Practice Areas

Our Capabilities

Our attorneys have practiced at the world’s largest law firms and in the highest ranks of government. Our team represents clients in a full spectrum of deals and disputes.

We regularly advise clients navigating the most complex administrative and regulatory matters before federal, state, and local agencies. With deep experience in government and private practice, our attorneys confidently assist with investigations, rulemaking, permitting and licensing, enforcement actions, and administrative appeals while helping clients manage regulatory risk and compliance obligations.

We counsel clients on antitrust compliance, merger review, government investigations, and complex competition issues affecting their businesses. Our team provides practical guidance designed to minimize regulatory risk while supporting strategic business initiatives.

We represent debtors, creditors, lenders, committees, and investors in restructurings, workouts, insolvency proceedings, and bankruptcy litigation. Our attorneys develop practical solutions that preserve value, protect business interests, and facilitate successful restructurings when possible.

We advise boards of directors, committees, executives, and shareholders on corporate governance, fiduciary duties, internal investigations, and governance disputes. Our counsel helps organizations address sensitive issues while promoting sound governance and effective decision-making.

We defend companies facing class actions involving consumer protection, employment, securities, privacy, and commercial claims. Our litigators develop comprehensive defense strategies designed to manage risk, reduce exposure, and resolve complex, high-profile litigation efficiently.

Well-crafted commercial agreements are essential to successful business relationships and long-term growth. We negotiate, draft, and advise on a broad range of commercial contracts designed to protect our clients’ interests while supporting their strategic and operational goals, including supply, distribution, licensing, technology, manufacturing, and services agreements.

We represent businesses in complex commercial disputes involving contracts, fiduciary duties, business torts, shareholder matters, and other high-stakes controversies. Our team develops strategic litigation solutions that achieve our clients’ goal and protect their interests while remaining focused on efficient and favorable outcomes.

Significant legal, regulatory, and reputational challenges require coordinated and timely responses. We help clients navigate crises through strategic legal counsel, internal investigations, stakeholder communications, regulatory engagement, and litigation management to protect their businesses and reputations.

We counsel employers on the full spectrum of employment law, including hiring, workplace policies, wage and hour compliance, discrimination, harassment, restrictive covenants, and employee relations. We also represent clients in administrative proceedings, litigation, and workplace investigations.

We counsel clients across the energy and natural resources sectors on project development, regulatory compliance, commercial transactions, permitting, and environmental issues. Our attorneys provide practical strategic guidance—drawing on extensive in-house operational experience and governmental expertise—to support investment, infrastructure development, and evolving business objectives.

Burke’s environmental, health, and safety practice is full service, covering transactional due diligence in the most complex deals, compliance, permitting, and regulatory counseling for the most sophisticated industrial facilities, and defense of the most significant enforcement actions and lawsuits. With deep experience in both government and top law firms, our team helps businesses manage the transaction, operational, and liability risks of evolving federal, state, and local regulatory requirements in a business-focused manner.

We represent businesses and individuals in matters involving the False Claims Act, healthcare fraud, procurement fraud, internal investigations, and government enforcement actions. Our attorneys provide strategic counsel from the earliest stages of an investigation through litigation and resolution.

We advise utilities, power generators, marketers, developers, and other market participants on matters involving FERC and NERC regulation. Our team counsels clients on market rules, compliance programs, transmission, reliability standards, enforcement proceedings, and regulatory approvals within the electric power industry.

We represent high-growth start-ups, venture capital funds, and institutional investors in financing transactions across innovative industries. Our team provides strategic, commercially focused guidance throughout the corporate lifecycle, from formation to growth equity and successful exits. We advise on a diverse array of funding structures tailored to the venture ecosystem, including Seed, Series A through Late-Stage priced equity rounds, SAFEs, convertible notes, and venture debt. Whether guiding entrepreneurs through their first capital raise or partnering with funds to deploy capital, we deliver practical legal solutions designed to minimize dilution, manage risk, and accelerate scale.

We represent media organizations, businesses, public figures, and individuals in matters involving free speech, press rights, reputation management, defamation, privacy, and related constitutional issues. Our attorneys provide strategic counseling and litigation support to protect clients’ rights while managing legal and reputational risk.

We help clients navigate legislative, regulatory, and public policy matters at the federal, state, and local levels. Working closely with business leaders and policymakers, we develop advocacy strategies that advance our clients’ objectives while addressing an evolving regulatory landscape.

Our Immigration & Asylum practice group provides comprehensive legal representation to individuals navigating complex immigration matters. We assist clients with a wide range of immigration issues, including visa applications, residency and citizenship matters, removal defense, and asylum claims, while advocating for their rights and pursuing the best possible outcomes before immigration authorities and courts.

Our appellate lawyers handle significant legal issues before state and federal appellate courts, including matters involving constitutional, statutory, and regulatory interpretation. We develop persuasive written and oral advocacy designed to shape legal precedent and achieve successful appellate outcomes

We advise public and private companies, investors, founders, and strategic buyers on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and other transformative transactions. Our team provides practical, business-focused counsel throughout every stage of the deal, helping clients structure transactions, manage risk, negotiate key agreements, and achieve their strategic objectives.

We serve as trusted outside general counsel for businesses seeking practical, responsive legal guidance without the expense of a full-time in-house legal department. Working closely with management teams, we provide strategic advice on day-to-day legal matters, corporate governance, contracts, compliance, employment, and risk management.

Our real estate practice provides a wide variety of real property and related capital markets transactions services to owners, operators, developers, builders, lenders, tenants, and institutions. Whether real estate is your core business or a foundation for other operations, we have the experience to handle the most sophisticated matters from conception to completion. Our work includes acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financing arrangements, leasing, development projects and real estate investment structuring. 

We represent public companies, financial institutions, directors, officers, and investors in securities litigation, shareholder disputes, and regulatory investigations. Our team combines deep litigation experience with an understanding of the securities markets to address complex and high-stakes matters.

When disputes proceed to trial, experienced and strategic courtroom advocacy is crucial. Our skilled litigators are ready to represent clients before judges, juries, arbitration panels, and administrative tribunals when the stakes are highest, developing persuasive and effective case strategies and tirelessly advocating through verdict or final resolution.

We defend corporations, executives, and individuals in criminal and regulatory investigations involving allegations of fraud, corruption, financial crimes, healthcare-related violations, and other white collar matters. Our team provides strategic representation before enforcement agencies and in state and federal courts to ensure the best process and outcomes for clients in the most difficult matters.