Alston and Bird
Official Alston and Bird business agent. Alston and Bird is an international law firm providing litigation, corporate and finance, intellectual property, regulatory, and tax services for businesses and institutions worldwide.
About Alston and Bird
- The firm's history page says
- "The firm's history dates back to 1893 through the long roots of the Alston, Miller and Gaines predecessor firms." It states that "The merger with Jones, Bird and Howell formed Alston and Bird on December 1, 1982."
- The published growth milestones are
- a 1997 merger with Bell Seltzer Park and Gibson, which brought the firm into Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; a 2001 merger with Walter, Conston, Alexander and Green in New York; a Dallas office in 2007; Silicon Valley and Los Angeles offices in 2008; Brussels, the first European location, in 2011; San Francisco in 2017; London in 2019; and entry into the Chicago market plus a Century City location in Los Angeles in 2024. The page notes that golfer Bobby Jones, winner of the Grand Slam in 1930 and founder of the Augusta National Golf Club, was a partner of the firm, and that Bob Dole joined the Legislative and Public Policy Group in 2003.
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About Alston and Bird
- The firm's history page says
- "The firm's history dates back to 1893 through the long roots of the Alston, Miller and Gaines predecessor firms." It states that "The merger with Jones, Bird and Howell formed Alston and Bird on December 1, 1982."
- The published growth milestones are
- a 1997 merger with Bell Seltzer Park and Gibson, which brought the firm into Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; a 2001 merger with Walter, Conston, Alexander and Green in New York; a Dallas office in 2007; Silicon Valley and Los Angeles offices in 2008; Brussels, the first European location, in 2011; San Francisco in 2017; London in 2019; and entry into the Chicago market plus a Century City location in Los Angeles in 2024. The page notes that golfer Bobby Jones, winner of the Grand Slam in 1930 and founder of the Augusta National Golf Club, was a partner of the firm, and that Bob Dole joined the Legislative and Public Policy Group in 2003.
The Our Firm page describes Alston and Bird as having "grown to become a leading international firm while remaining steeped in a culture with client service and teamwork as the cornerstones of all that we do," and links to sections on Innovation, Awards and Recognitions, Community Engagement, Pro Bono, Diversity and Inclusion, and Sustainability. Home page figures for 2025: 77 practices recognized by Chambers USA, more than 175 M&A deals with a combined value above $140 billion, and 57,189 total pro bono hours.
The site does not publish a current attorney headcount, revenue, or firm-wide rates or fees, and it does not report case outcomes.
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What Alston and Bird does
Alston and Bird's services page organizes its practices under five headings plus global regions.
- Corporate and Finance includes Antitrust
- Mergers, Compliance and Investigations; Capital Markets and Securities; Corporate and Business Transactions; Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation; Finance; Financial Restructuring and Reorganization; Financial Services; Health Care; Investment Funds; Payments and Fintech; Privacy, Cyber and Data Strategy; Private Equity; Real Estate; and Special Situations and Capital Solutions.
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What Alston and Bird does
Alston and Bird's services page organizes its practices under five headings plus global regions.
- Corporate and Finance includes Antitrust
- Mergers, Compliance and Investigations; Capital Markets and Securities; Corporate and Business Transactions; Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation; Finance; Financial Restructuring and Reorganization; Financial Services; Health Care; Investment Funds; Payments and Fintech; Privacy, Cyber and Data Strategy; Private Equity; Real Estate; and Special Situations and Capital Solutions.
Intellectual Property includes Advertising; Artificial Intelligence (AI); Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences IP Litigation; Intellectual Property Licensing Transactions; Intellectual Property Litigation; ITC Section 337; Patent Litigation; Patent Prosecution, Counseling and Review; Post Grant Review Proceedings; Technology Transactions; Trade Secrets; and Trademark and Copyright.
