Sponsors
Freeborn & Peters LLP is a full-service law firm, headquartered in Chicago, with international capabilities and offices in New York City; Richmond, Va.; Springfield, Ill.; and Tampa, Fla. Freeborn is always looking ahead and seeking to find better ways to serve its clients. It takes a proactive approach to ensure its clients are more informed, prepared and able to achieve greater success – not just now, but also in the future. While the firm serves clients across a very broad range of sectors, it has also pioneered an interdisciplinary approach that serves the specific needs of targeted industries.
Freeborn is a firm that genuinely lives up to its core values of integrity, effectiveness, teamwork, caring and commitment, and embodies them through high standards of client service and responsive action. Its lawyers build close and lasting relationships with clients and are driven to help them achieve their legal and business objectives.
Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell provides litigation and counseling services in a wide range of civil practice areas including product liability, commercial litigation, construction, real estate, intellectual property litigation, securities litigation , labor and employment law, bankruptcy, insurance coverage, professional liability and administrative law. Offices are located in Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Tallahassee and Birmingham, Alabama.
Foley & Lardner LLP looks beyond the law to focus on the constantly evolving demands facing our clients and their industries. With over 1,100 lawyers in 24 offices across the United States, Mexico, Europe, and Asia, Foley approaches client service by first understanding our clients’ priorities, objectives, and challenges. We work hard to understand our clients’ issues and forge long-term relationships with them to help achieve successful outcomes and solve their legal issues through practical business advice and cutting-edge legal insight. Our clients view us as trusted business advisors because we understand that great legal service is only valuable if it is relevant, practical and beneficial to their businesses.
Established in 1970, Cozen O’Connor delivers legal services on an integrated and global basis, with more than 700 attorneys in 26 cities on two continents. Our lawyers counsel clients on sophisticated legal matters in all areas of litigation, corporate and regulatory law — and provide government relations support at the state and federal levels. We represent a broad array of leading global corporations and ambitious middle market companies in all major industries.
Kenny Nachwalter handles a wide range of complex business litigation, nationally and locally. The Firm enjoys a national reputation for excellence in high stakes antitrust, business, and professional responsibility litigation and is routinely retained in cases involving multiple proceedings and parties; complicated economic, legal, and factual issues; and multi-faceted implications.
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney is a national law firm with a proven reputation for providing progressive, industry-leading legal, business, regulatory and government relations advice to our clients. Our attorneys and government relations professionals represent some of the highest profile companies in the nation, including 50 of the Fortune 100. We bring to our clients an intimate knowledge of the players, market forces, and political and regulatory landscape to protect, defend and advance our clients’ businesses.
With 1,600 lawyers in 32 offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is a fully integrated global law firm that provides clients with connected legal advice, wherever and whenever they need it. The firm is known for its relationship-driven, collaborative culture, diverse legal experience and industry-shaping innovation and offers clients one of the most active M&A, real estate, financial services, litigation and corporate risk practices in the world.
For over 90 years, Gunster has been a giant among corporate law firms in Florida. More than 180 lawyers work within 27 networked practices linked across 13 offices around the state. This business strategy magnifies the depth and scope of the knowledge, relationships, perspective and level of performance we provide to our clients with business interests in Florida. Since 1925, we have distinguished ourselves for our ability to handle the most complex of transactions to the greatest advantage for our clients.
Our attorneys and government consultants are highly experienced and well-respected in a variety of disciplines. Each Gunster attorney is outstanding in his or her specific practice area, but these committed individuals also work as a team – within each practice and across various practices, always with the support of more than 200 professional staff and team members statewide. This collaborative approach serves our clients well, as it means we can draw on as many practices as needed to best serve a client’s interests.
Gunster is in the business of understanding our clients’ business. The firm’s depth of experience and its powerful base of top-tier business, government and industry-specific relationships have helped its clients navigate challenges, opportunities and legislative changes.
