News About Willkie Farr & Gallagher

Mastercard settles merchant group action in interchange fee litigation

Confidential settlement struck with more than 1,900 businesses

19 Jun 2024

Willkie adds 11-lawyer restructuring team in Germany from Latham

Partners Jörn Kowalewski and Ulrich Klockenbrink join in Frankfurt with team as part of Willkie’s new German strategy

11 Jun 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

Willkie Farr launches in Dallas with Haynes and Boone private equity team

Partners Tom Tippetts, Brandon McCoy and Chase Proctor join from Texan firm as four Willkie private equity partners relocate

7 May 2024

Willkie unveils Munich launch plans and new German leadership

Frankfurt office head Georg Linde becomes German managing partner, alongside co-managing partner Kamyar Abrar


8 Feb 2024

Willkie adds Gibson Dunn partner to co-chair national white collar defence group

Former government lawyer Michael Li-Ming Wong joins in San Francisco and Palo Alto

23 Jan 2024

Willkie adds private equity partner in Houston from Shearman & Sterling

Energy specialist Sarah McLean joins ahead of Shearman’s merger with Allen & Overy

3 Jan 2024

Skadden secures London acquisition finance partner from Willkie

Sebastian FitzGerald joins Wall Street heavyweight after seven years at Willkie

6 Dec 2023

Willkie Farr hires Latham partner in London to co-chair European restructuring group

Simon Baskerville joins as Willkie moves to capitalise on expected uptick in restructuring work

4 Dec 2023

Willkie hires litigation counsel from Google to bolster West Coast investigations practice

Michael Rome joins as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices

28 Nov 2023

Bakers and Willkie advise on Aldi's acquisition of Winn-Dixie, Harveys Supermarket

Deal sees supermarket giant add 400 stores in the Southeastern region of the US

16 Aug 2023

Greenberg Traurig taps Willkie for new European restructuring co-chair in Milan

Bruno Cova will co-chair group alongside John Houghton in London and Claudia Hard in Berlin

3 Apr 2023

Willkie Farr adds top Jan 6. attack investigator to lead compliance and investigations team

Timothy Heaphy joins in Washington DC alongside senior government investigator Soumya Dayanandajoin

14 Feb 2023

Unprecedented £600k ad campaign kicks off to promote £17bn UK consumer claim against Mastercard

Campaign in press and on social media follows Mastercard’s Court of Appeal defeat last week

8 Dec 2022

Willkie Farr hails Court of Appeal win as Mastercard suffers new setback in blockbuster UK consumer claim

Estates of three million deceased UK residents can form part of £14bn group action, court rules

30 Nov 2022

Willkie Farr & Gallagher hires trio of real estate partners from Munger Tolles in LA

Team includes Misty Sanford, who will chair the firm’s West Coast real estate practice

18 Oct 2022

Willkie rehires high-profile US bankruptcy judge Shelley Chapman in New York

Chapman rejoins for her second spell at Willkie, where she will chair its new ADR practice

4 Oct 2022

Willkie opens London arbitration practice with WilmerHale partner hire

Disputes barrister Duncan Speller to lead new practice after almost two decades at WilmerHale

1 Oct 2021

Willkie bulks up LA office with dozens more Venable hires

The New York firm tapped a trio of Venable partners to lead its LA launch earlier this month

16 Sep 2021

Willkie signals California commitment with Los Angeles launch

New office marks the latest instalment of the New York firm's 'strategic' West Coast expansion

3 Sep 2021