Recent Accolades

Weil advises global clients on a broad range of high-profile matters. The Firm is consistently recognized by publications and data providers that cover the legal and financial industries for its success across practice areas and departments.
  • Most Innovative Law Firm – Enabling Business Resilience
    Financial Times North America Innovative Lawyers 2022
     
  • Most Innovative Law Firm – Using Data
    Financial Times Europe Innovative Lawyers 2022
     
  • Litigation Department of the Year: Class Actions
    New York Law Journal 2023
     
  • Ranked Among Top Firms for Antitrust and Competition
    Global Competition Review’s GCR 100 2023
     
  • Top 20 U.S. Trial Firm
    Benchmark Litigation 2023
     
  • Top 10 Firm Globally
    Global Restructuring Review 2022
     
  • Private Equity Practice Group of the Year
    Law360 2022
     
  • Copyright Firm of the Year
    Managing Intellectual Property Americas Awards 2023
     
  • Litigation Department of the Year – Honorable Mention, General Litigation
    The American Lawyer 2022
     
  • Ranked as Top Tax Advisory Firm
    International Tax Review 2023
     
  • Top Enforcement and Litigation Firm
    • World Trademark Review 2023
     
  • Ranked Among the Top Firms Globally for Corporate Investigations
    • Global Investigation Review’s GIR 100 2015-2022
     
  • Loan Deal of the Year
    IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards 2023
     
  • Cross-Border Deal of the Year
    • China Business Law Journal 2022
     
  • Finance and M&A Deals of the Year
    China Law & Practice Awards 2022  
     
  • Private Equity Deal of the Year
    IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards 2022
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  • Dealmaker of the Year
    • The American Lawyer 2023
     
  • Dealmaker of the Year
    • New York Law Journal 2023
     
  • Two Partners Named Among Most Influential Lawyers
    • Financial News 2023
     
  • Two Partners Named Top Women In Dealmaking
    • The Deal 2022-2023
     
  • Lifetime Achievement Award
    • New York Law Journal 2023
     
  • Notable LGBTQIA+ Leader
    • Crain’s New York Business 2023
     
  • Managing Partner of the Year
    • Corporate Counsel’s Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards 2023
     
  • Two Partners Named Notable Women in Law
    • Crain’s New York Business 2023
     
  • Most Powerful and Influential Business Leader
    • D CEO’s Dallas 500 2023
     
  • Thought Leadership Honoree
    • Corporate Counsel’s Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards 2023
     
  • Thirty-four Partners Named Trailblazers
    • The National Law Journal 2015-2023
     
  • Two Partners Named Top Women in Litigation
    • Benchmark Litigation 2023
     
  • Partner Named Among 20 Most Influential Private Equity Lawyers
    • Private Equity News 2023
     
  • Outstanding Restructuring Lawyer
    • Turnarounds & Workouts 2023
     
  • Ten Partners Named Leading U.S. Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers
    • Lawdragon 2023
     
  • Five Partners Named Among IAM Global Leaders
    • IAM Global Leaders Guide 2023
     
  • Ten Partners Recognized as Leading Tax Advisors
    • International Tax Review 2023
     
  • Two Partners Named Among the 500 Leading Lawyers in America
    • Lawdragon 2023
     
  • Three Partners Named Best Lawyers
    • D Magazine 2023
     
  • Partner Named Among Top M&A Lawyers in Asia
    • Thomson Reuters Asian Legal Business 2023      
     
  • Lifetime Achievement Award
    • Corporate Secretary’s Corporate Governance Awards 2022
     
  • Impact Dealmaker
    • The Deal 2022
     
  • Litigator of the Year
    • The American Lawyer 2022
     
  • Securities Litigator of the Year
    • Benchmark Litigation 2022
     
  • Directorship 100 Honoree
    • NACD Directorship 2017-2022
     
  • Innovation Award
    • New York Law Journal 2022
     
  • MVP
    • Law360 2022
     
  • Five Partners Named Lawyers of the Year
    • Euromoney Women in Business Law Awards 2022
     
