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When you join Weil, you are not just getting a job – you are launching a career. You'll contribute to sophisticated client work, including the complex matters and business transactions that shape industries and make headlines. Weil is where excellent lawyers are developed through hands-on experience, supported by our award-winning training and professional development programs. You'll gain foundational tools that can take you in many different professional directions.

Weil’s success stems from our roles as strategic business partners and innovative problem solvers for clients wherever they operate. Talented individuals who want a seat at the table and seek to tackle complex, challenging matters on behalf of the largest companies across the globe will find ample opportunities to shine.

With approximately 1,200 lawyers in offices on three continents, Weil’s four departments, Corporate, Litigation, Restructuring, and Tax, Executive Compensation & Benefits, and more than two dozen practice groups are consistently recognized as leaders in their respective fields. Weil’s corporate lawyers have advised on more than 3,100 deals in the last five years totaling over $4 trillion. In just the last two years, our litigation team has won critical bet-the-company cases at all phases of litigation. Our restructuring lawyers have served as lead debtors' counsel in six of the ten largest U.S. chapter 11 bankruptcy filings in U.S. history and have represented clients in numerous complex cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters. In 2025, 160 partners across each of Weil’s 16 global offices earned a combined 325 individual awards, recognizing their exemplary achievements at the highest levels of the legal profession.

Award-Winning Representations

Weil has proven itself time and again as a fearless advocate for its brand name clients at the top of their industries, some of which are highlighted below. Law360 awarded Weil four 2025 “Practice Groups of the Year” awards (Bankruptcy, Fund Formation, Media & Entertainment and Securities) National Law Journal honored Weil as “Litigation Department of the Year” in the Antitrust category at its 2025 Legal Awards. A perennial presence among The American Lawyer’s “Dealmakers of the Year,” Weil was again recognized in 2026, with Restructuring Department Co-Chair Jeffrey Saferstein and Restructuring partner and Miami office Co-Managing Partner David J. Cohen named to the prestigious list — one of the legal industry’s most coveted accolades. Weil was named to The American Lawyer’s 2026 “A-List,” widely considered to be the publication’s most prestigious ranking. 

For more information on all our practice groups and their work, click here.

Private Equity: Weil’s 300-lawyer-strong global Private Equity practice is recognized as one of the very few elite, market leaders in the field. Weil advises more than 300 private equity clients worldwide, including over 70% of the top 20 largest global private equity funds as ranked by PEI 300 2025, on the full spectrum of investment products, from buyouts to capital raises to de-SPAC transactions. Recently, the team advised Advent International and its portfolio company Encora Digital Inc. in its $2.35 billion sale to Coforge Ltd., American Securities and its portfolio company Foundation Building Materials in its $8.8 billion sale to Lowe’s, Brookfield in its $3 billion acquisition of the 26% ownership interest in Oaktree it did not already own, and One Investment Management in its A$3.9 billion take-private acquisition of Insignia Financial Ltd, among many others.

Mergers & Acquisitions: With offices on three continents, our lawyers are adept at executing major, cross-border deals. Our M&A clients include: Bell Canada, Brookfield Asset Management Inc., The Campbell’s Company, ChampionX, Dun & Bradstreet, Dycom Industries, Eli Lilly and Company, Foundation Building Materials, Fox Corporation, Hologic, The Home Depot, Inc., the Kroger Company, L’Oréal USA, MGM Resorts International, Sanofi, Sirius XM, Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, Stoneridge, Inc., Sunoco LP, Superior Industries International and Willis Towers Watson PLC. In the last five years, Weil advised on over 1,700 deals totaling more than $2.5 trillion in deal value, including 70 deals in the last 12 months for clients spanning multiple sectors and geographies. In 2025, Weil was ranked in Tier 1 for U.S. M&A for the 13th consecutive year by IFLR1000 and named a top firm for Corporate M&A by Chambers Global 2026.

