By Brian Baxter, From The Am Law Daily

Update: For a revised list of major firms that appear in the ‘Panama Papers’ (excluding those that appeared in an earlier investigation by the ICIJ), please see related story below main article)

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is poised to unveil a searchable online database on Monday drawn from some of the 11.5 million documents that were leaked last month from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
While the database is not slated for public release until Monday afternoon, some search functions were already available over the weekend. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of lawyers and law firms, ranging from solo shops to global legal giants, named in records already available on the site, though their reasons for inclusion are still unclear. Some documents may be related to an earlier 2013 investigation of the offshore industry by the ICIJ.
The Am Law Daily identified dozens of major U.S. and international firms listed in the database already posted by the ICIJ online, one whose universe figures to grow with its inclusion of data from Mossack Fonseca. The ICIJ said that its new database will include information on more than 200,000 offshore entities. It also stressed that being included in the database does not signal participation in illegal activities.
“There are legitimate uses for offshore companies and trusts,” the ICIJ added in a disclaimer to database users. “We do not intend to suggest or imply that any persons, companies or other entities included in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database have broken the law or otherwise acted improperly.”
Mossack Fonseca claims that it has done nothing wrong and is merely the victim of an illegal hack. Regulators in various countries have started probes involving the leaked materials, however, and the disclosures have sent tremors through the U.S. legal landscape and forced firms here to confront their data vulnerabilities. Over the weekend, the anonymous individual behind the Mossack Fonseca leak published an 1,800-word treatise called ” The Revolution Will Be Digitized,” citing rising income inequality for the decision to release internal records from the firm.
Below is a list of notable current and former law firms from around the world that already appear in the ICIJ database. Where applicable, we have included entries for firms that no longer exist but have since been absorbed into a larger firm. We also included the specific office identified and links to the database’s source material, which is expected to be updated with new information Monday afternoon.

The Am Law 200 & Global 100

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in New York
Arnold & Porter, via legacy firm Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco
Ashurst, via legacy firm Blake Dawson Waldron in London and Sydney
Baker & McKenzie in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Stockholm, Taipei and Zurich
Bryan Cave in New York and St. Louis
Coudert Brothers, now defunct, in Denver, Los Angeles, New York and Singapore
Dentons, via legacy firms Denton Wilde Sapte in Gibraltar and Salans Hertzfeld & Heeilbroun in Paris
DLA Piper in Hong Kong and Singapore
Dorsey & Whitney in Hong Kong
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Singapore
Greenberg Traurig in Miami and New York
Hogan Lovells, via legacy firm Hogan & Hartson in Moscow
Hughes Hubbard & Reed in Miami
Jones Day in Hong Kong and Tokyo
K&L Gates in Hong Kong
Kaye Scholer in Los Angeles
Katten Muchin Rosenman in Chicago
King & Wood Mallesons, via legacy firms Arculli Fong & Ng in Hong Kong and Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Hong Kong
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in New York
Linklaters in Hong Kong
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Singapore
Norton Rose Fulbright, via legacy firms Fulbright & Jaworski in Hong Kong and Macleod Dixon in Calgary
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Singapore
Perkins Coie in Taipei
Schiff Hardin in New York
Snell & Wilmer in Costa Mesa, California
Squire Patton Boggs, via legacy firms Deacons Graham & James in Kowloon/Hong Kong and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Hong Kong and Los Angeles
Troutman Sanders in Hong Kong
White & Case in Los Angeles and Singapore
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, via legacy firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C.

European Firms
Gamolin Quinn Vyzhlov in Dover, Delaware and Moscow
Germany’s Beiten Burkhardt in Hong Kong
Norway’s Wikborg Rein in Singapore
Sweden’s Advokatfirman Vinge in Stockholm
Switzerland’s Lenz & Staehelin in Zurich
U.K.’s Bird & Bird in London
U.K.’s Stephenson Harwood, via Stephenson Harwood & Lo in Hong Kong
U.K.’s Watson, Farley & Williams in Singapore
U.K.’s Weightmans in London

Offshore Firms

Conyers Dill & Pearman in Bermuda
Harneys in the British Virgin Islands
Maples and Calder in Hong Kong
Mourant Ozannes, via legacy firm Mourant du Feu et Jeune’s Mourant International Ltd. in the Seychelles and Singapore
Walkers in the British Virgin Islands

Accounting Firms

EY Legal, via the now inactive Ernst & Young Legal in Taipei
PricewaterhouseCoopers Tax & Legal Services Department in Taipei