Litigation covers, among others, Appellate; Business Litigation; Class Action and Multidistrict Litigation; Construction; Consumer Protection/FTC; Environmental, Land Use and Natural Resources; ERISA Litigation; Government Contracts; Health Care Litigation; Immigration; Insurance Litigation and Regulation; International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution; Labor and Employment; M&A Litigation; Mass Torts and Toxic Torts; Products Liability; Real Estate Litigation; Securities Litigation; TCPA Counseling and Litigation; and White Collar, Government and Internal Investigations.
Regulatory and Specialty covers areas such as Administrative Law, Bank Regulatory, Chemical and Product Regulation, Consumer Finance Regulatory and Compliance, Corporate Governance, Food and Drug, International Trade and Regulatory, Land Use, Legislative and Public Policy, and National Security and Digital Crimes. Tax covers Exempt Organizations, Family Office, Federal and International Tax, State and Local Tax, Tax Controversy, Tax Credit Transactions, Transfer Pricing, Unclaimed Property, and Wealth Planning.
Industries listed include Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Education, Finance and Financial Services, Food, Beverage and Agribusiness, Health Care and Life Sciences, Industrials and Manufacturing, Insurance, Natural Resources and Energy, REITs, Real Estate, Retail, Sports, Technology and Telecom, and Transportation and Logistics. Global regions listed include Asia, the European Union, Israel, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, and the United Kingdom.
The services pages carry no price, pricing, cost, rates or fees information and no case results.
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Where Alston and Bird works
Alston and Bird lists 13 offices with a street address and phone number for each. The Charlotte, North Carolina office is located at Vantage South End, 1120 South Tryon Street, Suite 300, Charlotte, NC 28203, United States of America. Its phone is +1 704 444 1000 and its fax is +1 704 444 1111. The office page says: "Alston and Bird's Charlotte office draws on our extensive resources as an international law firm you can call on when and where you need us." The partner-in-charge in Charlotte is listed as S. Benjamin Pleune.
The other office locations and addresses are: Atlanta, One Atlantic Center, 1201 West Peachtree Street, Suite 4900, Atlanta, GA 30309, +1 404 881 7000; Raleigh, 555 Fayetteville Street, Suite 600, Raleigh, NC 27601, +1 919 862 2200; New York, 90 Park Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10016, +1 212 210 9400; Washington, D.C., The Atlantic Building, 950 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004, +1 202 239 3300; Dallas, Dallas Arts Tower, 2200 Ross Avenue, Suite 2300, Dallas, TX 75201, +1 214 922 3400; Chicago, 227 West Monroe Street, Suite 3900, Chicago, IL 60606, +1 312 702 8700; Los Angeles, 350 South Grand Avenue, 51st Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071, +1 213 576 1000; Century City, 1900 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 450, Los Angeles, CA 90067, +1 310 228 3880; San Francisco, 55 2nd Street, Suite 2100, San Francisco, CA 94105, +1 415 243 1000; Silicon Valley, 755 Page Mill Road, Building C - Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94304, +1 650 838 2000; Brussels, Rue Guimard 9, Brussels, B-1040, Belgium, +32 2 486 88 20; and London, LDN:W, 6th Floor, 3 Noble Street, London, EC2V 7EE, United Kingdom, +44 20 8161 4000.
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Where Alston and Bird works
Alston and Bird lists 13 offices with a street address and phone number for each. The Charlotte, North Carolina office is located at Vantage South End, 1120 South Tryon Street, Suite 300, Charlotte, NC 28203, United States of America. Its phone is +1 704 444 1000 and its fax is +1 704 444 1111. The office page says: "Alston and Bird's Charlotte office draws on our extensive resources as an international law firm you can call on when and where you need us." The partner-in-charge in Charlotte is listed as S. Benjamin Pleune.
