LAW FIRM PARTNERS

PILPG leverages its resources by drawing on pro bono assistance of major international law firms. Annually, these partners contribute over $2 million in pro bono support. Their commitment to our mission and vision has enabled us to serve our expanding client list.

Baker & McKenzie

Baker & McKenzie is the world's leading global law firm. Baker has provided sophisticated legal advice and services to many of the world's most dynamic and global organizations for more than 50 years. With a network of more than 3,000 locally qualified, internationally experienced lawyers in 38 countries, the firm has the knowledge and resources to deliver the broad scope of quality legal services required for both international and local clients – consistently, with confidence and with sensitivity for cultural, social and legal practice differences. The more than 8,500 lawyers, supporting professionals and staff of Baker & McKenzie share common values of integrity, personal responsibility and tenacity in an enthusiastic client-service culture. The firm is still guided by the enduring entrepreneurial spirit and demanding standards of their founders. Baker & McKenzie is a diverse and welcoming culture with a global mindset. The lawyers and other professionals in the firm are citizens of more than 60 countries. They speak more than 65 languages. English is the firm's common language.

Covington & Burling

Covington & Burling is one of the world's preeminent law firms, known for handling sensitive and important client matters. Founded in 1919, the firm has long attracted exceptionally able lawyers. Distinctive among top law firms, Covington's corporate and litigation practices draw upon the firm's deep industry expertise acquired through our regulatory practice.

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle

Curtis has continuously focused on being a trusted partner of each client & friend of the firm. Today, while offering the resources of a full-service international law firm, with 10 offices worldwide, Curtis remains dedicated to providing value and personal attention to every client.

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary

DLA Piper provides an extensive range of legal services through seven global practice groups as follows: Commercial, Corporate and Finance, Real Estate, Legislative and Regulatory, Litigation, Human Resources and Technology, Media and Communications. Their services provide support with the full range of legal issues and challenges that businesses face as they develop strategies and deliver their plans. DLA Piper is there for the important business issues, day in day out, year after year.  They provide advice on people, property, their commercial relationships, their financing arrangements, their acquisitions and disposals, and their systems and buildings, to mention just a few. Their lawyers are locally trained and fully conversant with the cultural and business practices of all our jurisdictions.  DLA Piper has 49 offices in the major countries across Asia, Europe and the United States.

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is a law firm of international renown. From its offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia, Orrick's lawyers are engaged in precedent-setting deals and cases around the globe. Each of its practice areas can point to market-leading achievements, substantiated by major U.S. and international ranking agencies. Its expertise in public finance and corporate law stems from the seminal work done by a group of legal innovators in a time and a city that held tremendous potential. The firm has built on this foundation, expanding its practice to include 13 practice areas, throughout 16 offices in 7 countries, while maintaining its tradition of client service. Orrick believes its success and its longevity are due to a commitment to its core values-Excellence and Integrity, Cooperation and Individual Respect, and Enthusiasm and Pursuit of Improvement-and to knowing its clients, their businesses, and the issues they face every day. For nearly 140 years, Orrick has been helping clients achieve their objectives in the courtroom and in the boardroom.

Orrick's blue chip legal services are offered on a pro bono basis in the areas of greatest need, where the firm believes it can make a substantial impact. A varied and flexible approach encourages attorneys of all levels of experience to get involved in its communities to address a range of issues reflecting the firm's diverse practice areas in transactional work and litigation. Orrick's pro bono program features matters ranging from transactional work for nonprofits, to cases for individuals, to impact litigation, to assisting nonprofit organizations that serve underdeveloped countries and the people living there.

Shearman & Sterling

Shearman & Sterling has been advising many of the world's leading corporations and financial institutions, governments and governmental organizations for more than 130 years.  They are committed to providing legal advice that is insightful and valuable to their clients.  This has resulted in groundbreaking transactions in all major regions of the world, including: Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, and North America. Shearman & Sterling believes that engaging in pro bono work is an essential part of every lawyer's practice.  While serving the needs of indigent individuals and nonprofit organizations with limited access to legal services, the pro bono experience connects their lawyers to the communities in which they work.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom, LLP

Established in 1948, Skadden's diversified practice enables them to offer solutions to the most challenging legal issues in virtually every area of corporate law, providing the specific legal advice clients need to compete most effectively in a global business environment.  For more than 55 years, the firm has advised on many of the most significant corporate and litigation matters worldwide.

A commitment to public service has always been deeply ingrained in Skadden's firm culture. Their New York and Washington, D.C. offices "lend" attorneys on a rotating basis to work full time for groups providing free legal services to individuals of limited means and small non-profits. Their lawyers have been instrumental in the start-up of organizations created to provide legal services to those in need. In addition to actual pro bono legal work, Skadden's lawyers have been active in a wide variety of charitable endeavors, working with, sitting on boards of, and even running, many types of civic, community, cultural, governmental, educational and medical organizations, a number of which seek to improve the lives of the less fortunate.

Steptoe & Johnson

With more than 400 attorneys, Steptoe & Johnson LLP provides counsel and representation in a wide range of legal fields. In more than 50 years of practice, the firm has gained a national and international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in guiding business transactions. The firm has offices in Washington, New York, Phoenix, Los Angeles, London, and Brussels.

Sullivan & Cromwell

Sullivan & Cromwell provides the highest quality legal advice and representation to clients around the world. Their lawyers are extraordinarily capable. Their culture is cohesive and highly productive. Their legal advice is grounded in a sophisticated understanding of the relevant business context or market. They are highly responsive to their clients, and dedicated in the pursuit of their interests.  They understand how legal work creates value for their clients. They do create value. 

Vinson & Elkins

For almost a century, Vinson & Elkins lawyers have provided innovative business solutions for clients whose needs are as diverse as the entities they represent. In today's challenging environment of global markets, volatile economies and complex human and environmental issues, Vinson & Elkins' time-tested role as trusted advisor has become even more critical. The depth and breadth of their lawyers' experience, combined with the responsiveness and efficiencies of the firm's global reach, enable Vinson & Elkins to serve clients from start-up, to the negotiating table and boardroom, before legislative and regulatory bodies in the courtroom, and beyond.

Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP was formed in May 2004 through the merger of Hale and Dorr LLP and Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP. The two firms brought more than 125 years of distinguished history as well as complementary strengths to our new firm, which has an even broader spectrum of top-ranked practices. To each practice, they bring outstanding reputations for quality, excellence and service to their clients. Their firm fosters a collaborative culture that allows each lawyer to draw freely on the expertise and time of others to serve any client. They balance their proud heritage and thorough understanding of the law with an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit. Their practice is constantly evolving in response to their clients' needs, the demands of the market and the emergence of new technologies.

They have a rich heritage of commitment to public service and the causes of justice and fairness. With a history that goes back to the foundation of legal aid work early in the 20th century, they have consistently distinguished themselves as leaders in pro bono representation. Many of their lawyers have played, and continue to play, prominent roles in public service activities of national and international importance—from counseling U.S. presidents to opposing racial discrimination and fighting apartheid.