United States
/ Energy & Project Finance
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has changed the clean energy project finance landscape in the United States. In an industry first, it now allows dev...
Sustainability, Impact & ESG
It’s no secret that our world faces large-scale environmental and social crises. The question is how we fix them. The Sustainable Procurement Pledge...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
When it comes to his career, Ben* has found meaning in serving his state and protecting communities as part of the Memphis Police Department and Tenne...
Intellectual Property
Cell-free DNA testing, an innovative technology that is transforming healthcare delivery, facilitates noninvasive prenatal screenings and early cancer...
In recent years, Russia’s LGBTQ+ population has faced an escalating crackdown on their rights. In 2023, the country’s supreme court designated LGBTQ+ ...
Sustainability, Impact & ESG
Today’s global humanitarian landscape is the most complex since the end of World War II. According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
Healthcare
In November 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2024 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, setting Medicare fee-for-ser...
Sustainability, Impact & ESG
/ Insurance
To keep climate change in check, the United Nations has established a goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions globally by the year 2050. Carbon remo...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
With the COVID-19 pandemic came the rapid rise of telemedicine, a remote option that has become an integral part of healthcare. Not long after the pan...
Corporate Transformation Services
After growing rapidly, our client – a large supplier – controlled an organization that included more than 150 separate legal entities, including corpo...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
In 1884, formerly enslaved people founded a Dallas church called White Rock Chapel. It relocated to Addison in 1918 and remains one of the most histor...
Corporate & Transactional
In 2020, two young women—Maja Bogojević and Victoria Jeffries—launched an Instagram account (@erklaermirmal) with the goal of fostering inclusion and ...
ERISA Litigation
In 2016, Inland Fresh Seafood Corporation of America established an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), a type of defined contribution employee bene...
Venture Capital & Emerging Growth
/ Life Sciences
More than “windows to the soul,” the eyes are the only external part of the body that can give doctors a glimpse into patients’ cardiovascular health....
Corporate & Transactional
Sustainability is more than a buzzword to Stefanie Lubetzky and Jessica Thees. It’s the foundation of their small business, Hoofment, selling ...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
After managing her own mental health issues since she was a child, Lisa Smith* decided to become a social worker so she could help others struggling w...
ERISA Litigation
Longtime McDermott client Mather Lifeways—along with 11 other not-for-profit retirement communities—sold stock in Symbria Inc. to an Employee Stock...
Healthcare
As the unprecedented early days of the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a series of nationwide ...
Government & Lobbying Strategies
In 2010, a group of talented teenage soccer players left Nigeria to play on an elite team in Chicago. Less than a year later, tragedy struck when...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
As a transgender woman, Estrella Santos-Zacaria faced relentless persecution in her home country of Guatemala. She fled to the United States after...
Energy & Project Finance
For years, with increasing efficiency, solar panels have allowed us to harness sunlight as a source of renewable energy. Although the panels need...
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
After a coffee and donut franchisee sold his Florida stores—more than 1,500 of them, to the tune of about $150 million—his transactions team made an...
Government & Lobbying Strategies
/ Digital Health
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a public health emergency (PHE) was declared. Related legislation and regulatory action temporarily loosened restriction...
China
/ Energy & Project Finance
Green hydrogen is poised to become the fuel of the future: It is one of several promising clean burning options that could eventually replace fossil...
Global White-Collar & Government Investigations
/ Energy & Project Finance
In 2011, global oil company Shell and Italian state-owned oil company ENI struck a deal with the Nigerian government to jointly acquire the license to...
Energy & Project Finance
Consumers are increasingly seeking more sustainable products, making a company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices part of their...
Venture Capital & Emerging Growth
/ Healthcare
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have led a digital transformation in healthcare, expanding providers’ resources and improving the lives...
Sustainability, Impact & ESG
In the immediate wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, women and young people in India disproportionately suffered economic fallout. A woman was eight...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Ms. M. fled Honduras with her three-month-old son after her former partner, a Mara 18 gang member, assaulted her and threatened their children...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
On the coast of southern California, and along the border with Mexico, residents and tourists enjoy spending time at public parks and beaches—when......
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
In 2018, police raided a known drug house in Kankakee County, Illinois, and found 19-year-old Latrell Franklin with 14 ecstasy pills and a bag of......
Corporate & Transactional
/ Technology
In every aspect of our lives, including payment for products and services, consumers increasingly expect a convenient, hassle-free experience. ...
Employment
When Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, millions of people began fleeing across the border to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and other surrounding.....
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
/ Technology
United States immigration policy, already a hot-button issue, attracted particularly intense international scrutiny during the Trump presidency......
Government & Lobbying Strategies
In early 2022, the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) community faced a crisis: Some Members of Congress and stakeholders were calling for an......
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
More than a century after the US Congress first passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ)......
Corporate & Transactional
/ Healthcare
With a mission to “harness the goodness of business to create a better world,” The Clermont Group—a Singapore-based international business group......
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
As a young man, William Allen made a decision that cost him the next 28 years of his life. He followed a friend into the apartment of a suspected......
