High-profile. Headline-worthy.

Founded in 1931, for over 90 years our firm has provided pioneering legal services to the world’s largest companies, private equity firms, private funds, and financial institutions. Today, we continue as the firm of choice for our clients on their most complex, sophisticated and high-stakes matters; clients who come to us because of our exceptional lawyers around the globe.

Locations

We are truly global.

Our client base consists of global investors, corporates and financial institutions, with our lawyers providing legal expertise at the highest level.

Americas  Europe Asia
     
Boston Brussels Hong Kong
     
Dallas Frankfurt  
     
Houston London  
     
Los Angeles Munich  
     
Miami Paris  
     
New York    
     
San Francisco    
     
Silicon Valley    
     
Washington, D.C.    

Practice Areas

We are experts in our industry.

  1. 01 Antitrust

    Antitrust is a destination practice that works with a broad range of blue-chip and private equity clients advising them on the most complex multi-jurisdictional merger filings and navigating clients through the ever-increasing scrutiny of mergers and acquisitions by regulators around the world. The team works as one with US and EU based antitrust lawyers, as well as with our corporate and litigation colleagues globally.

  2. 02 Disputes & Investigations

    We are advisors on a wide range of complex commercial litigation, arbitration, investigations and contentious regulatory matters and are the go-to advisors for a number of Weil’s global corporate and private equity clients when they face challenging contentious issues and crisis situations.

  3. 03 Finance

    We have a pre-eminent finance practice that represents both private equity sponsors and bankson the financing of high-value leveraged buyouts, and other financial transactions with areputation as go-to advisors for the largest and most complex financings in the market. Deals are comprised of bank and high yield financings and are international in nature. Our London team regularly works hand-in-hand with our practices across Europe, the US and Asia.

  4. 04 M&A

    We represent some of the world's largest publicly traded and privately held companies on high-stake, complex M&A transactions. Our experience across industries and geographies allows us to guide our clients through these transformative events.

  5. 05 Private Equity

    Weil helped pioneer and shape the private equity industry as we know it today, working on the very first deals and innovating to produce the value creation the PE industry enjoys today. We are leaders in the market with an unrivalled reputation for working on the largest and most innovative domestic and cross-border private equity transactions across all sectors, and we advise more than 300 private equity clients worldwide.

  6. 06 Private Funds

    Our industry-leading Private Funds team is part of an integrated global funds practice, which has a reputation for advising on a broad range of fund sponsors across the private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit and secondaries sectors.

  7. 07 Restructuring

    Weil is one of just a handful of firms with a top-tier global restructuring practice and the London office has advised on some of the largest UK, European and global restructurings and major international insolvency processes. Our broad client base includes financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity houses, distressed creditors, corporates and insolvency practitioners.

  8. 08 Structured Finance

    The London Structured Finance team advises on the full range of securitisation and derivatives transactions. The team has a reputation for structuring new, innovative and bespoke approaches for some of the market’s biggest and most sophisticated players.

  9. 09 Tax

    Our Tax practice is global in scope. More than 50 lawyers across the US and European offices work with multinational clients and private equity sponsors to navigate the complex tax aspects of M&A, restructurings and finance work that cross national borders.

  10. 10 Specialists

    Our key disciplines are complemented by highly specialist teams who facilitate transactions, solve complex problems and provide advice to clients on an on-going basis. These specialist capabilities include: ESG, Intellectual Property, IT and Employment.

Awards

We excel in what we do.

Aspiring Solicitors

All Star Performance in Recruiting Diverse Talent 2023

Legal Cheek

Best Law Firm for Perks 2024

IFLR Americas Awards 2024

Private Equity Deal of the Year (Advent/Maxar)

GCR Awards 2024

Matter of the Year, Merger Control Matter of the Year: Americas, and Merger Control Matter of the Year: Europe

Debtwire’s Western Europe Leveraged Loans and High Yield Bonds Q1 Reports 2024

Ranked #1 for High Yield Bonds Sponsor Backed Issuer’s Legal Counsel and Yankee Issuer’s Legal Counsel categories

Debtwire’s Europe Restructuring Advisory Mandates Report for FY23

Ranked #1 most frequently appointed counsel in European-based restructurings by value and volume

More To Explore

Discover life at Weil.

Related pages