Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Headquarters General Motors Building
New York City, New York, United States
No. of offices 21
No. of attorneys 1,083 (2016)
Major practice areas General practice
Key people Barry M. Wolf, Executive Partner, Management Committee Chair[1]
Revenue Increase$1.27 billion (2016)[2]
Date founded 1931 (New York City)
Founder Frank Weil
Sylvan Gotshal
Horace Manges
Company type Limited-liability partnership
Website weil.com

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, headquartered in New York City, is an American international law firm. With over 1,000 attorneys, the firm has offices in Boston, Washington, D.C., Miami, Houston, New York, Silicon Valley, Dallas, Paris, London, Munich, Prague, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Frankfurt, Budapest, Warsaw and Dubai.

Weil is consistently ranked as one of the most prestigious law firms in the world. [3] The firm has a gross annual revenue in excess of $1.1 billion, making it amongst the world's most profitable law firms according to The American Lawyer's AmLaw 100 survey. [4][5]

The firm is best known for representing some of the world's largest companies and financial institutions through its corporate (including subgroups specializing in banking & finance, structured finance, capital markets, technology and IP transactions, private equity), mergers & acquisitions, litigation, and restructuring practices.[6] Weil is commonly recognized as the most prominent restructuring firm in the United States, having served as chief debtor's counsel in 5 of the 6 largest corporate bankruptcy filings in history. [7]

Overview

The firm was founded in New York City in 1931 by Frank Weil, Sylvan Gotshal, and Horace Manges. Since 1968, Weil has been headquartered in the General Motors building, overlooking Central Park, in New York City's Manhattan borough.

After its founding in 1931, the firm grew steadily in the following decades, taking on clients including General Electric and General Motors, and becoming one of the largest law firms in the country. In 1975, the firm opened an office in Washington, D.C., its first outside New York City, followed in the 1980s by locations in Miami, Houston and Dallas. In 1991, the year that the internet became publicly available, Weil was the first global, non-California law firm to open a Silicon Valley office, in Redwood Shores, California. Later, the firm further spread its practice, notably in non-contentious finance and private equity practice.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent move by Central and Eastern European countries toward market-based economies prompted the firm to launch its international expansion. It established offices in Budapest, Prague and Warsaw in the early 1990s, followed by the establishment of offices in Frankfurt, London, Munich and Paris. In the 21st century, the firm established offices in Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. As of 2012 one-quarter of the firm's lawyers practiced outside the U.S.

Chambers and Partners gives the firm high marks in the following practice areas: bankruptcy, corporate, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity: buyouts, investment funds: fund formation, financial services regulation, intellectual property, antitrust, patent litigation, labor and employment, securities litigation, entertainment litigation and tax.[8]

Notable recent deals and cases

See also

References

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  2. ↑ Staff (n.d.). "Weil Sees Big Gains in Profits, Revenue". The American Lawyer. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
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  6. ↑ http://www.chambers-associate.com/FirmFeature/3667
  7. ↑ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-largest-bankruptcies-time-205509224.html
  8. ↑ Staff (n.d.). "Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP". Chambers and Partners. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
  9. ↑ Staff (October 27, 2011). "Additional Information on Our Previous Acquisition Deals" (PDF format). Olympus Corporation. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
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  15. ↑ Jones, Ashby (April 1, 2010). "Second Circuit Rules for eBay in Counterfeit Goods Case". Law Blog (blog of The Wall Street Journal). Retrieved October 9, 2012.
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  17. ↑ Glater, Jonathan D. (December 13, 2008). "The Man Who Is Unwinding Lehman Brothers". The New York Times.
  18. ↑ Chasan, Emily (September 28, 2008). "WaMu Files Bankruptcy Petition in Delaware". Forbes.
  19. ↑ Schmitt, Richard (July 23, 2002). "Recent Bankruptcy Filings Become A Field of Gold for Weil Gotshal". Wall Street Journal.
  20. ↑ Sandler, Lisa (June 1, 2009). "GM Files Bankruptcy to Spin Off More Competitive Firm". Bloomberg.
  21. ↑ Chiem, Linda (June 24, 2014). "Sealing The Deal: Weil Steers DirecTV In $49B Sale To AT&T". LexisNexis.
  22. ↑ Mahoney, Brian (January 14, 2014). "Law360's Weekly Verdict: Legal Lions & Lambs". LexisNexis.
  23. ↑ Mahoney, Brian (May 12, 2015). "Verizon to buy AOL in $4.4 billion mobile video push". Reuters.
  24. ↑ King, Ian (June 1, 2015). "Intel’s $16.7 Billion Altera Deal Is Fueled by Data Centers". Bloomberg.
  25. ↑ Rosen, Ellen (February 21, 2014). "Weil Advises Facebook as WhatsApp Uses Fenwick: Business of Law". Bloomberg.
  26. ↑ Greene, Jay (July 28, 2016). "Oracle to Buy Cloud-Software Provider NetSuite for $9.3 Billion". Wall Street Journal.
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