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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP > Firm Profile

Chairman: Brad S. Karp

Deputy Chair: Valerie E. Radwaner

Key Contacts: Neel Sachdev and Roger Johnson, Co-Heads, London

Firm Overview

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a premier firm of more than 1,000 lawyers with diverse backgrounds, personalities, ideas and interests who provide innovative and effective solutions to our clients’ most complex legal and business challenges. With 10 offices across North America, Europe and Asia, and a robust international network, the firm represents many of the world’s largest and most important asset managers, public and private corporations and financial institutions, as well as clients in need of pro bono assistance. We consistently earn high praise for our collaborative, commercial approach to highly sophisticated matters, providing novel and efficient solutions to otherwise intractable situations.

The firm is widely recognized as having market-leading practices in private equity, public company M&A, litigation, white collar and regulatory defence, and restructuring. Within these broad practices, we also offer numerous market-leading specialized practices, including finance, capital markets, private funds, competition/antitrust, tax, executive compensation and real estate, among others. The firm recently significantly deepened and enhanced its capabilities in London, immediately bringing market-leading capabilities across all major corporate practice areas, and launched a new office in Los Angeles.

London

With more than 130 London-based lawyers, we field Europe’s preeminent private equity-focused team in London, providing comprehensive cross-border M&A, financing, capital markets, tax, competition, investment funds, and IP and technology transactions capabilities. The team collaborates closely with the firm’s global private equity teams to execute cross-border transactions and navigate regulatory nuances across jurisdictions and to ensure that clients secure the most favourable terms. Paul, Weiss’ London office has already made a splash, quickly achieving market leading positions across the following private equity-focused practices.

• Global Finance & Capital Markets: We offer unmatched capabilities in structuring and executing all types of sponsor-focused financings and high-yield debt offerings across all capital structures. Lawyers in the London office have been at the forefront of innovations in financing for the past two decades, and have executed many of the market’s largest and most complex cross-border financings. The team offers private equity sponsors, issuers and portfolio companies comprehensive capital markets capabilities, including high-yield debt offerings, IPOs, liability management transactions and other complex securities issuances.
• Global M&A: With a focus on private equity firms, financial sponsor clients and portfolio companies in the UK, EU and globally, the London-based M&A team advises on all forms of cross-border leveraged M&A and corporate transactions. The team leverages the formidable global M&A practice, widely regarded as among the most experienced and effective in the world. With scores of dedicated partners around the world, we have helped many of world’s leading companies execute their most important transactions. Since 2020, we have advised over140 billion-dollar-plus M&A transactions and have handled close to a trillion dollars in total M&A, including for publicly listed and privately held companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, and other investors.
• Global Tax: Our London-based European tax team includes some of the region’s leading tax advisors. The team advises on the tax aspects of public and private M&A transactions, financings and capital markets transactions, fund-level transactions and formations, and corporate restructurings. The London tax team collaborates with our tax teams across the U.S. and international offices.
• Competition Matters: Our leading London-based competition team represents clients before antitrust and competition authorities in the EU, the UK and other jurisdictions around the world.
• Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions: Our elite London- and New York-based IP & Technology Transactions team advises on the navigation of standalone IP and technology transactions and the IP and technology aspects of transactions across many industries.

Additional Global Transactional Capabilities

Paul, Weiss is also widely recognized as preeminent in: 

• Activist Defence
• Corporate Governance
• Hybrid Capital & Special Situations
• Energy & Infrastructure Transactions
• Insurance Transactions
• Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions
• Leveraged Finance
• Structured Finance & Securitisations

We are also preeminent in myriad transaction-focused practices, including:

• Competition and Merger Proceedings
• Digital Technology & AI
• ESG Guidance and Audits
• Executive Compensation
• Financial Services
• M&A Disputes and Delaware Litigation
• National Security and CFIUS Transactional Matters
• Real Estate

Restructuring/Insolvency

The Paul, Weiss Restructuring Group serves as a critical advisor in major, complex cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters, helping companies, sponsors and other investors, and linchpin creditor and lender groups respond to fast-moving business challenges with comprehensive and innovative strategies. The restructuring team collaborates closely with the firm’s Hybrid Capital & Special Situations and private credit groups to offer a vast range of sophisticated and bespoke debt, equity and hybrid solutions across the capital structure.

Disputes and Regulatory Defence

No other firm can approach Paul, Weiss’s experience and record of success in the most complex disputes and regulatory enforcement defence matters, including high-stakes, fast-moving multijurisdictional matters and international arbitrations. Our renowned U.S.-based trial team is a particularly powerful advantage in U.S. litigation, whether in the courtroom or at the settlement table. Our deep bench includes the country’s most accomplished trial lawyers and former senior government officials, positioning us to handle multifaceted crises, from sprawling multi-regulator enforcement actions to parallel U.S. private litigation. Our focus is on managing the behind-the-scenes interplay among competing regulators and protecting our clients’ businesses and reputations. We are widely recognized in a number of specialized areas, including:

• Anti-Corruption & Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• Antitrust Litigation & Cartel Matters
• Bankruptcy Litigation
• Crisis Management
• Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
• Cybersecurity & Data Protection
• Digital Technology & AI
• Economic Sanctions & Anti-Money Laundering
• Employment Litigation, Workplace Litigation and Trade Secrets
• Financial Services Litigation
• Insurance
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• Internal Investigations
• National Security, CFIUS and FARA Matters
• S. Congressional Investigations
• S. False Claims Act & Qui Tam Litigation
• S. Securities & Class Action Litigation
• S. Supreme Court & Appellate Litigation

Comparative Guides

• United States: Cartels

  Published: April 2023

  Authors: Joseph J. BialLeah Hibbler

  This country-specific Q&A provides an overview of Cartels laws and regulations applicable in United States.