Our Firm
Becker Glynn offers top-level legal services over a range of specialized practices. From its beginnings, our Firm has built an international reputation by recruiting and training lawyers from the best universities and providing clients with close, individualized attention, without the cost and duplicative staffing associated with large, multi-office law firms.
Officially founded on July 1, 1987 as Becker, Glynn & Melamed, the Firm traces its roots to a predecessor firm, Fox Glynn & Melamed, founded in May 1968. Our founding partners shared a keen interest in international affairs and law. They set out to create a firm where lawyers worked collegially and clients received the highest quality legal representation.
Becker Glynn is perhaps unique among firms of its size in combining domestic and international practice. We represent domestic and foreign clients in a wide range of industries, including agriculture, fashion, finance, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, mining, pharmaceutical, real estate, trading, transportation, technology and various service industries. We routinely represent multilateral and bilateral international development finance institutions that provide debt and equity investments in developing countries and emerging markets. We have extensive experience in domestic finance related litigation, as well cross-border litigation and disputes. We advise businesses on employment matters and business leaders on executive compensation agreements. Our private client work frequently involves the representation of family offices, foreign individuals and transnational families investing in the United States and numerous foreign countries.
We provide general corporate counseling, regulatory advice and transactional representation of great variety, including mergers and acquisitions, finance, securities, and real estate acquisitions and leasing. We appear in bankruptcy courts in both adversarial and reorganization proceedings. We plan and administer multinational and domestic estates. Many businesses and families engage the Firm for its experience in international transactions and planning, particularly in representing clients doing business or investing outside their home countries.