Cleary Gottlieb has extensive experience representing prominent American corporations, including some of the world’s largest, in virtually all industries including mining and metals, energy, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, airlines and aerospace, technology, media and advertising, telecom, food and beverages, industrial services and banking and other financial services. We are equally skilled in advising international Fortune 500 companies as we are smaller organizations with their most challenging legal matters. Our lawyers advise boards of directors and their special committees, general counsels, legal departments, and senior management principally in the areas of contests for corporate control, M&A, fiduciary duties, capital markets, governance, antitrust, litigation, bankruptcy and restructuring, tax, environmental, and employee benefits and executive compensation.
For more than 60 years, Cleary Gottlieb has been recognized as one of the leading law firms in the United States. With more than 650 lawyers working in the United States, our New York and Washington offices share corporate and litigation expertise, ensuring blanket coverage and “one stop” legal shopping for our clients. In 2012, Chambers USA distinguished two-thirds of the firm’s U.S.-based partners as “leaders” in their respective fields.
As a single, integrated global firm, our 14 offices across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America also frequently advise our U.S. corporate clients in connection with their cross-border matters. For example, in the area of merger control, our antitrust experts in Europe routinely collaborate with their counterparts and M&A lawyers in the United States to offer clients a unified strategy to expedite approval, taking into account the different legal standards in each country where a transaction will require clearance.
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Highlights of our U.S. Corporate practice include:
- Representing both public and private corporations in recommended and hostile deals including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, tender offers, share sales and purchases, and minority investments, including in many of the largest and most high profile domestic and cross-border M&A deals to date.
- Advising the boards of leading U.S. companies on fiduciary duties, governance, contests for corporate control, sale of control and disclosure matters.
- Advising top-tier U.S. issuers in their capital markets transactions, including the efficient execution of debt and equity offerings as well as understanding, structuring and executing sophisticated and complex transactions.
- Advising on the antitrust aspects of many of the most challenging transactions in the most highly regulated industries and on many of the largest and most celebrated transactions of the last decade.
- Advising in the multiple dimensions of litigations, including securities, mergers and acquisitions, white-collar defense and investigations, agency and regulatory, intellectual property, products liability, environmental, bankruptcy, employment and pension issues, and antitrust.
- Advising debtors, creditors’ committees, investors and trustees in complex and high-profile out-of-court restructurings, Chapter 11 cases, ancillary and cross-border proceedings, as well as both buyers and sellers in distressed M&A transactions.
- Creative and constructive tax planning, developing solutions to complex problems, promptly and effectively responding to innovation in the financial markets, and advising on the taxation of transactions.
- Advising on all aspects of employee benefit plan regulation and compensation issues.
- Assisting clients with their most important transactions and most delicate questions.
M&A Practice Group of the Year,
Antitrust Practice Group of the Year
Law360 (2013)
Competition/Antitrust Law Firm of the Year
Chambers Global (2012, 2013)
Diversity Firm of the Year
Benchmark Litigation (2013)
International Trade and Finance Firm of the Year
U.S. News & World Report - Best Lawyers' Best Law Firms (2013)
North America Equity Issue
(AIG's $20.7 billion follow on)
International Financing Review (2013)
Highly Commended Firm for Corporate
(Family Dollar's hostile takeover bid from Trian)
Financial Times - U.S. Innovative Lawyers Report (2012)
Standout Firm for Litigation
(Setting the strategy in Madoff-related cases)
Financial Times - U.S. Innovative Lawyers Report (2012)
Commended Firm for Intellectual Property
(Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility)
Financial Times - U.S. Innovative Lawyers Report (2012)
Commended Firm for Business of Law
(Cleary Gottlieb's two-week Mini MBA Program)
Financial Times - U.S. Innovative Lawyers Report (2012)
Pro Bono Firm of the Year
Law360 (2012)
U.S. Law Firm of the Year
Legal Business (2011)
Top Two Elite Competition Firm
Global Competition Review (2011, 2012, 2013)
Competition/Antitrust Firm of the Year
U.S. News & World Report - Best Lawyers' Best Law Firms (2011, 2012)
Competition/Antitrust Firm of the Year
Chambers USA (2011)
Tax Firm of the Year
Chambers USA (2011)
Go-To Law Firm (IP, Litigation, Securities,
Corporate, International)
Corporate Counsel (2011)
Top 3 Innovative Law Firm
Financial Times' U.S. Innovative Lawyers (2011)
Standout Firm for Technology, Media and Telecoms
(Nortel Networks' patent auction)
Financial Times' U.S. Innovative Lawyers (2011)
Standout Firm for Finance
(AIG's re-IPO)
Financial Times' U.S. Innovative Lawyers (2011)
Standout Firm for Business of Law
(Regulatory reform initiative)
Financial Times' U.S. Innovative Lawyers (2011)
#1 Go-To Firm for Corporate Transactions
Corporate Counsel’s “Who Represents America's Biggest Companies” Survey (2009 and 2010)
North America Tax Firm of the Year
International Tax Review (2011)
Standout Firm for Financial Services
(Citi's capital raising and TARP repayment)
Financial Times' U.S. Innovative Lawyers (2010)
#1 U.S. Equity & Equity-Related Managers’ Counsel
Thomson Reuters, 2012 Rankings (Value)
#2 U.S. Straight Debt Issuers’ Counsel
Thomson Reuters, 2012 Rankings (Value)
#3 U.S. Corporates Issuers’ Counsel
Bloomberg, 2012 Rankings (Volume)
Americas M&A Deal of the Year
(Barclays’ acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ assets)
International Financial Law Review (2009)
Two of the Top Ten Business Deals of the Year
(HP's acquisition of EDS and
Google's acquisition of AdMob)
TIME (2009)
“This high-end U.S. outfit has a distinctly international outlook. … The firm wins universal acclaim for its corporate work and is acknowledged as a global force in the banking and finance sector. It is one of very few firms to have actually boosted performance during the financial crisis, thanks primarily to regulatory and restructuring work. … Its client base is rich in blue chips impressed with Cleary's ability to ‘digest the commercial issues and communicate our concerns.’”
Chambers Global (2011)
“Cleary Gottlieb is considered to outstrip many of its peers when a merger or dispute demands expertise on both domestic and international fronts. ‘Without a doubt deserving of its place among the US elite,’ the substantial team has maintained a superb reputation for antitrust work over the years and continues to represent the world’s largest companies in complex and high-stake matters in the most closely monitored industries.”
Chambers Global (2010)
“‘Very good in negotiations and very smart at solving problems. They tend to be better than others on the bigger regulatory issues.’”
“Cleary Gottlieb is arguably one of the leaders for international work, advising foreign parties entering the US market. The group benefits from the firm’s strong European presence, while utilizing the resources of the New York and Washington, DC offices to conduct nationwide work. … ‘You get a lot of partner attention.’”
Chambers USA (2010)
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