Weil, Gotshal & Manges

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Weil, Gotshal & Manges is an international law firm, founded in 1931, whose clients include public companies, private equity firms and financial institutions. It has approximately 1,200 lawyers and organises its work into Corporate, Litigation, Restructuring, and Tax, Executive Compensation & Benefits departments under a one-firm model. Its offices span the US, Europe and Asia, including New York, Silicon Valley, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, Brussels and Hong Kong. In financial services, its lawyers work on investment grade lending, leveraged acquisitions, IPOs, debt offerings, securitisations and M&A, alongside litigation and financial institutions regulatory work. Its restructuring practice acted as chief debtors' counsel in the Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual bankruptcy cases.