Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP — United States
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- Executive Partner: Barry M. Wolf - Number of partners: approximately 280 - Number of lawyers: approximately 1,200 Languages: Arabic, Armenian, Bahasa (Indonesian), Cantonese, Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Sindhi, Slovenian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese Firm Overview: Founded in 1931, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is a preeminent provider of global legal services. With offices on three continents, Weil has been a pioneer in establishing a geographic footprint to partner with clients wherever they do business. The Firm’s four departments, corporate, litigation, restructuring, and tax, executive compensation and benefits, and more than two dozen practice groups are consistently recognised as leaders in their respective fields. ### Main Areas of Practice Restructuring: Weil’s Restructuring Department is a renowned group that has an outsized presence in the industry. The Firm invented much of what has become standard practice in the restructuring field. For more than 50 years, Weil has offered creative, practical and thoughtful solutions for its clients on both the company and creditor sides. The global department comprises more than 100 dedicated lawyers, including many recognised as leaders in their field. The largest, most complex and most important restructuring matters in history require a truly international firm like Weil that can handle all aspects of the process globally. M&A: With more than 650 corporate lawyers across the U.S., Europe and Asia, Weil is regularly involved in the largest and most innovative transactions in the world. The Firm consistently ranks among the top-ten firms globally for volume of M&A transactions. Over the last five years, Weil has handled more than 1,700 deals totaling nearly $2.5 trillion in deal value. Private Equity & Fund Formation: Weil’s Private Equity practice is recognised as an elite market leader in the field. Its clients include high-profile private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds, as well as family offices and other equity financial investors. With nearly 300 private equity lawyers worldwide, Weil advises more than 300 private equity clients, including the top 10 largest global private equity funds and 80% of the top 25 largest global private equity funds as ranked by PEI 300 2023. Weil’s Private Funds practice is fully integrated with its transactional practice, allowing it to provide comprehensive support for all clients. Finance: Weil’s global finance team comprises lawyers in its Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, and Structured Finance & Derivatives practices in many of the world’s key financial centers, including New York, Dallas, Silicon Valley, London, Paris and Frankfurt. Weil’s broad-based Banking & Finance practice advises corporate borrowers, financial institutions and private equity sponsors on innovative financing transactions. Its capital markets practice represents both issuers and underwriters on all types of public and private debt and equity offerings. The Firm’s Structured Finance & Derivatives practice develops cutting-edge structures at the forefront of the marketplace and has deep experience in the establishment of CLO/CDO vehicles. Litigation: Weil’s global Litigation Department provides clients with integrated and innovative legal advice in all major substantive areas of the law. Its multidisciplinary, trial-ready approach helps clients manage risk across geographies at every stage of the dispute resolution process and before courts of all levels. With approximately 350 litigators worldwide, Weil excels in multi-jurisdictional corporate and commercial litigation, shareholder and transactional disputes, competition law issues, cross-border regulatory and internal investigations, IP litigation, employment disputes, international arbitration, tax controversy, and crisis management and risk mitigation, as well as strategic corporate counseling. Tax: Weil’s global Tax practice houses approximately 80 lawyers across the U.S., London, Paris, Munich and Frankfurt, delivering innovative, comprehensive and tax-efficient solutions on every type of domestic and cross-border transaction presenting significant tax issues, including complex M&A; private equity and fund formation matters; restructurings and recapitalisations; securitisations; real estate and REITs; and capital markets and other financing matters. Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits: Weil’s Executive Compensation & Benefits practice based in the U.S. and U.K. advises clients on the legal and financial risks associated with compensation and benefit arrangements in M&A, private equity, private funds and restructuring transactions — many of which involve sensitive issues for senior management, transition planning and compensation. Pro Bono: Weil is widely recognised for its Pro Bono practice, ranking among the best firms for pro bono in the U.K. by Legal Week and named Best International Firm for Pro Bono by Euromoney Americas Women in Business Law Awards. To date, the Firm has performed more than 1 million pro bono hours.
