Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP

Executive Committee Chair: Herbert S. Washer

Operating Partners: Ariel Goldman & Brian Markley

Number of partners: 84

Number of other lawyers: 263

Firm Overview:

With a history of legal innovation dating back to the firm’s founding in 1919, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has built a national reputation for capital markets prowess and high-stakes litigation excellence and is trusted by market-leading financial institutions, companies and their boards to manage significant litigation, regulatory matters and transactions. The firm is based in New York with offices in Delaware, London, and Washington, D.C.

Main Areas of Practice:

Transactional:

Cahill represents a broad range of financial institutions and other companies in all types of transactional and advisory work. In addition to the firm’s industry-leading capital markets and lending practices, Cahill delivers solutions-focused advice and deal execution in its M&A, corporate governance and restructuring practices, supported by specialists in antitrust, communications, executive compensation, environmental, intellectual property, real estate and tax.

Banking & Finance

Clients rely on Cahill to deliver advice and deal execution in some of the most challenging transactions in the market today across leveraged finance, investment grade finance, asset-based lending, direct lending and middle market lending. Our transactions further span acquisition financings, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, recapitalizations, project financings, bridge lending and loan commitments. Cahill has ranked #1 for advice to arrangers of leveraged loans by LSEG Loan Connector (formerly Refinitiv) since 2010.

Capital Markets

A dominant force in the high-yield market, Cahill has been ranked #1 in the league tables for advice to underwriters of high-yield bonds by Bloomberg since 2005. While best known for our four decades leading the high-yield bond market, our deep bench of attorneys work across a wide variety of capital markets products, representing underwriters and issuers in debt, equity and equity-linked securities offerings and dealer managers and solicitation agents in exchange offers, tender offers and consent solicitations in leveraged, distressed, high-grade and cross-over credits.

Private Credit

Cahill’s private credit practice advises leading direct lenders, CLOs, BDCs, private credit, mezzanine and structured equity funds as well as other institutional investors across a broad range of private credit and structured equity transactions. Cahill’s position as the leading adviser to banks in leveraged lending produces tangible benefits to its private credit clients where continuously evolving market terms for private credit and structured equity investments often originate in the large cap leveraged financing and high-yield markets.

Bankruptcy & Restructuring

Cahill combines a commercial approach and practical strategies with pragmatic legal advice to assist our clients to navigate potential legal issues they may face in connection with distressed businesses. Cahill’s clients span the entire capital structure as we represent and advise major constituents in complex restructurings and Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, including secured lenders and agents; ad hoc groups of lenders, noteholders, and equity holders; direct lenders; and companies and related entities, including equity holders and sponsors, investors, boards of directors, and senior management teams.

Project Finance, Energy & Infrastructure

Cahill’s practice focuses on project development, project financing and acquisition transactions, particularly for conventional energy, renewable energy and infrastructure projects in the Americas. In addition, we have a keen focus on U.S. public-private partnerships for energy, transportation and social infrastructure projects.

M&A and Corporate Advisory

Cahill advises on all aspects of corporate governance, regulatory compliance (including SEC, NYSE and NASDAQ), ESG matters and related disclosures, board and executive compensation (including Section 16 matters), tax planning, cyber and information security, insurance, corporate investigations and crisis management and other legal issues in all aspects of our clients’ businesses.

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

Our multidisciplinary ESG team addresses M&A due diligence and post-transaction integration, governance and controls for boards and management, ESG practices in global supply chains, reporting and disclosure, crisis management and investigations, finance (including sustainability-linked loans and bonds), and governance matters for pro bono clients.

Litigation:

Cahill manages large-scale antitrust, securities, and commercial litigation, white collar defense and compliance matters, including anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and corporate governance issues, as well asintellectual property and life sciences patent, First Amendment, and insurance cases that are often international in scope. Our litigators include veteran prosecutors who joined Cahill following distinguished careers at the DOJ, and former law clerks at the federal trial and appellate levels, including the Supreme Court of the United States.

Digital Assets and Emerging Technology

CahillNXT is the premier destination for clients seeking counsel to help them resolve their most important, their most challenging, and their most sensitive legal and business problems relating to digital assets and other emerging technologies. We are entrepreneurial, creative, practical, responsive, and relentless in our efforts to achieve our clients’ goals. Leveraging Cahill’s more than century-long track record of excellence and innovation in guiding traditional financial institutions through seismic transformations in the structure and regulation of capital formation and trading markets, the firm’s CahillNXT practice is now at the forefront of helping clients navigate the maze of risks and opportunities that flow from the world's next great financial revolution arising from the advent of blockchain technology, cryptocurrency transactions, Web3 (or Web 3.0) development, decentralized finance (DeFi), artificial intelligence (AI), and other emerging technologies.

Life Sciences Patent Litigation

Cahill’s life sciences patent litigation team brings decades of experience resolving high-stakes disputes in complex and innovative technologies across the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device space. Cahill’s patent litigation attorneys provide counsel to the full range of life sciences companies – from emerging companies to the sector’s leaders – as they navigate the broad range of legal challenges inherent to the industry. Our innovator-side, pharmaceutical and biotechnology trial attorneys, themselves armed with scientific degrees, successfully guide clients through pre-approval diligence and a broad range of litigation, whether in federal court or Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) matters.

