Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP fields a deep bench of ‘top tier talent’ that is adept across the entire breadth of commercial litigation, frequently handling class actions in state and federal courts across the United States. Consumer fraud, unfair competition, alter ego liability, insurance, trade secrets litigation, and alleged violations of federal RICO or antitrust laws are among the core pillars of the group’s practice. New York’s David Lender and Gregory Silbert jointly chair the department alongside Washington DC-based Andrew Tulumello. Lender continues to litigate complex business-critical cases, including successful representing several minor league baseball teams as lead trial counsel in connection with significant breach of contract and antitrust litigation brought against Major League Baseball, while trial lawyer Tulumello routinely tries cases before every level of the court system in the United States. Diane Sullivan is based in New Jersey and is a key name when it comes to all aspects of commercial, antitrust, patent, mass tort, and class action cases. Chantale Fiebig is another important contact within the firm’s Washington DC office.
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‘Expertise in every area of law we've needed including corporate law, trial law, employment law. In instances where there have been complex situations they have provided excellent advice at each step.’
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Key clients
- Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC
- ExxonMobil Corporation
- Repsol, S.A.
- Meta Platforms
- Tri-City ValleyCats
- Norwich Sea Unicorns
- IQVIA Holding Inc.
- BNSF Railway
- Visa
- Simon & Schuster
- PepsiCo
- Tarkett Sports
- Comcast Cable Communications
- Nike
- GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc.
- Frontier Communications
- United Therapeutics
- Washington State University
Work highlights
- Acted for Serta Simmons Bedding in Texas bankruptcy court that paved the way for the company to emerge from chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- Represented Spanish energy company Repsol in litigation involving more than a billion dollars in liabilities in connection with the alleged pollution of the Passaic River in New Jersey, one of the EPA’s largest Superfund projects in history.
- Represented Meta in a high-stakes trial victory over the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in which the FTC aimed to block Meta’s acquisition of virtual reality app developer Within Unlimited, Inc.
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David Lender, Gregory Silbert, Andrew Tulumello