Shutts & Bowen LLP is a full-service law firm with a commitment to excellent service and a focus on diversity in the workplace. For more than 100 years, Shutts has been opening doors to our business clients across the state with sophisticated, cutting-edge legal skills from Florida's top legal talent. Shutts employs approximately 290 attorneys who focus on more than 30 distinct practice areas, including real estate, litigation, construction, and financial services.
Established in 1905, Waller comprises approximately 250 attorneys in Austin, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Memphis and Nashville. We have the depth and experience to quickly assemble multidisciplinary teams to address complex transactional, regulatory and litigation issues throughout the United States. We have client relationships spanning decades, and we are trusted advisors to publicly traded and privately held companies in a wide range of industries.
Hill Ward Henderson started with a vision of a unique law firm — one that would combine the expansive talent, resources, capabilities and technologies of a larger firm with the responsiveness and personal attention of a smaller firm, to deliver powerful, personal service to every client. This idea for an innovative, client-focused firm grew out of the longstanding relationships and collective experience of three of the area's leading attorneys, Benjamin H. Hill, III, David E. Ward, Jr., and Thomas N. Henderson, III. Acting on this vision, on May 1, 1986, these three and four others established Hill Ward Henderson.
Since inception, Hill Ward Henderson has grown steadily based on our continued allegiance to this founding, client-centered philosophy. Today, with over 100 attorneys offering a wide range of premier commercial legal services in nine different practice areas, our firm's superior reputation for results-oriented service continues to fuel that growth.
As we have grown, our priorities have remained the same. Hill Ward Henderson has as its cornerstone an obligation and a commitment to our valued clients to provide the highest degree of integrity, professionalism and competence to ensure the timely, efficient delivery of high quality legal services. The dividend to our firm has been the long-term relationships we have developed with our clients and with the Tampa community.
Greenspoon Marder is a national full-service business law firm with over 200 attorneys and 24 locations across the United States. Our firm was founded with the goal of providing the highest quality legal services at the highest value for our clients. Each of our clients is unique and so are their legal needs. We believe no one size fits all for professional services. Our lawyers offer flexible and creative solutions to meet our clients’ respective needs. Our mission is to understand the challenges our clients face, build collaborative relationships and craft creative solutions with a focus on strategic goals.
.jpg)
Bercow Radell Fernandez & Larkin is one of South Florida’s premier boutique law firms specializing in land use, zoning, and environmental matters. Our attorneys’ expertise in regulations governing real property, land development, construction permitting and business licensing is sought by international, domestic and local landowners, developers, institutions, investors and businesses seeking approvals from government boards and agencies at the local, state and federal level.
We excel at managing complex and politically sensitive legislative and quasi-judicial matters from initial due diligence to construction, including applications and issues related to developments of regional impact, amendments to local government comprehensive plans, vested rights, rezonings, site planning, subdivision, and permitting as well as enforcement, ad valorem, historic preservation and archeological matters.
Holland & Knight is a global law firm with more than 1,300 lawyers and other professionals in 28 offices. Our lawyers provide representation in litigation, business, real estate and governmental law. Interdisciplinary practice groups and industry-based teams provide clients with access to attorneys throughout the firm, regardless of location.
Nelson Mullins delivers real value: experience and judgment at a reasonable cost. Flexibility, practical business sense, and tireless advocacy are among the Firm’s service hallmarks. That’s what clients want. Our measured growth reflects what our clients need—a multidisciplinary platform that provides trusted advice to meet a broad range of business needs.
We are now a Firm of more than 575 attorneys, policy advisors and professionals located across 18 offices that span coast-to-coast. Our litigation attorneys have handled cases in most states in the United States and have argued before many appellatecourts.
- Our corporate and transactional teams provide high quality corporate, securities, finance, venture capital, commercial real estate, real estate capital markets, and technologyservices.
- Ourgovernmentrelationsteamservesclientsatthefederal,stateand locallevelsandincludesformerhigh-rankinggovernmentofficials.
- Our intellectual property group has been recognized nationally for IP litigation and provides a full-range of IP services for clients across industry sectors.
- Our Nelson Mullins Encompass team is a dedicated practice group that provides integrated eDiscovery and information governance services to clients on a flexible and scalablebasis.