Office locations
Dallas
Dallas
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 200 Crescent Court, Suite 300 Dallas, Tx 75201-6950 Dallas United States
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 201 Redwood Shores Parkway Silicon Valley, Ca 94065 Silicon Valley United States
Washington Dc
Washington Dc
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 2001 M Street, Nw, Suite 600 Washington, Dc 20036 Washington Dc United States
Houston
Houston
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 700 Louisiana, Suite 1600 Houston, Tx 77002 Houston United States
Miami
Miami
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 1395 Brickell Avenue, Suite 1200 Miami, Fl 33131 Miami United States
Boston
Boston
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 100 Federal Street, 34th Floor Boston, Ma 02110 Boston United States
New York
New York
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 767 5th Avenue New York, Ny 10153 New York United States
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 1999 Avenue Of The Stars Los Angeles Ca 90067 Los Angeles United States San Francisco 600 Montgomery Street 32nd Floor CA 94111
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Adam Fee
Adam Fee is a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York, Century City and Los Angeles offices. A trial lawyer with a national practice, he has litigated some of the highest profile, high-stakes civil and criminal cases in the nation over the last several years in both state and federal courts. As a former national security prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Adam has advised many of the world’s largest companies and most prominent individuals on all manner of problems. He brings aggression and common sense to tough cases. · Investigations and White Collar Defense
Adam Hemlock
Partner · Antitrust
Adrian Percer
Partner · Patent Litigation
Adé Heyliger
Partner · Corporate Governance
Alexander Lynch
Co-Head of Weil's Capital Markets practice · Capital Markets
Alfredo Pérez
Managing Partner of Houston office · Restructuring
Andrew Chizzik
Partner · Fund Formation
Andrew Colao
Co-Head of Weil's Banking & Finance practice and leader of the Private Equity Finance practice · Banking & Finance
Andrew Dean
Partner · Securities Litigation
Andrew Morris
Partner · Tax
Andrew Tulumello
Co-Head of Weil's national Complex Commercial Litigation practice · Complex Commercial Litigation
Andrew Yoon
Partner · Banking & Finance
Anne Cappella
Partner · Intellectual Property
Annemargaret Connolly
Head of Weil's Environmental practice · Environmental Law
Arianna Scavetti
Partner · Dispute Resolution
Bambo Obaro
Co-Managing partner of Weil’s Silicon Valley office; Complex Commercial Litigation partner · Complex Commercial Litigation
Barbra Broudy
Partner · Capital Markets
Barry Wolf
Weil's Executive Partner and Chair of the Management Committee · Private Investment Funds
Benjamin Marks
Head of Weil's Intellectual Property/Media practice · Intellectual Property
Brianne Kucerik
Co-Chair of Weil’s US antitrust practice · Antitrust
Caroline Zalka
Head of Weil's nationwide Securities Litigation practice · Securities Litigation
Chantale Fiebig
Commercial Litigation
Charan Sandhu
Head of Weil’s Technology & IP Transactions practice · Intellectual Property
Chase Bentley
Partner · Corporate Restructuring
Chayim Neubort
Partner · Corporate Tax
Chris Bennett
Partner · Private Equity
Christopher Machera
Co-Head of Weil’s U.S. Private Equity practice · Private Equity
Christopher Mulligan
Christopher Mulligan is a partner in Weil’s Private Funds practice and is based in Washington, D.C. Chris represents a wide range of asset managers, including some of the largest and most complex private fund advisers in the world, as well as middle-market and newly-formed advisers, across a suite of regulatory issues. Chris acts as outside regulatory counsel to asset managers, providing counsel regarding SEC examinations and investigations, marketing rule compliance, fund formation issues, mock examinations, SEC registration, Form ADV, Form PF, code of ethics, custody issues, LPA compliance, annual reviews and strategic advice. · Private Funds
