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Firm overview

Walden Macht  Haran & Williams LLP is a New York-based law firm focusing on white collar defense and investigations, complex commercial disputes, monitorships, and corporate compliance. WMH trial lawyers and business counselors are known for their experience, integrity, and outstanding track record in high stakes matters both in and out of court.

White-Collar Defense: WMHW’s practice is led by formal federal prosecutors with exceptional track records in helping businesses successfully navigate sensitive investigations and high-stakes, white collar matters. We provide strategic counsel with proven success and credibility in an enforcement environment with higher risks of massive corporate penalties, risk of imprisonment for executives, and civil litigation.

Internal Investigations: WMHW conducts complex internal investigations in the financial, real estate, health care, industrial, automotive, energy, retail, and entertainment sectors. Our investigations have covered securities fraud, insider trading, foreign bribery, antitrust offenses, accounting violations, economic-sanctions violations, cyber-based offenses, money laundering, embezzlement, false billing, and off-label marketing. In our cross-border investigations – which have spanned several continents – we coordinate seamlessly with U.S. and international agencies, even when they are working at cross purposes. Enforcement authorities here and abroad rely on us whether we are disclosing wrongdoing or defending against false allegations.

Complex Commercial Litigation: The firm’s practice concentrates on complex media and entertainment, antitrust, fraud, and real estate litigation. As accomplished trial lawyers and former federal prosecutors, we translate our extensive experience in federal and New York state courts into winning legal strategies.

Corporate Monitorships: Corporate monitorships allow companies to satisfy legal obligations, remediate past mistakes and safeguard against future wrongdoing. WMHW has a history of successfully fulfilling government-ordered monitor positions, combining strong industry relationships, deep subject matter knowledge, and a proven commitment to transparency.

Employment Litigation: WMHW has substantial experience working with companies and high-level executives to resolve their most sensitive and challenging employee matters with minimal disruption to business. Our team includes one of the only former federal prosecutors practicing employment law.

Good Government and Civil Rights: From leading the charge against school bullying to demanding safe and secure public housing for the disadvantaged, WMH is at the forefront of high-profile litigation to combat government abuses. We also regularly bring Article 78 challenges in New York State, drawing on our deep familiarity with federal civil rights statutes to craft winning cases. 

Commitment to Social Change: Through pro bono and good government work, our lawyers use their skills and experience to effect positive change, including providing crucial counseling to community groups and religious institutions on their dealings with government agencies. We encourage our lawyers to pursue the pro bono matters that are most meaningful to them, which include domestic violence, immigration, wrongful conviction, harassment allegations, and custody proceedings.

Updated Sep 2024

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 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 defense, and restructuring. Within these broad practices, we also offer numerous elite specialized practices, including finance, capital markets, investment funds, antitrust, tax and executive compensation, among others.

Litigation:

No other law firm can approach Paul, Weiss’s experience and record of success in the most complex, high-stakes litigation in U.S. federal and state courts. Our renowned trial team is a particularly powerful advantage, both in the courtroom and at the settlement table.

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.

The Litigation Department includes dozens of former federal prosecutors and senior U.S. government officials, including a former U.S. Attorney General; former U.S. Attorneys for the Eastern District of New York and the Northern District of California; a former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; former senior leaders in the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division; numerous senior counsel from the SEC, the CFPB, the FTC and other key U.S. regulatory agencies; and former senior members of the White House Counsel’s office.

White Collar & Regulatory Defense:

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 regulatory and enforcement agencies. We have experience handling a vast range of regulatory and enforcement inquiries and internal investigations, including involving multiple jurisdictions. Our lawyers are adept at conducting internal investigations on behalf of companies, boards, audit committees and special litigation committees. Within the litigation and white collar and regulatory defense practices, we are widely recognized for our expertise in many specialized areas, including:

• Antitrust
• Anti-Corruption & Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• Anti-Money Laundering
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bankruptcy Litigation
• Congressional Investigations
• Crisis Management
• Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
• Cybersecurity & Data Protection
• DEI Strategic Advisory
• Digital Technology
• E-Discovery
• Employment, Workplace Investigations & Trade Secrets
• ERISA, Pension & Benefits Litigation
• False Claims Act & Qui Tam Litigation
• Financial Services Litigation & Investigations
• Insurance Litigation
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• Internal Investigations
• International Arbitration
• Investigations
• Investment Management Litigation
• Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation
• National Security, CFIUS & FARA
• Product Liability & Mass Torts
• Civil Rights & Racial Equity Audits
• Sanctions
• Securities Litigation
• Supreme Court & Appellate Litigation
• Sustainability & ESG Advisory

Updated Sep 2024

Firm overview

Boies Schiller Flexner is a firm of internationally acclaimed trial lawyers, crisis managers, and strategic advisers, known for its creative, aggressive, and efficient pursuit of successful outcomes for clients. The firm has a proven history of handling and winning complex, groundbreaking, and cross-border matters across various industries. Whether tackling thorny, high stakes-matters or straightforward business disputes, the Boies Schiller Flexner team excels at identifying the strongest arguments, understanding their value, and determining when and how to deploy them in a case.

Boies Schiller Flexner attorneys use the law as a strategic tool to maximize value and mitigate risk, approaching every case as if it’s bound for trial, relentlessly and methodically developing the factual record from the outset to position clients for success in or out of the courtroom.

