Los Angeles

350 S. Grand Avenue, 21st Floor
Los Angeles, California 90071
ph: +1 213 443 5300
fax: +1 213 443 5400 


WilmerHale's Los Angeles office opened in October 2007, strengthening and expanding the firm’s preeminent securities enforcement, securities litigation, white collar defense, intellectual property litigation, and antitrust and competition practices in southern California and throughout the western United States. The office—our second West Coast location following our expansion into Palo Alto in 2005—is anchored by Randall Lee, former Regional Director of the Pacific Regional Office of the US Securities and Exchange Commission and former Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles.

WilmerHale’s securities lawyers bring unparalleled experience and insight to matters involving the securities markets. With over 200 lawyers, the firm’s securities practice is among the largest and most diverse of its kind, and includes numerous former high-level officials from the SEC, the US Department of Justice, the FBI, the CFTC, the Federal Reserve Board, and the FSA of the United Kingdom.

We represent public companies, financial services firms, accounting firms, and corporate officers and directors in SEC and other regulatory and law enforcement investigations and related litigation. We conduct internal investigations on behalf of management and boards of directors. We also provide sophisticated regulatory compliance advice to companies and other financial market participants, and we are highly regarded for our representation of investment management and broker-dealer businesses.

The Los Angeles office also serves as the southern California base for WilmerHale’s renowned intellectual property litigation practice, which is consistently ranked as one of the top IP litigation practices in the United States. Our leading patent, copyright and trademark litigation team is backed by the academic and industry experience of more than 160 lawyers and technology specialists with scientific or technical degrees. Our lawyers have considerable experience trying intellectual property cases in the Federal Circuit, federal district courts from coast to coast, and the US International Trade Commission, as well as courts in the United Kingdom and Germany.

WilmerHale has one of the leading antitrust and competition practices in the United States and Europe. With more than 50 years of experience and over 70 competition lawyers in the US, Europe and China, we have secured antitrust clearance for hundreds of complex mergers and joint ventures, helped clients avoid fines and prison terms in many cartel investigations and won numerous victories for clients in private and government litigation. Robert Badal leads this practice in Los Angeles, bringing with him over 35 years of antitrust, intellectual property, and complex litigation experience.

Our corporate and transactional practice, which is widely recognized for representing technology and life sciences companies at every stage of their growth, also serves our West Coast clients.

Additionally, the Los Angeles office strengthens the firm’s ability to provide its nationally recognized regulatory and public policy expertise—which draws upon more than 100 lawyers who have held high-level government positions—to clients in the western United States.

The Los Angeles office features the entrepreneurial spirit and collegiality of a small office, backed by the resources, expertise, and experience of a global firm of more than 1,100 lawyers in the US, Europe, and Asia who practice at the very top of the legal profession. We frequently work in teams with lawyers from other offices to ensure that we draw seamlessly upon the expertise and resources of the entire firm to provide our clients with the highest quality legal representation.