Stefanie Gitler > Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Offices

2001 K STREET, NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20006-1047
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Stefanie Gitler

Work Department
Environmental
Position
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Education
J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2009
B.A., University of Virginia, 2004
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Environment > Environment: transactional
The New York-based environmental team at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a key advisor on a number of transactions across financings, acquisitions, sales, restructurings, and real estate transactions for private investment funds, companies, and creditors. Notably, the firm has competence across ESG matters, with work encompassing ESG reporting, risk, and compliance concerns. The practice is co-led by William J. O’Brien, who frequently advises public and private companies on the environmental aspects of restructurings, financings, M&A, and securities offerings and Julia Quigley, who is a key advisor to the healthcare, energy, automotive, and infrastructure industries on the environmental concerns impacting M&A and restructuring transactions. Stefanie Gitler joined the team in Washington DC in March 2025, formerly of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: plaintiff
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Tax > International tax
- 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
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- International trade and national security > National Security
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense