Who are we?
We are a law firm named Hardman and Pearson.
Pearson Hardman provides supreme quality legal advice and representation to clients around the globe. Pearson Hardman is a market leader in each of its core practice areas and in each of its geographic markets.
Our success is the result of the quality of our employees, the most broadly and deeply trained collection of lawyers in the world. We hire only the very best law school graduates from
Paralake Law School and train them to be generalists within broad practice areas. We promote lawyers to partner mainly from among our own talent. The result is a partnership with a unique diversity of experience, exceptional professional judgment and a unique ability to innovate.
Clients of the Firm are nearly evenly divided between U.S. and non-U.S. entities. They include industrial and commercial companies, financial institutions, private funds, governments, educational, charitable and cultural institutions, and individuals, estates and trusts. Our client base is exceptionally diverse, a result of our extraordinary capacity to tailor work to specific client needs.
Our lawyers serve our clients around the world through a network of eight offices, located in leading financial centers in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. We are headquartered in New York.
Pearson Hardman provides supreme quality legal advice and representation to clients around the globe. Pearson Hardman is a market leader in each of its core practice areas and in each of its geographic markets.
Our success is the result of the quality of our employees, the most broadly and deeply trained collection of lawyers in the world. We hire only the very best law school graduates from
Paralake Law School and train them to be generalists within broad practice areas. We promote lawyers to partner mainly from among our own talent. The result is a partnership with a unique diversity of experience, exceptional professional judgment and a unique ability to innovate.
Clients of the Firm are nearly evenly divided between U.S. and non-U.S. entities. They include industrial and commercial companies, financial institutions, private funds, governments, educational, charitable and cultural institutions, and individuals, estates and trusts. Our client base is exceptionally diverse, a result of our extraordinary capacity to tailor work to specific client needs.
Our lawyers serve our clients around the world through a network of eight offices, located in leading financial centers in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. We are headquartered in New York.
Pearson Hardman´s Bankruptcy & Restructuring Department is one of the most experienced teams of insolvency practitioners in the US. With more than 40 lawyers dedicated solely to restructuring and insolvency work, Pearson Hardman has been at the forefront of some of the largest, most complex US and multinational insolvencies of all time. Our clients include agents for syndicates of lenders, individual lenders and lessors, equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, debtors, indenture trustees, fiduciaries, and creditor committees.
In addition to the group’s broad substantive and experiential base in restructurings, bankruptcy and insolvency, we frequently partner with Pearson Hardman´s other practice groups to provide our clients with a full spectrum of legal services. Whether called upon to assist in a transaction or in a litigation matter, our objective in every representation is to use our interdisciplinary approach to maximize client recovery.
As a testament to the problem-solving approach we bring to the corporate restructuring area, a number of our partners have been asked to serve on the boards of directors of reorganized or recapitalized entities.
In addition to the group’s broad substantive and experiential base in restructurings, bankruptcy and insolvency, we frequently partner with Pearson Hardman´s other practice groups to provide our clients with a full spectrum of legal services. Whether called upon to assist in a transaction or in a litigation matter, our objective in every representation is to use our interdisciplinary approach to maximize client recovery.
As a testament to the problem-solving approach we bring to the corporate restructuring area, a number of our partners have been asked to serve on the boards of directors of reorganized or recapitalized entities.
Pearson Hardman’s Corporate Group brings together more than 85 lawyers throughout the firm’s offices with extensive experience in a broad range of corporate transactions, both domestic and international.
As a result we offer clients a complete range of services in the following areas:
As a result we offer clients a complete range of services in the following areas:
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Securities Transactions
- Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances
- General Corporate Representation
Pearson Hardman lawyers bring decades of experience helping clients prepare for, avoid and manage a wide range of corporate crises involving legal, business, consumer, shareholder and public relations issues. Our goal is to help our clients avoid crises. However, when a crisis hits, we develop strategies—using a “brain trust” approach—to manage it. We deliver to our clients prompt, sophisticated and multi-dimensional strategic guidance designed to limit legal and business risk, effectively remediate problems, and minimize reputational and collateral damage to the company.
