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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
2001 M STREET, NW, SUITE 600
WASHINGTON, DC 20036
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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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)

Mark PerryWeil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

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.