Stroock was founded in New York City in 1876. Few law firms can trace their beginnings in a straight line for over 125 years. Ours is a long and distinguished history, one that is consistent with the growth of our nation’s commercial and industrial prominence. Stroock started out as a two-person practice in Lower Manhattan and now has over 350 attorneys practicing in New York, Los Angeles and Miami. At the core of Stroock’s business is our reputation for helping clients with capital markets and litigation needs. In our early years we cultivated - and have maintained - longstanding relationships with many of the city’s major financial companies, who did some growing of their own, many becoming global institutions. Today, in addition to our historical strengths in corporate finance, Stroock has developed key practice strengths through working with a range of national and international businesses, from handling complex restructuring and insolvency matters for large companies, to representing entrepreneurs - Valley to Alley - with their intellectual property assets. Stroock is a market leader in real estate, representing the most prestigious names in the business and serving as counsel to the biggest real estate deals across the country.