News About Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Skadden tops M&A league rankings in first half as deal value rebounds

Paul Weiss and Latham & Watkins follow closely behind as megadeals contribute to 18% rise in global deal value

10 Jul 2024

Raft of City firms up NQ salaries amid ongoing pay war

HSF, DLA Piper and HFW among firms to boost pay as Paul Weiss introduces new UK training contract that dishes out market-topping £180k to its NQs

5 Jul 2024

Paul Weiss adds former General Electric legal chief

Michael Holston joins having worked with Paul Weiss on breakup of GE into separate companies

29 May 2024

Latham, Skadden and Paul Weiss among firms advising on $6.9bn Squarespace take private


Private equity firm Permira is leading the deal, with support from General Atlantic and Accel

14 May 2024

Paul Weiss adds antitrust partner from European Commission for Brussels launch

Henrik Morch joins recent antitrust recruits from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Macfarlanes in new office

9 May 2024

Paul Weiss launches Latin America practice with corporate hire from Willkie Farr

M&A partner Maria-Leticia Ossa Daza joins in New York having founded and led Willkie’s LatAm practice

7 May 2024

Simpson Thacher partner exits ahead of reported Paul Weiss Brussels office launch

Simpson Thacher confirms antitrust partner Ross Ferguson’s departure as Paul Weiss reportedly gears up to open first base in continental Europe

4 Apr 2024

Sidley adds PE M&A lawyer in New York from Paul Weiss

John Godfrey is the 12th Paul Weiss lawyer to decamp to Sidley in past 10 months

2 Apr 2024

Wachtell, Paul Weiss and Vinson & Elkins shepherd Diamondback’s $26bn Endeavor acquisition

Wachtell acts for Diamondback on acquisition that will make it third-biggest producer in largest US oilfield

12 Feb 2024

Paul Weiss secures Dechert’s mass tort co-head in Los Angeles

Kimberly Branscome joins having counselled GSK, 3M and Johnson & Johnson in high-profile litigation

5 Feb 2024

Paul Weiss raids Linklaters again in London for M&A partner

Dan Schuster-Woldan joins as head of European public M&A

1 Feb 2024

White & Case lures private equity heavyweight from Paul Weiss in New York

Taurie Zeitzer joins to co-head PE industry group having co-chaired Paul Weiss’s M&A practice

5 Jan 2024

Paul Weiss unveils latest top-level London lateral: Linklaters’ ex-antitrust head

New York firm adds latest piece to jigsaw in drive to create elite UK law practice

20 Dec 2023

Paul Weiss continues London hiring spree with Clifford Chance partner duo

CC’s London private equity head joins alongside finance specialist just a few months after Paul Weiss’s eight-partner raid on Kirkland

19 Dec 2023

Paul Weiss adds O’Melveny partner to co-chair financial services group

Bank regulatory lawyer Jarryd Anderson joins in Washington DC and New York having also worked at Wells Fargo and TD Bank

14 Nov 2023

Sidley Austin hires private equity team from Paul Weiss in New York

Incoming team includes partners Jeffrey Kochian, Gerald Brant and Brittany Harrison

10 Nov 2023

Around the house: McKesson names GoDaddy CLO as next legal chief, US aid agency MCC hires Paul Weiss counsel as GC

This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments at America’s Public Television Stations, Coincover, Clover Health Investments and Adventist HealthCare

9 Nov 2023

Paul Weiss, Wachtell shepherd Chevron’s $53bn Hess Corp mega merger

Deal marks second major transaction in oil industry this month

24 Oct 2023

Raft of top-tier firms advise on Smurfit Kappa’s $11bn acquisition of WestRock

Advisers include Matheson, Freshfields, Wachtell, Clifford Chance, Cravath and Paul Weiss

12 Sep 2023

Paul Weiss unveils 13-partner transatlantic team after swoop on rival Kirkland

Team includes one partner from Linklaters as Wall Street firm also commits to new LA arm

11 Sep 2023