Having represented clients in some of the most challenging antitrust matters in history, today Jones Day Antitrust lawyers handle mergers & acquisitions, government investigations, civil & criminal litigation, and everyday counseling for multinational corporations and innovative small companies around the world.

Our practice consistently is ranked as one of the top competition law practices in surveys of inside counsel and legal directories like Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, and PLC Which Lawyer?

Our team of more than 150 lawyers located in 22 business centers has resolved antitrust and competition issues in over 50 countries and in diverse industries.  We have guided clients through their important transactions with strong record of success in hundreds of merger reviews.  With our unique combination of trial and antitrust lawyers, we handle multi-jurisdictional investigations and government and private litigation before antitrust enforcement agencies and tribunals worldwide.

As the world markets contend with the credit crisis, our clients look to Jones Day’s Banking & Finance lawyers to help them navigate restricted channels of credit and challenging new regulations.

We work with financial institutions, as well as borrowers, lessees, and other capital users, to analyze potential risks and develop both short- and long-term plans in this uncertain environment.

We also continue to advise clients in acquisition financings, asset based lending, cross-border investments, and both new and established financial structures and transactions. With more than 125 specialized finance lawyers in major centers of business and finance in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, our clients have seamless access to the global resources of the Firm’s Banking & Finance and related practices wherever they do business. 

Jones Day's Business Restructuring & Reorganization team has consistently been ranked among the top global restructuring practices.

Jones Day has approximately 125 restructuring lawyers working from nearly all of the major global financial hubs to provide a full range of restructuring-related services to borrowers/debtors, creditors, and other parties in complex restructurings, out-of-court workouts, chapter 11 cases, and other matters involving financially distressed entities worldwide.

Jones Day's restructuring lawyers are regularly recognized in publications such as The American Lawyer, Chambers, and Legal 500 as among the world's leading restructuring practitioners.

Even more importantly, our clients have consistently awarded us top marks. 

Jones Day brings a full range of skills needed in the restructuring context, drawing on distressed-related resources from the Firm's Banking & Finance, Trial, Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Real Estate, Antitrust & Competition, Tax, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, and Labor & Employment practices.

Jones Day's Capital Markets Practice operates from an integrated, global platform with a significant presence in the world's major money centers. Our lawyers provide innovative solutions to a wide variety of capital raising and compliance and governance issues our clients face across the globe. 

Our approach to client service is firmly rooted in the One Firm Worldwide tenet that allows our lawyers to effectively and efficiently meet the needs of our clients.  The nature of our work often relies on close collaboration with the Firm's other practices, where we are able to tap deep resources and experience around the world. With the recent sweeping changes in regulations and expectations with respect to governance and risk management, the need for a multi-disciplined, global approach will continue to increase and our Capital Markets lawyers are uniquely positioned and skilled to address those needs.  As market regulations and capital flows continue to evolve, we will continue to be at the forefront of these developments.

Lawyers in Jones Day’s Corporate Criminal Investigations (CCI) Practice have extensive experience defending companies and individuals against allegations relating to every significant area of white-collar crime.  These include fraud, antitrust and securities improprieties, international trade and breaches of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, government contracts, health care and environmental crimes, and internal and regulatory investigations.

Jones Day lawyers bring an understanding of the prosecution and enforcement function gained through service in senior positions in the Department of Justice in Washington and the United States Attorney's offices in the largest federal districts.  Their combined experience includes the successful prosecution and defense of hundreds of criminal jury trials.

Jones Day’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation lawyers have been devising innovative ways to address clients' compensation and benefits concerns—with a focus on achieving client goals, preserving client flexibility, and minimizing risks—for more than 50 years.

Using our multi-disciplinary team approach, more than 50 experienced compensation and benefits attorneys around the globe work with each other, and with lawyers from such related practices as Labor & Employment and Capital Markets, to provide seamless "real world" advice to clients when and where needed. With the depth and diversity of our lawyers and our client base, Jones Day applies a wealth of targeted experience to help clients work through difficult problems.

