Based in Washington and New York, our U.S. domestic practice is among the strongest in the nation. Our top-tier clients call on us when faced with cutting-edge corporate and litigation assignments. We represent multinational corporations, financial institutions and sovereign governments on innovative matters that set precedents and define standards in the United States and all over the world.
Cleary Gottlieb was the first truly global U.S. law firm. We opened our first international office in Paris in 1949 and have since established integrated offices in London, Brussels, Frankfurt, Cologne, Rome, Milan, Moscow, Hong Kong and Beijing.
- Chambers and Partners inaugural International Law Firm of the Year.
- Ranked in the top 10 of The American Lawyer’s “A-List” – a measure of diversity, revenue, associate satisfaction and pro bono – every year since the list’s inception in 2003.
- Repeatedly recognized with “firm of the year” honors, our antitrust team is preeminent in both U.S. and European competition law.
- Our Washington D.C. based U.S. antitrust group, which handles mergers as well as criminal and civil litigation matters, is consistently ranked in the top tier, both nationwide and in D.C., by Chambers USA.
- Chambers USA notes our financial institutions practice “has dominated on a spate of headline-grabbing rescue operations, recapitalizations and regulatory transformations” during the recent financial crisis. It also ranked the group among the top tier in the areas of regulatory compliance, regulatory enforcement and investigations, and financial institutions M&A.
- Chambers USA describes our litigation practice as “blazing a trail” in complex commercial litigation and sovereign litigation, and we are a leading firm in international arbitration.
- Our award-winning capital markets team continues to pioneer the most novel transactions both in the United States and around the world.
- M&A matters include some of the most challenging and high-profile acquisitions, hostile takeovers and leveraged buy-outs of recent years in the U.S. and abroad.
- Peerless in our sovereign practice, the firm has advised more than 25 countries in privatizations, financings and external debt matters.
- LatinFinance magazine awarded Cleary Gottlieb “Best Law Firm” in Latin America for the past 20 years.
- Our U.S.-based lawyers also play an active role in our Africa, China, Korea, Middle East and Russia practices.
- Collectively our lawyers speak more than 50 languages and were born in more than 50 countries.