Reed Smith

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Reed Smith LLP

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legal form LLP
founding 1877
Seat Pittsburgh United States 28 locations worldwide United StatesUnited States 
management Alexander Y. Thomas
Number of employees 1,550 professionals
sales 1.27 billion US dollars (2018/19)
Branch Legal advice
Website reedsmith.com
Status: 2019

Reed Smith is a global law firm in the legal form of an LLP . In 2018, it had total sales of 1.2 billion US dollars and is one of the top-selling law firms worldwide.

In Germany , Reed Smith has offices in Munich and, since 2015, also in Frankfurt am Main .

history

Reed Smith was founded in Pittsburgh in 1877 by Philander C. Knox and James H. Reed. The two partners soon entered into a business relationship with the American billionaire and US Steel founder Andrew Carnegie , who laid the foundation for further corporate relationships . In 1922, following the entry of other partners, the firm took on the name Reed Smith Shaw & McClay until it was shortened as part of a rebranding in the early 2000s.

During the New Deal era, Reed Smith built a securities practice and her partner Ralph H. Demmler became chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission . Since 1970, the firm has also engaged in a number of strategic mergers and acquisitions and new offices to grow into one of the largest law firms in the world. After numerous mergers and expansions within the United States , the law firm became transatlantic in 2001 and four years later opened offices in Paris and Munich , and later offices in France , Greece , the Middle East and Hong Kong .

Reed Smith today emphasizes its close proximity to industry within the leading commercial law firms and claims to represent 13 of 15 of the world's leading public and private banks, 25 of the world's 35 largest oil and gas companies and the world's three largest pharmaceutical and wholesale companies . The law firm , which comes from the port city of Pittsburgh , places particular emphasis on its shipping company practice group.

Selected mandates

Reed Smith was u. a. active in the following cases:

  • Defense of the Russian company Concord in connection with alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election in the United States ,
  • Defense of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club after the South Fork Dam broke with over 2,000 dead,
  • Defending rapper 50 cents in a series of copyright litigation,
  • Defending Nintendo against a series of Motion Games patent litigation,
  • Advising Deutsche Bank on the sale of a multi-billion dollar ship loan portfolio,
  • Competitive clearance in the United States and the EU for the takeover of the leading Hong Kong shipping company OOCL by Chinese competitor COSCO with the creation of one of the world's strongest shipping companies,
  • Advising Toyota on securing double-digit billion-euro loan financing.

Locations

Reed Smith has offices in the following locations: Abu Dhabi , Athens , Austin , Century City , Chicago , Dallas , Dubai Frankfurt am Main , Hong Kong , Houston , Kazakhstan , London , Los Angeles , Miami , Munich , New York City , Paris , Beijing , Philadelphia , Pittsburgh , Princeton , Richmond , San Francisco , Shanghai , Silicon Valley , Singapore , Tysons , Washington, DC and Wilmington . The firm has also set up a global support unit in Pittsburg .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Organizational Profile of Reed Smith at the National Law Review. In: The National Law Review. May 16, 2012, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  2. ^ Reed Smith. Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  3. ^ History ( Memento from February 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b c History | Reed Smith LLP. Retrieved December 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Kathryn Rubino: The Biglaw Firm Behind The Russian Trolls Indicted In The Mueller Probe. The decision to go with Biglaw is already paying dividends. In: Above the Law. Breaking Media, Inc., May 7, 2018, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  6. ^ Matthew Bultman: Fed. Circ. Backs Nintendo's PTAB Win On Game patent. In: Law360. May 10, 2016, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  7. ^ Reed Smith: $ 1bn DB deal just the start. In: Tradewinds. Retrieved October 16, 2018 .
  8. ^ Darcy Reddan: Global 20: Reed Smith. In: Law 360. Portfolio Media, Inc., October 10, 2017, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Reed Smith Advises Toyota Motor Credit Corporation in $ 15 trillion Financing. Reed Smith LLP, November 24, 2015, accessed October 16, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Locations | Reed Smith LLP. Retrieved December 4, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Global Customer Center. Reed Smith LLP, accessed October 16, 2018 .