Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP is a premier, full-service law firm with offices in New York and Paris. Our strong focus on client service and our single-minded commitment to excellence have enabled us to build long-term relationships with major domestic and international corporations, institutions and individuals that look to us for innovative and practical solutions for both everyday and complex matters.  As leading practitioners in our respective fields, we guide Global 1000 companies and emerging growth entities, across a broad range of industries, to help them fully realize their business goals.

Many of our clients are international in scope and so are we. The firm has a multi-disciplinary office in Paris and consistently cultivates associations with many other prominent law firms throughout the world. Additionally, we are actively engaged within a preferred network of firms from countries around the globe. With this panel of firms, we work with the highest caliber of lawyers of choice within each country when the needs of a particular matter arise. These non-exclusive arrangements involve representations of clients in a number of practice areas, including cross-border corporate and finance, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, joint ventures and other disciplines for which the associated firms and their lawyers are highly regarded.

At Kramer Levin, our clients are the center of everything we do.   This means being accessible and responsive, creative and efficient. We are always ready, willing and able to act rapidly to bring the right resources to client issues, to meet their needs and exceed their expectations. On a daily basis we maintain open communication and place an emphasis on quality over quantity in staffing and a sensible cost-benefit analysis in tackling projects. We never forget that we provide a service and that it is our job to simplify our clients’ lives by responding to their needs and removing barriers that keep them from achieving their goals.

Kramer Levin takes a dynamic approach to meeting the constant and ever-evolving challenges confronting our clients. We use a flexible, interdisciplinary approach, reaching across practice areas to form a team that best leverages our collective experience. We avidly follow—and often anticipate— regulatory changes and other events affecting our clients’ businesses, proactively confronting problems often before the client is aware of them. We are tough but pragmatic when it best serves client needs and objectives. In all that we do, we have only one aim—to add value to our clients’ endeavors through our representation.

Kramer Levin’s entrepreneurial spirit keeps it at the cutting edge of innovation. We make it our mission to understand our clients’ businesses, to evaluate how legal issues affect them, to identify with their goals and to develop creative ways to build and protect the value of each client’s enterprise. We have played key roles in developing entrepreneurial successes in industries as diverse as fashion and cosmetics, telecommunications and financial services.  We are at the forefront in structuring innovative transactions and devising cost effective ways to resolve disputes in and out of litigation.

The Kramer Levin team represents a collective pool of experience and knowledge with breadth and depth. Our lawyers have exceptional credentials, with outstanding academic records and distinguished careers in business, government service, academia and law. Many have edited top law reviews or have clerked for leading federal judges. They have rich and wide-ranging experience solving complex business issues in partnership with their clients through periods of rapid change and varied economic, political and regulatory climates.