Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Chair of the Firm: Brad S. Karp

Deputy Chair: Valerie E. Radwaner

Co-chairs of the Personal Representation Practice: Alan S. Halperin, Loretta A. Ippolito

International Offices: Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Tokyo and Toronto

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. With 11 offices across North America, Europe and Asia, and a robust international network, the firm represents many of the world’s largest and most important asset managers, public and private corporations and financial institutions, as well as clients in need of pro bono assistance. We consistently earn high praise for our collaborative, commercial approach to highly sophisticated matters, 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, including finance, capital markets, investment funds, competition/antitrust, tax, executive compensation and real estate, among others. The firm recently significantly deepened and enhanced its capabilities in London, immediately bringing market-leading capabilities across all major corporate practice areas, and launched new offices in Los Angeles and Brussels.

Main Areas of Practice:

Litigation & Regulatory Defence:

- White Collar & Regulatory Defence

- Anti-Corruption & Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

- Artificial Intelligence

- Bankruptcy Litigation

- Competition/Antitrust

- Congressional Investigations

- Crisis Management

- Cryptocurrency & Blockchain

- Cybersecurity & Data Protection

- DEI Strategic Advisory

- Digital Technology

- Economic Sanctions & Anti-Money Laundering

- Employment, Workplace Investigations & Trade Secrets

- ERISA, Pension & Benefits Litigation

- False Claims Act & Qui Tam Litigation

- Financial Services Litigation & Investigations

- Insurance Litigation

- Intellectual Property Litigation

- Internal Investigations

- International Arbitration

- Investigations

- Investigations Management Litigation

- Mergers and Acquisitions Litigation

- National Security, CFIUS & FARA

- Product Liability

- Civil Rights & Racial Equity Audits

- Securities Litigation

- Supreme Court & Appellate Litigation

- Sustainability & ESG Advisory

Broader Corporate Practice:

- Mergers & Acquisitions

- Private Equity

- Activist Defense

- Capital Markets

- Corporate Governance

- Finance

- Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions

- Investment Funds

Transactional:

- Competition/Antitrust

- Digital Technology

- Executive Compensation

- Family Office & High-Net-Worth Individuals

- Financial Service

- Hybrid Capital & Special Situations

- Infrastructure

- Insurance

- Media, Sports & Entertainment

- Real Estate

- Sustainability & ESG Advisory

- Tax

Restructuring

HNW Areas of Practice:

Family Offices: Paul, Weiss is uniquely positioned to meet the increasingly intricate legal needs of family offices, family-owned enterprises and ultra-high-net-worth individuals in connection with their investments and transactional matters, seamlessly leveraging the full range of expertise across the firm to deliver best-in-class guidance at any stage of our client’s business. While the firm’s representations often begin with individual or family considerations, such as estate and tax planning, the multidisciplinary practice extends to practical, solutions-oriented advice on a vast range of investment opportunities, regulatory matters and risk mitigation.

With clients who include some of the best-known founders, chairs, CEOs and families of top corporations and investment funds, as well as family offices and closely held family enterprises that manage billions of dollars, the firm offers holistic guidance and strategic advice across a comprehensive range of corporate activities.

Personal Representation: Paul, Weiss’s personal representation lawyers help clients navigate all aspects of estate and trust planning and administration. The firm advises domestic and international clients on a broad spectrum of legal needs, including estate and tax planning; business succession issues; litigated Surrogate's Court cases; trust and estate administration; lifetime transfers of wealth; and private foundations.

The firm offers comprehensive guidance on foreign trust planning for non-U.S. persons with U.S. contacts; the effective use of gift-giving programs; domestic trust planning; the tax-efficient transfer of closely held family business interests; liquidity issues; and management succession.

The firm also advises on charitable giving, including the disposition of appreciated property, the use of private foundations and charitable split-interest trusts.

Paul, Weiss attorneys assist executors and trustees in connection with their fiduciary duties, and have substantial experience handling disputes of all kinds. Further, the team handles many of the firm’s clients’ tax issues, including controversies with the Internal Revenue Service and other taxing authorities.

The firm provides creative and pragmatic solutions for wealth preservation, now and for future generations. When the circumstances warrant, the personal representation team works closely with attorneys in the firm’s renowned corporate and litigation departments, leveraging expertise in tax law, employee benefits and executive compensation, private funds, real estate and dispute resolution.

The team’s stellar reputation in the high-net worth field is founded on a keen grasp of the unique, delicate and highly complex issues that clients face, along with deep sensitivity to family dynamics. Most importantly, the firm’s lawyers are trusted advisors and technical experts who provide consistent and responsive service. Recognized as leaders in their field, the firm’s personal representation lawyers assist clients in addressing their legal, business and family matters in accordance with their individual objectives.

Clients include high-net-worth individuals, families, family offices, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, investment bankers, real estate developers, philanthropists, and public and private charities.

Wealth Management: The firm’s lawyers are sensitive to the complex dynamics inherent in legal matters involving family-owned entities and the overarching goal of wealth preservation and succession planning.

Formation and Structuring: The practice provides comprehensive, sophisticated guidance on matters involving office formation and structuring, including innovative tax strategies and regulatory considerations.

Structuring Advice: The firm has a long history of helping many of the world’s most prominent founders, controlling shareholders and other ultra-high-net-worth individuals in a variety of transactions and strategic matters that reflect their specialized needs, including fundraising efforts, asset sales, acquisitions, joint ventures, co-investments and real estate transactions.