Litigation: Weil is known for headline-making jury verdicts and bet-the-company wins that set the firm apart from other national litigation shops. Our multidisciplinary, trial-ready approach helps clients manage risk across jurisdictions and geographies, at every stage of the dispute resolution process. A sampling of recent wins and headline matters, organized by practice area:

    • Regeneron Pharmaceuticals — won a $407 million plaintiff jury verdict against Amgen in a landmark antitrust trial over the market for cholesterol drugs.
    • Saks Fifth Avenue — won a complete victory in an alleged “no hire” antitrust class action
    • Professional Tennis Players Association (co-founded by Novak Djokovic) — representing the players in a groundbreaking case alleging tennis’s governing bodies used monopoly power to exploit athletes.
    • Duke Energy — successful defense of high-stakes antitrust dispute over a power-grid interconnection agreement and in a proposed wage-fixing class action brought against Duke Energy and 45 other entities.
    • Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc —  in successfully resolving an antitrust suit commenced by FuboTV in response to a live sports streaming joint venture between Warner Bros. Discovery, The Walt Disney Company, Hulu and Fox.
  • Class Actions, Consumer & Product Liability
    • ExxonMobil — leading the company’s nationwide defense against plastics pollution public nuisance suits, including a rare mandamus win at the Eighth Circuit.
    • PepsiCo — won three separate cases for the company relating to plastic pollution litigation, plus dismissal of a novel “ultra-processed foods” mass tort.
    • KeVita — won dismissal of a nationwide class action over prebiotic labeling on KeVita Sparkling Lemonade.
    • L'Oréal — secured an early, sweeping win in a nationwide MDL over hair relaxer products.
  • Technology, IP & Media 
    • Getty Images — prosecuting high-profile copyright infringement suit arising from defendant’s training of generative AI models on scraped, copyrighted images.
    • Gen Digital (maker of Norton antivirus) — won a Federal Circuit reversal of a $600 million patent verdict Columbia University had secured against the company.
    • Sirius XM — won a precedent-setting dismissal in a royalty dispute worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
    • American Eagle Outfitters — secured a favorable trademark settlement against Amazon.
    • SerpApi — defending the data company against Reddit’s novel copyright and anti-circumvention suit over web-scraping in the AI era.
  • Privacy
    • Paramount Global — won a complete Sixth Circuit victory in a nationwide class action under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act, which will now be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
    • University of Maryland Medical System — defending a privacy class action seeking nearly $1 billion in statutory penalties under Maryland's Wire Act.
    • Warner Bros. Discovery, Gannett Co., and numerous others – defending scores of mass arbitration and class actions involving violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act, California Invasion of Privacy Act, and other state analogs.
  • Securities & Corporate Governance
    • AMC Entertainment — won complete victories before the Delaware Supreme Court in long-running stockholder litigation.
    • Warner Bros. Discovery — won in the Southern District of New York and on appeal at the Second Circuit in a massive securities fraud suit tied to its $43 billion merger.
    • TripAdvisor — won a Delaware Supreme Court victory in a closely watched fight over the company's proposed move to Nevada.
    • Estée Lauder — defeated a novel shareholder derivative claim against company affiliates, affirmed on appeal.
  • Sports & Entertainment
    • CBS Studios — successfully representing CBS in a billion-dollar fight with Sony Pictures over distribution rights to “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy!”
    • PlayOn! Sports — securing an early dismissal for PlayOn! Sports, a broadcaster of high school sports, in an antitrust class action that sought to extend Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) compensation to high school athletes – mirroring what past litigations have achieved for college athletes.
    • Zion Williamson – in securing a complete win at trial and on appeal in a dispute between the athlete and his former agent.
    • Shohei Ohtani – in securing a major dismissal of 12 of 14 claims against the MLB superstar in a multi-district putative class action relating to alleged marketing of investments in the now-defunct crypto exchange, FTX.
    • Warner Bros. Discovery – successfully representing Warner Bros. Discovery in a high-stakes litigation against the NBA for trying to move to Amazon and away from Turner Broadcasting (a subsidiary of WBD).
  • Trade Secrets & Employment
    • Creative Artists Agency — representing CAA in a high-profile trade secrets fight against rival talent agency Range Media Partners.
    • Intel — representing a senior Intel executive in an international trade secrets dispute that drew coverage from The New York Times, Bloomberg and Reuters.
    • Interpublic Group — won a decisive restrictive-covenant victory against a rival that poached its senior executives.
  • Appeals & Pro Bono
    • James Genrich — secured dismissal of decades-old double-murder charges against a wrongly convicted client, Weil's fifth appellate win in the case.
    • Tyrone Noling – in securing a clemency hearing in a wrongful conviction case for the murders of an elderly couple in rural Ohio.

