Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is an international law firm with English and U.S. law capabilities, advising clients on high-stakes transactions, disputes and regulatory matters in the United Kingdom, across Europe and throughout the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The firm has approximately 700 fee-earners worldwide.

Pillsbury has a strong track record in corporate and M&A, having advised on more than 800 transactions valued at over £375 billion and 260 capital markets deals worth almost £94 billion in recent years. Its emerging companies and venture capital team has guided start-ups through formation, capital raising, governance, acquisitions and IPOs, completing more than £16 billion in venture financings and ranking among the most active VC advisors globally.

The firm’s global finance practice advises more than 200 financial institutions, including leading banks, private equity and investment funds. Pillsbury is also recognised for its leading work in energy transition and nuclear energy, assisting clients across oil, gas, renewables, hydrogen, nuclear and fusion projects, and has advised on complex projects in 75 countries. Its international nuclear practice is consistently ranked in the first tier and operates at the forefront of advanced nuclear technologies.

Pillsbury’s global sourcing practice is among the largest of its kind, having structured more than 1,000 strategic outsourcing and technology transactions worth over £400 billion in aggregate. The firm’s disputes team has decades of experience handling complex, multijurisdictional matters, representing clients in litigation before the London courts and in international arbitrations under LCIA, ICC, HKIAC, SIAC, DIAC and ICDR rules.

Other areas of strength include data privacy and cybersecurity, where the firm provides cross-disciplinary, multinational advice both pre- and post-incident; international trade, covering export controls, sanctions, investment controls, customs and compliance; and international public policy, where the firm advises governments, political leaders, NGOs and executives on cross-border legal, policy and commercial matters. Pillsbury also has a long-standing focus on emerging markets across Asia-Pacific, the Indian sub-continent, Russia and CIS, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.

In addition, the firm has a leading technology, media and telecoms practice advising on IP licensing, joint ventures, media production, e-commerce and other multijurisdictional, high-value matters for some of the world’s largest and most high profile companies.