Compensation and benefits issues play a central role as global economic problems and opportunities unfold. Jones Day lawyers are positioned to anticipate problems before they happen or, when disputes arise, to serve as dedicated advocates for our clients' positions.

Our Energy Practice delivers the combined legal experience of a multi-disciplinary team of lawyers together with an in-depth understanding of the commercial and technical aspects of the energy industry to bring transactions, regulatory proceedings, and disputes to successful completion.

Our lawyers understand both the traditional principles and evolving trends that apply to established and emerging energy industry participants, which allows us to help our clients stay in front of (rather than just reacting to) the changes, small and large, that face the industry.

We advise the full spectrum of energy-related clients — governments and national energy companies; electric and gas independents and utilities; oil, gas, and mineral producers; pipeline, processing and distribution companies; electric transmission companies; developers and owners of wind power and other renewable energy sources; btu conversion developers; services, construction, engineering, and environmental firms; companies trading electricity, natural gas, financial instruments, and emissions; and financial institutions providing capital and related services to these industries.

Jones Day's lawyers have been involved in some of the most high-profile and precedent-setting environmental matters in the history of environmental law, including the emerging area of climate change.  

Many of our lawyers have practiced environmental, health, and safety law since its inception in the early 1970s, and several have served in federal agencies, including the EPA and the Department of Justice.

Forty environmental lawyers in offices throughout the world work as an integrated team with 50 other Jones Day lawyers who focus on related areas, such as real estate and property, toxic tort, insurance coverage litigation, and OSHA counseling and trial practice.

Our lawyers help clients evaluate the regulatory, liability, and workplace safety and health issues that could affect business transactions; comply with regulations, including those governing climate change and emissions; handle complex and costly environmental litigation; pursue alternative methods of dispute resolution; and structure creative settlements.

Long before the term "credit crisis" appeared in the headlines, Jones Day was handling the transactional intricacies of sophisticated bank products and related litigation for leading financial institutions in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Jones Day has an integrated, global team with actual experience relevant to the current market uncertainty. The Firm's multidisciplinary team is helping clients in jurisdictions around the world respond to litigation, assess legal risks related to financial products and M&A transactions, prepare for and close new capital raising opportunities, and understand the new regulatory environment.

In an era of unprecedented government intervention in private industry in the United States and around the world, Jones Day’s government regulation attorneys can make a difference by bringing extensive government experience, crisis management, and complex regulatory and litigation skills to bear on difficult government-related problems.

With decades of success representing clients before government agencies, in enforcement matters, before lawmaking bodies, and in court disputes arising from government regulation or action, our lawyers worldwide understand government, business, and the political and policy environments in which the decisions affecting our clients are made.  We count among our members former high-ranking government officials, Asian and European attorneys at the cutting edge of their regional regulatory environments, and practitioners with deep industry experience.

Many of the nation's leading health systems rely on Jones Day's health care practice for their legal needs and count on our multi-disciplinary team to deliver practical, business-oriented solutions to their most challenging problems.

Our integrated team of health care lawyers brings the best of Jones Day to each of our health care clients, handling every critical aspect of health care legal services. 

Because of our knowledge of the health care industry and the Firm's worldwide capabilities, Jones Day brings national and global experience and perspective to local health systems and their unique problems.  In addition, Jones Day is on the cutting edge of the health care industry’s emerging legal needs, including horizon issues, such as preparing for health care reform. We help major hospital systems, leading academic medical centers, and other industry participants adapt and transform to meet new economic and regulatory challenges as they arise. 

Our Insurance Recovery Practice is dedicated to representing corporate policyholders worldwide and to maximizing the value of their insurance assets.

Our view that insurance is an important corporate asset, the value of which must be protected and maximized, is reflected both in our insurance recovery successes and our insurance counseling. We have recovered billions of dollars on behalf of our policyholder clients and routinely advise them on policy placements, captives, and the insurance aspects of acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, and restructurings to ensure that insurance rights are preserved and strengthened.

Our insurance recovery attorneys have experience with all forms of insurance coverage and the important issues that arise from them. We have handled hundreds of matters in jurisdictions throughout the United States, in London and Bermuda, and elsewhere throughout the world, from our more than 30 integrated global locations, and have won key policyholder precedent in numerous reported court decisions.