Corey Chivers
Partner · Capital Markets
Courtney Marcus
Co-Head of the Banking & Finance practice · Banking & Finance
Craig Adas
Managing Partner of Weil's Silicon Valley office · Mergers and Acquisitions
Daniel Dokos
Head of Weil's Global Finance Practice · Finance
Daniel Stein
Head of Weil’s global White Collar Defense, Regulatory, and Investigations practice · White Collar Defense
David Gail
Partner · Private Equity
David Lender
Co-Chair of Weil’s global Litigation Department · Antitrust
David Singh
Co-Head of Weil’s national Complex Commercial Litigation practice · Complex Commercial Litigation
David Yohai
Complex Commercial Litigation
Dennis Adams
Partner · Intellectual Property
Devon Bodoh
Head of Weil's international and cross-border Tax practice · Tax
Diane Sullivan
Partner · Antitrust
Doug Warner
Co-Head of Weil's global Private Equity practice · Private Equity
Douglas Urquhart
Bank Debt Finance
Edward Soto
Co-Head of Weil’s Complex Commercial Litigation practice and Managing Partner of Weil’s Miami office. · Antitrust
Elizabeth Ross
Associate · Antitrust
Eric Ordway
International Commercial Arbitration
Evert Christensen
Partner · Dispute Resolution
Frank Nocco
Head of Weil's Structured Finance/Derivatives practice · Structured Finance
Frederick Green
Partner · Mergers and Acquisitions
Gabriel Gregson
Partner · Banking & Finance
Gabriel Gross
Gabe Gross is a veteran first-chair trial lawyer and skilled courtroom advocate who represents leading life sciences and technology companies in their most important intellectual property and commercial disputes. A partner in the Bay Area offices and co-chair of Latham’s national Trial Advocacy training program, Gabe has won jury verdicts, summary judgments, arbitration awards, and appeals, defeating billions of dollars in patent infringement and licensing claims on behalf of his clients. Gabe’s litigation practice focuses on intellectual property and other complex commercial disputes. He is deeply experienced in patent, trade secret, licensing, trademark, copyright, false advertising, and unfair competition disputes. With a background in biotechnology, Gabe serves as lead trial counsel for innovative clients across the life sciences, medical device, high-tech, and consumer products industries. He has represented clients in federal and state courts across the country, including in California, New York, Texas, Delaware, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, before the US International Trade Commission, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and US Customs and Border Protection, as well as in arbitrations domestically and abroad. Gabe has tried cases to juries over patent infringement, copyright infringement, and contract disputes. He has tried cases to arbitrators over intellectual property licensing and other commercial disputes. Gabe also is a registered patent attorney with experience in inter partes review and other patent office proceedings. Gabe’s pro bono practice includes representing clients in immigration and asylum matters, inmate civil rights cases, veterans’ benefits disputes, and unlawful detainer actions. Gabe enjoys giving back to the community and for years has coached his local high school’s mock trial team and volunteered as a mock trial coach, judge, and Deposition Course instructor at Berkeley Law. Speaking Engagements Panelist, “Trade Secrets Unlocked: State or Federal Court – Which Is Best for Your Case, and How Do You Win There?,” Latham & Watkins, June 24, 2020 Panelist, “Trade Secrets Unlocked: How In-House Lawyers Can Litigation to Win,” Latham & Watkins, January 30, 2020 Panelist, “Trade Secrets Unlocked: Managing Risk When On/Offboarding” Latham & Watkins, May 1, 2019 · Intellectual Property
Gabriel Morgan
Partner · Corporate Restructuring
Gregory Silbert
Complex Commercial Litigation
Heather Emmel
Partner · Capital Markets
Hillel Jacobson
Partner · Tax
Howard Dicker
Co-Head of Weil's Public Company Advisory Group · Corporate Governance
Jackie Cohen
Partner · Mergers And Acquisitions
Jakub Wronski
Private Equity
James Griffin
Partner · Mergers and Acquisitions
Jason Smith
Partner
Jeff Malonson
Partner · Private Equity