 Restructuring: For more than 50 years, Weil has played a pivotal role in defining the restructuring landscape by offering creative, practical, and thoughtful solutions for its clients. In Weil’s Restructuring practice, you’ll learn directly from top leaders in the field while working on the biggest restructuring and liability management matters in the world. Our restructuring clients have included Aéropostale, AMC Entertainment Holdings, Avon, Brooks Brothers Group, General Electric, General Motors, J.Crew Group, Lehman Brothers, PG&E Corporation, Scandinavian Airlines, Serta Simmons Bedding, Sears Holding Corporation, Takata Corporation, Terraform Labs and 24 Hour Fitness. In 2026, Weil has, so far, secured confirmation of chapter 11 plans for Broadway Realty I Co. (Pinnacle Group) and Luminar Technologies, with additional confirmations possible before year-end. The practice is consistently recognized by the most highly regarded publications globally including, most recently being ranked Band 1 by Chambers for Bankruptcy/Restructuring: The Elite – USA – Nationwide and Bankruptcy/Restructuring: The Elite – New York; Tier 1 by Legal 500 for Finance: Restructuring (including Bankruptcy) – Corporate in 2026 and Tier 1 by IFLR1000 in Restructuring and Insolvency in the U.S. in 2025.

Most recently, our attorneys have led the following notable victories and achievements:

  • Leading First Brands Group LLC and its U.S. affiliates, one of the world's leading suppliers of aftermarket automotive parts, with more than 20,000 employees worldwide across 30+ jurisdictions and over $12 billion in liabilities, through one of the year's most complex chapter 11 restructurings.
  • Engineered a first-of-its-kind restructuring solution for Fossil Group, the global, iconic maker of watches and accessories, crafting a novel, complex stapled exchange transaction that successfully restructured $150 million of senior unsecured debt through parallel U.K. restructuring and U.S. chapter 15 proceedings.
  • Delivered a landmark result for Pinnacle Group, a New York City-based real estate holding and management company, guiding the chapter 11 cases of 82 of its affiliates to a successful sale of over 5,100 apartments, one of the largest transactions of its kind involving residential buildings subject to rent stabilization laws.
  • Steered Steward Health Care System LLC, the largest private, physician-owned, for-profit healthcare network in the United States, carrying over $8 billion in debt obligations ($7 billion in long-term lease commitments), through its high-stakes chapter 11 cases.
  • Secured a going-concern future for Everstream Solutions, a leading provider of fiber network solutions, navigating its $1 billion chapter 11 cases to a successful sale of its business.
  • Guided Luminar Technologies, Inc., a publicly listed global technology leader in LiDAR and photonics, through its chapter 11 proceedings, delivering a successful sale of its LiDAR business and its subsidiary, Luminar Semiconductors, Inc.
  • o   Spearheading a first-of-its-kind restructuring for The Cannabist Company, guiding the company through its groundbreaking chapter 15 cases, CCAA proceeding, and comprehensive sale process.

Banking & Finance: Weil offers “one-stop shopping” on highly complex financings and true international deal execution and local law advice in key financial markets like New York, Dallas, Silicon Valley, London, Paris and Frankfurt. We are one of the select firms with highly rated borrower/sponsor and lender/arranger practices, representing financial institutions, private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers across a broad range of transactions, including leveraged and acquisition finance, asset-based and investment grade lending, direct lending, restructurings and debtor-in-possession and exit financings. We work on some of the largest deals in the market and are regularly recognized as among the best in the world by Chambers, Legal 500 and International Financial Law Review. Our clients include many of the world’s leading private equity sponsors, including Advent International, American Securities, Ardian, Berkshire Partners, Blackstone, Brookfield, Centerbridge Partners, EQT, Genstar Capital, Goldman Sachs, OMERS Private Equity, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Providence Equity Partners, PSG, Searchlight Capital, Thomas H. Lee Partners and TPG, as well as leading financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Wells Fargo.

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