Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP - Who's Who Legal 70

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Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in Who's Who Legal

	Insolvency & Restructuring
	8

	Real Estate
	2

	Competition
	2

	Corporate Governance
	5

	Private funds
	4

	Mergers & Acquisitions
	2

	Private funds
	4

	Commercial Litigation
	1

	Banking
	2

	Corporate Tax
	5

	Trade & Customs
	3

	Arbitration
	1

	Environment
	2

	Regulatory Communications
	1

	Internet & e-Commerce
	1

	Capital Markets
	1

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP earns 44 listings across 16 of the following chapters. The firm is particularly accomplished in the corporate governance, and insolvency and restructuring sections, which feature seven Weil Gotshal lawyers apiece, including our international lawyer of the year in both disciplines. In addition to this, Weil Gotshal also secures our law firm of the year award for its insolvency and restructuring work, making it one of the most decorated firms in the current edition.

Marcia Goldstein is the best recognised insolvency lawyer in the world, according to our research, and she chairs the firm’s “world-beating” business finance and restructuring team out of the New York office. A “superb”, “well respected” and “authoritative” figure both in the US and internationally, Goldstein led the firm in its recent restructurings of AIG, Kaupthing Bank and General Growth Companies. A further three New York-based lawyers are included in this section, as well as Alfredo Pérez and Martin Sosland who represent the Houston and Dallas offices respectively. Jean-Dominique Daudier de Cassini co-heads the insolvency team in Paris, where he is a “leading name” according to sources.

We recognise Norman Veasey as the world’s pre-eminent corporate governance lawyer for the third consecutive year. Veasey stepped down from his role as chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court in 2004, and currently acts as a strategic adviser to numerous prominent corporations in global transactions and crisis management. The New York headquarters is home to a further four “world-class” corporate governance lawyers while the Dallas office fields Mary Korby and the “excellent” Michael Saslaw, who is also one of two Weil Gotshal lawyers to be listed in the M&A section.

The firm’s “considerable” corporate presence receives additional recognition in the tax chapter, where five NY-based lawyers rank highly. Martin Pollack and Kenneth Heitner act as co-heads of the global tax practice and are considered “among the best names in the US” by respondents to our survey.

Weil Gotshal is listed in the “elite” band of US governmental antitrust firms by Global Competition Review’s most recent “GCR 100” survey, and three members of its “first rate” competition team feature in the corresponding chapter. Steven Newborn is the global co-head of the firm’s team in this discipline and, as a former director of litigation at the FTC’s competition bureau, is hailed as a “world leader” in antitrust disputes. Ann Malester joins Newborn in DC where she is also noted for her disputes work, while practice co-head Helene Jaffe represents the New York office.

Three New York partners are listed from the firm in the private funds chapter, including private equity fund formation co-head and “leading light” Jeffrey Tabak. John Fadely is hailed as a “brilliant” lawyer for private equity, real estate and hedge funds work and he represents the Hong Kong office in this section. The international diversity of the firm’s financial team is further evidenced by the inclusion of London-based structured finance derivatives co-head Jacky Kelly in the capital markets chapter, and the appearance of Budapest’s Konrad Siegler and Dallas’s Angela Fontana in the banking section.

Weil Gotshal places lawyers in a further eight of the following chapters, exhibiting its strengths in dispute resolution, property, high-tech, trade and employment law.