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Practice/Industry Group Overview
Wachtell Lipton handles a wide variety of high-profile, complex litigation for major corporations and leading financial institutions. The firm's litigation practice is national in scope, and involves appearances in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. The firm also represents clients in arbitrations and mediations, and in regulatory and criminal investigations. Many of the firm's litigators served as law clerks on federal or state courts, and several distinguished themselves as trial lawyers in United States Attorneys' Offices. Work undertaken includes precedent-setting takeover, securities and corporate governance litigation, representation of major corporations in highly sensitive criminal and regulatory investigations, and libel and First Amendment cases. The firm often handles extremely high-stakes civil litigation. For example, Wachtell Lipton is representing Silverstein Properties, the 99-year lessee of the World Trade Center, in litigation against more than 20 insurance companies to recover losses incurred on September 11, 2001, thus far establishing Silverstein's right to recover $4.0 billion; Campbell Soup Company and affiliates in successfully defending at trial a fraudulent conveyance and breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit brought by unpaid creditors of a former Campbell subsidiary who are seeking more than $500.0 million in damages; Goldman Sachs in expedited litigation concerning the multi-billion dollar leveraged buyout of Kinder Morgan; ADVO in a trial concerning claims brought by Valassis Communications to invalidate a merger agreement; Reckson and a committee of its independent directors in expedited shareholder litigation challenging Reckson's acquisition by SL Green; the NYSE in litigation against former NYSE members who sold their seats before the NYSE announced its $4.3 billion merger with Archipelago that transformed the NYSE into a publicly traded company; Bank of America in connection with regulatory investigations and class and derivative actions alleging mutual fund market timing and late trading; Invemed in its defense of proceedings instituted by the NASD relating to the allocation of shares sold in initial public offerings; and Man Financial in its defense of patent infringement claims brought by Trading Technologies.
In addition, Wachtell Lipton has recently been involved in defending shareholder class or derivative actions brought against the following major companies and/or their directors: Sears; Morgan Stanley; Bausch & Lomb; Avon; Maytag; Allied Irish Group; Novartis; Lazard; Newmont Mining; IAC/InterActiveCorp; PNC Financial Services; North Fork Bancorp; Schering-Plough; National Australia Bank; RenaissanceRe Holdings; Tommy Hilfiger; and Monster Worldwide. The firm also is representing several of the world's largest financial institutions, including leading securities firms and money-center banks, in sensitive matters such as internal investigations, white collar criminal proceedings and regulatory enforcement proceedings.
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