Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP

With a reputation for capital markets prowess and high-stakes litigation excellence, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP is the picture of an effective and conservatively managed firm. With around 300 attorneys, Cahill focuses on a wide array of practice areas, including corporate finance and M&A, litigation, investigations, and crisis advisory.

An Exclusive Club

The firm was founded in 1919 by a former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and from the start, it proved itself to be a player in corporate law and finance. Its best-known name partner was John T. Cahill, a former U.S. Attorney for New York’s Southern District in Manhattan—an office that The New York Times dubbed “one of the city’s most powerful clubs.” The firm led a period of growth and expansion after World War II. Over time, the firm welcomed partners and attorneys with distinguished tenures at the DOJ, FTC, SEC, and Treasury Department. Today, in addition to handling transactional and litigation matters for its financial services and banking clients, Cahill represents clients in a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, automotive, and global infrastructure.

Punching Above Its Weight

Keeping up with firms more than 10 times its size, Cahill consistently ranks among the most profitable operations in the country. With global debt and equity, capital markets, and bank financing deals as the firm’s fortes, Cahill represents numerous leading banks and multinational companies. In a testament to Cahill’s transactional track record, the firm’s corporate finance practice has earned many honors, including leading league tables annually and being ranked in The Legal 500 and Chambers USA. Cahill is known for its capital markets work, specifically that involving high-yield debt.

That’s not to say Cahill is a one-trick pony. The firm has forged a reputation as a formidable house for litigation. Some of Cahill’s notable recent clients include the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Walmart, Barclays, Brookfield Asset Management, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and S&P Global. The firm is known for its impressive securities litigation and white collar defense practices in the United States and London, with a caseload that includes high-profile litigations and investigations relating to structured products and derivatives, benchmark rates, “dark pools,” and high-frequency trading. Cahill also has a thriving internal investigations practice representing high-profile companies, boards, and audit committees covering a wide array of issues related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, money laundering, and international sanctions compliance.

Associate Input

At Cahill, associates’ voices matter. The firm has an associate liaison committee that focuses on attorneys’ concerns. The committee includes both associates and partners who work together to create solutions to issues raised by associates. Some areas the committee has tackled include the review process, flextime, technology stipends, and training programs.

• Represented The New York Times Company in a landmark First Amendment matter New York Times Company v. United States, better known as the Pentagon Papers case, in which SCOTUS refused to permit the Nixon administration to halt publication of thousands of pages of secret government documents related to the war in Vietnam.
• Achieved a complete victory for Credit Suisse following an eight-day jury trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York, defeating allegations of Credit Suisse’s participation in a 16-bank global conspiracy to manipulate the global foreign exchange market.
• Advised the lead arrangers and debt financing sources in connection with the financing commitments supporting the $111 billion merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery.
• Represented the agent and lenders in connection with Lumen Technologies’ $15 billion debt reprofiling, one of the largest private debt restructurings in U.S. history, involving a complex liability management transaction.

• No. 1 legal advisor to North America high-yield corporate bond managers and North America lead banks of leveraged loans, 2025—Debtwire 
• Practice Groups of the Year for Banking (Litigation), 2023-2024 and Complex Financial Instruments, 2023-2025—Law360
• Ranked Band 1 in Banking & Finance, Capital Markets: High Yield Debt, Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Highly Regarded), Corporate Crime & Investigations (Highly Regarded), 2025—Chambers USA
• FinTech Legal: Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies, ranked Band 1, 2026—Chambers FinTech
• No. 1 Leading Law Firm (sub-$500M in revenue) in Bloomberg Law’s inaugural Leading Law Firms list