Asset Tracing & Recovery (Law Firms)
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INDIVIDUAL PROFILE
Robert Weigel
Litigation Support 2026
Ranked in 1 practice area
About
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Litigation Support
Practice Areas
Robert L. Weigel is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the founder and co-chair of the firm’s Judgment and Arbitral Award Enforcement Practice Group. Bob is an experienced commercial litigator with extensive trial experience. Bob focuses on litigation concerning complex financial transactions, particularly for international clients in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Career
Bob has applied his extensive knowledge of financial transactions to develop worldwide judgment enforcement strategies to collect on judgments and arbitral awards totaling several billion dollars, including the enforcement of awards in excess of $1 billion for Tethyan Copper Company, Yukos Capital, Crystallex, ArcelorMittal and Pearl Petroleum. A list of the clients Bob has represented includes ArcelorMittal, Yukos Capital, Tethyan Copper Company (a joint venture between Barrick Gold and Antofagasta), Artémis and its founder, François Pinault; Crystallex; Verizon; Gucci; Tiffany & Co.; Nike; Oaktree Capital; Normandy Real Estate Partners; The Related Companies; Deutsche Bank; Crédit Agricole; Bank Brussels Lambert; UBS, Deloitte & Touche; and Dallah Al Baraka Investment Co. Ltd. (an investment bank based in Saudi Arabia).
Personal
JD, University of Chicago, 1981; BA, State University of New York, Binghamton (SUNY), 1978.
Chambers Review
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Professional Advisers: Litigation Support
Asset Tracing & Recovery (Law Firms) - Global-wide
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Individual Editorial
Robert Weigel is experienced in high value litigation and arbitral enforcement actions against sovereign debtors and private entities. Weigel often acts for international mining and metals clients.
Strengths
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Robert is incredibly creative. He finds a way to get things done, thinks outside the box, is solution driven and fun to work with.
Asset Tracing & Recovery (Law Firms)Professional Advisers: Litigation SupportBob Weigel is so deep in this work and has been in the space so long he has encyclopaedic knowledge about the various players. The institutional memory he has is so valuable.
Asset Tracing & Recovery (Law Firms)Professional Advisers: Litigation SupportBob Weigel stands out for his judgment, precision, and ability to manage highly sensitive matters with credibility and restraint. He has a rare ability to cut through complex factual and procedural issues and identify the arguments and strategies that will actually move the outcome, rather than pursuing every available line of attack. What I value most is his reliability under pressure.
Asset Tracing & Recovery (Law Firms)Professional Advisers: Litigation SupportRobert is a premier strategist in the field of judgment enforcement.
Asset Tracing & Recovery (Law Firms)Professional Advisers: Litigation Support
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