Our collective crises prevention and management experience covers a wide range of issues, industries, markets, and business enterprises. It includes representations involving:
Our collective crises prevention and management experience covers a wide range of issues, industries, markets, and business enterprises. It includes representations involving:
- Misconduct allegations or whistleblower claims that could result in government investigations or criminal, civil and administrative liability in the US and abroad
- Shareholder derivative or class action lawsuits
- Financial disclosures and restatements that may significantly impair a company’s balance sheet and borrowing capabilities
- Alleged accounting improprieties and irregularities, including internal control issues
- Board governance issues and potential breaches of fiduciary duties
- Patent infringement claims, trade secrets, data security breaches, the loss or inadvertent release of proprietary or confidential information
- Safety issues regarding marketed products
- Product recalls, product liability and toxic torts
- Financial and business restructuring
- Risk of suspension, debarment or exclusion from business opportunities
- Congressional inquiries or investigations
- Legislation that may limit a company’s ability to conduct business
- Sexual harassment or employment discrimination claims involving management
- Termination, removal or resignation of key executives or Board members
Pearson Hardman´s Finance Group includes approximately 45 lawyers skilled in a broad range of transactions, both domestic and international.
Our roster of clients includes money center banks, foreign banks, regional banks, commercial finance companies, national insurance companies and other financial institutions. We also represent a long list of merchant banks, buyout funds and other corporate borrowers in debt financing transactions.
As a result, the scope of our practice covers many areas:
Our roster of clients includes money center banks, foreign banks, regional banks, commercial finance companies, national insurance companies and other financial institutions. We also represent a long list of merchant banks, buyout funds and other corporate borrowers in debt financing transactions.
As a result, the scope of our practice covers many areas:
- secured and unsecured loans
- domestic and international loan syndications
- acquisition financing
- asset securitization and structured finance
- asset-based financing
- loans workouts and debt restructuring
- interest rate and currency swaps and other derivative products
- leveraged leasing
- project and aircraft financing
- recapitalizations
Pearson Hardman’s intellectual property lawyers have an impressive track record handling patent, trademark, copyright, false advertising, technology and outsourcing matters for a diverse group of clients and industries, ranging from pharmaceuticals to information technology to food products to financial services to entertainment.
The firm’s intellectual property practice groups bring together many years of legal experience, as well as sophisticated scientific, technical and business knowledge, to bear on a variety of litigation, transaction, counseling and prosecution matters. The attorneys in the Trademark, Copyright and False Advertising Group have the skills to efficiently handle all types of trademark, copyright, false advertising and related cases and consultations. They have litigated major trademark, trade dress, counterfeiting, cybersquatting, copyright, false advertising and unfair competition matters as well as consumer fraud class actions, for leading companies in a wide variety of industries.
The particular strength of the Pearson Hardman Patent Group is its outstanding trial capability. The group’s members have tried exceptionally complicated patent infringement cases involving the most sophisticated technologies to juries and judges — and with a remarkable success record. These cases have often involved patented products of staggering commercial value. The group has unique depth in this regard: eight of its partners have tried such cases as lead counsel.
The Technology, Intellectual Property and Outsourcing Group has extensive experience in IP transactions and technology agreements with a particular focus on representing customers in information technology and outsourcing matters. The group’s practice is highly rated by Chambers and has handled critical domestic and offshore IT, business process and business transformation outsourcing transactions for Fortune 500 clients. The attorneys in this practice come from a wide variety of disciplines including, intellectual property, finance, corporate law, technology licensing, executive compensation, real estate and other areas. Many of the group’s lawyers have MBAs or computer degrees and bring technical and business intelligence to complex technology agreements.
The firm’s intellectual property practice groups bring together many years of legal experience, as well as sophisticated scientific, technical and business knowledge, to bear on a variety of litigation, transaction, counseling and prosecution matters. The attorneys in the Trademark, Copyright and False Advertising Group have the skills to efficiently handle all types of trademark, copyright, false advertising and related cases and consultations. They have litigated major trademark, trade dress, counterfeiting, cybersquatting, copyright, false advertising and unfair competition matters as well as consumer fraud class actions, for leading companies in a wide variety of industries.
The particular strength of the Pearson Hardman Patent Group is its outstanding trial capability. The group’s members have tried exceptionally complicated patent infringement cases involving the most sophisticated technologies to juries and judges — and with a remarkable success record. These cases have often involved patented products of staggering commercial value. The group has unique depth in this regard: eight of its partners have tried such cases as lead counsel.