The firm builds deep, long-standing relationships with clients, enabling it to provide guidance on any matter, in any forum, whether representing them as plaintiffs or defendants. Clients benefit from its extensive experience with trials before juries and judges and in international arbitration proceedings worldwide.

With offices located across the United States and in London and Italy, Boies Schiller Flexner operates as a unified firm, offering a seamless approach to building the most skillful and cost-effective team for every matter.

Practice Areas: 

• Aerospace and Satellite 
• Antitrust and Competition 
• Appellate 
• Asset Recovery and Judgment Enforcement 
• Class Actions, Opt-Outs, and Multidistrict Litigation 
• Commercial Disputes 
• Constitutional Law 
• Corporate, Ethical, and ESG Compliance 
• Creditor Rights, Bankruptcy and Restructuring 
• Crisis Management 
• Data Privacy and Cybersecurity 
• Elections and Political Disputes 
• Energy Law 
• Sports and Gaming 
• Environmental Law 
• False Claims Act/Qui Tam 
• Financial Institutions and Private Equity 
• Global Investigations and White Collar Defense 
• Government Litigation 
• Insurance Disputes 
• International Arbitration 
• Intellectual Property Litigation 
• Life Sciences and Health Care 
• Matrimonial and Family Law
• Media and First Amendment
• Partnership and Employment Disputes
• Professional Malpractice
• Products Liability
• Real Estate Disputes
• Securities and Financial Products Litigation
• Technology 

Updated Sep 2024

Firm overview

King & Spalding helps leading companies advance complex business interests in more than 160 countries. Working across a highly integrated platform of more than 1,300 lawyers in 24 offices globally, we deliver tailored commercial solutions through world-class offerings and an uncompromising approach to quality and service.

Trial and Global Disputes: Our experienced disputes lawyers try and arbitrate high-stakes cases every year across the globe in the most challenging jurisdictions for corporate clients.  Recognized for creativity, meticulous preparation, and top-rate advocacy, our lawyers help clients navigate the litigation lifecycle, working together from day one to identify business objectives, develop a strategy to meet those objectives, and then execute that strategy.  With more than 450 lawyers in 17 offices worldwide, we are uniquely able to staff and manage large and cross-border disputes from filing, to trial, and through appeal.  Our lawyers have a variety of expertise across substantive areas, including Appellate Law, Class Action Defense, Commercial Litigation, Construction & Engineering Disputes, Corporate & Securities Litigation, E-Discovery, Insolvency Litigation, Insurance Coverage & Recovery, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration, Labor & Employment, Product Liability, Professional Liability, and Toxic & Environmental Torts.  Working together—one area of expertise informing another—our disputes lawyers provide clients with seamless and efficient representation in the most complex and sensitive matters.

Capabilities:

• Appellate, Constitutional and Administrative Law 
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency Litigation
• Class Action Defense
• Commercial Litigation
• Construction and Engineering Disputes
• Corporate and Securities Litigation
• E-Discovery
• Insurance Coverage and Recovery
• Intellectual Property, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Litigation
• International Arbitration and Litigation
• Labor and Employment
• Product Liability
• Professional Liability
• Toxic & Environmental Torts

Government Matters: Clients ranging from Fortune Global 50 corporations to high-profile individuals in every region of the world entrust King & Spalding’s Government Matters practice to guide them through rapidly changing regulatory landscapes, complex investigations by U.S. and foreign enforcement authorities, highly sensitive internal investigations and related, often parallel civil proceedings. 

Hundreds of lawyers across the United States, Europe and Asia bring decades of prior government service and industry experience to our regulatory and investigative practices, which serve the financial services, pharmaceutical and medical device, healthcare, energy, automotive and technology sectors in particular. The team includes six U.S. Attorneys, 24 Assistant U.S. Attorneys, and former senior officials from the highest ranks in regulatory and enforcement organizations that are most significant to our clients.

Our experienced team includes former leaders at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Commerce, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Bank of England, the U.K’s Financial Reporting Council and the World Trade Organization.

Capabilities:

• Antitrust
• Data, Privacy and Security
• Environmental, Health and Safety
• FDA and Life Sciences
• Government Advocacy and Public Policy
• Government Contracts
• Healthcare
• International Trade
• National Security and Corporate Espionage
• Securities Enforcement and Regulation
• Special Matters and Government Investigations

Corporate, Finance and Investments: Our Corporate, Finance and Investments team brings a collaborative approach to help clients execute complex, high-value transactions. We have a fully integrated platform with more than 330 lawyers in 17 offices, offering clients the benefit of global specialists with local knowledge and industry expertise. We work side by side with our clients to execute transactions efficiently and effectively—we understand what matters to both our clients and opposite parties and we explain the actual, practical risks to our clients.

Capabilities:

• Activist Defense
• Alternative Capital and Credit Funds
• Capital Markets
• Construction and Procurement
• Corporate Governance
• Emerging Companies and Venture Capital
• Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
• Energy and Infrastructure Projects
• Financial Restructuring
• Investment Funds and Asset Management
• Leveraged Finance
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Middle East and Islamic Finance and Investment
• Private Equity
• Real Estate
• Securitization
• Tax

Updated Sep 2024