Weil, Gotshal & Manges Культура компании

Mr. Michael S. (Mike) Francies serves as London Managing partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Mr. Francies also serves as Partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Mr. Francies also serves as Managing Partner of the London Office at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Announces management Appointments. He is also a member of its Management Committee and helps to coordinate the European practice. He is experienced in public and private mergers & acquisitions, equity issues, private equity/venture capital/LBOs/MBOs, joint ventures and corporate restructuring work. Clients include private equity funds as well as major corporates and financial advisers. He is listed as a leading individual in The Legal 500 (for M&A and private equity), Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession (for M&A and private equity), and IFLR (for Private Equity). He was awarded Partner of the Year by The Lawyer Awards and was named as one of the UK's Hot 100 lawyers by The Lawyer magazine. He has also been named 'Deal Lawyer of the Year' at the Legal Business Awards. He was listed in The Times' 'Law 100: UK's Most Powerful Lawyers' in 2008. He holds a LLB from Manchester University in 1978 and LSF from College of Law, London in 1979.

Mr. Glenn D. West is a Managing Partner/Partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Mr. West's practice concentrates on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance for domestic and international clients. He maintains an office in both New York and Dallas. Mr. West has developed a diverse corporate practice both nationally and internationally. He regularly represents private equity firms in acquiring and making investments in public and private companies. Mr. West also represents public and private companies (including the portfolio companies of private equity firms) in acquisitions and financings; and he is regularly called upon to provide general corporate and crisis management advice to boards and their management. Mr. West has also developed an expertise in the acquisition and financing of sports teams and their facilities. His representative private equity and merger and acquisition transactions include the combination of Swett & Crawford and Cooper Gay, the refinancing and sale of equity interests in Isola USA Corp., the sale of Canadian Phone Directories, the acquisition and subsequent sale of Alliant Insurance Services, the acquisition, financing and subsequent sale of Key Safety Systems, the acquisition of the Base Chemicals and Polymers Business of Huntsman Corporation, the acquisition of Brock Holdings, the investments in Aviv Healthcare Properties, Brightstar Corp and Crane & Co., the acquisition of Susser Holdings, the acquisition of the Brunswick Pulp and Paper Mill, the sale of Koch industries??? Mid-Continent NGL assets to Oneok, Inc., and the acquisition, financing and subsequent sale of Champagne Perrier-Jou???t. His representative sports related transactions include the acquisition, financing and subsequent sale of the Texas Rangers Major League Baseball Club, the acquisition, financing and subsequent sale of the Tampa Bay Lightning Hockey Club, the acquisition, financing and subsequent sale of the Dallas Stars Hockey Club, the acquisition and financing of the Liverpool Football Club & Athletic Grounds, and the project financing for the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Practical Law Company, Inc. Mr. West is a member of the Board of Directors of the Vogel Alcove Childcare Center for the Homeless in Dallas, Texas, and was co-chair for the 2004 Vogel Alcove Arts Performance Event. Mr. West was named Best Lawyers??? 2013 Dallas Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year and 2010 Dallas Corporate Lawyer of the Year, was ranked #1 in Corporate/M&A in Texas and also as a leading lawyer for private equity nationwide for 2010, 2011 and 2012 by Chambers USA. In 2009 and in 2012 Mr. West received the Burton Award for Legal Writing Achievement. Mr. West is a frequent speaker and has authored numerous Private Equity and M&A related articles, some of which include: Protecting the Integrity of the Entity-Specific Contract: The No Recourse Against Others Clause???Missing or Ineffective Boilerplate (November 2011, The Business Lawyer); Contracting to Avoid Extra-Contractual Liability???Can Your Contractual Deal Ever Really Be the Entire Deal (August 2009, The Business Lawyer); Reassessing the ???Consequences??? of Consequential Damage Waivers in Acquisition Agreements (May 2008, The Business Lawyer); and Debunking the Myth of the Sandbagging Buyer: When Sellers Ask Buyers to Agree to Anti-Sandbagging Clauses, Who Is Sandbagging Whom (January 2007, The M&A Lawyer). Mr. West is a Member of Bar Admissions: District of Columbia; England & Wales (Solicitor); New York State; and State of Texas. Mr. West is dual-qualified as a US lawyer and an English solicitor. Mr. West holds BA from Tarleton State in 1975 and JD from Texas Tech Univ Law in 1978.

