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Alston & Bird represented Veritiv, a leading provider of packaging and portfolio company of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, in its acquisition of PAX Global, a distributor and converter of custom packaging products.

Alston & Bird was featured in the Los Angeles Times for strengthening the firm’s presence in Southern California in 2024 with the opening of a new office in Century City and a relocation of our downtown Los Angeles office to a stunning new space. The firm’s already strong intellectual property practice was also noted for its growth with the additions of partners Erik Carlson, Theresa Conduah, Olivia Kim, and Edward Poplawski to its offices in Southern California in 2024.

Alston & Bird has won a $7.3 million award for Cigna Health & Life Insurance Co. in its lawsuit against three South Florida clinical laboratories for wrongfully billing Cigna for medically unnecessary drug tests. After an eight-day trial, a federal jury in New Haven, Connecticut returned a verdict in Cigna’s favor for $7.3 million.

Alston & Bird has been honored as one of the nation’s top law firms in the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms®, ranked by Best Lawyers. The firm received 25 national tier-one practice rankings and 101 metropolitan tier-one practice rankings across all U.S. offices.

Alston & Bird successfully defended Nokia of America Corporation against allegations that its router products infringed three patents owned by Correct Transmission. On November 5, an Eastern District of Texas jury cleared Nokia of all claims of infringement, finding that all three asserted patents were not infringed. After a brief deliberation, the verdict secured a complete victory for Nokia.