Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Consistently ranked as one of the leading banking and finance practices with several Banking & Finance partners recognized as leaders in their field by Chambers USA and Chambers Global

Extensive and broad-based global practice rooted in a solid understanding of clients’ businesses

Close collaboration with Capital Markets, Structured Finance and Derivatives, and Restructuring practices provides clients with a one-stop shop, streamlining work for the most complex and sophisticated transactions

Located in many of the world’s key financial centers, Weil’s Banking & Finance lawyers are able to provide true international deal execution services and local law advice. Clients appreciate our solid understanding of their businesses and frequently call on Weil to play a key role in many of the world’s most significant and innovative financing transactions. Further evidence of the firm’s top-quality Banking & Finance practice comes from Chambers Global, which describes the firm as a “prime destination for leading financial institutions in complex financing transactions.” In addition, Chambers USA ranked Weil as one of the leading Banking & Finance practices in the United States.  Weil's Banking & Finance practice has also been consistently ranked at the top of the Loan Pricing Corporation's Leveraged Syndicated Lending league tables.  

Clients praise Weil’s Banking & Finance practice for its combination of market expertise and experience and the broad range of capabilities that it offers, including acquisition finance, cash flow and asset based lending, aviation financing, cross-border financing, debtor-in-possession financing, exit financing, restructurings, and investment-grade financing. The practice also works regularly with lawyers from the firm’s Capital Markets and Structured Finance and Derivatives practices on combined senior bank/mezzanine or high-yield bond representations, bridge financings, asset-backed securitizations and other state-of-the-art structured financings. Working closely with the firm’s pre-eminent Restructuring practice has also enabled our Banking & Finance lawyers to develop unparalleled skills in restructuring and debtor-in-possession and exit financings, as well as the ability to analyze insolvency and collateral risks on new money transactions.

Practice Heads

  • Angela Fontana
    Tel: +1 214 746 7895
    Fax: +1 214 746 7777
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  • Douglas Urquhart
    Tel: +1 212 310 8001
    Fax: +1 212 310 8007
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