Wiggin and Dana LLP

• Phone: 203-498-4400
• Website: www.wiggin.com
• About Us:

  Founded in New Haven, Connecticut in 1934, Wiggin and Dana LLP provides first-class legal counsel to an international client base of major corporations and institutions, as well as to private businesses, entrepreneurs, individuals, and families. From offices in New Haven, Stamford and Hartford, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New York City, the firm serves clients located in the Northeast, as well as throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, Latin America and Asia. Many, such as Yale University and United Illuminating Company, have been our clients for a generation or more. The firm acts as general or special counsel for publicly traded corporations, banks, accounting, architectural engineering and securities firms, public utilities, insurance companies, family-owned businesses, new technology companies and start-ups, hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers, universities, colleges and schools, and individuals. It serves as U.S. counsel for many substantial European companies.

  Clients turn to Wiggin and Dana for help with specific transactions and complex proceedings in areas where the firm has particular knowledge and experience. A few examples are antitrust and other government investigations, complex commercial litigation, all aspects of franchise, distributor and dealer litigation, land use, environmental and construction law, the development and financing of health care facilities, and the full range of legal services sought by the technology community, including the protection of intellectual property and domestic and international licensing and distribution.

  The firm has an enviable record in handling the most demanding legal matters, including sophisticated corporate transactions for international clients and complex administrative proceedings, arbitrations, litigation and enforcement actions across the United States. Wiggin and Dana remains committed nonetheless to providing every client, large and small, with the personal attention and skill of the firm's partners.

  Wiggin and Dana partners take the time to understand each client's needs and goals and assign to each matter a sensible number of lawyers with appropriate experience and skills. This focused approach enables the firm to provide intelligent, practical and cost-effective counsel.

Contributing authors from Wiggin and Dana LLP:

Rachel B. Arnedt Associate Rachel B. Arnedt is an attorney in Wiggin and Dana’s Employee Benefits Practice Group. Ms. Arnedt’s practice includes qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation,executive compensati...	Gregory A. Brown Greg Brown is an associate in the firm's Labor, Employment & Benefits Department.  He received his J.D. in 2003 from Cornell Law School, where he served as a Student Advisor. He graduated fro...
Karen L. Clute Partner Karen L. Clute divides her practice at Wiggin and Dana between estate and tax planning for individuals and executive compensation and employee benefits issues affecting businesses. Karen also advises...	Sherry L. Dominick Partner Sherry L. Dominick practices employee benefits law, including qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation, executive compensation, health, welfare and fringe benefit planning, and flexible benef...
Bruce E. Hood Partner Bruce E. Hood specializes in taxation at the federal, state and local levels. His principal areas of practice are international, real estate, corporate and partnership taxation. He has advised clients...	Lawrence Peikes Lawrence Peikes is a partner in the firm's Stamford office where he represents management in all aspects of labor and employment law.  Lawrence's practice encompasses federal and state court liti...