Bryan Cave

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Bryan Cave LLP

Type	Limited liability partnership
Founded	1873
Headquarters	Headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, 22 offices worldwide
Industry	Law
Products	Legal services
Revenue	$411 million (2006)^[1]
Employees	880 Attorneys
Website	www.bryancave.com

Bryan Cave is an international law firm based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

1 Overview
2 Affiliates
3 Practice Groups
4 Offices
- 4.1 Bryan Cave LLP
- 4.2 Bryan Cave International Trade
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Overview

Bryan Cave is a leader in corporate, transactional and litigation representation with more than 1,000 lawyers and other consulting professionals practicing from 22 offices around the world. Bryan Cave advises a wide array of businesses, financial institutions, not-for-profit organizations, governmental entities and individuals. Clients include major publicly-held multinational corporations, major and mid-sized publicly and privately-held companies, partnerships and emerging enterprises.

Bryan Cave professionals practice in Client Service Groups and Industry Practice Teams that offer legal counsel and advice in virtually every area of interest to business and entrepreneurial clients. Members of these groups are drawn from diverse disciplines and offices around the globe.

In addition to the global law offices, Bryan Cave lawyers are licensed to practice in numerous other locations to ensure service on matters worldwide. Bryan Cave’s “One Firm” culture gives clients immediate access to legal resources quickly and economically without regard to location.

Founded in 1873 as King, Phillips & Stewart, it is one of the 35 largest law firms in the world. Its partners include former US Senators Jack Danforth and Alan Dixon, former New York Mayor Ed Koch and Charles Burson, former Attorney General of Indiana and Tennessee and former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore. The firm was among the first to conduct substantial business in the Middle East (1976) and has been licensed in Shanghai since the mid 1990s.

The chairman of the firm is Don G. Lents, who works from the St. Louis office.^{[citation needed]}

The firm consistently ranks in Vault's Top 100 Most Prestigious firms^{[citation needed]} and in The AmLaw 100.

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[edit] Affiliates

Bryan Cave International Trade LLC Bryan Cave International Trade LLC ("BCIT") is a consulting firm of non-lawyer professionals and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bryan Cave LLP. As a trade and customs consultancy based in Asia, BCIT is well-positioned to provide clients with the strategic and operational advice needed to anticipate, react to and benefit from the diverse and constantly evolving regulatory landscape of the Asian region. BCIT's non-lawyer professionals have served as senior customs, trade and investment officials in Asia. They have decades of experience in their fields and broad contacts in their respective countries. BCIT provides advisory and advocacy services to multinational clients in the IT/electronics, automotive, agricultural, logistics, chemicals and other industries on a range of customs, trade and investment matters. While based in Asia, BCIT also assists clients with trade matters in major trade jurisdictions throughout the world.

Bryan Cave Strategies LLC Bryan Cave Strategies LLC is another wholly-owned subsidiary of Bryan Cave LLP. Bryan Cave Strategies provides government relations and strategic counsel to corporations, trade associations and non-profit organizations. For clients facing a public affairs battle or difficult public policy climate, Bryan Cave Strategies designs and manages effective issue and legislative campaigns that produce winning results. Headed by nationally recognized political and government affairs strategist Jack Oliver, Bryan Cave Strategies offers clients a bipartisan team that is well-prepared to address public affairs challenges before and after they happen. The team specializes in developing innovative strategic plans and managing complex, large-scale issue campaigns.

[edit] Practice Groups

Agribusiness, Ag Biotechnology and Food Processing; Antitrust/U.S. Trade; Appellate; Audit Committee Counseling; Banking, Business and Public Finance; Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors' Rights; Class and Derivative Actions; Commercial Litigation; Commercial Practice Rapid Response Team; Corporate Finance and Securities; Election Law and Government Ethics; Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation; Entertainment and Media; Environmental; Financial Institutions; Financial Institutions Regulatory; Franchise and Distribution Law; Fund Finance; Government Contracts; Hedge Fund; Information Technology; Insurance; Intellectual Property; International Arbitration; International Trade; Labor and Employment; Land Use; Life Sciences and Health Care; Outsourcing; Private Client; Product Liability; Real Estate; Regulatory and Governmental; Risk Management; Securities Litigation and Enforcement; Subprime Lending; Sustainable Energy and Climate Change; Tax Advice and Controversy; Technology, Entrepreneurial and Commercial Practice; Transactions; and White Collar Defense and Investigations.