The other office locations and addresses are: Atlanta, One Atlantic Center, 1201 West Peachtree Street, Suite 4900, Atlanta, GA 30309, +1 404 881 7000; Raleigh, 555 Fayetteville Street, Suite 600, Raleigh, NC 27601, +1 919 862 2200; New York, 90 Park Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10016, +1 212 210 9400; Washington, D.C., The Atlantic Building, 950 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004, +1 202 239 3300; Dallas, Dallas Arts Tower, 2200 Ross Avenue, Suite 2300, Dallas, TX 75201, +1 214 922 3400; Chicago, 227 West Monroe Street, Suite 3900, Chicago, IL 60606, +1 312 702 8700; Los Angeles, 350 South Grand Avenue, 51st Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071, +1 213 576 1000; Century City, 1900 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 450, Los Angeles, CA 90067, +1 310 228 3880; San Francisco, 55 2nd Street, Suite 2100, San Francisco, CA 94105, +1 415 243 1000; Silicon Valley, 755 Page Mill Road, Building C - Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94304, +1 650 838 2000; Brussels, Rue Guimard 9, Brussels, B-1040, Belgium, +32 2 486 88 20; and London, LDN:W, 6th Floor, 3 Noble Street, London, EC2V 7EE, United Kingdom, +44 20 8161 4000.
The offices pages do not publish opening hours for any location, and they do not define service areas or areas served beyond naming the cities where offices are located. Two of the offices are in North Carolina: Charlotte and Raleigh.
Lists Atlanta, Augusta, Monroe, Charlotte, Fayetteville, Raleigh, Dallas, and Chicago as a location. Names North Carolina, New York, Washington, and United States as a service area. Areas beyond these are not published.
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Hours and contact
The contact page tells visitors to "contact one of our attorneys or offices directly" and provides a web form with Submit and Clear buttons. For media enquiries it lists the email address prcomms@alston.com. The page carries the instruction: "Please do not include any confidential information pertaining to potential legal services," and it points to the firm's Disclaimer page for further terms, including material about attorney-client relationships. Nothing on the contact page states that submitting the form, phoning an office, or emailing the firm creates an attorney-client relationship.
To reach a particular location by phone, use the number for that office. The Charlotte office phone is +1 704 444 1000, at the address 1120 South Tryon Street, Suite 300, Charlotte, NC 28203. Every other office has its own direct phone number listed on the offices page, and the professionals directory lists individual attorneys.
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Hours and contact
The contact page tells visitors to "contact one of our attorneys or offices directly" and provides a web form with Submit and Clear buttons. For media enquiries it lists the email address prcomms@alston.com. The page carries the instruction: "Please do not include any confidential information pertaining to potential legal services," and it points to the firm's Disclaimer page for further terms, including material about attorney-client relationships. Nothing on the contact page states that submitting the form, phoning an office, or emailing the firm creates an attorney-client relationship.
To reach a particular location by phone, use the number for that office. The Charlotte office phone is +1 704 444 1000, at the address 1120 South Tryon Street, Suite 300, Charlotte, NC 28203. Every other office has its own direct phone number listed on the offices page, and the professionals directory lists individual attorneys.
What the site does not provide: there are no published office hours or open hours, no general enquiries email address other than the media address, no online appointment booking or scheduling tool, and no way to book or schedule a consultation through the website itself. There is also no published price, pricing, cost, quote, estimate, rates or fees information of any kind, and no statement about how the firm bills. Questions about cost, fees, availability of an attorney, or whether the firm can help with a specific matter have to be put to the firm directly; the website does not answer them.
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What Alston and Bird has not published yet
These are things people ask Alston and Bird that its published information does not yet cover.
- prices, fees, or billing rates
- attorney availability or capacity to take on a matter
- guarantees about case outcomes or success rates
- specific timelines for resolving legal matters
- details of confidential client relationships or matters
- regulatory approvals, licenses, or compliance status
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- MCP endpoint
- https://api.hailera.com/mcp/alston
- Protocol
- 2026-07-28 — one self-contained POST. No initialize, no session header.
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