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In-House Law Departments at the Leading Financial Services Companies

The second edition of this guide to the Go-To Law Firms® of General Counsels at US and international financial services companies includes contact information, number of employees, law department size, indexes to help identify go-to law firms, and top legal officers. In-house counsel information is also listed by practice areas, including:

• Litigation
• Corporate Transactions/M&A
• Regulatory Affairs, Compliance
• Securities
• Banking & Finance
• Labor & Employment
• Intellectual Property

Methodology/Sources:
Information on each company's primary law firms was first gathered via surveys sent to General Counsels at U.S. and international financial services companies, and second through research in various resources including public records, publications and commercial databases. Financial and biographical data for each of the companies listed was gathered from a variety of publicly available resources.

Criteria for selection as a Go-To Law Firm were: (1) Law firms that were named as a "primary law firm" by a general counsel at a financial services company in response to the survey. The survey defined a primary law firm as: the firms that are on the company's preferred list; the `go-to' law firms for a specific practice area; firms that handled the most important cases the prior year; firms used most often; and/or firms with the most billings. Or, (2) firms that since 2005 were utilized two or more times in the practice area specified, consistently used in each practice area since 2002, or counseled the client with respect to a major transaction as featured in publications such as The American Lawyer.