Robert Stern > Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York has ‘a dedicated team specializing solely in securities litigation’ and each team member ‘drives exceptional results for their clients’. The firm is highly regarded for its work on behalf of corporate issuers and private equity clients. John Neuwirth and Caroline Zalka are co-heads of the securities litigation practice. Neuwirth and Joshua Amsel are ‘recognized as national leaders in this area, and are at the top of the list for securities cases no matter how big or complicated’ . They advised Churchill Capital Corp. III on a case arising from an $11bn deSPAC transaction. Zalka and Jonathan Polkes are ‘terrific commercial litigators, with a strong strategic sensibility’ . They worked with the ‘consistently knowledgeable, practical and accessible’  Stacy Nettleton to secure a complete victory for Morgan Stanley in a $4bn breach of fiduciary duty dispute. Evert Christensen is another emerging talent in the New York office. Robert Stern in Washington DC, who joined from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, is a nationally recognized first-chair trial lawyer and highly rated securities and enforcement attorney. Clients remark that he ‘provides excellent, strategic and candid counsel and a great advocate’  and is ‘a good man to be on your side in a difficult situation’ .