Robert Weigel
Litigation Support Guide 2024
Band 2 : Asset Tracing & Recovery (Law Firms)
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About
Provided by Robert Weigel
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. He focuses on litigation concerning complex financial transactions, particularly for international clients in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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.
Personal
JD, University of Chicago; BA, State University of New York, Binghamton (SUNY)
Chambers Review
Litigation Support
Robert Weigel of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 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.
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Provided by Chambers
"I have learned a tremendous amount over the years from Bob Weigel. He is clever, experimental and inclusive."
"Bob Weigel is a force of nature. He has worked on the most creative bits of asset recovery, and has done work in the commercial space and against sovereign states."
"I would rate Bob Weigel as one of the best enforcement strategists out there. Perhaps one of the best in the USA that I have seen so far. I rate him very highly."
"I have learned a tremendous amount over the years from Bob Weigel. He is clever, experimental and inclusive."
"Bob Weigel is a force of nature. He has worked on the most creative bits of asset recovery, and has done work in the commercial space and against sovereign states."
"I would rate Bob Weigel as one of the best enforcement strategists out there. Perhaps one of the best in the USA that I have seen so far. I rate him very highly."