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BraunHagey & Borden LLP is the nation’s leading bi-coastal litigation and corporate boutique. We represent innovative businesses, entrepreneurs and investors in bet-the-company disputes and corporate transactions across the country. The firm’s unique Impact Practice helps protect underserved communities and causes in an array of civil and human rights disputes affecting millions of people.

LITIGATION
We prosecute and defend clients in bet-the-company disputes. Our attorneys are ranked amongst the best trial lawyers in the country and routinely obtain record-setting awards and decisions for both plaintiffs and defendants. We specialize in complex cases in virtually all flavors of business litigation, including intellectual property, antitrust, class action defense, corporate governance, financial fraud, trade secrets, unfair competition, digital assets, securities litigation, founders’ disputes, investor litigation, and contested bankruptcies. We staff our cases leanly and hire only the most talented and pedigreed attorneys in the country. Since our founding in 2009, we have secured judgments and settlements exceeding several billion dollars, including multiple Top-100 national judgments.

CORPORATE
We represent emerging companies throughout their lifecycle and the investors who back them. We are advisors to innovators and market leaders across a variety of industries, with an emphasis on consumer-branded businesses in food & beverage, health & wellness, sustainability and technology. We specialize in equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions - closing over a hundred deals a year. In addition to our transactional expertise, we work deeply with our clients to provide advice on their most critical issues. Our corporate team brings a distinct and highly specialized skill set enabling us to offer clients a level of practical knowledge and insight that we believe is unmatched by other firms.

IMPACT
Our Impact Practice is composed of trial attorneys dedicated to making the world a better place, especially for underserved and unrepresented groups. Recent impact matters include suits to protect press freedoms, the First Amendment, the environment, civil and human rights, elder care, prisoner rights, and privacy. Much of our work is pro bono and alongside leading public interest organizations, including the AARP, ACLU, EFF, Human Rights Watch, Sierra Club, CANHR, and similar organizations.

Rankings

BraunHagey & Borden LLP is nationally ranked in 1 practice areas and metro ranked in 3 practice areas. Best Law Firms rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process.

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National Rankings

Tier 3
Tier 3 for Commercial Litigation

Metro Rankings

San Francisco
Tier 2 for Commercial Litigation
Tier 3 for Insurance Law
Tier 3 for Litigation - Intellectual Property

Highlighted Client Comments

All client comments represent the opinions of the people who provided them. All potential clients are urged to remember that no two cases are ever completely alike and that the result in one case does not guarantee a similar result in another case.
Commercial Litigation
Noah Hagey is a rising star in commercial litigation. His firm possesses the agility to handle complicated matters quickly. We recently used BraunHagey on a fast-moving Delaware matter that required ex parte proceedings. We called them on a Friday afternoon, and they worked the weekend to make everything happen. We had a fantastic result.
David B. Charnin, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer – Strategic Value Partners, LLC
Commercial Litigation
The BraunHagey & Borden team displayed exceptional understanding of complex market detail, executed a very detailed legal strategy that produced excellent results. When initially selecting our legal team BH&B stood out as a group that did the deep work and were quickly able to analyze and understand the key issues in the cases. This ability made a long process much more efficient and was a clear advantage throughout.

Rankings

National Rankings

Tier 3
Tier 3 for Commercial Litigation

Regional Rankings

San Francisco
Tier 2 for Commercial Litigation
Tier 3 for Insurance Law
Tier 3 for Litigation - Intellectual Property

Practice Areas

The below are areas of legal specialty volunteered by the firm and do not designate a specialty in which a Best Law Firms ranking is held.
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
  • Civil Rights Law
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Commercial Transactions / UCC Law
  • Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
  • Corporate Law
  • Food and Beverage Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Litigation - Antitrust
  • Litigation - Banking and Finance
  • Litigation - Health Care
  • Litigation - Insurance
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Litigation - Patent
  • Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)
  • Litigation - Securities
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
  • Trade Secrets Law
  • Trademark Law
  • Venture Capital Law

Individuals Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®

BraunHagey & Borden LLP has 3 lawyers recognized for individual performance in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. By receiving this Best Lawyers recognition from their peers for their professional excellence, these lawyers made BraunHagey & Borden LLP eligible for evaluation for Best Law Firms rankings. For almost two decades, Best Lawyers has awarded these singular accolades, making them the foundation of our Best Law Firms awards. Read more about our Best Lawyers process here.
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Client Comments

All client comments represent the opinions of the people who provided them. All potential clients are urged to remember that no two cases are ever completely alike and that the result in one case does not guarantee a similar result in another case.
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Management and Personnel

Operation Manager
Sierra Talavera-Baca
Director of Operations
Sarah Crabbe
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