Trading & Markets

Cahill’s Trading & Markets practice delivers practical and actionable legal and regulatory advice on complex issues relating to traded products and their related marketplaces. These products include securities and commodities as well as assets for which the applicable regulatory framework may be less clear, such as cryptocurrencies and other digital assets. Clients of our practice include dealers, investors, issuers and trading platforms such as exchanges, and are just as likely to be traditional financial services firms as they are to be FinTechs or digital asset companies.

Securities Litigation, Regulation & Enforcement

Cahill lawyers have been on the front lines of large-scale and high-profile securities litigation for nearly a century, focusing on the most prominent issues of the day. Today, we continue to handle some of the most significant litigation, regulatory and enforcement matters for both companies, from global banks to transnational businesses, and individuals, from corporate executives to board members. In what continues to be a rapidly evolving environment, clients turn to Cahill’s team to devise litigation strategies, defend enforcement related inquiries and create compliance programs to defend against impending government prosecutions, securities class actions and shareholder derivative suits. Cahill has been recognized as a Banking Practice Group of the Year by Law360 and members of Cahill’s trial team were recognized by The American Lawyer as Litigators of the Week and General Litigation Trailblazers by The National Law Journal for their precedent-setting win on behalf of Credit Suisse in a foreign exchange markets class action.

White Collar Defense & Investigations

Cahill’s top-ranked practice offers exceptional depth and breadth of government and trial experience. Our practice is chaired by a former federal prosecutor from the Southern District of New York. During their government service, our leading partner supervised thousands of cases and conducted scores of criminal trials.Cahill frequently handles bet-the-company investigations and criminal matters for individuals and corporations, including global financial institutions. The team represents leading companies and their boards and committees in white collar cases involving alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the Bank Secrecy Act, accounting fraud, commercial bribery laws, anti-money laundering laws and regulations of The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Corporate Governance & Compliance Advisory

Cahill advises boards of directors, audit and special committees, and directors and officers of publicly held and private companies in significant corporate governance matters, including investigations and crisis situations involving various types of alleged misconduct, including accounting fraud and earnings management, market manipulation, disclosure issues, insider trading, bribery, corruption, and fraud. The firm is widely regarded for its ability to develop practical remedial measures and compliance plans that appropriately address potential liabilities, along with thoughtful, productive responses to governmental and regulatory inquiries, all while managing media and reputational impacts.

Anticorruption & FCPA

Cahill’s renowned cross-border risk assessment and due diligence practice advises some of the world’s largest and most respected global companies on the full range of anti-corruption matters, including due diligence, post-transaction integration, compliance, training, investigations and defense. Leveraging our experience in over 50 countries, our team brings familiarity with local challenges while developing practical and tailored compliance solutions.

Broker-Dealer – Regulatory & Litigation

Cahill’s broker-dealer team represents broker-dealers and FINRA members in connection with global and domestic regulatory enforcement actions, regulatory requests for information and examinations, compliance reviews and any subsequent litigation that arises. Cahill’s broker-dealer practice has successfully defended clients in matters spanning nearly every aspect of the business, including capital markets trading, commercial, retail and private banking, underwriting and syndicate activities, advisory and research services, and asset management ranging from narrow investigations regarding the activities of individual traders to some of the broadest global financial market inquiries ever undertaken. These include successfully resolving various FX and LIBOR matters, each involving a score of national and cross-border regulators and their follow-on class action litigation.

International Trade & Investments

Cahill serves as a trusted advisor to its clients on complex and always-evolving international trade compliance issues, including economic trade sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering (AML) laws, and supply chain compliance.Cahill’s practice in these areas has focused on identifying risks as part of pre-acquisition due diligence for both buyers and lenders, advising companies on regulatory changes, developing and enhancing corporate compliance programs, conducting bespoke risk assessments and trainings for clients, and counseling clients through investigations and regulatory disclosures.

Antitrust Litigation

Cahill’s lawyers handle a comprehensive range of antitrust and competition matters, from class action litigation and criminal and civil investigations to M&A and other strategic transactions. Cahill litigators represent clients in major civil and criminal investigations and have extensive experience defending antitrust suits alleging price fixing, bid rigging and boycotts, among other claims. The firm has been involved in many of the most consequential antitrust class actions in recent years, involving LIBOR, foreign exchange, municipal bond derivatives, insurance brokerage fees, IPO underwriting fees, the recording industry, and healthcare.

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Practice Areas:

Anticorruption & FCPA

Antitrust & Trade Regulation

Antitrust Litigation

Banking & Finance

Bankruptcy & Restructuring

Bankruptcy Litigation

Broker-Dealer – Regulatory & Litigation

Capital Markets

Commercial Litigation

Communications Transactions

Communications Litigation

Corporate Governance & Compliance Advisory

Cybersecurity & Data Privacy

Digital Assets and Emerging Technology

Environmental

Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)

Executive Compensation

First Amendment & Media Litigation

Insurance

Insurance and Reinsurance Litigation

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Litigation

International Trade & Investments

Life Sciences

Life Sciences Patent Litigation

London Banking & Capital Markets

M&A and Corporate Advisory

Private Credit

Pro Bono

Project Finance, Energy & Infrastructure

Real Estate

Securities Litigation, Regulation & Enforcement

Tax

Trading & Markets

Trusts & Estates

White Collar Defense & Investigations