Ms. Randi W. Singer has been employed at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in the position of Partner since November 2006. Ms. Singer has extensive experience with Lanham Act false advertising and trademark cases, as well as with other intellectual property, media, music licensing and First Amendment issues. Ms. Singer has successfully represented and counseled clients on a wide variety of advertising issues involving a broad spectrum of consumer products and services, such as over-the-counter drugs, cosmetics, luxury goods and consumer electronics, including TRO and preliminary injunction actions in federal court, litigations, proceedings before the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau and its National Advertising Review Board, and in TV network challenges. Ms. Singer also focuses on technology development and licensing agreements and has successfully represented clients in both licensing deals and complex M&A transactions. She provided extensive legal support to NYC2012, New York City's bid for the 2012 Olympics, drafting and negotiating contracts for outdoor advertising venues across the city for the period of the Olympic Games in order to prevent ambush marketing. She also drafted the executive order setting up the Mayor's Enforcement Board on Olympic Brand Protection. Ms. Singer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. After receiving her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Ms. Singer clerked for the Honorable Richard Owen, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. She currently serves as the secretary for the Consumer Protection Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Mr. David Lender has been a Co-Head of Litigation Department Globally at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP since March 28, 2012. Mr. Lender serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Practical Law Company, Inc. He is Co-Chairman of Weil's global Litigation Department and has over 20 years of experience trying and litigating a wide range of complex, international commercial disputes in state and federal courts around the country. Mr. Lender's practice encompasses all substantive areas of the law, with emphasis on RICO, patent, antitrust, consumer fraud and contracts. In those and other types of litigation, he has tried numerous cases to verdict ' many of which have resulted in his clients obtaining, or avoiding, hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. Recently, serving as Co-Lead Counsel for General Electric, Mr. Lender secured a $170 million jury verdict against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. in a patent infringement litigation in Texas federal court regarding wind turbine technology ' a significant victory in GE's dispute with Mitsubishi that The Wall Street Journal called 'closely watched in the estimated $12 billion U.S. market for wind energy equipment.' Mr. Lender, who was recognized as one of The American Lawyer's 'Litigators of the Week' for his role in obtaining this verdict, also won summary judgment in 2012 dismissing a related $80 million patent infringement action in Florida federal court. Mr. Lender's other significant trial achievements have likewise resolved highly complex disputes that were global in scope. He won a complete defense jury verdict for ESPN in New York Supreme Court in a $231 million lawsuit brought by Modi Entertainment Network regarding the launch of the ESPN channel in India, a case requiring the application of both New York and Indian law. Mr. Lender also won a $417 million jury verdict for Exxon Mobil Corporation against Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, one of the largest petrochemical companies in the world, in Delaware Superior Court, where he asserted claims for breach of contract and usurpation under Saudi Arabian law. Across several practice areas, he has played an instrumental role in protecting his clients' valuable technology, much of which gears the ubiquitous products and daily transactions underpinning the economy today. In 2013, he won summary judgment for Microsoft dismissing a patent infringement action relating to an invention that enables certain capabilities of speech recognition software. In 2012, Mr. Lender won a major appellate victory for StubHub before the North Carolina Court of Appeals, which, on an issue of first impression, ruled that StubHub was immune from liability under the federal Communications Decency Act for the unlawful price of concert tickets resold by third parties on its website ' a decision of critical importance to Internet websites and the growth of e-commerce. In 2013, Financial Times highlighted Mr. Lender's work on this and other matters in the 'Lawyers to the Innovators' section of the publication's annual 'US Innovative Lawyers' report. Earlier, on behalf of Nuance Communications, he obtained as lead counsel the favorable settlement of a patent infringement litigation regarding error correction technology in voice recognition software, which enables features in many products, including cellular phones.

MS. Elaine Stangland is a Partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Ms. Stangland concentrates her practice in complex international and domestic banking and financial transactions, including acquisition finance, asset based lending, project finance and restructurings. She has represented the United States as well as domestic and foreign banks and other institutional lenders on a wide variety of cross-border and domestic matters. Before joining Weil Gotshal, Ms. Stangland was the Deputy General Counsel of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the official export credit agency of the United States and was a partner with the law firm Sidley & Austin (now Sidley Austin Brown & Wood). Ms. Stangland received her B.A., cum laude, and J.D. from the University of California, in Los Angeles. She is admitted in New York, California and the District of Columbia.

