Corporate

The world’s largest multinational corporations, most distinguished international investment banks, private equity funds and hedge funds, as well as emerging businesses and small entrepreneurs rely on Paul Weiss's Corporate Department to resolve their thorniest legal and business challenges.

Paul, Weiss corporate lawyers offer a multifaceted practice that combines the capabilities of 170 lawyers across borders, industries and practice areas. Skilled practitioners from our Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity Transactions, Capital Markets and Securities, Finance, Investment Funds, Corporate Governance and Intellectual Property practice groups collaborate in appropriately focused multidepartmental teams and in partnership with our clients to achieve outstanding results. And where appropriate, we call upon the unsurpassed capabilities of the Paul, Weiss Litigation Department to help our clients avoid controversies and evaluate risks by drawing upon the critical business insight derived from our complex litigation experience.

Our clients demand insightful, business-oriented legal advice to make sound strategic and tactical decisions. They also demand perspective and innovation. By offering a broad cross-section of legal experience combined with an intimate knowledge of our client’s objectives, we are able to provide creative, value-added and unconventional solutions that move beyond the standard legal response. Ultimately, we believe it is our broad perspective and creativity that distinguishes us from our peers. Successful businesses need more than legal scribes; they demand trusted advisors and counselors with insight and imagination. They demand Paul, Weiss.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Paul, Weiss has had a preeminent mergers and acquisitions practice for more than 50 years, during which time the firm has been involved in some of the most highly publicized merger, acquisition, divestiture and takeover transactions across the globe. Our Mergers and Acquisitions Group consistently ranks among the world's leading practices and has played a role in groundbreaking transactions that have served to define principles of Delaware takeover law, such as Revlon, Time Warner/Paramount and Hollinger. Tradition and perspective, as well as innovation and vision, provide the underpinnings of our strength and value as legal advisers.

The diversity of our practice is one of our greatest strengths. On behalf of businesses and investment firms of all sizes across a wide spectrum of industry sectors, we handle a full range of negotiated and contested transactions, including:

stock and asset acquisitions of public and private companies
divestitures
leveraged buyouts
tender offers and proxy contests
joint ventures
recapitalizations
rights offerings
"going private" transactions
spin-offs and carve-outs
strategic investments
restructurings and workouts.

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Private Equity Transactions

The Paul, Weiss Private Equity and Venture Capital Group ranks among the country’s most active and highly regarded. We regularly represent buyout and investment firms, including general partners, limited partners, co-investors and other equity stakeholders, as well as private companies, portfolio companies, lenders and financial sponsor groups.

Finding value in today’s private equity marketplace requires the steady and practiced application of skills at each point along the investment continuum, from choosing the right investment to realizing its value through disposition, initial public offering, or recapitalization. Successful execution of a private equity transaction requires seamless performance by professionals who can bring deep experience to the task without losing overall vision and coordination. Our multi-disciplinary Private Equity Group is focused on providing a full range of services to clients engaged in recapitalizations, acquisitions, divestitures, securities offerings, investments, buyouts, financings and other transactions. We work closely with the firm’s tax, employee benefits, finance and bankruptcy lawyers, bringing together experience-based creativity and the wide range of skills necessary to achieve our clients’ objectives. The Paul, Weiss culture of teamwork and continuity of personnel ensures that our private equity clients have a stable team of skilled lawyers available to help meet their needs in buying, selling and financing throughout the investment cycle. [Click here for more]

Capital Markets and Securities

The Paul, Weiss Capital Markets and Securities Group regularly represents U.S. and non-U.S. issuers, as well as underwriters, initial purchasers and placement agents, with regard to U.S. and global offerings of securities and stock exchange listings. We routinely handle debt, equity and hybrid securities offerings of all types on behalf of issuers and underwriters, which in the U.S. include registered public offerings, Rule 144A offerings, Regulation S offerings and private placements. We represent issuers, officers, directors and shareholders in connection with their reporting and other obligations under the U.S. securities laws. We also serve our corporate clients and financial advisers in their corporate finance transactions and provide general representation of U.S. and non-U.S. broker-dealers, investment funds and investment advisers. A significant portion of our practice involves the representation through our offices in New York, London and Tokyo of non-U.S. issuers, particularly Canadian, European and Japanese companies in cross-border securities offerings. [Click here for more]

Finance

Clients rely on the Paul, Weiss Finance Group for our ability to help them navigate the legal complexities of novel and complex financing structures. Our Finance practitioners are versatile lawyers who work closely with our corporate, tax, real estate and bankruptcy lawyers as needed to provide seamless advice and innovative solutions that address financing needs related to acquisitions and capital structure. The Finance Group has particular experience in Acquisition Finance, Structured Finance and Securitization, Leveraged Lease and Equipment Finance, and Project Finance and Infrastructure. [Click here for more]

Investment Funds

The Paul, Weiss Investment Funds Group conducts a multi-faceted asset management practice that focuses on the organization, fund raising, registration, compliance and administration of private and public investment funds, as well as mergers and acquisitions of asset management companies and the liquidation of investment advisers. We offer our clients depth of experience from a group of investment funds lawyers who have established a strong record of creative product development. [Click here for more]

Corporate Governance

Paul, Weiss has been a leader in advising clients on corporate governance matters for many years. Our attorneys have extensive experience in the corporate governance area and have been called upon to provide counsel on a wide range of matters. The corporate scandals of the past few years produced an extraordinary regulatory response from the Securities and Exchange Commission and our nation’s major stock exchanges. The enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 represents perhaps the most sweeping revision of our nation’s securities laws since their enactment.

Our experience in corporate governance ranges from providing guidance on applicable securities laws and other regulatory regimes to assisting in the development of effective compliance programs. As part of our general representation of public company clients, we regularly prepare or review internal corporate policies addressing legal and governance matters. We also prepare more general codes of conduct and business ethics, and advise on the full range of relevant issues. [Click here for more]

Intellectual Property

Lawyers in the transactional Intellectual Property Group at Paul, Weiss combine their valuable experience as transactional lawyers with knowledge of all areas of law affecting intellectual property assets to transcend typical approaches to the practice of intellectual property law. We offer boutique-style intellectual property support buttressed by the substantial resources of a full-service firm. We are versatile, experienced transactional lawyers who understand the interplay of business objectives, practical pressures and time. We are responsive, creative problem-solvers with deal savvy and a will to close. Our team is involved in virtually every transaction that passes through our Corporate Department, yet our lawyers also have clients who come to Paul, Weiss specifically for the protection, or exploitation, of their intellectual property assets. We regularly tackle complicated and evolving intellectual property issues both in the context of transactions and in response to strategic or regulatory questions brought by our clients. [Click here for more]

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