Carter Ledyard & Milburn

Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP is a major New York City law firm. It has over 100 attorneys with offices in New York and Washington, D.C..

The firm was founded in 1854 by Henry Scudder and James C. Carter. The firm remained small well into the 1900s. It long represented American Tobacco and Standard Oil in early antitrust cases. The firm once represented the now-defunct brokerage house Dupont Glore Forgan as well as American Express, which in the 1970s changed legal counsel in favor of Winthrop Stimson, the predecessor firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.

Major clients include the American Stock Exchange, Fox Sports Net, Playtex, PR Newswire and UBS AG.

The firm has targeted mid-market clients, especially foreign companies from a variety of countries in Europe and Israel looking to raise capital in the United States through IPOs, private placements and other forms of capital markets transactions. Carter Ledyard has had particular success with representing Israeli high-tech companies, first assisting them obtain financing and then in acquisitions as they expand and diversify.

Notable alumni

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt was once an associate.
• Renato Beghe, a senior judge of the United States Tax Court.
• John Teele Pratt, a corporate attorney.
• John M. Walker, Jr., a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
• Frank Wisner, a head of Office of Strategic Services operations in southeastern Europe at the end of World War II.

External links

• Official site
• Vault profile