Nixon Peabody LLP

Nixon Peabody is home to about 600 lawyers across 15 offices worldwide. The firm’s practices include Corporate, Real Estate, Government Investigations & White-Collar Defense, Healthcare, Intellectual Property, and others.

Forward Looking

Nixon Peabody is one of Boston’s preeminent firms and, accordingly, is ranked as one of Vault’s top 30 firms in Boston. With predecessor firms going back to the 1850s, Nixon Peabody is the result of the 1999 merger of Rochester firm Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle LLP and Boston-based Peabody & Brown. Despite its long history, Nixon Peabody looks to the future by offering forward-thinking solutions for complex legal challenges. In this way, the firm makes positive impacts on its clients, its people, and the communities where they live and work.

From Billables to Podcasts

Nixon Peabody is recognized for its leadership in affordable housing and real estate, government investigations and white-collar defense, intellectual property, energy and environment, healthcare, tax, public finance, M&A, private equity, and complex commercial disputes. The firm also focuses on emerging areas such as AI and cyber security; blockchain; photonics; and power plant decommissioning, demolition, and remediation. Nixon Peabody’s clients include Alaska Airlines, Health Catalyst, Brown University, the City of Los Angeles, Constellation Brands, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York City).  

The firm has a robust healthcare practice that takes a multidisciplinary approach. Its clients include digital health companies, home health facilities, hospitals and medical centers, medical device companies, nursing homes, pharmaceutical companies, private equity firms, and rehabilitation facilities.

Nixon Peabody is big on communication and engagement. In addition to its thought leadership blogs and video content, Nixon Peabody is active on social media and hosts its own podcast, She Talks Law, which celebrates women business owners and entrepreneurs across industries.

All are Welcome

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important at Nixon Peabody. In 2020, Nixon Peabody became one of four BigLaw firms to join the Move the Needle Fund—an “experimental laboratory” in which the firms take innovative measures to achieve aggressive diversity goals. Nixon Peabody is also a five-time recipient of Mansfield Rule Certification Plus. Moreover, for 17 consecutive years, Nixon Peabody has scored 100% on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index—a national benchmarking tool for corporate policies and practices related to LGBT employees. The firm also developed the NP Scholars internship, an academic-year program that gives law students hands-on experience in specific practice areas, and annually commits to a hiring process in which 50% of the interviewed candidates come from groups historically underrepresented in the law.

• A Nixon Peabody cross-practice team represented publicly traded Italian materials company SAES Getters S.p.A. in the $900 million sale of its nitinol business and U.S. subsidiaries Memry Corporation and SAES Smart Materials, Inc., to Resonetics, LLC.
• Nixon Peabody secured a reversal of the conviction against one of the first two parents to go to trial in the Varsity Blues college admissions cases. Following arguments from the NP team, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit found that a lower court made crucial missteps in the parent’s trial and vacated the client’s conviction. Subsequently, the government dismissed all charges against NP’s client.
• Nixon Peabody served as special tax counsel to the Metropolitan Sports Authority of Nashville and Davidson County in connection with its issuance of $484.8 million of bonds to finance a portion of the cost of the development and construction of a new football stadium for the NFL’s Tennessee Titans. This deal received the Proximo North America—Leisure Deal of the Year 2023.

• 24 National Tier 1 and 45 Regional Tier 1 practices in the Best Law Firm rankings, 2024—Best Lawyers
• 28 practice areas recognized as industry leaders, 2024—Chambers USA
• Recognized for firmwide commitment to DEI initiatives and priorities, 2024—Bloomberg Law
• 13 Lawyers of the Year named in The Best Lawyers in America, 2024—Best Lawyers ^®
• U.S. Bank Invested in Diversity Award, 2023—U.S. Bank Law Division