Headquarters |
General Motors Building New York City, New York, United States |
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No. of offices | 21 |
No. of attorneys | 1,083 (2016) |
Major practice areas | General practice |
Key people | Barry M. Wolf, Executive Partner, Management Committee Chair |
Revenue | $1.27 billion (2016) |
Date founded | 1931 (New York City) |
Founder |
Frank Weil Sylvan Gotshal Horace Manges |
Company type | Limited-liability partnership |
Website | weil.com |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, headquartered in New York City, is an American international law firm. With over 1,000 attorneys, the firm has offices in Boston, Washington, D.C., Miami, Houston, New York, Silicon Valley, Dallas, Paris, London, Munich, Prague, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Frankfurt, Budapest, Warsaw and Dubai.
Weil is consistently ranked as one of the most prestigious law firms in the world. The firm has a gross annual revenue in excess of $1.1 billion, making it amongst the world's most profitable law firms according to The American Lawyer's AmLaw 100 survey.
The firm is best known for representing some of the world's largest companies and financial institutions through its corporate (including subgroups specializing in banking & finance, structured finance, capital markets, technology and IP transactions, private equity), mergers & acquisitions, litigation, and restructuring practices. Weil is commonly recognized as the most prominent restructuring firm in the United States, having served as chief debtor's counsel in 5 of the 6 largest corporate bankruptcy filings in history.