New York

The New York office’s relationships with the business community and key New York metropolitan area institutions have been the catalyst for our continued growth and expansion to our position at the vanguard of the world’s leading law firms. Weil's four departments – Corporate, Litigation, Restructuring, and Tax, Executive Compensation & Benefits – form the core of the New York office.

Weil partners in the New York office have been recognized for their leadership, innovation and groundbreaking successes across a variety of practice areas.

Recent achievements include:

• Executive Partner Barry Wolf was honored with the Judge Joseph M. Proskauer Award at the UJA-Federation of New York’s Lawyers Division Annual Event 2024.

• Corporate Department Chairman Michael J. Aiello was named to The Legal 500’s inaugural M&A Powerlist: United States, in 2024. He was previously named a 2023 Dealmaker of the Year by the New York Law Journal, and was honored with the Impact Dealmaker Award by The Deal in 2022.

• Corporate Department Chairman Michael J. Aiello and Mergers & Acquisitions partner Eoghan Keenan were recognized as 2025 Dealmakers of the Year by The American Lawyer. They join Private Funds Co-Head Andrew Chizzik who was recognized as Dealmaker of the Year in 2023. 

• Corporate Department Chairman Michael J. Aiello and Restructuring Department Co-Chair Matt Barr were named among the 2024 Notable Leaders in Accounting, Consulting & Law by Crain’s New York Business.

• Global Litigation Department Co-Chair David Lender was named a Law360 Trials MVP and Private Funds Co-Head Stephanie Srulowitz was named a Law360 Fund Formation MVP for 2024. They join Private Funds Co-Head Andrew Chizzik who was named a Law360 MVP in 2023 and 2020 (Fund Formation) and IP & Media practice Head Benjamin E. Marks who was named a Law360 MVP (Media & Entertainment) in 2021. 

• Global Litigation Department Co-Chair David Lender was named among Crain’s New York Business’ 2025 Notable Litigators & Trial Attorneys.

• Restructuring Department Co-Chair Matt Barr was honored with the American Jewish Committee’s prestigious National Human Relations Award in 2025.

• Intellectual Property & Media practice Head Benjamin E. Marks and Complex Commercial Litigation senior partner David Yohai were named among Variety’s Hollywood’s Top Attorneys in its 2025 Legal Impact Report.

• Intellectual Property & Media practice Head Benjamin E. Marks was named Practitioner of the Year (Copyright) at the 2024 Managing Intellectual Property Americas Awards.

• In 2023, The National Law Journal recognized Head of Weil’s Employment Practice Group John P. Barry as an Employment & Discrimination Law Trailblazer. He joins a total of 35 Weil lawyers who have received this honor since 2015. 

• Banking & Finance Co-Head and Global Liability Management and Strategic Capital Solutions Head Justin Lee was recognized as a 2023 Notable LGBTQIA+ Leader and Private Equity partner Trey Muldrow was named a 2022 Notable Diverse Leader in Law by Crain’s New York Business. 

• Litigation partner Diane Sullivan was named a “Leading Commercial Litigator” by the Daily Journal in 2025. She was previously named among the Top 250 Women in Litigation and the Top 10 Women in Litigation in the U.S. by Benchmark Litigation in 2023, as well as Litigator of the Year at Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards in 2022. 

• Restructuring Department Co-Chairs Ronit Berkovich and Matt Barr and partners Kelly DiBlasi, Gary Holtzer and Jessica Liou were named Outstanding Restructuring Lawyers by Turnaround & Workouts in recent years.

• Twenty-six partners have been recognized by the business and legal press as Rising Stars in 2022-2025: Dennis Adams, Luna Barrington, Kevin Bostel, Tim Burns, Evert Christensen, David Cohen, Kelly DiBlasi, Jessica Falk, Amanda Fenster, Andriana Georgallas, Olivia Greer, Cassie Kimmelman, Sachin Kohli, Justin Lee, Jenna McBain, Robert Niles-Weed, Jacqueline Oveissi, Paul Overmyer, Brian Parness, Megan Pendleton, Amanda Rotkel, Michelle Sargent, Rebecca Sivitz, Stephanie Srulowitz, Lauren Tauro and Stefania Venezia.

Weil has performed more than 1 million hours of pro bono service since our current program was launched in August 2005. We offer legal services on a diverse range of matters, including protecting housing rights, representing death row inmates, safeguarding prisoners’ rights and advising small businesses, and use our legal skills to support causes such as racial justice, human rights and economic opportunity. Our program was recognized for outstanding pro bono service by the Financial Times’ Innovative Lawyers North America Report, and our significant pro bono work contributed to Weil being ranked on The American Lawyer’s A-List. Each year we celebrate pro bono work across the Firm with our Pro Bono Service Awards.

Among our many important matters, we assisted our longtime partner the Innocence Project in eliminating a backlog of 5,000 inmate requests for assistance and helped exonerate clients who had been wrongly convicted. We fought for free and fair elections and against vote suppression. Weil lawyers championed women’s reproductive rights and secured name changes in identity documents for transgender clients. And our attorneys battled religious discrimination against the Orthodox Jewish community in suburban New York. Read more about our pro bono program here.

In addition to our pro bono work, members of the New York office are engaged through support of local organizations including Big Brother Big Sister, PENCIL and the Read Alliance, which recognized Weil with the Trailblazer Award for Corporate Social Responsibility. Additionally, many partners and staff serve on boards of national and local nonprofits and charity organizations.