Squire Sanders & Dempsey is a global US-based law firm founded in 1890. It is a multi-jurisdictional law firm with operations that span 32 offices worldwide. Its over 850 lawyers are some of the world’s best when it comes to common law and civil law jurisdictions.

Dedicated and committed to its primary principles of effective client service and establishing and maintaining professional standards, Squire Sanders has four major practice areas: regulated industries, advocacy, business, and capital markets. Its highly qualified attorneys offer a variety of specializations that include bankruptcy and restructuring, corporate, energy, environmental, healthcare, converging technologies, mergers and acquisitions, competition law, and biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.

Founders Andrew Squire, Judge William B. Sanders, and James H. Dempsey established the firm on the premise that it would become a reputable counsel for some of Cleveland’s distinguished and newly-industrialized corporations. Over the years, Squire Sanders has successfully turned that premise into a reality. From a 36-lawyer firm (already considered the largest at that time) in 1929, it has grown into the world’s most global law firm with offices strategically located in various parts of the world.

One of the reasons for the firm’s rapid change and growth is its participation in various mergers and acquisition deals which were often carried out with prominent law firms.

Apart from its effective quality service and professional working standards, Squire Sanders also prioritizes and practices diversity. The firm’s employees and applicants receive equal treatment regardless of their age, race, gender, ancestry, religion or creed, sexual orientation, familial status, or national origin. Most of the firm’s employees come from varied backgrounds and cultures. In fact, their lawyers come from different parts of the world so that it is easy for them to communicate with the firm’s clients, especially those who are in countries other than the United States.

Squire Sanders’ clients belong to both the public and private sectors. Some examples of the firm’s successful works include its counseling of Callahan Associates in 2002 in relation to Callahan’s €2.194 refinancing of Telenet, a Belgian telecoms company; its role as advisor in Bunge Ltd.’s $19.3 million acquisition of IDEAL line of edible oils; and in 2008, its representation of HiTs Africa Ltd. in its $215 million shares offering on the Kuwait Stock Exchange.

As a testament to the firm’s dedication to excellence, over 120 of its lawyers are listed in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

Thomas Stanton is Squire Sanders & Dempsey’s chairman while Andrew O. Visintin and James J. Maiwurm are the firm’s managing partners.

View resources for Squire Sanders & Dempsey.