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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
1395 BRICKELL AVENUE, SUITE 1200
MIAMI, FL 33131
FLORDIA
United States
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Position

Co-Head of Weil’s Complex Commercial Litigation practice and Managing Partner of Weil’s Miami office.

Career

Edward Soto is Managing Partner of Weil’s Miami office and a senior trial partner in Weil’s Litigation Department who formerly served as Co-Head of the Firm’s national Complex Commercial Litigation practice. Ed focuses his practice on the trial of high-value complex civil litigation, and has substantial experience in class actions and multidistrict litigations, with an emphasis on antitrust, bankruptcy, commercial litigation, employment, insurance, products liability, and securities litigation. He has more than 35 years of experience winning these cases at every phase – through case dispositive motions, trials, appeals, and settlements – in state and federal courts and before arbitration panels. Clients include Creative Artists Agency, Dometic, H&R Block, iHeart Media, PetroChina, Procter & Gamble, Saks Fifth Avenue, Repsol, and Westinghouse.

Education

Florida State University (BA, 1974); Columbia Law School (JD, 1978).

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort

Noted in particular for its trial skills, both at first instance and appellate level, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is a popular choice to represent high-profile clients from a range of industries, including energy, consumer products, manufacturing and chemicals, in their highest-stakes, often reputational threatening disputes. The scope of work in the space is broad, covering pharma-related infractions, including its work for retailers in the opioid MDL, as well as environmental issues, including chemical contamination and plastics pollution. Eminent New York-based litigator Diane Sullivan has significant experience trying cases in the space, regularly being brought in for bellwether trials as a result of her skill in the courtroom, honed over many years’ practice. Alongside Miami-based Edward Soto , she continues to represent Spanish energy company, Repsol, in litigation related to clean up costs in connection with the pollution of the Passaic River in New Jersey, one of the EPA’s largest superfund projects in history. New York-based Theodore Tsekerides also regularly handles toxic tort and product liability matters throughout the litigation continuum and has niche experience in the defense of claims in a bankruptcy context, as well as litigating insurance coverage disputes relating to environmental clean-up obligations. Sullivan co-heads the overarching products liability and mass torts team alongside Silicon Valley-based David Singh.