Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

www.paulweiss.com

Tel: 212 373 3000

Fax: 212 757 3990

Chair of the Firm: Brad S. Karp

Deputy Chair: Valerie E. Radwaner

Co-chairs of the Personal Representation Practice: Alan S. Halperin, Loretta A. Ippolito

Firm Overview:

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a premier firm of more than 1,000 lawyers with diverse backgrounds, personalities, ideas and interests 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 and financial institutions, as well as clients in need of pro bono assistance. We consistently earn high praise for our collaborative, commercial approach to highly sophisticated matters, 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, litigation, white collar and regulatory defence, and restructuring. Within these broad practices, we also offer numerous market-leading specialized practices.

HNW Areas of Practice:

Family Offices: Paul, Weiss is uniquely positioned to meet the increasingly intricate legal needs of family offices, family-owned enterprises and ultra-high-net-worth individuals in connection with their investments and transactional matters, seamlessly leveraging the full range of expertise across the firm to deliver best-in-class guidance at any stage of our client’s business. While the firm’s representations often begin with individual or family considerations, such as estate and tax planning, the multidisciplinary practice extends to practical, solutions-oriented advice on a vast range of investment opportunities, regulatory matters and risk mitigation.

With clients who include some of the best-known founders, chairs, CEOs and families of top corporations and investment funds, as well as family offices and closely held family enterprises that manage billions of dollars, the firm offers holistic guidance and strategic advice across a comprehensive range of corporate activities.

Personal Representation: Paul, Weiss’s personal representation lawyers help clients navigate all aspects of estate and trust planning and administration. The firm advises domestic and international clients on a broad spectrum of legal needs, including estate and tax planning; business succession issues; litigated Surrogate's Court cases; trust and estate administration; lifetime transfers of wealth; and private foundations.

The firm offers comprehensive guidance on foreign trust planning for non-U.S. persons with U.S. contacts; the effective use of gift-giving programs; domestic trust planning; the tax-efficient transfer of closely held family business interests; liquidity issues; and management succession.

The firm also advises on charitable giving, including the disposition of appreciated property, the use of private foundations and charitable split-interest trusts.

Paul, Weiss attorneys assist executors and trustees in connection with their fiduciary duties, and have substantial experience handling disputes of all kinds. Further, the team handles many of the firm’s clients’ tax issues, including controversies with the Internal Revenue Service and other taxing authorities.

The firm provides creative and pragmatic solutions for wealth preservation, now and for future generations. When the circumstances warrant, the personal representation team works closely with attorneys in the firm’s renowned corporate and litigation departments, leveraging expertise in tax law, employee benefits and executive compensation, private funds, real estate and dispute resolution.

The team’s stellar reputation in the high-net worth field is founded on a keen grasp of the unique, delicate and highly complex issues that clients face, along with deep sensitivity to family dynamics. Most importantly, the firm’s lawyers are trusted advisors and technical experts who provide consistent and responsive service. Recognized as leaders in their field, the firm’s personal representation lawyers assist clients in addressing their legal, business and family matters in accordance with their individual objectives.

Clients include high-net-worth individuals, families, family offices, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, investment bankers, real estate developers, philanthropists, and public and private charities.

Wealth Management: The firm’s lawyers are sensitive to the complex dynamics inherent in legal matters involving family-owned entities and the overarching goal of wealth preservation and succession planning.

Formation and Structuring: The practice provides comprehensive, sophisticated guidance on matters involving office formation and structuring, including innovative tax strategies and regulatory considerations.

Structuring Advice: The firm has a long history of helping many of the world’s most prominent founders, controlling shareholders and other ultra-high-net-worth individuals in a variety of transactions and strategic matters that reflect their specialized needs, including fundraising efforts, asset sales, acquisitions, joint ventures, co-investments and real estate transactions.

Main Areas of Practice:

Mergers & Acquisitions:

Our M&A Group is among the most experienced and effective in the world. We have helped many of the world’s leading companies 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 for publicly listed and privately held companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, and other investors.

Private Equity:

We advise the world’s leading private equity firms and their portfolio companies on the most landscape-shifting, cutting-edge global transactions. We represent dynamic, sophisticated firms of every size across the spectrum of investment strategies, handling their most important M&A and investments, fundraisings, leveraged finance transactions, debt restructurings and securities offerings.

Broader Corporate Practice: We are also widely recognized as preeminent in:

• • Artificial Intelligence
  • Asset Management M&A
  • Capital Markets
  • Corporate Governance
  • Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
  • Executive Compensation
  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Hybrid Capital & Special Situations
  • Infrastructure
  • Insurance
  • Intellectual Property & Technology Transactions
  • Investment Funds
  • Private Credit
  • Real Estate
  • Tax

Litigation:

No other law firm can approach Paul, Weiss’s experience and record of success in the most complex, high-stakes disputes in U.S. federal and state courts and before major arbitration bodies. With a deep bench that includes many of the country’s most accomplished trial lawyers and former senior government officials, our Litigation Department is uniquely positioned to handle multifaceted crises, from sprawling cross-border, multi-regulator enforcement actions to parallel private litigation. We are regularly entrusted with fast-moving, franchise-threatening matters because of our ability to develop and execute a winning strategy, no matter the problem or adversary, and to see the matter through to the ultimate resolution, whether at trial or before the Supreme Court.

White Collar & Regulatory Defence:

Clients facing white collar and regulatory enforcement challenges look to Paul, Weiss to protect their businesses and reputations and manage the behind-the-scenes interplay among competing regulators and enforcement agencies. We handle a vast range of regulatory and enforcement inquiries, including across jurisdictions. Our lawyers are adept at conducting internal investigations on behalf of companies, boards, audit committees and special litigation committees.

Broader Litigation Practice: We are preeminent in other areas, including:

• • Anti-Corruption & Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
  • Anti-Money Laundering
  • Antitrust
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bankruptcy Litigation
  • Congressional Investigations
  • Copyright & Trademark Litigation
  • Crisis Management
  • Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
  • Cybersecurity & Data Protection
  • Employment, Workplace Investigations & Trade Secrets
  • ERISA, Pension & Benefits Litigation
  • False Claims Act & Qui Tam Litigation
  • Financial Services Litigation & Investigations
  • Foreign Direct Investment Regulation
  • Insurance Litigation
  • Internal Investigations
  • International Arbitration
  • Investigations
  • Investment Management Litigation
  • Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation
  • National Security & CFIUS
  • Patent Litigation
  • Product Liability & Mass Torts Litigation
  • Sanctions
  • Securities Litigation
  • Supreme Court & Appellate Litigation

Restructuring:

The Paul, Weiss Restructuring Group helps companies, creditors and investors facing rapid market transformation respond to business challenges with comprehensive and innovative strategies. With a deep bench of experienced counsel, we are a critical advisor in almost every major, complex and headline-grabbing in-court and out-of-court restructuring matter, including cross-border restructurings.