As one of few global firms with a full-service IP Practice, and operating as One Firm Worldwide, Jones Day provides clients with access to IP lawyers in the United States, Europe, and Asia who are experienced in litigation, prosecution, licensing and technology transfer, and IP counseling.

With nearly 300 lawyers, many of whom have advanced degrees and industry experience in cutting-edge scientific disciplines, we have the "bench strength" and depth to handle any IP issue imaginable.  Moreover, in this new economic age in which financial responsibility and "no surprises" are now facts of life in the world of corporate legal budgets, we take great pride in working with in-house IP counsel to achieve their desired results in a cost-effective and efficient manner.  Thus, it is not surprising that brand name companies in the U.S. and around the globe, including many Fortune 500 companies, have turned to Jones Day to solve their IP problems and to protect, enhance, and maximize the value of their global IP assets.

Jones Day has one of the strongest international litigation and arbitration practices of any law firm - our geographic diversity, "One Firm" culture, and breadth of practice and industry experience enable us to serve our clients in major disputes anywhere in the world.

Our 32 offices, situated in the leading commercial and financial centers in North America, Europe, and Asia, are linked by a common technology and communications platform that allows the Firm to respond to arbitration and cross-border dispute matters wherever they arise. We are experienced in handling the complex jurisdictional, procedural, and substantive issues that may arise when our clients become involved in civil and commercial disputes, government investigations, or criminal proceedings. We regularly handle some of the largest multijurisdictional disputes in the world, using coordinated teams of litigators from multiple Jones Day offices. Our litigators are frequently considered to be among the leading practitioners in their respective jurisdictions.
 

Distinctive among appellate groups, Jones Day’s Issues & Appeals lawyers reside on both coasts and many places in between, practice in all courts from state trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, and possess broad skills and deep experience across a wide range of substantive areas.

Our lawyers provide a full array of legal services, but generally handle difficult and novel legal problems. The Issues & Appeals Practice consists of nationally recognized trial and appellate lawyers who have argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and courts at every state and federal court level. Our Issues & Appeals attorneys have served in the Solicitor General’s office, senior Justice Department positions, White House and congressional appointments, and also as a state solicitor and state appellate judge, among other significant posts.

To learn more about Jones Day’s Issues & Appeals Practice and view samples of our work, please visit www.jonesdayappellate.com.

Jones Day's Labor & Employment Practice comprises more than 160 dedicated practitioners located in North America, Europe, and Asia, offering corporate clients experienced, sophisticated, and cost-effective representation concerning all aspects of employment-related legal matters. Our clients benefit from the strength of our multidisciplinary L&E team, in both employment litigation and traditional labor matters. Our global reach, multi-office teams, and seamless transfer of resources within the Firm allow us to bring the best of the practice to every client engagement.

In 2008 The American Lawyer named Jones Day as the nation’s best Labor & Employment practice in the magazine’s prestigious Litigation Department of the Year competition. The award highlighted recent successes in both traditional labor and employment arenas. In 2009 Chambers USA and The Legal 500 US honored our Labor & Employment practice as one of three #1 practices in the United States.

Every quarter since 2000, Jones Day has done more M&A deals than any other law firm in the world.

We take a fundamentally different approach, enabled by the Firm's overarching "One Firm" culture.  We base our approach on the recognition that the law firm value proposition in M&A has moved from a fixation on deal papers and the conduct of ritualistic due diligence to true risk assessment, value-creation through transactional structuring, new governance processes, and the ability to marshal numerous practice disciplines on a seamless and cost-effective basis, frequently in multijurisdictional, even global, transactional settings.

Accordingly, interdisciplinary teaming is the defining concept for us in M&A, by which we bring our extensive experience and scalable resources to bear on a real-time, cost-effective basis.

Jones Day regularly represents nearly 100 private equity funds, including many of the leading funds in the United States and Europe.

