USA Group
Taylor Wessing's USA Group represents many prominent US businesses across Taylor Wessing’s offices and industry sectors. We have dedicated US client teams in all our major jurisdictions, and many of our lawyers spend all or almost all of their time serving the special needs of US corporations looking to do business in Europe. Taylor Wessing is regarded as one of the leading firms for inward investment into Europe from North America, having established a practice focusing on US and Canadian business over 20 years ago. Our aim is always to provide our clients with a seamless service across all of our offices as well as when working with other law firms, often devising solutions that work across the EU.
We have extensive pan-European experience in the following areas:
- cross-border mergers and acquisitions, investments, public offerings and restructurings
- joint ventures, strategic alliances, partnering arrangements and complex technology transactions
- intellectual property strategy, licensing, protection and litigation of patents and trade marks through our market-leading IP specialists
- employment, labor law and stock options
- dispute resolution, from mediation through arbitration to litigation, with particular experience in the technology, financial, insurance/reinsurance and M&A sectors
- privacy, data protection, consumer protection, telecom and environmental regulation
- antitrust and regulatory
- multi-locational European set ups
- acting as local general counsel for our US clients
Our market-leading intellectual property practice means we are the preferred choice for North American clients who want to instruct a firm adequately equipped to deal with all IP issues which may arise. Our particular expertise in IP focuses on launching technologies; defending technology, inventions and brands from hijack (both real world and online); protecting and asserting; and often revoking patents, trade marks, designs and copyright; and protecting clients' IP, from their clients data to their own reputation management. Taylor Wessing is considered to be the partner with whom US corporations and partnering law firms can entrust the work and reputation of their key tech clients. Our US clients regard Taylor Wessing's lawyers as extensions of their in-house legal teams. For companies at an early stage of European growth, we have devised a suite of the must-have legal steps which we offer during the first year in Europe, almost exclusively on a fixed fee basis, to help manage budget for our clients.