Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Chairman: Brad S Karp

Deputy Chair: Valerie E. Radwaner

Firm Overview:

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a premier firm of more than 1,000 lawyers with diverse backgrounds, personalities, ideas and interests who provide innovative and effective solutions to our clients’ most complex legal and business challenges. The firm represents many of the world’s largest and most important public and private corporations, asset managers and financial institutions, as well as clients in need of pro bono assistance. We consistently earn high praise for our collaborative efforts to handle highly sophisticated matters with complex legal and business challenges, providing novel and efficient solutions to otherwise intractable situations.

The firm is widely recognized as having market-leading practices in private equity, public company M&A, litigation, white collar and regulatory defence, and restructuring. Within these broad practices, we also offer numerous market-leading specialized practices. With 10 offices across North America, Europe and Asia, and a robust international network, we recently significantly expanded our capabilities in London, and launched a new office in Los Angeles.

Mergers & Acquisitions:

Our M&A Group is among the most experienced and effective in the world. With scores of dedicated partners, we have helped many of world’s leading companies and private equity sponsors execute their most important global transactions. Since 2020, we have advised on over 180 billion-dollar-plus M&A transactions and have handled over a trillion dollars in total M&A, including for publicly listed and privately held companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, and other investors.We have deep experience in executing transactions with counterparties across the globe, and in highly regulated sectors such as financial services and infrastructure.

Private Equity:

We provide trusted counsel to the world’s leading private equity firms and their portfolio companies, and are go-to advisors in the alternative asset management industry for the most landscape-shifting, cutting-edge global transactions. We represent dynamic, sophisticated firms of every size across the spectrum of investment strategies, handling their most important private and public M&A and investments, fundraisings, leveraged finance transactions, debt restructurings and securities offerings. Because we have extensive familiarity with the full range of deal structures, we are able to advise our clients on the latest innovations, as well as current market practices and trends.

Broader Corporate Practice: Across the corporate area, we are widely recognized as preeminent in multiple other important practices, including, among others:

o Activist Defence

o Capital Markets

o Corporate Governance

o Finance

o Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions

o Investment Management

We are also preeminent in myriad transaction-focused practices, including, among others:

o Competition/Antitrust

o Digital Technology

o Executive Compensation

o Family Office & High-Net-Worth Individuals

o Financial Services

o Hybrid Capital & Special Situations

o Infrastructure

o Insurance

o M&A Disputes

o Media, Sports & Entertainment

o Real Estate

o Sustainability & ESG Advisory

o Tax

Litigation:

No other law firm can approach Paul, Weiss’s experience and record of success in the most complex, high-stakes disputes in U.S. federal and state courts and before major arbitration bodies. Our renowned trial team is a particularly powerful advantage, both in the courtroom and at the settlement table.

With a deep bench that includes many of the country’s most accomplished trial lawyers and former senior government officials, our Litigation Department is uniquely positioned to handle multifaceted crises, from sprawling cross-border, multi-regulator enforcement actions to parallel private litigation. We are regularly entrusted with fast-moving, franchise-threatening matters because of our ability to develop and execute a winning strategy, no matter the problem or adversary, and to see the matter through to the ultimate resolution, whether at trial or before the Supreme Court.

The practice boasts dozens of former federal prosecutors and senior U.S. government officials, including a former U.S. Attorney General; former U.S. Attorneys for the Eastern District of New York and the Northern District of California; a former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; former senior leaders in the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division; numerous senior counsel from the SEC, the CFPB, the FTC and other key U.S. regulatory agencies; and former senior members of the White House Counsel’s office.

White Collar & Regulatory Defence:

Clients facing white collar and regulatory enforcement challenges look to Paul, Weiss to protect their businesses and reputations and manage the behind-the-scenes interplay among competing regulators and enforcement agencies. We have experience handling a vast range of regulatory and enforcement inquiries, including involving multiple jurisdictions. Our lawyers are adept at conducting internal investigations on behalf of companies, boards, audit committees and special litigation committees.

Within the broad litigation and white collar and regulatory defence practices, we are widely recognized for our expertise in many specialized areas, including:

o Anti-Corruption & Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

o Artificial Intelligence

o Bankruptcy Litigation

o Civil Rights & Racial Equity Audits

o Competition/Antitrust

o Congressional Investigations

o Crisis Management

o Cryptocurrency & Blockchain

o Cybersecurity & Data Protection

oDEI Strategic Advisory

oDigital Technology

o Economic Sanctions & Anti-Money Laundering

o Employment, Workplace Investigations & Trade Secrets

o ERISA, Pension & Benefits Litigation

o False Claims Act & Qui Tam Litigation

o Financial Institutions Litigation & Investigations

o Insurance Litigation

o Intellectual Property Litigation

o Internal Investigations

o International Arbitration

o Investment Management Litigation

o Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation

o National Security, CFIUS & FARA

o Product Liability

o Securities Litigation

o Supreme Court & Appellate Litigation

o Sustainability & ESG Advisory

Restructuring:

The Paul, Weiss Restructuring Group helps companies, creditors and investors facing rapid market transformation respond to business challenges with comprehensive and innovative strategies. With a deep bench of experienced counsel, we are a critical advisor in almost every major, complex and headline-grabbing in-court and out-of-court restructuring matter, including cross-border restructurings. We possess a thorough knowledge of every aspect of bankruptcy law, coupled with perspectives earned from representing every type of client.