Since 2006, we have completed more than 600 private equity transactions.  While we provide a wide range of services to our private equity clients, our practice is focused on the representation of buyers and sellers in a variety of transactions, including privately negotiated transfers of shares or assets, leveraged buyouts, domestic and cross border take private transactions, bankruptcy buyouts, and other distressed M&A transactions.  We consistently rank among the top law firms in private equity representations in most published league tables.

Jones Day is a world leader in handling large and complex products liability and tort actions.

Our lawyers have litigated single-plaintiff and complex tort cases involving airline and train crashes, automobile components and tires, tobacco, silica, lead paint and pigment, consumer and chemical products, and recreational vehicle accidents.  We represent many of the world’s largest product manufacturers faced with intensely publicized threats of mass tort and class actions, state attorney general actions, and Congressional, regulatory, and criminal investigations.  Our lawyers manage consolidated trials, federal multidistrict proceedings, and state analogs to such proceedings.  We have tried headline-making cases, and handled appeals through the U.S. and state supreme courts, defeating a succession of theories designed by plaintiffs' counsel to aggregate liability, including medical monitoring class actions, consumer fraud class actions, and public nuisance claims.  We have a multidisciplinary Product Response Team that stands ready to advise in the event of a recall or crisis.

Jones Day’s real estate practice is diverse and our footprint is global, with over 120 attorneys who are active in all sectors of the real estate industry.

The real estate practice has been ranked No. 1 globally by Bloomberg in its real estate M&A league tables by number of deals every year since 2003.  Our professionals work closely with colleagues in the environmental, tax, finance, corporate, and dispute resolution fields to provide comprehensive solutions to our clients, who include prominent investment banks, real estate funds, institutional investors, lenders, Fortune 500 and Financial Times 500 companies, public and private real estate and property companies, retailers, and hotel and hospitality companies.

Our practice includes acquisitions and dispositions, real estate finance and workouts, equity investment, leasing and asset management, construction and development, joint ventures, real estate private equity funds, unit trusts, real estate investment trusts, and cross-border investment.

Lawyers in Jones Day’s Securities Litigation & SEC Enforcement Practice have won securities fraud class actions, shareholder derivative actions, and federal and state regulatory investigations against all of the major plaintiffs’ law firms.

A core group of 76 lawyers spends the majority of their time defending companies and their directors and officers against claims under federal and state securities acts and fraud laws. We draw upon Jones Day’s global presence and resources, including attorneys with a distinctive grasp of accounting issues. We also are well versed in corporate governance and counsel clients on director indemnification and liability insurance.

A number of our partners have served at the Securities and Exchange Commission and one served as chief of the SEC Fraud Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.

Our coordinated approach allows us to manage the disparate risks our clients face, with a single strategic objective – to win.

Jones Day’s Tax Practice assists clients in responding to the challenges of the current environment by emphasizing the development of creative, practical solutions to tax problems.

The focus of the Tax Practice reflects the changing business environment in which we live.  The tax law is becoming more dispute-oriented, more international in scope and, despite efforts to the contrary, more complicated and subject to frequent revision.  The client service challenges created by complexity and change are addressed in part by the identification and development of Firm leaders in key areas of practice.  These lawyers combine extensive experience with an understanding of the latest developments in their field, and many have been recognized as among the world’s outstanding tax practitioners.  The knowledge and experience of each tax lawyer is made available Firmwide through a long tradition of close collaboration and cooperation across offices and practices.

Jones Day’s Trial Practice earns its place among the top trial departments worldwide for its breadth of knowledge and depth of resources, traits that garnered the inaugural awarding of The American Lawyer’s Litigation Department of the Year.

More than 1,100 litigators, including 80 in Europe and 65 in Asia, comprise our practice.  They possess local law and cross-border litigation, arbitration, and mediation experience, and many focus on one of seven litigation subpractices.

We serve corporations, governmental and other entities across a broad range of business disputes and civil litigation, from counseling through trial and appeal.  We are often engaged in bet-the-company cases, and we have broad experience in complex, multidistrict litigation and coordinate state law proceedings.  Our cases typically involve multiple adversaries, and we often handle national litigation in multiple courts exclusively with Jones Day lawyers.  Many clients engage us as national or worldwide coordinator of recurring or related filings across jurisdictions.