Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Chairman: Brad S. Karp

Deputy Chair: Valerie E. Radwaner

Key Contacts: Neel Sachdev and Roger Johnson, Co-Heads, London

THE FIRM: 

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 11 offices across North America, Europe and Asia, and a robust international network, the firm represents many of the world’s largest and most important asset managers, public and private corporations and financial institutions, as well as clients in need of pro bono assistance. 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, litigation, white collar and regulatory defence, restructuring, finance, capital markets, private funds, antitrust, tax and executive compensation, among others.

LONDON 

With more than 130 London-based lawyers, we field Europe’s preeminent private equity-focused team in London, providing comprehensive cross-border M&A, financing, capital markets, tax, competition, investment funds, and IP and technology transactions capabilities. The team collaborates closely with the firm’s global private equity teams to execute cross-border transactions and navigate regulatory nuances across jurisdictions and to ensure that clients secure the most favourable terms.

PRIVATE EQUITY & INVESTMENT FUNDS 

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 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. The office also boasts a team of leading investment fund lawyers handling fund formation matters, strategic sponsor advisory mandates, liquidity solutions and investment fund transactions across asset classes.

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 200 billion-dollar-plus M&A transactions and has handled over a trillion dollars in total M&A.

FINANCE & CAPITAL MARKETS 

Our deep London finance and capital markets bench is at the forefront of innovations in 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ADDITIONAL GLOBALCORPORATE CAPABILITIES: 

Paul, Weiss is widely recognized as preeminent in other corporate practices, including:

• Activist Defence
• Corporate Governance
• Hybrid Capital & Special Situations
• Energy & Infrastructure Transactions
• Insurance Transactions
• Structured Finance & Securitisations

We are also preeminent in myriad transaction-focused practices, including:

• Digital Technology & AI
• ESG Guidance and Audits
• Executive Compensation
• Financial Services
• M&A Disputes and Litigation
• National Security Transactional Matters
• 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 recognised in a number of specialised areas, including:

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