Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge is a firm of 600 lawyers across 11 offices in the United States and the United Kingdom. We offer a full array of legal services worldwide with a mission to create value by providing superior legal advice and business counsel to protect and advance the interests of our clients.

In 2008, the firm launched its UK and European Patent Practice and announced its association with the law firm of Lister Swartz in Hong Kong. These two initiatives, among others, further add to the full array of legal services we provide to clients worldwide.

At EAPD, we believe that we succeed only when our clients succeed. Our culture of respect and professional excellence are key factors in how we respond to our clients' needs.

• EAPD is recognized for excellence in 11 areas of practice by Chambers USA and 9 areas by Chambers UK. These areas include: Aviation: Insurance and Litigation, Banking & Finance, Corporate/Commercial, Corporate/M&A, Corporate Finance: Lower Mid-Market, Dispute Resolution: Mid-Market, Fraud: Civil, Insurance: Dispute Resolution, Insurance: General Claims, Insurance: Non-contentious, Insurance: Reinsurance, Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory, Insurance Insolvency, Labor & Employment, Litigation: General Commercial, Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital Investment, Public International Law, Real Estate and Restructuring/Insolvency.
• Best Lawyers in America recognizes 50 EAPD partners.
• EAPD has a rating of 100% in the Human Rights Campaign's annual Corporate Equality Index which ranks corporations based on their treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees and consumers.
• Dow Jones, Private Equity Analyst ranks EAPD the 11th Most Active Law Firm with over 300 transactions closed.
• Reactions Magazine, a leading insurance publication, ranks EAPD first in the United States in the areas of Insolvency, Corporate Contracts, and Policy Drafting.
• EAPD ranks among the nation’s top bond counsel and underwriters counsel according to Thomson Financial.
• Global Broker Magazine ranks EAPD as one of the top 4 firms globally for their representation of clients in the insurance and reinsurance industries.

Known for forging close relationships with our clients, we have aligned our core areas of practice to meet their legal and business objectives. Whether the legal issue involves high stakes litigation, complex securities, bankruptcy, intellectual property, real estate development, public finance, estate planning and fiduciary services, tax, or other legal services, our extensive business knowledge of these industry segments makes us value-added members of the client's team.

EAPD attorneys practice in one of our core Departments:

Business Law
Our Business Law Department handles billions of dollars of private equity, venture capital and debt finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions and public offerings for our clients, with particularly deep experience in telecommunications, media and broadcasting, life sciences and technology, banking and financial services, and insurance and reinsurance.

Insurance & Reinsurance
Globally, we have one of the largest Insurance and Reinsurance Departments, with approximately 100 lawyers based in the United States and United Kingdom dedicated to the business of insurance. Our clients include the world’s largest insurance and reinsurance companies, which we represent in corporate, transactional and regulatory matters, in reinsurance arbitrations and litigation and in sophisticated claims and coverage matters.

Intellectual Property
Our Intellectual Property Department is composed of lawyers and patent agents holding degrees in technology and scientific disciplines, including many with Ph.D. degrees in engineering, life sciences and chemistry. We are consistently ranked among the leading US firms for number of patents prosecuted to issuance each year and are widely recognized for achieving excellent results in patent litigation and interferences.

Litigation
Our Litigation Department represents a broad range of clients across many industries, including pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions, colleges and universities, technology companies and governments. EAPD litigators frequently handle national class-action cases involving antitrust, asset tracing, intellectual property, securities, employment, environment, construction, white-collar defense, products liability and various commercial litigation.

Private Client
Our Private Client Department provides advice and representation to individuals and families in the world of tax, law and finance. This group is one of the largest and most experienced in the country.

Public Finance
For over a century, our nationally recognized public finance practice has assisted state and local governments to access capital markets to finance major public projects and programs. Our Public Finance Department also specializes in other sophisticated financial transactions involving public debt for healthcare institutions, schools and colleges, affordable housing, water projects, sports facilities and transportation projects.

Real Estate
Our Real Estate Department handles matters ranging from complex real estate financings to development and permitting, and mixed–use development. Our real estate attorneys played a significant role in the largest land purchase in the contiguous US since the Louisiana Purchase, acting as lead counsel for the mortgage financing secured by 2.6 million acres of timberland and timber, with a purchase price of $3.16 billion.

Restructuring & Insolvency
Our Restructuring & Insolvency Department has broad experience in bankruptcy cases, out-of-court restructurings, cross-border proceedings and other distressed situations. Our lawyers regularly advise premier financial institutions, institutional investors, debt investors, finance companies, insurers and sureties to enforce creditors’ rights and to achieve strategic goals in the context of structured transactions, commercial litigation, loan workout, debt restructurings and bankruptcy.

Tax & Benefits
The tax and benefits attorneys at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP assist clients in structuring a wide variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, formation of, or investment in, pass-through entities, including joint ventures, private equity funds, and real estate syndications. Our multidisciplinary approach integrates our benefit professionals into complementary practice areas such as private equity, insurance, and trusts and estates. Today, sound "tax and benefits planning" is a critical component of a wide variety of business and investment transactions and integral to practical business and economic concepts and solutions. Almost every business decision has an array of tax consequences which, if not properly examined and evaluated, could severely undermine the achievement of the non-tax objectives. Our goal is to provide the best possible tax results in the most efficient manner.