Other Firms From Around the World

Aird & Berlis in Toronto
Allen & Gledhill, via the Singapore firm’s Malaysian affiliate Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill in Kuala Lumpur
AllBright Law Offices in Shanghai
Bell Gully in Auckland
Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer in Calgary
Colin Ng & Partners in Singapore
Dykman Attorneys in Cape Town
Guantao Law Firm in Beijing
Harry Elias Partnership in Singapore
Malkin & Maxwell in Singapore
Rajah & Tann in Singapore
Russell McVeagh in Auckland
Shook Lin & Bok in Singapore
Wong Partnership in Singapore
Other U.S. Firms
Avila Rodriguez Hernandez Mena & Ferri in Miami
Baxter, Baker, Sidle, Conn & Jones in Baltimore
Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada in Jackson, Mississippi
Candaux, Carlson, Cohen & Sanchez in Tarzana, California
Cantey & Hanger in Austin, Texas
Catania, Mahon, Milligram & Rider, where a former name partner resigned from the bar in 2014, in Newburgh, New York
Comiter, Singer, Baseman & Braun in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Edwards, Olson, Waite & Winterton, now defunct, in Las Vegas
Engel & Bigelow in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Giordani Schurig Beckett & Tackett in Austin, Texas
Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum, f/k/a Gusrae Kaplan & Bruno, in New York
Heydasch & Leigh in Miami
Kane Kessler in New York
Klein & Pollack in Dallas
Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen in New York
Larsen & Risley in Costa Mesa, California
Lourie & Cutler in Boston
Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel in Pittsburgh
Quinlivan Wexler in Santa Ana, California
Roberts and Holland in New York
Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman in New York
Sadis & Goldberg in New York
Saltzburg, Ray & Bergman in Los Angeles
Sanders Ortoli Vaughn-Flam Rosenstadt in New York
Suisman, Shapiro, Wool, Brennan, Gray & Greenberg in New London, Connecticut
Woods & Aitken in Lincoln, Nebraska

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Related story:

Second tranche of offshore docs reveals more big firms

By Brian Baxter, From The Am Law Daily

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on Monday published a searchable database of almost 320,000 offshore entities culled from 11.5 million documents that were leaked last month from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
But while the disclosures contain the names of dozens of notable law firms from around the world—mostly acting as advisers, trustees or intermediaries between Mossack Fonseca and its clientele—internal emails and other source materials remain out of public view for now.
The Am Law Daily noted Sunday that the ICIJ database also includes information on more than 100,000 other offshore entities revealed in another leak analyzed by the nonprofit three years ago. The current database separates search results by whether they originated with the “Panama Papers” files from Mossack Fonseca or from the ICIJ’s earlier “Offshore Leaks” investigation in 2013.
Firms whose names appear in the Panama Papers/Mossack Fonseca files can be found below. When possible, we identified the specific office of a firm or predecessor firm included in the database, as well as a link to the underlying source material. The Asian Lawyer, a sibling publication, also compiled its own list of firms with a focus on those operating in the Asia Pacific region.
While the Panama Papers do include the names of certain suspect individuals, both from the U.S. and abroad, the ICIJ noted in a disclaimer that there are “legitimate uses for offshore companies and trusts,” and that the nonprofit does not “intend to suggest or imply that any persons, companies or other entities … have broken the law or otherwise acted improperly.”

Am Law 200 Firms

Akerman in the U.S.
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz in Washington, D.C.
Chadbourne & Parke in New York
Duane Morris in London
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in New York
Haynes and Boone in Dallas
Hogan Lovells, via legacy firm Lovells in London
Hunton & Williams in Miami
Holland & Knight, via alliance firm Tinoco, Travieso, Planchart & Nuñez in Caracas
Mayer Brown in London
Norton Rose Fulbright, via legacy firm Norton Rose in London
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in Hong Kong
Reed Smith, via legacy firm Reed Smith Richards Butler in Hong Kong
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in Hong Kong
Shutts & Bowen in Amsterdam and Miami
Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Warsaw

U.K. Firms

Berwin Leighton Paiser in London
Charles Russell Speechlys, via legacy firm Speechly Bircham in London
Child & Child in London
Clifford Chance in Dubai, Hong Kong, London, New York and Paris
Clyde & Co in London
Fieldfisher, f/k/a Field Fisher Waterhouse in London
Holman Fenwick Willan in Dubai, Hong Kong and London
Howard & Howard Solicitors in London
Inco & Co in London
Kennedys in London
Mishcon de Reya in London
Nabarro in London and predecessor Nabarro Nathanson in London
Osborne Clarke in London
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain in London
Taylor Wessing in London
TLT in London
Trowers & Hamlins in Bahrain and London

Other Firms From Around the World

Berger Singerman in Fort Lauderdale
Canada’s Aird & Berlis in Toronto
Canada’s Blake, Cassels & Graydon in Calgary
Canada’s Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt in Toronto
China’s Hylands Law Firm
China’s Long An
China’s Zhong Lun
Netherlands’ Loyens & Loeff in Amsterdam
Switzerland’s Homburger
Switzerland’s Niederer Kraft & Frey
Switzerland’s Pestalozzi
Venezuela’s Ezagui Spritzer

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