By understanding our clients’ strategic objectives, we help businesses around the world navigate the legal and commercial complexities of domestic and global cross-border M&A. We can execute any type of transaction, in any industry, economic climate or geographic region and take great pride in partnering with our clients as they pursue their objectives.

Our practice is distinguished by its industry focus and cross-disciplinary approach - unique among our peers. Our financial services lawyers work on an integrated basis on matters involving the full range of our clients’ needs, such as mergers and acquisitions, bank regulation, capital markets, digital assets, fintech, economic sanctions and financial crime, commodities, futures and derivatives, consumer finance, and investigations and litigation. Our approach has been developed to provide the best client service and, specifically, to mitigate the risk of “blind spots” created by a more traditionally siloed practice.

We serve a wide range of financial institutions of all sizes, including both U.S. and non-U.S. firms, fintech and other startups, and a number of financial services industry groups. Clients routinely cite as differentiating from other law firms our commitment to client service, our experience in financial services regulation and our ability to synthesize issues across multiple disciplines to find solutions, while staying attuned to commercial realities.

In addition to litigation and transactional work, S&C’s IP and Technology Group regularly counsel clients on a wide range of strategic and day-to-day issues associated with the development, accquisition and maintenance of intellectual property portfolios. We routinely consult on trademark clearance, brand strategy, patent pools and joint licensing programs, website policies, trade secret protection, tax planning and monetization strategies. We also assist companies in the interpretation and application of various licensing arrangements.