Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
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| Headquarters |
One Liberty Plaza New York City |
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| No. of offices | 16 |
| No. of attorneys | 1,200+ |
| Major practice areas | General practice |
| Key people | Michael Gerstenzang, Managing Partner |
| Revenue |
 $1.131 billion (2012) |
| Date founded | 1946 |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
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| www.cgsh.com | |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is an international law firm headquartered at One Liberty Plaza in New York City. The firm currently has offices in Washington DC, Hong Kong, Beijing, London, Rome, Milan, Brussels, Moscow, Frankfurt, Cologne, Paris, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Abu Dhabi, and Seoul. It employs over 1,200 lawyers worldwide. It was the first U.S. firm qualified to practice law in Japan, and has represented governments throughout Latin America.
The firm is known for its representation of national governments in sovereign-debt cases. Lee Buchheit, a partner in the firm who has led debt-restructuring negotiations for several countries, is the originator of the "collective action" clause in debt agreements, whereby a supermajority of bondholders can compel all bondholders to accept a restructuring. As of 2016, the website Vault.com ranked Cleary Gottlieb #9 in their "Vault Law 100" list.
The firm was founded in 1946 when six partners from the firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland left to found a firm which they initially called "Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly, & Cox." One of those partners was Henry Friendly, whose name was removed from the firm's name after he was appointed as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1959.
The New York office is situated in One Liberty Plaza, across the street from the World Trade Center site. The Washington office is located at 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, four blocks northwest of the White House.
Some of the notable attorneys who have practiced at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP include George W. Ball, Henry Friendly, and Melvin Steen. Current notable attorneys include former two-time SEC general counsel David M. Becker; former president of the New York City Bar Association, Evan A. Davis; former SEC general counsel Giovanni Prezioso; a former FDIC general counsel; and capital markets lawyer Leslie N. Silverman.
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