At Cleary Gottlieb we recognize that not all of our associates will choose to remain here for their entire professional careers. And our network of stellar alumni is among our proudest achievements. The range of impressive positions that our alumni hold reflects both the quality of Cleary Gottlieb legal training and our global reach. For those associates who decide to move on, we actively assist in placement with both clients and others.
We are both humbled and gratified that so many of our alumni choose to remain in close contact with the firm after they leave. Many of them are among our best clients.
Our alumni have gone on to join the legal departments of corporations and financial institutions, work for the government, teach at universities, and even pursue fields completely outside of the law. We count among our alumni:
- 11 Judges
- A former UN General Assembly President
- Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of IMAX
- A former U.S. Treasury Secretary
- More than 30 hedge fund and private equity executives
- Three senior partners at private equity firms
- More than 300 investment banking and finance executives
- General Counsels of Burger King, DoubleClick, 3M, XM Satellite Radio, Capital One, several large hedge funds, several large private equity funds and numerous international corporations, as well as non-profit organizations such as the Guggenheim Museum
- Senior officers at Nike, Yahoo!, Ann Taylor, Adobe, The New York Times, HBO and the NHL
- A former Economics Minister of Belgium
- The head of Business and Legal Affairs at Paramount Pictures
- 91 law professors
- Six published fiction authors
- 22 United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund officials
- A former Vice-Chairman of Schering, now President of the German Accounting Standards Committee