Foley & Lardner

What Foley & Lardner does

Foley & Lardner LLP is a privately held US law firm founded in 1842, operating as an LLP with 1,100+ attorneys across 27 offices in the United States, Mexico (Mexico City), Belgium (Brussels), and Japan (Tokyo). The firm is organized around three core practice areas — Corporate, Intellectual Property, and Litigation — spanning 60+ sub-practices, and is further structured by five key industry sectors: Energy & Infrastructure, Health Care & Life Sciences, Innovative Technology, and Manufacturing, with adjacent sectors including Cannabis, Hospitality & Leisure, Sports & Entertainment, Fashion/Apparel/Beauty, and Family Offices. Foley self-describes as a Top 50 global law firm and is consistently ranked by Chambers USA in 2026 across multiple practice areas. Its Telemedicine & Digital Health practice alone represents approximately 400 companies, more than any other law firm in that vertical.

The firm generates revenue through professional service fees structured as hourly billing, fixed fees, or transaction-based arrangements depending on engagement type. Go-to-market is partner-led, direct enterprise engagement targeting Fortune 500 companies, large public companies, private equity and venture capital sponsors, and sector-specific clients. Deep sector benches of 200–400+ attorneys per major industry support full-spectrum engagements from M&A advisory and capital markets to IP prosecution, litigation, regulatory compliance, and government solutions. Notable disclosed matters include advising Kontoor Brands on the up-to-$1B sale of the Lee business to Authentic Brands Group, representing Delta Air Lines in its minority equity acquisition of WestJet, serving as lenders' counsel on $382M debt financing for Sabanci Renewables' Texas solar projects, and advising Ultradent Products on its acquisition by Mitsui Chemicals.

Foley has developed proprietary internal AI tools — FoleyChat (NLP for document review and contract analysis) and Athena (knowledge management) — both recognized as 2026 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards finalists, with FoleyChat winning Best Use of AI. The firm is a design partner for Harvey's Command Centre AI oversight platform (developed with 1,500 deployment benchmarks) and benefits from a DeepJudge integration. These tools support agentic AI automation of routine legal tasks, shifting lawyer effort toward higher-value advisory work. AI initiatives are operationally embedded but do not represent an external product line or revenue stream.

Name

Foley & Lardner

Legal name

Foley & Lardner LLP

Website

https://foley.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1842

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Foley & Lardner LLP is a Top 50 global law firm founded in 1842 with 1,100+ attorneys across 27 offices, serving enterprise and growth clients in Energy, Health Care, Technology, and Manufacturing sectors through Corporate, IP, and Litigation practices, supplemented by proprietary AI tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Services

NAICS

Legal Services (5411), Offices of Lawyers (541110), Offices of Lawyers (54111)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Litigation & Dispute Resolution (BPAHAAAB)

Keywords

• Legal advisory services
• Corporate law firm
• Intellectual property law
• Commercial litigation
• Regulatory compliance counsel

Headquarters

HQ city

Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices28 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Legal Services - Professional Fees: Foley & Lardner generates revenue through billable hour fees for legal services spanning corporate transactions, intellectual property, litigation, regulatory compliance, and advisory work. The firm serves as legal advisor to clients across M&A transactions, capital markets, financing, and regulatory matters, with fees structured as hourly rates, fixed fees, or transaction-based arrangements depending on engagement type.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Foley & Lardner LLP is a full-service law firm providing legal counsel across three core practice areas — Corporate, Intellectual Property, and Litigation — delivered through sector-focused teams in Energy & Infrastructure, Health Care & Life Sciences, Innovative Technology, and Manufacturing. The firm represents enterprise clients in M&A, capital markets, financing, IP prosecution and litigation, regulatory compliance, government enforcement defense, and dispute resolution, supported by 1,100+ attorneys across 27 offices. The firm also develops proprietary AI-driven legal technology tools (FoleyChat, Athena) and partners with AI platforms (Harvey Command Centre) to enhance service delivery.

Product overview

Foley & Lardner LLP is a law firm, not a software product company. Its 'products and services' are legal service offerings organized by sector (Energy & Infrastructure, Health Care & Life Sciences, Innovative Technology, Manufacturing) and practice area (Corporate, Intellectual Property, Litigation). The firm's technology-related offerings include two AI-powered internal legal technology tools: FoleyChat (for document review and contract analysis, NLP-based) and Athena (for knowledge management and retrieval). Both tools were finalists at the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards 2026. The firm also partners with Harvey as a design partner for the Command Centre AI oversight platform. The firm's Telemedicine & Digital Health practice represents approximately 400 companies and is nationally ranked. The overall portfolio is structured as sector-focused legal services rather than discrete software products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Corporate Legal Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Representing roughly 400 telemedicine and digital health companies, more than any other law firm in the industry.
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Harvey (AI legal platform)coreTechnology or Integration · 21 May 2026Foley & Lardner is a design partner in the development of Harvey's Command Centre oversight platform, which monitors AI usage, tracks adoption trends, and benchmarks against anonymised peer data from over 1,500 deployments worldwide. The product was developed with design partners at Haynes Boone, Clayton Utz, Rajah & Tann, and Dentsu, and is entering early-access availability ahead of wider release later in 2026.
• DeepJudgeminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 May 2026Harvey announced a partnership with DeepJudge to integrate institutional knowledge from law firms' past work, decisions, and expertise into Harvey's AI workflows. While not a direct Foley partnership, Foley is a design partner for Harvey's Command Centre, and this DeepJudge integration may enhance Harvey's platform capabilities that Foley uses.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Baker McKenzie: One of the world's largest law firms with a global footprint and broad cross-sector practice, including significant energy, healthcare, and technology capabilities that overlap with Foley's sector focus.
• DLA Piper: Global full-service law firm competing for the same Fortune 500, healthcare, and technology clients as Foley, with a similarly broad corporate, IP, and litigation offering.
• Norton Rose Fulbright: Global full-service firm with comparable energy, infrastructure, and healthcare practices, competing for the same cross-border transactions and regulatory mandates as Foley.
• Sidley Austin: Premier global law firm competing for sophisticated corporate, healthcare, and technology mandates; broader scale but directly comparable in the enterprise client segment Foley serves.
• Eversheds Sutherland: Global full-service law firm with strong energy, healthcare, and financial services practices, directly comparable to Foley's sector-focused model at a similar international scale.

Direct peers

• Faegre Drinker: Closest scale and sector match to Foley: full-service US law firm with comparable strength in life sciences, health care, food & beverage, and energy, formed by the 2020 merger of Faegre Baker Daniels and Drinker Biddle & Reath.
• Holland & Knight: Top-tier US full-service law firm of comparable size with overlapping practices in healthcare, litigation, and corporate transactional work, and a similar multi-office national footprint.
• McDermott Will & Emery: Major US law firm with internationally recognized health care and life sciences practice that directly competes with Foley's flagship Health Care & Life Sciences sector team.
• Mintz: Full-service firm with strong overlap in technology, life sciences, healthcare, and IP — particularly relevant as a peer for Foley's Innovative Technology and Health Care sectors.
• Barnes & Thornburg: US-based full-service firm with strong sector overlap in life sciences, technology, and manufacturing, and a Midwest heritage comparable to Foley's Milwaukee origins.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/foleyandlardnerllp
• Facebookfacebook.com/foleylardner
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/foley-&-lardner-llp
• Instagraminstagram.com/foleyandlardner/?hl=en

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments4 records

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