McGuireWoods LLP is a major U.S. law firm with more than 900 attorneys in 19 offices in the United States and Europe. With the firm's largest offices in Richmond, VA, Charlotte, NC, and Chicago, IL, McGuireWoods has recently experienced a period of rapid growth by opening new offices in London in 2009 and offices in Houston and Austin, TX in 2011. The firm has also announced expansion plans with new office space in Washington, D.C., London, Charlotte and Brussels, and increased its client representation capabilities by adding former Senator Evan Bayh as a partner and a nationally recognized debt finance team in Atlanta as well as a new political law group in the firm's Washington D.C. office.

In 1834, Egbert R. Watson began his law practice in Charlottesville, Virginia. He later formed a partnership in 1870 with George Perkins, and in 1936 the firm became Perkins, Battle & Minor. The firm expanded in the following decades, and by 1966 was known as McGuire, Woods and Battle. The firm’s consulting subsidiary, McGuireWoods Consulting LLC, opened in 1998, and the merger and acquisition advisory group in 2001. In 2000, the firm changed its name to McGuireWoods LLP. Today, McGuireWoods LLP has more than 900 attorneys in 19 offices. U.S. offices include Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Baltimore, Maryland; Charlotte, North Carolina; Charlottesville, Virginia; Chicago, Illinois; Houston, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Los Angeles, California; New York, New York; Norfolk, Virginia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Richmond, Virginia; Tysons Corner, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Wilmington, North Carolina. The firm has international offices in London, England and Brussels, Belgium.