Company Profile
Brown Rudnick LLP
Company Overview
We advise on high-profile cross-border matters while providing the kind of personal attention to clients that is typically found at boutiques. Our enterprising and tenacious lawyers serve our clients around the globe from offices in key financial centers in the U.S. and the U.K., and have been recognized by, among others, Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation and Law360 for excellence in their fields. We are also committed to building an inclusive workforce and serving the public interest through our charitable foundation and pro bono work.
The firm’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring group has earned acclaim from leading publications as Chambers and Legal 500, and was named Law360 Bankruptcy Group of the Year six times. Brown Rudnick has recently represented clients in high-profile bankruptcy matters including 23andMe, Stoli Group USA, Tupperware, BlockFi, Boy Scouts of America, Exactech, First Brands, Johnson & Johnson, Linqto, Mallinckrodt and Revlon.
In the Technology sector, Brown Rudnick advises tech companies and tech investors in all aspects of the digital economy. We help clients such as SpaceX, ABB, Atomic Wallet, Punchbowl, Wirex and futureproof navigate cutting-edge issues involving software, AI, data privacy, blockchain, and digital assets, as well as venture and M&A transactions that drive innovation forward.
Brown Rudnick’s Life Sciences team works at the intersection of science, business, and law, helping a diverse range of innovative companies bring breakthrough therapies and technologies to market. We have recently completed transactions for clients including AllRock Bio, Vor Bio, Voxelron, Latigo Biotherapeutics and Aktis Oncology.
Our Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice is recognized for handling some of the most complex and high-stakes disputes across the U.S. and U.K., with trial lawyers known for their tenacity and results-driven approach. Clients include Wynn Resorts, Shell Oil affiliate Pecten Company, Transmontaigne Operating Company, SPay, EQT Corporation and Mobile Data Technologies.
Brown Rudnick is also well known for its work in white collar defense and government investigations. Clients include Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal, Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks, energy executive Cyril Cabanes, oil and gas company ProFrac, Government of the State of Kuwait and the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
Through our Brand & Reputation Management practice, we help clients safeguard and enhance their most valuable intangible assets. Our team counsels individuals, companies, and organizations such as Johnny Depp, Luka Doncic, GB News, Shaquille O’Neal, Liberty Media and Idris Elba on crisis management, defamation, intellectual property protection, and digital reputation strategy.
Company History
Brown Rudnick is an international law firm with roots in post-war 1940s Boston and New York City. From the beginning, our lawyers and business professionals have demonstrated a remarkable blend of entrepreneurialism and collaboration.
Rome, Brown, Rudnick & Freed was founded in Boston by four prominent lawyers – Charles Rome, Matthew Brown, Alford Rudnick and Hirsh Freed – who in 1948 had not been welcomed into the partnerships of other leading firms because they were Jewish. Two years earlier, Harris Berlack, Carlos Israels and James Liberman founded Berlack Israels & Liberman in New York City, facing similar promotion limitations common to the era. These two firms grew independently and steadily for more than 50 years before combining in 2002 as Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP.
These founding partners gained reputations through outstanding client representation, community contributions, and developing generations of associates who themselves became partners for the duration of their careers. Both Charles Rome and Matthew Brown served on the bench, and both Brown and Carlos Israels were involved in the development and promotion of the Uniform Commercial Code, a groundbreaking effort to promote commerce by updating state laws throughout the U.S. Harris Berlack helped write the Investment Company Act of 1940. Hirsh Freed was an advisor to John F. Kennedy before and during his presidency.
In the ensuing years, the Boston-based legacy firm became Brown Rudnick Freed & Gesmer in 1958, following a combination with Gesmer & Geller. The combined entity developed a broad array of commercial and personal legal services, all the while continuing its close connection to government affairs. Expanding further into the New England legal market, we opened offices in Connecticut and Rhode Island, adding high-ranking officials from the state legislatures and governor’s office. With this growth, the firm also furthered its efforts to recruit, develop, and retain a diverse group of lawyers and professional staff. Among our first women partners are Barbara Lenk, who later ascended to serve as a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and become the first openly gay person in that court’s 300-year history, and Elizabeth Ritvo, whom we honor with our annual Ritvo Equity & Inclusion Awards.
By the late 1990’s, Brown Rudnick Freed & Gesmer had grown into one of the largest and most successful law firms in New England, and expanded to London in 1997. In 2001, its partners provided seed funding for the Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest and the Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation with substantial fees earned from its successful prosecution of claims against the tobacco industry on behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The foundation was part of a groundbreaking approach to coordinating charitable giving and community service with the provision of pro bono legal services to individuals and organizations that cannot afford access to justice. We continue to annually recognize a lawyer and a staff member with our M. Robert Dushman Pro Bono and Community Service Awards, named for our late partner Bob Dushman, a prominent First Amendment lawyer.
Over the last 25 years, the combined firm has thrived with full and easy partner/practice integration, rapidly realized profits from practice group collaboration, the continued development of new lawyers and a business professional staff that is well respected in the industry.
Strategic growth in Washington, D.C., since 2005 – together with the 2013 combination with the Orange County, California-based Rus, Miliband & Smith – has continued to fuel and expand the services available to our clients and professional development opportunities for our lawyers. Today, Brown Rudnick is a recognized leader in several practice and industry areas, such as corporate restructuring, technology, white collar defense, international disputes, intellectual property and life sciences. The firm continues to grow strategically and show its entrepreneurial, collaborative spirit that led to its creation.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and the NBA team in defense of a proposed class-action lawsuit for his promotion of the now-bankrupt crypto platform Voyager Digital.
Bullrock Energy Ventures in the formation of a $220 million joint venture with Apollo Global Management for a portfolio of community solar assets across New York and New England.
Multiple early-stage growth transactions, including financing, IP and exits, for both companies (including IONATE, Junebrain, UNTUCKit, and VirtualStagingAI) and investors (including RA Capital, Differential Ventures, Morgan Creek Digital and Harlem Capital)
Linqto in successfully negotiating, on behalf of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, a comprehensive settlement agreement in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of Linqto, an investment platform that enabled investors to invest in private companies and pre-IPO startups.
Kate Therapeutics as IP counsel in advising the San-Diego-based biotech startup on all IP-related aspects of its sale to Novartis in a transaction valued at $1.1 billion.
Clay Ventures, a third-generation family of automobile dealers, in a multimillion-dollar valuation fight over real estate assets sold to an acquiring auto group, securing a complete victory following a three-week jury trial in the Norfolk (Massachusetts) Superior Court.
Tehum Care Services: Official Committee of Tort Claimants for prison healthcare Tehum Care Services. Brown Rudnick’s advocacy on behalf of the tort victims has drawn praise from organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Queensgate Investments on €800M sale of Generator’s European Operations to Brookfield.
Benefits
Paid Time Off
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Medical FSA
Group Life
Group AD&D
Voluntary benefits - Accidental Injury, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Transit and Parking accounts, Pet Insurance
Emergency Back-up Childcare
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