Mr. Howard B. Dicker is a Partner in the Corporate Department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP. Mr. Dicker has a diverse corporate practice, including mergers and acquisitions, financings, securities offerings, venture capital investments and restructurings. He also advises numerous companies regarding securities law issues, disclosure and compliance matters as well as on executive compensation and corporate governance. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Dicker was an auditor and tax consultant (senior) at Price Waterhouse in New York. There, he focused on broker-dealers in securities and commodities. He is licensed as a certified public accountant. Mr. Dicker's recent publications include 'Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance,' which is Chapter 3 in A Practical Guide to SEC Proxy and Compensation Rules, 3rd Edition, 2003 Supplement (with Robert Todd Lang and Spencer G. Smul), published by Aspen Law and Business. He is also co-editor of the Corporate Department's newsletter, The Corporate Charter. Mr. Dicker is a Member of the Accounting Advisory Board at University at Albany School of Business.

Mr. Frank P. Nocco is a Partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Mr. Nocco is the Co-Head of the Structured Finance/Derivatives Group in New York and works closely with his counterparts in London and in other offices worldwide. He specializes in representing issuers, underwriters, credit enhancers and trustees in structured and corporate securities offerings, both in the U.S. and abroad. Generally, Mr. Nocco has participated in the securitization of auto loans, commercial loans, student loans, franchisee loans, mortgage loans, and equipment loans, credit card receivables (both MasterCard/Visa and private label), trade receivables, equipment and vehicle leases, high-yield and other non-conventional assets, such as royalty receivables, oil and gas production payments, synthetic securities and various other derivative products, insurance premium finance contracts and intellectual property. He is experienced in structuring single-seller and multi-seller commercial paper vehicles, owner trusts, master trusts, grantor trusts, REMIC's and off-shore and domestic special purpose corporation vehicles that can issue a variety of debt and equity securities, including collateralized loan obligations and collateralized bond obligations. He also has experience with other kinds of securities work such as initial public offerings and subordinated debt offerings. Mr. Nocco was named a leading practitioner in (i) the area of Capital Markets: Securitisation in Chambers Global ' The World's Leading Lawyers 2002-2003 and in Chamber USA - America's Leading Business Lawyers 2003-2004, (ii) the 2002 Edition of Law Business Research's International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, (iii) Euromoney Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Structured Finance Lawyers, and (iv) the 2001 Edition of Law Business Research's An International Who's Who of Securitisation Lawyers. Mr. Nocco has spoken at various industry conferences and most recently spoke at the 2003 ABA Annual meeting on the topic of True Sale and Non-Consolidation Opinions. Mr. Nocco received his law degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1988, and his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1985, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Mr. Michael Jones is a Partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. He is the Head of the London Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team. Both as a Barrister and Solicitor Advocate, Mr Jones has an established reputation in the resolution of international commercial disputes. His practice is centred on the Commercial Court and Chancery Division of the High Court and in arbitrations conducted under the rules of many different bodies, including the ICC, LCIA, Lloyd's and several shipping, trading or commodity organisations. He has acted in a wide range of matters for clients in the financial, commercial and manufacturing sectors. He has also appeared for a number of overseas governments and departments of state. His case load has included disputes in various financial markets, banking and insurance, mergers and acquisitions, directors' and auditors' duties, commercial fraud and related matters (frequently involving multi-jurisdictional proceedings), as well as more general claims arising from international trade and investment and joint ventures. In the course of his career, Michael has appeared in several leading cases which have helped define the role of the UK courts in providing emergency measures to locate, secure and recover assets in or obtain evidence from other countries and has extensive experience in the use of courts in support of arbitral or other legal proceedings outside the UK and in the enforcement of awards. He has advised on matters involving many jurisdictions including the US, most of the member states of the EU, China, Czech Republic, Japan, Russia, Switzerland and several other Asian, European and Caribbean countries and the Gulf states. Michael is a graduate of Oxford University and holds a Master's Degree in Jurisprudence as well as further professional qualifications from the Inns of Court School of Law, London.

Mr. Y. Shukie Grossman is a Partner in the Corporate Department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP. He has extensive experience representing U.S. and non-U.S. private equity fund sponsors in structuring and marketing domestic and offshore private investment vehicles. He has also negotiated numerous employment agreements on behalf of, and economic sharing arrangements among, private equity fund sponsors and merchant banking executives. In addition, Mr. Grossman has negotiated the terms of a number of significant investments in prominent private equity funds, real estate funds, venture capital funds and operating companies on behalf of certain institutional investors. He also advises asset managers generally with respect to the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and assists companies contemplating securities offerings, acquisitions, mergers and project financings in structuring such transactions. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Grossman spent several years in the Division of Investment Management of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and in private practice with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Mr. Grossman holds a B.A. in English Literature from Yeshiva University and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.

Mr. Thomas Schmid is employed at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in the position of Partner in Munich. He focuses on private equity as well as mergers & acquisitions. He has considerable experience in both cross-border and national transactions. He also worked as an in-house counsel of MAN AG.