Weil is and remains committed to supporting the mental health and well-being of our attorneys and staff. In 2019, Weil signed the ABA Well-Being Pledge and formed a Health and Well-Being Committee to promote wellness at the Firm.
At ENS, Weil briefly met Simone de Beauvoir, and their meeting led to disagreement. Weil stated that, "one thing alone mattered in the world today: the revolution that would feed all people on earth", with a young Beauvoir replying that the point of life was to find meaning, not happiness.
Weil’s clients include high-profile private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds, as well as family offices and other equity financial investors.
Weil is hiring antitrust heavyweight Ingo Brinker together with rising star antitrust partner Niklas Brueggemann, bringing the total number of new partner hires in Germany to eight in less than six months.
In 1991 Weil was the first global, non-California law firm to open a Silicon Valley office, in Redwood Shores, California. Later, the firm further spread its practice, notably in non-contentious finance and private equity practice.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is headquartered in New York and has office locations in Austin, Boston, Brussels, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Munich, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C.
Weil has more than 300 lawyers practicing outside of the United States. We have been a pioneer in establishing a geographic footprint that has allowed the Firm to serve clients wherever they do business.
Founded in 1931, Weil has provided legal services to the largest public companies, private equity firms and financial institutions for more than 90 years.