Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP — United States

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- Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP - Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP > New York ### Firm Details - Chairmen: Thomas M Cerabino, Matthew A Feldman - Total number of lawyers: More than 1,200 - Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish ### Firm Overview Willkie provides leading-edge legal solutions on complex, business critical issues spanning markets and industries. From relatively modest beginnings in 1888 in New York with four lawyers, we now have a coast-to-coast U.S. presence and offices in major business centers throughout Europe. Willkie has continuously attracted some of the best legal minds in the world by fostering a collegial culture; cultivating an inclusive workplace; and seeking to inspire all employees to serve as stewards for each other, our clients and the broader community. We deliver innovative, pragmatic and sophisticated legal services across approximately 45 practice areas through our international network of the best local market talent in 15 offices worldwide. In addition to the areas of corporate/M&A; private equity; restructuring; complex litigation; and asset management, the firm’s more than 1,200 attorneys collaborate to provide multidisciplinary advice across the areas of accounting litigation and enforcement; AI and emerging technologies; antitrust and competition; bankruptcy litigation; capital markets; class action litigation; commodities and derivatives; communications and media; corporate governance; crisis management; cross-border litigation; digital works; employment; energy; entertainment, sports and media; environment, health and safety; environmental, social and governance (ESG); ERISA litigation; executive compensation and employee benefits; FCPA; family office; finance; global trade and investment; insurance; intellectual property; international arbitration; investigations and enforcement; IP, technology and commercial transactions; Latin America; M&A litigation; media and first amendment; national security; privacy, cybersecurity and data strategy; private wealth; project finance and investment; real estate; regulatory litigation; securities litigation and enforcement; special committee; strategic motions and appeals; structured finance and derivatives; tax; trial; white-collar defense; and a wide range of industries. ### Main Areas of Practice Corporate/M&A: Working in close cooperation across offices in the US and Europe, Willkie attorneys provide advice on significant domestic M&A matters as well as complex cross-border transactions. The team represents buyers, sellers, special committees of boards, debt and equity investors and financial advisors in matters ranging from contested takeovers and management buyouts to strategic alliances, leveraged recaps and acquisitions from reorganization proceedings. Advising both public and private companies in a broad range of industries, the team finds solutions to meet client objectives and helps clients early on in the process to identify and assess risks in a transaction. The group also regularly advises clients on relevant regulatory and judicial developments in areas such as antitrust, tax, ERISA, corporate governance and securities laws as they affect the M&A environment. Private Equity: Willkie represents more than 300 US and international private equity sponsors as well as portfolio companies, management teams, issuers, debt providers and financial advisors. Willkie’s 360° private equity platform provides lifecycle legal counsel to clients: from pre-IPO consideration, planning and launch to other activities including follow-on offerings, M&A and investments. Willkie is committed to building strong relationships with clients, with many retaining the firm’s services beyond the first engagement and through their growth cycle. Willkie is one of the few major law firms to offer deep transactional, fund formation and regulatory compliance experience, combined with sector-specific knowledge and a commercial approach. Complex Litigation: Willkie litigators have won several precedent-setting victories across a wide spectrum of legal issues in courts around the US and abroad involving all substantive areas, including securities, M&A litigation, contract, intellectual property, antitrust, trade secrets, ERISA, False Claims Act, employment, RICO, and malpractice, among others. Willkie’s litigators are known for their creativity and practical approach in handling complex matters, tactical acumen, team focus, and for their deep appreciation of clients’ business needs. Willkie's is a sophisticated and diverse national and international practice representing major corporations, financial services companies, accounting firms, insurance and reinsurance companies and brokers, and individuals such as corporate officers and directors and accountants. Our record underscores Willkie’s trial-ready strengths and demonstrates not only the outstanding advocacy of our litigators but also their ability to strategically achieve their clients’ objectives. Willkie has a distinctive ability to distil complex and contested issues in a compelling way, dissect opponents’ arguments, establish credibility, and execute at trial. Asset Management: Willkie’s preeminent Asset Management Department (including private funds, registered funds and regulatory and enforcement practices) leverages comprehensive subject matter experience and capabilities across all asset classes to advise virtually all types of participants in the asset management industry, including privately owned sponsors and investment managers, publicly-traded asset management firms, broker-dealers, insurance companies, wealth management platforms, and banks, among others. With approximately 110 attorneys across the United States and Europe, Willkie’s Asset Management team advises on the full spectrum of investment management matters, including fund formations, investments, restructurings, fund financings, asset management M&A, secondaries transactions, liquidity and capital solutions, fund adoptions, and operational, compliance and regulatory issues. Restructuring: Willkie’s restructuring department is an international practice with experience in all aspects of business and financial restructurings and insolvency matters. Integrated US and European restructuring professionals offer the hands-on, results-driven experience that today’s distressed situations demand. Our professionals are held in high regard for their responsiveness and proven experience in complex multilateral cross-border restructurings (both in and out of court). Willkie represents a broad spectrum of clients in the US, UK, France, Germany and other key European jurisdictions. Our practices in this area include alternative dispute resolution, bankruptcy litigation, company restructuring and reorganization, creditor and lender rights, distressed company governance, official creditors' committees and special situations and liability management. Energy: Willkie’s energy practice includes lawyers across the US and Europe who bring decades of deep experience advising a broad group of energy clients. Our energy team has experience across a wide range of matters, including equity investments, sponsor equity lines, equity financings and joint ventures, debt financings, fund formations, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged financings, capital markets transactions, commodities transactions, compliance, and a range of regulatory areas, including CFIUS, FERC, CFTC, FCPA and OFAC. - Studio Legale Delfino e Associati, operating in Italy, is affiliated with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. ### Languages - English - French - German - Italian - Spanish ### Staffing Figures - 0 Total number of lawyers

