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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Offices

2001 M STREET, NW, SUITE 600
WASHINGTON, DC 20036
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Mark Perry

Position
Co-Head of Weil’s Appellate Litigation practice
Career
Mark A. Perry, Co-Head of Weil’s Appeals and Strategic Counseling practice, is a veteran U.S. Supreme Court advocate, commercial litigator, and legal strategist. He has nearly 30 years of experience representing clients in class actions and other complex commercial disputes, including securities, antitrust, employment, and patent cases, and he has won a number of landmark decision across diverse areas of business litigation. He focuses on navigating clients through the appellate aspects of such litigation, both in trial and appellate courts.
Personal
Before joining Weil, Mark was a partner at another international law firm, where he served as Co-Chair of its nationwide Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice. Earlier, he served as an attorney in the Office of the Solicitor General, and also was a law clerk to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States, and to Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit. He received his JD with high honors from University of Chicago Law School.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
(Leading partners)The team at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP draws on experience arguing cases before all thirteen federal circuits and the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in various state intermediate and supreme courts. The group’s broad caseload regularly features matters involving antitrust, IP, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, bankruptcy and class action. Leadership is shared between Washington, D.C.-based Mark Perry; New York-based Gregory Silbert; and Zachary Tripp, who splits his time between the two cities. Recent years have seen the team act for Regeneron against Novartis in both the Second and Federal Circuits in an antitrust dispute involving a multi-billion dollar eye treatment franchise; and secure a Ninth Circuit win for Apple in a Section 230 CDA case involving a fraudulent cryptocurrency app.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners United States > Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal) United States > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Tax > Financial products
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense