Perkins Coie Recommended by Legal 500 for Product Liability Litigation, Media and Technology, and Mergers and Acquisitions Practices

SEATTLE (June 22, 2009) – Perkins Coie is pleased to announce it has been recommended in the 2009 edition of The Legal 500 United States for its product liability litigation, media and technology, and mergers and acquisitions practices.

The firm was recognized for its litigation practice in the areas of product liability and mass tort defense for aerospace/aviation; media, technology and telecoms practice in video and online gaming; and mergers, acquisitions and buyout practice for the Northwest region.  A brief excerpt from The Legal 500 listing is noted below.

Product liability and mass tort defense: aerospace/aviation

"Clients unanimously regard the practice as being in the top tier, one saying ‘we only use grade A firms that we trust... and I can’t give it a higher recommendation than that’. But Perkins Coie LLP’s nearly century-old commitment to the industry, and what clients call its capacity to ‘balance aggression with good reason and an ability to settle’, means that it can only be accorded a place in the top echelon of aviation product liability practices."

Technology: video and online gaming

"In what is the largest multi-disciplinary group in this market, Perkins Coie’s game industry team comprises 23 attorneys with good coverage both geographically and in terms of expertise. …the practice has been able to develop into a broad and malleable unit with both East and West Coast expertise. This balance of IP expertise with a commercial sense has kept the practice ‘among the best available for the high-end deals in the games industry’."

Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts

"Clients say that Perkins Coie LLP provides ‘outstanding service’ from the 33 partners who comprise its M&A team in Seattle and Portland. Technology and venture capital are areas of particular expertise at the firm, and approximately half of the team’s M&A deals arise out of liquidity events for high-growth, venture-backed companies that the firm represented from inception. Clients say that the firm is ‘year-in, year-out market leader’, and note the practice’s ‘impressive ability to marshal resources effectively in a variety of situations’."

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