Corporate

Lord, Bissell & Brook LLP has been providing trusted counsel and creative solutions to our clients’ corporate and transactional problems for 90 years.  Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies and middle market public and private companies to start-ups and emerging businesses.  We pride ourselves on building a collaborative relationship in order to craft creative solutions for immediate problems and designing and executing plans to achieve long-term strategic goals.  Our commitment to bringing multiple points of view to bear is reflected in our selection as winner of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Thomas L. Sager Award, which is given to firms that demonstrate sustained commitment to improving the hiring, retention and promotion of minority attorneys.

The May 2007 edition of Reactions, an international insurance industry magazine that conducts an extensive survey of in-house counsel, ranked Lord, Bissell & Brook as the top U.S. law firm for insurance and reinsurance related issues.  The firm ranked #1 in the categories of regulatory, litigation and dispute management, insolvency, corporate contracts, policy drafting and reinsurance. This is the sixth year in a row that Lord, Bissell & Brook has achieved high rankings in the survey.

For the fifth consecutive year, Lord, Bissell & Brook was ranked as a top Illinois firm in insurance work by Chambers & Partners. In Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers, 2007, Lord, Bissell & Brook received #1 rankings in the areas of insurance: coverage litigation; insurance: transactional and regulatory; and insurance: reinsurance litigation. SNL Securities, an independent research analyst firm, identifies Lord, Bissell & Brook as one of the leading law firms in insurance-related mergers and acquisitions work. In the past five years, our attorneys have successfully completed more than $40 billion in insurance mergers and acquisitions.

With more than 100 corporate attorneys and a practice centered around the financial services industry, Lord, Bissell & Brook has helped our clients close transactions valued at more than $55.5 billion in the last five years.  We offer extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, securities, contract negotiations, intellectual property, outsourcing, financing, real estate and tax, representing both U.S. and foreign-based national and multinational clients in connection with transactions or operations in the U.S. and in numerous international locations including Australia, Denmark, Egypt, England, Germany, India, Ireland, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway and the Ukraine, among others.

Here are just a few of our corporate clients:

  • Aetna Inc.
  • Bank One Corporation
  • GE Financial Assurance Holdings, Inc.
  • Hannover Re
  • LaSalle Bank
  • Legacy Securities Corporation
  • Leggett & Platt, Inc.
  • Methode Electronics, Inc.
  • New Vision Group
  • Paddock Publications, Inc.
  • Swiss Re Life & Health America, Inc.
  • Trek Bicycle Corporation

Strategic Thinking

Lord, Bissell & Brook’s corporate practice spans a wide range of industries, including insurance and financial services, entertainment and media, chemical and mining, electronics, technology and biotechnology, manufacturing and distribution, maritime, marine terminal development, shipping and transportation, real estate, health care and education. Many of our attorneys have direct work experience or many years of involvement in the industries in which they focus. Our corporate attorneys draw upon the skills of our colleagues in the tax, ERISA, intellectual property, labor & employment, environmental and litigation practice areas.