Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Cleary Gottlieb is a pioneer in globalizing the legal profession. Since 1946, the firm’s lawyers and staff have worked across practices, industries, jurisdictions and continents to provide clients with simple, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges. The firm has 16 offices in major financial centers around the world. However, Cleary operates as a single, integrated global partnership, not a US firm with a network of overseas locations. The firm is fluent in the many languages of local and global business, and Cleary’s consistent success in multiple jurisdictions earned Cleary Chambers and Partners’ inaugural “International Law Firm of the Year” award.

The firm employs approximately 1,100 lawyers from more than 50 countries and diverse backgrounds who are admitted to practice in numerous jurisdictions. Cleary was among the first international law firms to hire and promote non-US lawyers as equal partners around the world. The firm’s international approach has, from the beginning, included a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion that is central to Cleary’s founding principles and ongoing identity. Cleary believes its lawyers benefit from interacting with the creativity, talents and perspectives contributed by people of different backgrounds and experiences, and that its efforts to nurture diversity enable it to more effectively serve a broader range of clients.

Cleary offers clients robust experience in more than 70 practice areas. All of Cleary’s clients enjoy access to the full resources of its offices and lawyers worldwide, and many of the firm’s attorneys have served in one or more of its offices.