News About Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Mastercard settles merchant group action in interchange fee litigation
Confidential settlement struck with more than 1,900 businesses
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
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
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
Willkie unveils Munich launch plans and new German leadership
Frankfurt office head Georg Linde becomes German managing partner, alongside co-managing partner Kamyar Abrar
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
Willkie adds private equity partner in Houston from Shearman & Sterling
Energy specialist Sarah McLean joins ahead of Shearman’s merger with Allen & Overy
Skadden secures London acquisition finance partner from Willkie
Sebastian FitzGerald joins Wall Street heavyweight after seven years at Willkie
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Willkie opens London arbitration practice with WilmerHale partner hire
Disputes barrister Duncan Speller to lead new practice after almost two decades at WilmerHale
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
Willkie signals California commitment with Los Angeles launch
New office marks the latest instalment of the New York firm's 'strategic' West Coast expansion