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A. Kristina Littman

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/l/littman%20kristy · Litigation

Adam Turteltaub

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/t/turteltaub-adam-m · Mergers and Acquisitions

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Agathe Richard

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/r/richard-agathe · Litigation

Alessandro Turina

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/t/turina-alessandro · Structured Finance

Alexander Cheney

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/c/cheney-alexander-l · Litigation

Alexander Dye

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/d/dye%20alexander · Insurance Transactional

Alexander Ryan

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/r/ryan%20alexander · Labor and Employment

Allison Tam

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/t/tam-allison-j · Insurance

Amanda Amert

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/a/amert-amanda · Litigation

Andres Mena

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/m/mena%20andres · Finance

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Anne Brynn

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/b/brynn-anne · Private Clients

Archie Fallon

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/f/fallon-archie · Energy

Arthur Lynch

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/l/lynch%20arthur%20j · Tax

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Barbara Grayson

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/g/grayson-barbara · Private Clients

Brett Miller

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/m/miller-brett · Business Reorganization & Restructuring

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Casey Donnelly

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/d/donnelly-casey-e · Litigation

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Charles Cording

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/c/cording-charles · Litigation

Christopher Giancarlo

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/g/giancarlo%20j%20christopher · Finance

Christopher Peters

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/p/peters-christopher-j · Tax

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Claire James

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/j/james-claire

Conrad Bahlke

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/b/bahlke%20conrad · Corporate and Financial Services

Craig Martin

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/m/martin-craig · Dispute Resolution

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Craig Menden

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/m/menden-craig · Corporate & Financial Services

Cristopher Greer

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/g/greer-cristopher · Finance

David Boston

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/b/boston%20david%20k · Mergers and Acquisitions

David Drewes

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/d/drewes%20david%20c · Real Estate

David Heales

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/h/heales%20david · Insurance Transactional and Regulatory

David Luce

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/l/luce%20david · Insurance Transactional

Deborah Tuchman

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/t/tuchman-deborah-a · Asset Management

Dennis Jenkins

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/j/jenkins%20dennis · Business Reorganization

Edward Best

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/b/best-edward · Corporate & Financial Services

Elizabeth Bannigan

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/b/bannigan-elizabeth-b · Insurance

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Elizabeth Bower

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/b/bower-elizabeth · Insurance

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Eric Halperin

Please see https://willkie.com/professionals/h/halperin-eric · Corporate & Financial Services

Eugene Chang

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/c/chang%20eugene%20l · Intellectual Property

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George Pain

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/p/pain-george · Litigation

Gregory Astrachan

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/a/astrachan-gregory · Finance

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Guy Inbar

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/i/inbar-guy · Tax

Henry Cohn

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/c/cohn%20henry%20m · Tax

Howard Block

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/b/block%20howard · Insurance

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J. Christopher Giancarlo

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/g/giancarlo-j-christopher

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James Fitzmaurice

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/f/fitzmaurice-james · Litigation

Jared Bartie

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/b/bartie-jared · Sports

Jared Fertman

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/f/fertman-jared · M&A

Jason Pearl

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/p/pearl%20jason · Finance

Jay Hughes

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/h/hughes%20jay

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Jay Spinola

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/s/spinola-jay · Asset Management

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Jeffrey Pawlitz

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/p/pawlitz-jeffrey · Business Reorganization & Restructuring

Jeffrey Poss

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/p/poss-jeffrey-r · Mergers and Acquisitions

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Jessica Sheridan

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/s/sheridan-jessica

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Jillian Merns

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/m/merns-jillian-e · Private Clients

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John Knapke

Please see: https://www.willkie.com/professionals/k/knapke-john--michael · Asset Management

John Schwolsky

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/s/schwolsky-john-m · Insurance Transactional and Regulatory

John Thomas

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/t/thomas%20john · Energy

Jordan Messinger

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/m/messinger%20jordan%20a · Executive Compensation

Jorge Kamine

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/k/kamine%20jorge · Corporate & Financial Services

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Julian Golay

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/g/golay-julian-d

Kara Baysinger

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/b/baysinger-kara · Insurance

Kari Larsen

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/l/larsen%20kari · Corporate & Financial Services

Katrina Robson

Partner · Antitrust & Competition