Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Focus and practice areas

The website points to four connected fields of work: business law, mergers and acquisitions, tax, and litigation. A named group, the Tariff Task Force, pulls those threads together. The task force covers trade policy questions along with the tax, litigation and deal activity that shifts in tariffs tend to set off. In my opinion that grouping says something useful about how the firm frames a client problem: it treats one commercial event as a matter with several legal angles at once.

Those four areas share a corporate focus. The firm groups them so a single client can draw on more than one within the same matter.

How the firm is organized

The figures on the site describe a wide network. Greenberg Traurig reports 51 locations in 15 countries, and it puts 35 of its offices in the United States. That scale gives the firm the option to staff a matter in more than one market at once.

The international side reaches into Europe and the Middle East. In some markets the firm works through relationships with independent local law firms. As a reviewer, I read that as a practical way to cover more countries while holding its own office in the busier ones.

History and the Albany office

The firm says it began in Miami in 1967, which gives it a run of close to six decades under the same name. The first U.S. office its contact page lists is in Albany, New York. That places the New York state capital at the top of the firm's own roll of American offices.

Albany carries weight for a firm with a government and policy practice. The city holds the state legislature and the executive agencies that write and apply state rules. The firm names a Federal Government Law and Policy Practice, so a base in a capital city lines up with that work.

Client base and public material

The site frames the firm around organizations of different sizes, and it lists Fortune 500 corporations and startups as two ends of that client base. Those are different buyers of legal work. A large public company usually keeps in-house counsel and brings in outside lawyers for extra capacity and depth in particular fields. An early-stage company more often needs help with formation, funding rounds and its first commercial contracts.

The firm also publishes information about legal and regulatory change that touches business clients. Writing of that kind serves two ends. It keeps current clients up to date, and it lets a prospective client see how the firm reads a new rule before any first call. Published analysis is one of the more useful things a firm can put on its own site, because a reader can weigh it directly.

How these matters usually proceed

A little general context helps a reader weigh the practice areas the firm names. Mergers and acquisitions move in stages. Parties sign a confidentiality agreement, then a letter of intent, then open due diligence before they reach a definitive purchase agreement and a closing. Tax counsel usually joins early, because the shape of a deal drives the tax bill on both sides.

Tariff work follows a different path. When trade rules change, importers look again at supply contracts, at how goods are classified and at the duties they owe. Those questions can move into disputes before trade bodies and into the tax issues that trail a change in landed cost. One tariff change can reach a company's contracts, its tax position and its deal pipeline at the same time, which is the overlap the firm's task force is built to handle.

Litigation and tax often meet in the same file. A tax dispute can start with an audit, pass through an administrative appeal, and reach a court only later. Business litigation tends to open with pleadings, run through discovery, and end in either a settlement or a trial. Lawyers who cover both sides can flag a tax exposure while a commercial case is still young, which can shape how a client chooses to settle.

What the record shows

The public material here speaks mostly to scale and structure. The site gives a founding year, a count of offices and countries, and a set of practice areas that link to one another. It does not name individual attorneys or post case outcomes on the pages our research reviewed. In my opinion that makes the listing modest and easy to check: a firm of this size setting out its areas of work and its footprint.

For a reader in New York, the picture is clear enough. Greenberg Traurig runs a large international corporate practice, lists its first U.S. office in Albany, and ties its business law, mergers and acquisitions, tax and litigation work to the trade questions its Tariff Task Force follows.

Office location and contact details

The Albany office is at 54 State Street, 6th Floor, Albany, New York 12207. The street address and floor number give prospective clients a precise destination rather than a general city listing. The published telephone number is +1 518.689.1400. A caller can use that office number to confirm appointment arrangements and any building access instructions before a visit.

The 12207 postal code identifies the immediate downtown area within Albany. For clients who need an in-person meeting, the full address makes it possible to plan the visit without first requesting basic location details. I find the inclusion of the floor especially helpful in a multi-tenant office building, where a street number alone may leave a visitor searching for the firm's reception area.

Firm name and online point of entry

The formal name in the record is Greenberg Traurig, LLP, while the listing uses the shorter Greenberg Traurig name. That distinction matters when a client reviews an engagement letter, invoice or other formal communication. The shorter version is suitable for ordinary reference, but the full name identifies the legal entity stated in the directory record.

The firm's website is at https://www.gtlaw.com/. The domain uses the initials from the Greenberg Traurig name, so a reader should expect the web address to differ from the firm's full written name. In my view, keeping the formal entity name, office address and direct Albany telephone number together gives a prospective client a sound set of details for checking that communications concern the correct firm and office.

Those contact details also offer two clear routes for an initial inquiry. A reader can consult the website for firm material or call the Albany number for office-specific information. The record does not supply a separate local email address, so the published website and telephone number are the direct contact points available here.