
The multidisciplinary attorneys who make up Hodgson Russ’s extensive international and cross-border practice provide U.S. counsel to clients on a broad range of international legal issues. We serve companies around the world, ranging from major, multinational technology, service, and industrial companies to startups and small family businesses, advising on the full range of U.S. legal issues involved in cross-border business. Our attorneys represent both foreign clients with business or personal dealings in the United States and U.S.-based clients with interests in foreign countries.
We also represent foreign clients in resolving disputes with U.S.-based business partners, including in the federal and state courts. Our attorneys handle arbitrations and mediations before all domestic and international bodies and represent clients before numerous administrative agencies, both state and federal.
Hodgson Russ has extensive experience counseling foreign-based businesses on the legal issues involved with entering and developing new markets for their services and products in the United States. Many of our clients are based in civil-law jurisdictions, in particular, France.
Strong teams in intellectual property, including patents; taxation; and business law permit our clients to plan their international development in a structured and risk-aware manner.
Hodgson Russ regularly advises businesses and individuals around the world in all areas of U.S. law, including:
- Acquisition and disposition of U.S. entities
- Agency compliance, including with the Food and Drug Administration, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Agriculture, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and numerous others
- Antitrust
- Bankruptcy and international creditors' issues
- Capital market transactions
- Customs and tariff matters
- Executive compensation and estate planning for international corporate executives
- Export control matters
- Financing transactions
- Government relations, including foreign government issues
- Health law
- Immigration
- Intellectual property, including patent registration
- Labor and employment
- Real estate
- Renewable energy
- Taxation
- Technology transfers and joint ventures
Our attorneys work together to negotiate successful agreements for a broad spectrum of business relationships, including commercial agents, distributorships, employment, franchising, joint ventures, leasing, licensing, marketing, noncompetition, partnerships, sales, shareholder relations, strategic alliances, and other corporate and commercial matters.
With six offices in the United States and Canada, including in the major financial and business markets of New York and Toronto, and much of our infrastructure in lower-cost jurisdictions, we are able to offer our clients the full range of excellent-quality legal services of some of North America’s top economic markets without the disproportionate expense of other large U.S. firms.
Of further benefit to our clients, Hodgson Russ is an active member of the United States Law Firm Group, a network of established U.S.-based law firms, many of which have offices outside the United States and all of which have extensive experience with lawyers and law firms in a number of countries. This network and our own extensive relationships help provide Hodgson Russ clients with effective assistance in selecting competent counsel in all of the significant commercial countries in the world.
- $200 Million International Sale of Ferrosilicon Company
- $300 Million Joint Venture in Heat Transfer Industry
- $300 Million Trade Receivables Financing
- $750 Million Acquisition of HVAC Company
- Acquisition of European Chemical Manufacturing Plant Requires Tax Planning, Debt Financing & Environmental Services
- Acquisition on Behalf of France-Based Automotive Parts Manufacturer
- Cegedim SA Represented by Hodgson Russ in Its Acquisition of Dendrite International, Inc.
- Counsel to a Germany-Based Manufacturer on U.S. Distribution Law
- Ensuring U.S. Tax Compliance for Multinational Equity Plan
- Establishment of Dodd-Frank-Compliant Reporting and Record-Keeping Protocols for Cross-Border Corporate Client
- Finance Transaction for International Investor
- Georgia Court Dismisses Breach of Contract Suit in Favor of Hodgson Russ Client
- Leasing Matters - Two International Clients
- Property Sale - Consulate Client
- Represented European-Owned Client in Major U.S. Acquisition
- Residential Real Estate Matters - European Union Client
- Special U.S. Tax Counsel in Connection With the Redomestication of a U.S. Company
- Special U.S. Tax Counsel to U.S. Shareholders of Swiss Pharamceutical Company
- Tax and Estate Planning Advice to Trustees and Advisors of Foreign-Based Family Trusts
- Tax Planning for the U.S. Operations and U.S. Acquisitions of a Large Austrian Company
- Tax Related Matters - European Union Consulate
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Filings for German Microscope Manufacturer
- U.S. Tax & Corporate Counsel for Multinational Joint Venture Group of Entrepreneurial Companies With Ties to Hong Kong, Canada, and the United States
- U.S. Tax and Corporate Counsel to Business With Barbados-Domiciled Owner
- Victory for U.S. Client Against Chinese Company Highlights Benefits of International Arbitration
In the News
- Tax Analysts, June 28, 2018
- WBFO, April 14, 2014
- Buffalo Business First, December 12, 2011
- Buffalo Law Journal, December 8, 2008
- August 21, 2006
Press Releases
- Hodgson Russ Press Release, April 27, 2020
- Hodgson Russ Press Release, March 24, 2020
Publications
- Hodgson Russ Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Commercial Litigation Alert, October 23, 2020
- Corporate & Business Law Alert, February 19, 2016
- Legal & Tax Newsletter, September 2014
- Lawyers Weekly, July 11, 2014
- Lawyers Weekly, May 23, 2014
- Legal & Tax Newsletter, October 9, 2013
- July 2, 2013
- July 2, 2013
- Legal & Tax Newsletter, a publication of the German American Chamber of Commerce, January 2013
- Legal & Tax Newsletter, a publication of the German American Chamber of Commerce, November 5, 2012
- Federal/International Tax Alert, March 6, 2012
- Federal/International Tax Alert, January 12, 2012
- Federal/International Tax Alert, December 13, 2011
- November 11, 2011
- Federal/International Tax Alert, February 9, 2011
- Federal/International Tax Alert, March 18, 2010
- Ontario Bar Association Citizenship & Immigration Newsletter, August 2009
- Federal/International Tax Alert, June 22, 2009
- Buffalo Law Journal, May 7, 2009
- International Tax Alert, June 19, 2008
- Buffalo Law Journal, July 14, 2005
- Buffalo Law Journal, March 24, 2005
- Lawyers Weekly, December 12, 2003
Presentations & Events
- June 20, 2023
- September 22, 2021
- New York, New York, September 30, 2019
- The Offices of Hodgson Russ, 605 Third Avenue, Suite 2300, New York City, NY 10158, July 2, 2018
- Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, October 26, 2017
- Canada/U.S. Cross-Border Estate and Income Tax PlanningToronto, Ontario, September 17, 2014