Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Chairman: Brad S. Karp

Deputy Chair: Valerie E. Radwaner

Firm Overview

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a premier firm of about 1,250 elite lawyers who provide innovative and effective solutions to our clients’ most complex legal and business challenges. With 10 offices across North America, Europe and Asia, and a robust international network, the firm represents many of the world’s largest and most important public and private corporations, asset managers, private equity sponsors and financial institutions. We consistently earn high praise for our collaborative, commercial approach, providing novel and efficient solutions to otherwise intractable situations.

The firm is widely recognized as having market-leading practices in private equity, public company M&A, finance, litigation, white collar and regulatory defence, restructuring, capital markets, private funds, antitrust, tax and executive compensation, among others. Our firm is at the forefront of legal innovation and offers a full suite of premier legal services to clients across borders.

Europe

With over 215 lawyers, including 40 partners, across London and Brussels, Paul, Weiss’s full-service European offering provides private equity and public M&A, finance, capital markets, IP and technology, tax, antitrust, investment funds and restructuring practices, mirroring the firm’s core capabilities.

Private Equity

London is the hub of the firm’s European private equity practice. Most lawyers in the office are private equity-focused, together representing most of the highest-velocity and top tier European sponsors. Our deep bench boasts multiple market-shaping partners who have been steering the European PE market for decades and who are top advisers across global deals.

Public M&A

With a deep bench in London, New York and other offices, the firm’s European M&A Group is among the most experienced and effective in the world. We have helped many of the world’s leading listed companies, private equity sponsors and portfolio companies to execute their most important global transactions. Globally, since 2020, the firm has advised on over 210 billion-dollar-plus M&A transactions and has handled over $1.7 trillion in total M&A.

Finance & Capital Markets

Our elite London finance and capital markets bench is at the forefront of innovations in sponsor financing and has executed many of the market’s largest and most complex cross-border financings and securities issuances. We offer private equity sponsors, issuers and portfolio companies comprehensive capital markets capabilities, including high-yield debt offerings, IPOs, liability management transactions and other complex securities issuances, working seamlessly with the firm’s global finance and capital markets teams.

Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions

Our elite IP & Technology Transactions team in London advises on standalone IP and technology transactions and the IP and technology aspects of transactions spanning numerous industries. Our IP practitioners are versatile, experienced lawyers who understand the interplay of business objectives, practical pressures and deal timing.

Global Tax

Led by some of the UK’s leading tax lawyers, our European tax team works alongside the firm’s market-leading New York-based tax team to provide comprehensive cross-border tax advice on tax aspects of public and private M&A, financings and capital markets transactions, fund formations and corporate restructurings.

Antitrust

Our market-leading Brussels- and London-based antitrust teams are the hubs of our European antitrust practice. We represent clients before antitrust and competition authorities in the European Union, the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions around the world, with a focus on providing clients strategic and actionable antitrust advice on their most complex and challenging cross-border M&A transactions, investigations, litigation and compliance issues. The European team also advises clients on foreign investment reviews, state aid, foreign subsidies regulation and digital markets regulation at the European and member state level. The team combines substantive mastery with a seasoned perspective on the enforcement priorities and decision-making processes of the European Commission, the UK’s Competition Markets Authority, and other antitrust authorities across Europe and the world.

Fund Formation and Asset Management M&A

With significant practice heft in New York and London, our investment funds team advises private fund sponsors on all aspects of structuring and operating alternative investment funds across various strategies and asset classes, as well as regulatory issues related to fund formation. Our experience encompasses co-investment arrangements, fund restructurings, liquidity solutions, secondary transactions and strategic minority investments in private investment firms.

Restructuring/Insolvency

Our European Restructuring team, in conjunction with the firm’s global Restructuring Department, advises on complex cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters, helping companies, sponsors and other investors, and linchpin creditor and lender groups respond to fast-moving business challenges with comprehensive and innovative strategies. The team collaborates closely with the firm’s Hybrid Capital & Special Situations and Private Credit Groups to offer a vast range of bespoke debt, equity and hybrid solutions across the capital structure.

Additional Global Transactional Capabilities

Paul, Weiss is also widely recognized as preeminent in:

• Activist Defence
• Artificial Intelligence
• Asset Management M&A
• Capital Markets
• Corporate Governance
• Digital Technology
• Executive Compensation
• Finance
• Financial Services
• Hybrid Capital & Special Situations
• Infrastructure
• Insurance
• Investment Funds
• M&A Disputes and Litigation
• National Security Transactional Matters
• Private Credit
• Real Estate

Disputes and Regulatory Defence

No other firm can approach Paul, Weiss’s experience and record of success in the most complex disputes and regulatory enforcement defence matters, including high-stakes, fast-moving multijurisdictional matters and international arbitrations. Our renowned U.S.-based trial team is a particularly powerful advantage in U.S. litigation, whether in the courtroom or at the settlement table. Our deep bench includes the country’s most accomplished trial lawyers and former senior government officials, positioning us to handle multifaceted crises, from sprawling multi-regulator enforcement actions to parallel U.S. private litigation. Our focus is on managing the behind-the-scenes interplay among competing regulators and protecting our clients’ businesses and reputations. We are widely recognized in a number of specialized areas, including:

• Anti-Corruption & Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• Antitrust Litigation & Cartel Matters
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bankruptcy Litigation
• Copyright & Trademark Litigation
• Crisis Management
• Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
• Cybersecurity & Data Protection
• Digital Technology
• Economic Sanctions & Anti-Money Laundering
• Employment, Workplace Investigations & Trade Secrets Litigation
• Financial Services Litigation & Investigations
• Foreign Direct Investment Regulation
• Insurance Litigation
• Internal Investigations
• International Arbitration
• Investigations
• Investment Management Litigation
• National Security, CFIUS and FARA
• Patent Litigation
• Sanctions
• U.S. Congressional Investigations
• U.S. False Claims Act & Qui Tam Litigation
• U.S. Securities & Class Action Litigation
• U.S. Supreme Court & Appellate Litigation