  • Six Partners Named Among Top Women Leaders Globally
    • IFLR1000 2022
     
  • Twenty-one Partners Named Top Women in Business Law
    • Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides 2022
     

  • Global DEI Director Recognized as Top Diversity & Inclusion Officer
    Crain’s New York Business 2021
     
  • Awarded Mansfield Certification Plus for Promoting Diverse Talent
    Diversity Lab 2022
     
  • International Firm of the Year for Work-Life Balance and Firm of the Year for the Northeast Region
    Euromoney Legal Media Group Americas Women in Business Law Awards 2020
     
  • Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality: 100% Rating in the Corporate Equality Index
    Human Rights Campaign Foundation 2022
     
  • Most Inclusive Firm for LGBT+ Lawyers
    Chambers Diversity & Inclusion Awards 2019
     
  • Best International Firm for Talent Management
    Euromoney Americas Awards 2019
     
  • Top 10 for Innovations in Diversity
    Profiles in Diversity Journal 2018
     
  • Leadership and Excellence in Inclusion and Diversity Award
    Morgan Stanley Legal Compliance and Division 2016
     
  • Senior Partner Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
    9/11 Memorial & Museum 2022
     
  • Pro Bono: Lawyer of the Year
    Chambers Diversity & Inclusion: North America Awards 2022
     
  • Ranked Among the Best Law Firms for Pro Bono in the U.K.
    Law.com International 2022
     
  • International Pro Bono Excellence Award
    Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice 2019
     
  • Pro Bono Publico Award
    The Legal Aid Society 2019
     
  • Changemaker Award
    Center for Constitutional Rights 2018
     
  • CSR Program of the Year
    Legal Business Awards 2018
     
  • Best International Firm for Pro Bono Work
    Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards 2018
     
  • Standout Recognition for Rule of Law and Access to Justice
    Financial Times’ North America Innovative Lawyers Report 2017
     
  • Pro Bono Leadership Award
    Legal Services NYC 2017
     
  • Innovation Award
    Thomson Reuters TrustLaw Awards 2017
     
  • Most Valuable Law Firm
    International Refugee Assistance Project 2017
     
  • Cornerstone Award for Distinguished Service
    Lawyers Alliance for New York 2016
     
  • Named to Pro Bono Hot List
    National Law Journal 2016
     
  • Guardian of Justice Award
    Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County 2016
     
  • 17 practice area and 27 individual rankings
    Chambers Europe 2023
     
  • 11 practice area and 40 lawyer recommendations
    Benchmark Litigation 2021
     
  • 57 practice area and 130 lawyer recommendations
    Chambers USA 2022
     
  • 40 practice area and 54 lawyer recommendations
    Chambers Global 2023
     
  • 19 practice area and 28 lawyer recommendations
    Chambers Europe 2022
     
  • 4 practice area and 4 lawyer recommendations
    Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021
     
  • 11 practice area and 70 lawyer recommendations
    IFLR1000 United States 2022
     
  • All of Weil Asia’s practice areas and partners recommended
    IFLR1000 Asia-Pacific 2022
     
  • 5 practice area and 27 lawyer recommendations
    IFLR1000 UK 2021
     
  • 51 practice area and 194 lawyer recommendations
    Legal 500 United States 2022
     
  • Advised on more than 100 $1 billion+ deals in the last 12 months
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  • Advised on more than 1,900 deals in the last five years totaling $3 trillion+
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  • Advises more than 300 private equity clients worldwide, including 8 of the 10 largest global private equity funds and 80% of the top 25 largest global private equity funds as ranked by PEI 300 2021
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  • More than a dozen partners have tried and won a case in the past two years
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  • Won more than 40 victories at all phases of the litigation process and in every practice area since 2018
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  • Chief debtors’ counsel in six of the seven largest U.S. bankruptcy filings in history
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  • Advised 83% of the technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area and approximately 50% of the companies overall on the 2019 Fortune 100 list
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  • Performed more than 1 million hours of pro bono service since 2005