Dear Clients and Friends of the Firm:
During 2012 Paul Hastings’ focus was to deliver the differentiating innovation our clients require to seize and strengthen their competitive primacy. At the same time, we remained steadfast in our commitment to providing outstanding client service, wise counsel, ever-greater efficiency, and deep industry knowledge to guide our clients through the challenges of uncertain times. We are grateful for the extraordinary trust clients placed in us last year to help them succeed and grow.
New ideas and challenges are arising in every industry with the potential to either disrupt our clients’ business models or accelerate their leadership. During 2012 we deepened our commitment to providing swift, creative, and innovative legal advice to help our clients succeed.
Partnering with our clients on every continent helps us understand the turbulent dynamics of modern business from their perspective. In today’s hyper-connected world, a staggering volume of information is constantly being analyzed into actionable, real-time business knowledge — and made available to everyone, instantaneously, on a global basis. This is the 24-hour-a-day world of change our clients live in, and Paul Hastings is honored to help them plan and thrive in this challenging environment.
As is true every year, our success in 2012 was rooted in the success of our clients. To cite just a few highlights, we:
- Ranked in the Top 2 on The American Lawyer’s A-List, its annual ranking of the most successful U.S.-based firms
- Placed in the Top 3 in the Financial Times’ U.S. Innovative Lawyers report and ranked No. 1 in Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Business of Law
- Ranked 1st among legal advisers to Hong Kong Stock Exchange equity IPO managers in Bloomberg’s league tables
- Participated in the largest commercial mortgage-backed securities ever issued in Europe
- Ranked 3rd in U.S. Lender Law Firm M&A in Thomson Reuters’ league tables
- Ranked in the Top 10 litigation practices in The American Lawyer’s Litigation Power Rankings
- Opened offices in Houston and Seoul to better serve our clients in the global energy industry and the burgeoning Korean market
- Received LatinFinance’s Deal of the Year: Equity Follow-on Offering in recognition of our leading work in Latin America
In the pages that follow you will find summaries of some of our clients’ key successes, as well as our partners’ insights and perspectives on important market trends shaping our clients’ industries and geographies. We are also pleased to introduce our newest partners, representing leading talent from a cross section of industries.
In a world of challenge and uncertainty, we remain steadfast to our fundamental client promise: to be there — to help clients identify and unlock opportunities, surmount obstacles, harness the power of market change, and to accelerate their progress.
Seth M. Zachary, Chairman
