Founded in 1890 in Cleveland, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey is a multijurisdictional law firm with approximately 800 lawyers practicing in more than 30 offices throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The company is organized around four major practice areas: advocacy, business, capital markets and regulated industries. Within these practice areas, the company s work can be divided into numerous areas of specialization, including banking, bankruptcy and restructuring, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, communications, competition law, converging technologies, corporate, energy, environmental, health care, intellectual property, international dispute resolution, labor and employment, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, privatizations, project finance, real estate, and securities and taxation. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey maintains its corporate headquarters in Cleveland and has an office in San Francisco.