The Technology, Intellectual Property and Outsourcing Group has extensive experience in IP transactions and technology agreements with a particular focus on representing customers in information technology and outsourcing matters. The group’s practice is highly rated by Chambers and has handled critical domestic and offshore IT, business process and business transformation outsourcing transactions for Fortune 500 clients. The attorneys in this practice come from a wide variety of disciplines including, intellectual property, finance, corporate law, technology licensing, executive compensation, real estate and other areas. Many of the group’s lawyers have MBAs or computer degrees and bring technical and business intelligence to complex technology agreements.
From its inception, Pearson Hardman has been recognized for its litigation capabilities, including
With more than 50 litigators, Pearson Hardman takes a coordinated, interdisciplinary approach to address all the issues related to your matter. A product liability or securities fraud claim, for example, often are accompanied by federal and state regulatory investigations, product recalls, false advertising allegations, class action and derivative suits, creditors’ disputes, IP disputes, and/or criminal investigations. Focused on helping you win the case well before a trial starts, at the earliest possible time, we compile and analyze the factual work-up of the opposition’s case, develop a comprehensive multi-faceted defense strategy, evaluate and prepare witnesses and experts for depositions, cross examinations, and draft factual and legal memoranda and advocacy documents giving clients an edge in winning motions to dismiss, summary judgment motions and Daubert/Frye motions.
We “partner” with both the client and other law firms to take full advantage of the talents of all the lawyers on a matter and work hard to ensure that co-counsel and local counsel are fully engaged as cooperative participants. Clients regularly select us to serve as national coordinating counsel for multi-jurisdictional litigation because of our extensive background in effective case and project management.
- Antitrust
- Bankruptcy & Financial Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Employment & Labor Disputes
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Products Liability, with a particular emphasis defending life sciences clients
- Securities & Derivatives Litigation
- White-Collar Litigation & Investigations
With more than 50 litigators, Pearson Hardman takes a coordinated, interdisciplinary approach to address all the issues related to your matter. A product liability or securities fraud claim, for example, often are accompanied by federal and state regulatory investigations, product recalls, false advertising allegations, class action and derivative suits, creditors’ disputes, IP disputes, and/or criminal investigations. Focused on helping you win the case well before a trial starts, at the earliest possible time, we compile and analyze the factual work-up of the opposition’s case, develop a comprehensive multi-faceted defense strategy, evaluate and prepare witnesses and experts for depositions, cross examinations, and draft factual and legal memoranda and advocacy documents giving clients an edge in winning motions to dismiss, summary judgment motions and Daubert/Frye motions.
We “partner” with both the client and other law firms to take full advantage of the talents of all the lawyers on a matter and work hard to ensure that co-counsel and local counsel are fully engaged as cooperative participants. Clients regularly select us to serve as national coordinating counsel for multi-jurisdictional litigation because of our extensive background in effective case and project management.
Pearson Hardman’s Product Liability Group brings together more than 50 attorneys with extensive trial experience and the management skills to handle efficiently all types of product liability cases and consultations, whether on a national, regional or local level.
We can:
We also counsel clients on product liability issues and have experience in conducting audits to evaluate potential product liability exposure in corporate transactions.
We can:
- present at trial complex scientific testimony in a manner understandable to judges and lay jurors,
- devise sophisticated and novel legal and factual defenses,
- comprehend underlying design and manufacturing principles,
- make informed decisions regarding the defensibility of specific claims and assess claims demands,
- provide, where appropriate, innovative mechanisms for settlement.
We also counsel clients on product liability issues and have experience in conducting audits to evaluate potential product liability exposure in corporate transactions.
Pearson Hardman’s Real Estate practice handles nationwide matters ranging from highly complex and sophisticated transactions to traditional purchases, sales, leases, financings, workouts of troubled companies and real estate joint ventures. In light of the continued integration of the real estate industry with the world’s capital markets, lawyers in our Real Estate practice, working in concert with the firm’s other practice groups, are on the cutting edge of today’s market transactions.
In the Real Estate Finance area, our lawyers represent some of the world’s largest financial institutions, institutional investors and real estate owners in financings involving hotels, office buildings, shopping centers and multi-family residential and other properties. The structure of these financings includes multi-parcel securitizations, credit enhancement and other structured finance facilities, equity-based mezzanine financings, real-estate related credit lines and construction and term loans.
In the area of ownership and development, we represent some of the nation’s largest real estate firms in some of the country’s most significant projects. This involvement has spanned the period from conception to completion, continuing through the operational phases of the project. In these matters, our lawyers deal with issues as diverse as land use and zoning, joint venture structuring, financing, leasing and other management and operational issues. In addition to development transactions, our lawyers are involved regularly in the acquisition and disposition of real property. We have a long history of representing owners, developers and borrowers in establishing limited liability companies and partnerships. We prepare agreements for these entities taking care of particular needs, such as rating agency requirements, and have experience with a wide variety of different types of investors ranging from private family companies to multinational conglomerates.
