Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
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| Headquarters |
AXA Equitable Center 787 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10019 |
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| No. of offices | 9 total, 6 international |
| No. of attorneys | 570 (2015) |
| Major practice areas | Antitrust, Asset Management, Business Restructuring, Commercial Litigation, Corporate M&A, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Private Equity, Real Estate, Securities Litigation, Tax |
| Key people | Steven J. Gartner, Co-Chairman; Thomas M. Cerabino, Co-Chairman |
| Revenue |
 $658 million (2015) |
| Date founded | 1888 |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
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| www.willkie.com | |
Founded in 1888, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is an international law firm with nine offices in six countries (including offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Houston, London, Paris, Rome, Milan, Frankfurt and Brussels). The firm has cultivated a strong corporate practice focused on investment funds, bankruptcy and intellectual property. The firm has approximately 600 lawyers and staff attorneys. Major clients include financial news company Bloomberg LP. Former Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork began his career at Willkie, and former New York Governor Mario Cuomo served as of counsel at the firm after leaving office in 1995.
The original firm was Wall Street stalwart Hornblower & Byrne which was founded by William B. Hornblower and James Byrne. Hornblower was a prominent ally of President Grover Cleveland and rose to serve as President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York as well as sit as a judge on the New York Court of Appeals.
Early clients included: the New York Life Insurance Company; the New York Securities and Trust Company (later the New York Trust Company); The Rome, Watertown, Ogdensburg and Parsons Railroad; Grant & Ward, a brokerage firm partnership between Ex-President Ulysses S. Grant and Ferdinand Ward; the Otis Elevator Company; the United States Ship Building Company; and, Thomas A. Edison.
The firm hired its first woman associate, Mary MacDonagh, in 1939.
In January 1940 Harold J. Gallagher, one of the most influential partners in the history of the firm, extended an offer to Wendell Willkie to join the firm then known as Miller, Boston & Owen. This was several months before Willkie received the Republican nomination for President. After losing the Presidential election to the incumbent FDR, Willkie joined the firm and became a partner in 1941. The firm's name was changed a year later to Willkie, Owen, Otis, Bailly. Willkie later became F.D.R.'s personal envoy to many countries promoting the Lend-Lease program. He later wrote a book about his travels entitled One World, a plea for global cooperation and peacekeeping.
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