Venable LLP

Venable LLP is a law firm formerly known as Venable, Baetjer & Howard LLP. It was founded in Baltimore in the post-Civil War period. Today the firm maintains 6 Northeastern offices and specializes in patent litigation, labor and employment law and white collar investigations. Venable employs nearly 600 attorneys.

History

Long a Baltimore-based firm, in 1999 Venable merged with Washington, D.C. based Tucker Flyer. It began to actively seek out and win mandates from companies with government contracts as well as emerging enterprises in the Northern Virginia's Dulles Technology Corridor. Venable secured a launch in New York City in 2005 through the acquisition of litigation boutique Heard & O'Toole and Los Angeles in 2006 with the acquisition of Whitwell Jacoby Emhoff LLP and Gorry, Meyer & Rudd LLP.

Notable alumni and current attorneys

• Benjamin Civiletti, former United States Attorney General
• John Sarbanes, U.S. Representative, Maryland's 3rd congressional district
• Asa Hutchinson, former Undersecretary of Homeland Security and former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, former U.S. Representative for the Arkansas' 3rd congressional district
• Birch Bayh, former U.S. Senator of Indiana
• James E. Rogan, former U.S. Representative of California
• Noah Samara, present CEO of WorldSpace

Notable Transactions

• Venable represented Perot Systems in its $250 million acquisition of the QSS Group.
• Also represented Tishman Speyer in its $22.2 billion acquisition and subsequent privatization of real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith Trust.

Offices

• Baltimore
• Los Angeles
• New York
• Rockville, Maryland
• Towson, Maryland
• Tysons Corner, Virginia
• Washington, D.C.

External links

• Official Site, Venable LLP
• LawPeriscope profile
• Vault.com profile