And in the international arena, we are very active in representing foreign investors in the acquisition and ownership of U.S. properties, including high-end hotels and office buildings.
In the Real Estate Finance area, our lawyers represent some of the world’s largest financial institutions, institutional investors and real estate owners in financings involving hotels, office buildings, shopping centers and multi-family residential and other properties. The structure of these financings includes multi-parcel securitizations, credit enhancement and other structured finance facilities, equity-based mezzanine financings, real-estate related credit lines and construction and term loans.
In the area of ownership and development, we represent some of the nation’s largest real estate firms in some of the country’s most significant projects. This involvement has spanned the period from conception to completion, continuing through the operational phases of the project. In these matters, our lawyers deal with issues as diverse as land use and zoning, joint venture structuring, financing, leasing and other management and operational issues. In addition to development transactions, our lawyers are involved regularly in the acquisition and disposition of real property. We have a long history of representing owners, developers and borrowers in establishing limited liability companies and partnerships. We prepare agreements for these entities taking care of particular needs, such as rating agency requirements, and have experience with a wide variety of different types of investors ranging from private family companies to multinational conglomerates.
And in the international arena, we are very active in representing foreign investors in the acquisition and ownership of U.S. properties, including high-end hotels and office buildings.
The Technology, Intellectual Property & Outsourcing Group at Pearson Hardman is dedicated to technology and intellectual property litigation, intellectual property protection, technology transactions, outsourcing, and privacy and data protection. The Group has been selected as Outside Intellectual Property Counsel and Outside Technology Counsel by leading international and Fortune 500 corporations in a range of industries. It is regularly retained by Chief Financial Officers, Chief Sourcing Officers, Chief Security Officers and Chief Privacy Officers as well as the General Counsels’ office of technology and mainstream companies.
Pearson Hardman’s outsourcing practice and attorneys are highly rated by Chambers and the firm has handled critical technology transactions and domestic and offshore information technology, business process, business transformation and knowledge processing outsourcing transactions for Fortune 500 clients. These have included one of the largest supply chain and procurement outsourcing arrangements entered into to date as well as combined domestic and offshore outsourcing transactions involving service providers in the U.S., Europe, India, Latin America and the Philippines. The firm brings business intelligence to its engagements. For example, it created an open source software policy for a Fortune 500 company, and it designed common service levels and statements of works to be used by clients across all of their business divisions and with all of its vendors in order to allow our clients to perform a comparative evaluation of outsourcing service providers and to use outsourcing contracts as an “early warning system” to identify and rectify problems at an early stage. Pearson Hardman’s substantive intellectual property law experience and the membership of attorneys with engineering and scientific degrees, as well as real-world experience in the IT industry, distinguishes it from other outsourcing practices. The Group has a depth of experience with the legal and business aspects of technology. The Group has built and carefully maintains a reputation for developing innovative solutions in business technology law. It prides itself on being responsive and cost-effective and being part of its clients’ budgeting process.
Pearson Hardman’s outsourcing practice and attorneys are highly rated by Chambers and the firm has handled critical technology transactions and domestic and offshore information technology, business process, business transformation and knowledge processing outsourcing transactions for Fortune 500 clients. These have included one of the largest supply chain and procurement outsourcing arrangements entered into to date as well as combined domestic and offshore outsourcing transactions involving service providers in the U.S., Europe, India, Latin America and the Philippines. The firm brings business intelligence to its engagements. For example, it created an open source software policy for a Fortune 500 company, and it designed common service levels and statements of works to be used by clients across all of their business divisions and with all of its vendors in order to allow our clients to perform a comparative evaluation of outsourcing service providers and to use outsourcing contracts as an “early warning system” to identify and rectify problems at an early stage. Pearson Hardman’s substantive intellectual property law experience and the membership of attorneys with engineering and scientific degrees, as well as real-world experience in the IT industry, distinguishes it from other outsourcing practices. The Group has a depth of experience with the legal and business aspects of technology. The Group has built and carefully maintains a reputation for developing innovative solutions in business technology law. It prides itself on being responsive and cost-effective and being part of its clients’ budgeting process.
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