Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Weil regularly advises on the largest and most complex corporate transactions in the world, and our many practice areas offer recognized depth and quality across borders and legal disciplines. We serve a wide range of corporate, private equity and financial institutions clients and consistently receive accolades and recognitions globally by those covering the profession. We routinely rank at the top of league tables for the high volume of transactions we handle. Weil seeks always to be a strategic business advisor to our clients, and our clients look to us for sound legal and business judgment for their most sensitive matters.

Weil has market-leading M&A, Private Equity and Finance practices. Through our global network of corporate attorneys, we have built extraordinary capabilities in cross-border transactions.

Transactional Practices

• Antitrust M&A
• Environmental Transactions
• Financial Institutions Regulatory
• Intellectual Property
• Technology & IP Transactions
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Privacy & Cybersecurity
• Private Equity
• Private Funds
• Corporate Governance/Securities Regulation (Public Company Advisory Group)
• Real Estate

Finance Practices

• Banking & Finance
• Capital Markets
• Structured Finance & Derivatives

Weil offers a truly comprehensive intellectual property practice, encompassing IP litigation (including patent, copyright, and trademark); technology and IP transactions; and our strategic IP counseling practice.

Related:

• Patent Litigation
• Intellectual Property/Media
• Technology & IP Transactions
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Notable Representations, Key Contacts
• Awards and Recognition, Speaking Engagements, Latest Thinking, Firm News & Announcements

Notable Representations, Key Contacts

Intellectual Property Litigation

Weil’s intellectual property litigators regularly handle high-stakes cases involving cutting-edge technology and complex and evolving legal issues.

Patent Litigation

When the world’s leading companies face critical patent issues - disputes where the stakes are high, the jurisdiction is unfriendly, or the technology is complex - they turn to Weil’s patent litigators.

IP/Media Litigation

Weil has played a substantial role in shaping intellectual property and media law. In a media landscape undergoing constant technological transformation, our practice regularly handles high-stakes cases whose outcomes affect how intellectual property and content are developed, distributed, and licensed.

Technology and Intellectual Property Transactions

Our Technology and IP Transactions lawyers spend 100% of their time on transactions where both technology and intellectual property issues are present - a distinguishing feature of Weil.

Accordingly, they are trusted advisors on many of the technology sector’s most significant global transactions.

Intellectual Property Counseling

Weil offers a strategic IP Counseling practice that advises clients on issues relating to IP management, enforcement, dispute counseling, transactions and acquisitions.

Weil’s global litigation practice provides clients with integrated and innovative legal advice in all major substantive areas of the law. Our multidisciplinary, trial-ready approach helps clients manage risk across jurisdictions and geographies, at every stage of the dispute resolution process.

We are long-term strategic partners with our clients and fully understand their business objectives. One of our biggest strengths is our ability to assemble the cross-practice teams necessary to tackle everything from transactional due-diligence to pre-dispute counseling to multi-faceted crisis situations, whether they involve bankruptcies, product recalls, or government investigations, among other scenarios. Our long-standing work in the media & entertainment, insurance, healthcare and life sciences, and technology sectors, among others, illustrates our cross-disciplinary capabilities in action.

Key to delivering such full-range, high-quality legal services is our multi-national bench of attorneys that offers exceptional qualifications and academic and technological credentials, all shaped by one unifying principle: a client-focused, trial-ready approach to litigating cases, regardless of subject matter, jurisdiction, or discipline. Guided by this principle, we obtain the most favorable and efficient litigation outcomes for our clients based on a view both of the current situation and our clients’ future needs. Our record, not only at trial but in all phases of dispute resolution, underscores the benefits of our approach. 

As we adapt to constantly evolving environments and new issues, the core of our approach to litigation - and our formula for success - holds steady. We marry integrated litigation experience with innovation and versatility to find the most efficient ways of resolving disputes, and utilize both the outcomes and lessons learned to counsel our clients with the future front-of-mind.
 

Litigation Capabilities

Practices:

• Antitrust Litigation
• Appellate
• Complex Commercial Litigation
• Employment Litigation
• Environmental Litigation
• Intellectual Property/Media
• International Arbitration & Trade
• Patent Litigation
• Privacy & Cybersecurity
• Product Liability & Mass Tort
• Securities Litigation
• White Collar Defense, Regulatory, and Investigations

Cross-Department Capabilities:

• Class Actions
• Crisis Management & Risk Avoidance
• False Claims Act/Qui Tam
• Insurance Litigation
• Investigations & Board Counseling
• Trade Secrets
• Trial Ready and Broad Record of Success