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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

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Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a renowned litigation firm with extensive expertise across high-stakes and high-profile commercial disputes, supported by an outstanding bench of courtroom advocates. The firm is highly regarded for its strengths in a raft of business disputes and class actions, alongside securities and antitrust cases. It represents leading financial institutions as well as multinational corporations across a wide range of industries, including energy, tech and sports.

Notable practitioners

New York-based Jaren Janghorbani is head of the complex commercial litigation group.

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Work Highlights

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  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP represented Amazon and several executives, including executive chairman Jeff Bezos and CEO Andrew Jassy, in successfully achieving a dismissal with prejudice of a securities class action over Amazon’s relationship with third-party sellers and the pace of growth in its fulfillment distribution network.

Strengths

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  • The firm is extremely organized and has extremely skilled lawyers and litigators. It has a large team that can support extremely complicated litigation. When there is a high-stakes case, it is a perfect firm to handle that.

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  • They provide an exceptionally high level of legal advice and guidance. They think about issues from a 360-degree perspective and are not afraid to push when you need them to.

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  • Because of the department's depth and breadth of expertise, and its ability to pull in equally astute practitioners from the firm's other departments, issues are addressed quickly by subject matter experts in all relevant domains.

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  • The firm is phenomenal in all areas. It is efficient, pragmatic and practical.

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  • Paul Weiss is very thoughtful in deciding strategic direction. They're very collaborative and are open and receptive.

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