Dewey Ballantine LLP (DB) provides legal advisory services. The firm’s practice areas include bank and institutional finance; bankruptcy litigation; corporate finance; reorganization; insurance; litigation; mergers and acquisition; real estate; taxation; and international trade. The company caters to energy and utilities, healthcare and life sciences, insurance, financial services, media, consumer and industrial goods, electronics, technology, telecommunications, and transportation industries. DB was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Washington, District of Columbia; Los Angeles and East Palo Alto, California; Houston and Austin, Texas; London, United Kingdom; Warsaw, Poland; Frankfurt, Germany; Milan and Rome, Italy; and Beijing, China. Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP was formerly known as Dewey Ballantine LLP. As of September 26, 2007, Dewey Ballantine LLP is a subsidiary of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P.