Vinson & Elkins LLP provides legal advisory services to aviation, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, energy, financial services, healthcare, technology, and telecommunications sectors. The firm focuses on antitrust, appellate, arbitration and ADR, class actions and multi-district litigation, commercial and business litigation, condemnation and land use, insurance coverage, products liability, white collar criminal defense, and employment and labor litigation. Additionally, its practice areas include environmental regulation export controls and economic sanctions, federal public policy practice, government procurement regulation health public policy group practice, mergers and acquisitions, and outsourcing transactions. Vinson & Elkins was founded in 1917 and is based in Houston, Texas with additional offices in Austin, Texas; Beijing, China; Dallas, Texas; London, United Kingdom; Moscow, Russia; New York City; Singapore; and Washington, District of Columbia.