Ms Claudia Hammerman > Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Offices
1285 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10019-6064
NEW YORK
United States
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Ms Claudia Hammerman
Work Department
Litigation, Financial Institutions, Insurance, International Arbitration, Professional Liability, Securities Litigation
Position
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1991 magna cum laude; B.A., Haverford College, 1987 Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Industry focus > Sport
The full-service group at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP has a strong record representing large professional sports teams and leagues, with practice group head Brad Karp, a seasoned trial lawyer, has been a longtime adviser to key clients such as the NFL. Claudia Hammerman also counts the NFL as a longstanding client and the group as a whole continues to represent the NFL in important matters such as a race discrimination putative class action. Other key lawyers include Lynn Bayard and Chris Boehning are also experienced litigators and trial lawyers. The group also offers a wide range of transactional and restructuring advice. A key recent matter for the group is for FIFA, for whom Boehning often acts as outside counsel. Other standout matters for the group include representing sports teams in significant litigation, licensing and other transactional matters. Lawyers mentioned are in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: plaintiff
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)