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

Often closely integrated with the firm’s market-leading corporate transactional team, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP‘s East Coast-focused practice is perhaps best-known for its work handling securities litigation and corporate governance matters arising out of high-profile M&A matters. In this context, the firm is highly skilled at providing effective risk management strategies, as well as regularly achieving victories at a pleading stage, including its recent high-profile victory for Warner Brothers when it persuaded the lower court and subsequently the Circuit Court to dismiss a massive putative Section 11 securities class action litigation following the $43bn merger between Warner Media and Discovery Inc. Caroline Zalka led on this matter, also spearheading a notable ongoing case for a venture capital company focused on the digital currency market in a bellwether case determining whether crypto assets should be classified as securities and therefore subject to SEC oversight. John Neuwirth, who co-heads the team alongside Zalka, is ‘incredibly meticulous in his preparation’, ensuring that he achieves favorable results for clients, including his recent work alongside Joshua Amsel, who has a ‘gifted courtroom presence’, for long-time client AMC Entertainment in fast-tracked stockholder litigation in Delaware Chancery Court arising from its planned overhaul of its capital structure. In Washington DC, Robert Stern is also a valuable resource to clients in light of his private securities litigation capabilities as well as his ability to guide clients in government regulatory investigations/enforcement actions. The arrival at the beginning of 2025 of former high-ranking SEC lawyers Sanjay Wadhwa and Andrew Dean is a major boost for the practice, particularly in the context of agency-led enforcement actions. All named practitioners are based in New York unless otherwise indicated.