Lowenstein Sandler's Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyers in its Practice Group represents major corporations and private equity sponsors as they plan and execute a broad range of strategic acquisitions and dispositions. Read more.

• Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  Mergers and acquisitions are often key components of the growth strategies implemented by some of today's most successful companies. Such an approach requires legal capabilities that are flexible, broad-based, and capable of optimizing capital and speed. Lowenstein Sandler's Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyers in its Practice Group represents major corporations and private equity sponsors as they plan and execute a broad range of strategic acquisitions and dispositions. Read more.
• Patent Law
  Of the many factors that contribute to a company's success, the most powerful determinant is also the simplest: an exceptional product. Protection of unique resources–these end products, plus the creative processes that bring them to market–is a critical line of defense in the ongoing pursuit of competitive advantage. Read more.
• Pharmaceutical
  Lowenstein Sandler's highly experienced team guides life sciences clients through every aspect of the complex and evolving FDA regulatory landscape. With extensive understanding of the development and life cycle management of pharmaceutical products and medical devices, the firm's lawyers understand the risks and rewards facing clients in this sector. Read more.
• Privacy and Data Security Law

  In today's digital world, where data has become a key asset for conducting business, companies continue to face greater privacy and cybersecurity risks. Lowenstein Sandler's Cybersecurity and Privacy lawyers help clients navigate the rapidly evolving, increasingly complex privacy and security law landscape in the United States, the EU, and around the world. Read more.

• Private Equity
  Lowenstein Sandler's Private Equity lawyers work with the financial sponsor and fund community to structure, negotiate, and consummate acquisitions and financings of private and public companies, exit transactions, going-private transactions, stock-for-stock acquisitions, spinoff transactions, and acquisitions of minority interests. Read more.
• Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law

  Lowenstein Sandler's fund structure and formation lawyers understand your business priorities and focus on practical solutions and advice. The firm provides an integrated, unified approach that reflects market trends for both managers and investors worldwide. Read more.

• Product Liability
  Products liability and specialty tort litigation can wreak havoc on a business, even when lawyers do everything possible to ensure superior quality standards and avoid risk. From individual products liability and chemical exposure actions to multidistrict litigation, mass tort consolidation, and class actions, Lowenstein Sandler defends companies in lawsuits in federal and state courts. Read more.
• Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
  Products liability and specialty tort litigation can wreak havoc on a business, even when lawyers do everything possible to ensure superior quality standards and avoid risk. From individual products liability and chemical exposure actions to multidistrict litigation, mass tort consolidation, and class actions, Lowenstein Sandler defends companies in lawsuits in federal and state courts. Read more.
• Real Estate Law

  Lowenstein Sandler’s commercial Real Estate practice strives to give clients the competitive advantage in a wide range of sophisticated transactions throughout the United States―from single property deals to complex, multi-jurisdictional portfolios. The team offers strategic guidance to clients seeking to leverage real estate as both an investment and an opportunity for expansion. Read more.

• Securities / Capital Markets Law
  Private and public capital markets transactions can play a vital role in funding a company's growth strategy and provide a significant competitive advantage. Accessing the capital markets demands sophisticated capital markets lawyers who are attuned to regulatory and financial markets trends–and who can efficiently negotiate and close the deal. Read more.
• Securities Regulation
  Lowenstein Sandler’s Corporate practices are dedicated to providing solutions to the myriad challenges faced by public and private companies, investors, and funds on a daily basis, from accessing capital to acquiring other organizations to maintaining compliant and profitable operations. Read more.
• Securitization and Structured Finance Law
  Lowenstein Sandler’s Mortgage & Structured Finance practice is one of the very few practices in the country with substantial whole loan and servicing rights acquisition, sale, and financing experience, as well as expertise in counseling clients on the purchase, sale, or financing of businesses having significant receivables origination, servicing, or investment portfolios. Read more.
• Structured Finance
  Lowenstein Sandler’s Mortgage & Structured Finance practice is one of the very few practices in the country with substantial whole loan and servicing rights acquisition, sale, and financing experience, as well as expertise in counseling clients on the purchase, sale, or financing of businesses having significant receivables origination, servicing, or investment portfolios. Read more.
• Tax
  The quality of tax advice that businesses, founders, and investors receive can mean the difference between a bearable and an unbearable tax burden–indeed, between success and failure. Lowenstein Sandler advises public and private companies, individuals, and investment firms on the tax consequences of their business matters while minimizing risk and advancing their strategic visions. Read more.
• Tax Law
  The quality of tax advice that businesses, founders, and investors receive can mean the difference between a bearable and an unbearable tax burden–indeed, between success and failure. Lowenstein Sandler advises public and private companies, individuals, and investment firms on the tax consequences of their business matters while minimizing risk and advancing their strategic visions. Read more.
• Technology
  Lowenstein Sandler’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (ECVC) group provides a tailored approach to the legal strategies and services essential for the successful launch, growth, and culmination of new enterprises. Read more.
• Technology Law
  Lowenstein Sandler’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (ECVC) group provides a tailored approach to the legal strategies and services essential for the successful launch, growth, and culmination of new enterprises. Read more.
• Trade Secrets Law
  Intangible business assets–including all manner of brand names, logos, and trade dress–are of inestimable value. An effective trademark promotes goodwill in the marketplace, distinguishes your business from its competitors, and confers value, exclusivity, and quality. Read more.
• Trademark Law
  Intangible business assets–including all manner of brand names, logos, and trade dress–are of inestimable value. An effective trademark promotes goodwill in the marketplace, distinguishes your business from its competitors, and confers value, exclusivity, and quality. Read more.
• Transactions

  Significant corporate transactions involve a complicated set of business, legal, regulatory, and governance issues. It is imperative to engage sophisticated counsel that can help you balance and resolve these issues in order to achieve your goals in a timely, commercial, and cost-effective manner. Lowenstein Sandler's corporate transaction lawyers regularly work with others from across the firm, including colleagues specializing in employment and benefits, executive compensation, tax, antitrust, life sciences, and technology. Read more.

• Trusts and Estates
  Lowenstein Sandler lawyers tailor estate plans to each client's circumstances, goals, and dynamics, addressing complex, evolving federal and state laws with the goal of minimizing taxes. The firm represents family businesses and other privately owned firms, helping them create tax-smart strategies that achieve the owners' goals, from preserving the business for future generations to selling the company. Read more.
• Venture Capital
  Lowenstein Sandler’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (ECVC) group provides a tailored approach to the legal strategies and services essential for the successful launch, growth, and culmination of new enterprises. Read more.
• Venture Capital Law
  Lowenstein Sandler’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (ECVC) group provides a tailored approach to the legal strategies and services essential for the successful launch, growth, and culmination of new enterprises. Read more.
• White-Collar Criminal Defense
  Businesses or individuals faced with a government investigation, indictment, or trial need rapid, creative, and sound legal advocacy. Lowenstein Sandler's white collar defense team draws on a deep well of collective knowledge enhanced by battle-tested experience to safeguard the firm's clients' reputations and protect their futures. Read more.

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