Chadbourne & Parke

{{Infobox law firm

| name = Chadbourne & Parke LLP

| logo = File:Chadbourne&Parke-logo.JPG

| headquarters = 1301 Avenue of the Americas
New York City, NY, U.S.

| num_offices = 12

| num_attorneys = 400+

| practice_areas = General practice, Project Finance, Insurance & Reinsurance, Products Liability, Latin America

| revenue = $286 million (2008)

| key_people = Andrew Giaccia (Managing Partner)

| date_founded = 1902

| company_type = Limited liability partnership

| homepage = [http://www.chadbourne.com/ www.chadbourne.com]

}}

Chadbourne & Parke LLP, founded in 1902 by Thomas L. Chadbourne, was a 400 lawyer firm, which operated from

12 offices in ten countries. Chadbourne was known for its practices in project finance and energy, international insurance and reinsurance, multi-jurisdictional litigation, and corporate transactions.

On February 21, 2017, Norton Rose Fulbright and Chadbourne & Parke agreed to merge into a combined firm known as Norton Rose Fulbright, with about 4,000 lawyers and annual revenue around $2 billion.{{cite news |last=Olson |first=Elizabeth |date=February 21, 2017 |title=Norton Rose and Chadbourne to Combine in Latest Merger of Large Law Firms |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/business/dealbook/merger-norton-rose-fulbright-chadbourne-parke-law-firm.html?ref=dealbook |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |location=New York City |access-date= February 22, 2017}}

Overview

In addition to its United States work, the firm established practices in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Middle East and Latin America.

In 2014, the firm moved to its home at 1301 Avenue of the Americas. Prior to 2014, the firm had been located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. In March 2008, the firm acquired the Mexico City office of the New York firm Thacher Proffitt & Wood as well as an associated team of lawyers in New York focusing on Latin America-related arbitration and transactions.

Chadbourne's clients included Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, James Joyce and the Wright brothers. In 1924, Tom Chadbourne orchestrated the consolidation of New York City's subway system. The firm's success in two landmark cases before the United States Supreme Court in the 1980s created the legal framework for development of the cogeneration and independent power production industries. In its successful representation of French and U.S. clients in the DeLorean sports car fiasco in Northern Ireland, the disclosure of Cabinet minutes was compelled for the first time in British history. The first ever approval for entry of a foreign law firm in India was obtained for Chadbourne and Parke.{{cite web|url=http://barandbench.com/content/212/conversation-anand-bhushan-general-counsel-apac-cognizant-technology-solutions#.U32bRvmSyRh |publisher=Bar and Bench |title=In Conversation: Anand Bhushan, General Counsel (APAC), Cognizant Technology Solutions |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515013225/http://barandbench.com/content/212/conversation-anand-bhushan-general-counsel-apac-cognizant-technology-solutions |archivedate=2014-05-15 }}

Notable mandates

  • Represented the lenders in connection with the $6 billion Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC Project in Cameron Parish, La. This will be the world's first LNG terminal able to import and gasify LNG and Liquefy and export natural gas. {{citation needed|date=January 2015}}

PepsiCo in its acquisition of JSC Lebedyansky, a Russian juice manufacturer.{{Cite web|last=Harris|first=Roy|date=2008-03-24|title=Deals: Paced by the Pit, Paper, and Pepsi|url=https://www.cfo.com/banking-capital-markets/2008/03/deals-paced-by-the-pit-paper-and-pepsi/|access-date=2020-08-06|website=CFO|language=en-US}}

Notable attorneys

  • Thibaut de Saint Phalle, former director of the Export–Import Bank of the United States under Jimmy Carter
  • Abbe Lowell, chief minority counsel to Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives during the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
  • Ed Muskie, Secretary of State and a vice presidential candidate in 1968, was for many years senior partner of the Washington office.
  • George Bundy Smith joined Chadbourne in December 2006, as a partner in the litigation practice in New York, after retiring as an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals (the highest court in New York state).
  • George Pataki, New York governor
  • Julissa Reynoso, former United States ambassador to Uruguay
  • George A. Spater, American Airlines chairman who earlier advised airlines for the firm from the 1930s through the 1960s
  • John Cahill, Pataki's chief of staff
  • [http://www.frixadvisory.com/about/ Dana Frix], noted business adviser in the telecom, media and technology industries and general counsel to the [http://wpdi.org/ Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative]
  • Eddie Huang, American restaurateur, chef, writer, and TV personality
  • Philip Goodman, former naval officer, U.S. Treasury official, and chair of financial crime task force for international insurance regulators

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