Government & Lobbying Strategies
/ Healthcare
Deep into the COVID-19 pandemic, when at-home tests became available for over the counter (OTC) purchase, they helped reduce testing and quarantine......
Mergers & Acquisitions
/ Energy & Project Finance
On the spectrum of renewable energy projects, investments in solar and wind power are fairly common. But there’s an unsung hero in the renewable space...
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
The COVID-19 pandemic hit the hotel industry hard: Amid widespread public health lockdowns that greatly impacted the hospitality industry across the ...
Intellectual Property
/ Technology
Traditionally, the idea of a Fortune 50 company engaging a big law partner would bring to mind white male professionals focused solely on bottom-line ...
Mergers & Acquisitions
Demand for aluminum packaging, such as cans and bottles, has grown in recent years in an ongoing trend toward sustainability. In addition to being ...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
As a single mom of three receiving public assistance, Gloria Hall* knew her rental property security deposit was all that stood between her family and...
Intellectual Property
/ Technology Intellectual Property
Black, indigenous and all entrepreneurs of color have historically faced discrimination in securing funding to launch and scale their business venture...
Tax
After building a family and spending years as a stay-at-home mom of three children, Melody Smith* learned through local TV news coverage that her husb...
FinTech & Blockchain
Just two months after being appointed to represent creditors in the first large-scale cryptocurrency bankruptcy case in the United States, a cross-pra...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
In 2003, Veronica Martinez-Santos fled to the United States from Guatemala. Her daughter, Juana, and sons Pedro and Juan Carlos followed in 2005, trek...
Government & Lobbying Strategies
/ Healthcare
Traditional Medicare ACOs can qualify for a 5% bonus on their Medicare Part B if they meet certain revenue or patient count thresholds specified by th...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
After suffering a stroke and other significant health issues by the time he was in his early 60s, California resident Matthew Reed was unable to prepa...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
When Jennifer Arguijo was 11 years old, she and her siblings left Honduras to join their mother and stepfather—a US citizen—in the United States. ...
Government & Lobbying Strategies
/ Healthcare
During a stroke, blood can’t reach your brain to deliver nutrients and oxygen. A few minutes can often mean the difference between successful interven...
Corporate & Transactional
Hydrogen peroxide is a versatile, environmentally friendly chemical, with commercial applications ranging from food safety to electronics....
Private Client & Wealth Management
Two Ocean Trust worked with banking regulators in Wyoming to become one of the first qualified custodians for digital assets...
Corporate & Transactional
To deliver education to vulnerable children worldwide, UNICEF turned to innovative impact finance solutions to scale the most ambitious global educati...
Motorola, along with all other major cell phone manufacturers, faced lawsuits in the
District of Columbia claiming brain cancer caused by cell phones....
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
/ Insurance
In 2018, the North Carolina State Employee Health Plan cut off certain insurance benefits for transgender individuals, violating federal anti-discrimi...
Corporate & Transactional
After working with regulators for nearly three years, INX Limited launches the very first SEC-registered offering of blockchain assets ...
Corporate & Transactional
/ Energy & Project Finance
After years of selling services at a loss to grow its customer base, Agera Energy—a retail electricity and natural gas provider for commercial...
Corporate & Transactional
/ Alcohol
In 1995, Dogfish Head opened its doors as the smallest commercial brewery in the United States, brewing 12-gallon batches of beer to serve customers...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
As a result of his military service in Vietnam, Mr. R developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and tonsil cancer, which he argued was related t...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Mussie Mehari Zerae was forcibly conscripted into the Eritrean military as a teenager. When he questioned the government’s conscription policy and con...
Corporate & Transactional
When the famed Chrysler Building in New York City (along with an adjacent retail property) went up for sale in early 2019, the opportunity was highly...
Government & Lobbying Strategies
The US military’s discriminatory uniform and grooming policies forced observant Sikhs to deny their articles of faith (unshorn hair, beards, and turba...
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
/ Energy & Project Finance
In order to proceed with its planned $90 billion merger with Linde, Praxair had to complete strategic asset divestitures in 15 jurisdictions......
Global Privacy & Cybersecurity
/ Healthcare
As the 2018 implementation deadline for the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) loomed, all organizations with data subjects......
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
In 2012, a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak resulted in the deaths of more than 60 people and sickened more than 750 others,...
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Animus meted out by the federal government against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ+) Americans was sealed, classified or unavailable to...
Intellectual Property
/ Technology
Crain’s partnered with respected patent analytics firm Ocean Tomo in creating the rankings, and it’s plain to see how NuCurrent rose to the top: With...
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Faced with an increasingly competitive labor market, long-term McDermott client Abbott Laboratories wanted to develop a creative way to build a sustai...
Government & Lobbying Strategies
/ Food, Beverage & Agribusiness
Spanish ripe olive producers were gaining US market share at the expense of the US industry by undercutting US prices and taking large customers. ...
Tax
When Daniel Green hit his head and injured his spine in a bicycle accident in 2010, it left him paralyzed from the shoulders down and altered the cour...
Health & Welfare Benefits
/ Life Sciences
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important ...