International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has approximately 1,200 attorneys across offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Headquartered in New York City, the firm maintains offices in Austin, Boston, Brussels, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Munich, Paris, Princeton, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
Weil is known for sophisticated, multijurisdictional work and coordinated advice across practices, giving clients specialized counsel informed by broad commercial perspective.
That platform is especially evident in Weil’s market-leading crisis management and restructuring practice, which regularly handles cross-border insolvencies, distressed investments, portfolio company restructurings, derivatives unwind matters, and high-stakes negotiations with governmental and regulatory authorities.
Weil staffs these matters with interdisciplinary teams drawing on leading capabilities in Bankruptcy and Restructuring, Securities Litigation, Corporate Governance, Structured Finance, M&A and Private Equity, Banking and Finance, and SEC Regulatory and Compliance.
Restructuring Department
Described by The American Lawyer as the “gold standard of the bankruptcy bar,” Weil’s Restructuring Department is widely regarded as a global leader. With a major presence across the firm’s U.S. and European offices, the department represents debtors, creditors, equity holders, official committees, and prospective purchasers of distressed businesses and assets, and has also advised sovereigns and other stakeholders on sophisticated insolvency regimes.
In 2025, Weil was involved in eight of the largest bankruptcies filed in the United States and has continued that momentum in 2026. The firm represents First Brands Group Holdings, LLC in the largest bankruptcy filing of 2025, involving estimated liabilities of $10 billion to $12 billion. Weil also represented Steward Health Care in its chapter 11 filing, one of the largest and highest-stakes healthcare bankruptcies in U.S. history, involving approximately $9 billion in debt obligations. Weil guided Steward through an extraordinarily complex chapter 11 process and confirmed a plan involving the sale of 28 hospitals across eight states, preserving critical patient care while addressing significant regulatory and real estate challenges. Weil also represented Pinnacle Group – Broadway Realty I Co., LLC and affiliated debtors, which held a real estate property portfolio consisting of 93 properties and approximately 5,200 rent-stabilized units across four boroughs of New York City, in their chapter 11 cases. The matter involved one of the largest transfers of rent-regulated units in New York City history, with a purchase price of approximately $451.3 million. Weil helped accomplish the change in ownership while avoiding disruption to tenants, reducing the debtors’ debt burden, and securing significant liquidity for capital improvements at the properties. Weil’s innovation is further reflected in its representation of Fossil Group, where the firm spearheaded a highly innovative, cross-border restructuring. Using a relatively new mechanism under U.K. law, Part 26A of the Companies Act, paired with a chapter 15 filing in the United States, Weil implemented a “Stapled Exchange” structure to restructure $150 million in senior unsecured debt and secure critical liquidity.
Weil has also represented debtors and other key parties in some of the largest and most complex global insolvencies and restructurings, including Luminar Technologies, Inc., Scandinavian Airlines System, PG&E Corporation, CITGO, Avon Products, Accuride Corporation, Terraform Labs Pte. Ltd., Pitney Bowes Global Ecommerce Inc., TPI Composites, Inc., The Cannabist Company Holdings Inc., Core Scientific Inc., WeWork, Digital Currency Group Inc., Mobileum and Ukraine’s $23 billion sovereign debt restructuring.
- 2026: “Global Restructuring Law Firm of the Year” – Turnaround Atlas Awards
- 2026: “Distressed M&A Deal of the Year” for Steward Health Care - M&A Advisor 20th Annual International M&A Awards
- 2026: “Chapter 11 Reorganization of the Year” for Accuride Corporation - M&A Advisor 20th Annual International M&A Awards
- 2025: Ranked Band 1 for Insolvency and Restructuring (Chambers, Legal 500, IFLR 1000)
- 2025: “Bankruptcy Group of the Year” – Law360