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New Partners at the 25 Largest Firms in New York

New
Lawyers in Total Current Round of Previous Round of Women
Partners Elections Partners New York Location(s) Firm Partner Elections
Rank1 Firm
(irmwide)2
(irmwide)
Practice Group Breakdown
Oice(s)
in New York
Size (irmwide/NY only)2
1 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, 2 Litigation (3); Bankruptcy (1); Corporate (1)
778 Manhattan 943 6/6 5/5
Wharton & Garrison

2 Simpson Thacher 5 Banking (2); Capital Markets (2); Derivatives (1); Litigation (1); Mergers 626 Manhattan 929 9/6 6/1
& Bartlett
and Acquisitions (1); Private Funds (1); Real Estate (1)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, 7
Corporate (3); Mergers and Acquisitions (2); Tax (2); Antitrust (1); Corporate Finance (1); 620
Manhattan
1,654
15/7
11/3
3 Meagher & Flom
Energy and Infrastructure Projects (1); Financial Institutions (1); Government
Enforcement and White-Collar Crime (1); Intellectual Property and Technology (1);
Litigation (1); Litigation and International Arbitration (1)

4 Davis Polk & Wardwell
0 Corporate (3); Insolvency and Restructuring (1); Litigation (1) 589 Manhattan 871
5/4 3/2

5 Sullivan & Cromwell
2 General Practice (4); Litigation (2)
545 Manhattan 805 6/5 4/3
6 Cleary Gottlieb 2
Litigation and Arbitration (2); Antitrust (1); Bankruptcy and Restructuring (1); Derivatives (1); 514
Manhattan
1,178
7/5
8/7
Steen & Hamilton
Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures (1); Tax (1)

7 Weil, Gotshal & Manges
2 Private Equity (3); Tax (2); Capital Markets (1); Mergers and Acquisitions (1); Private Funds (1)
481 Manhattan 1,072 8/4 12/5

8 Debevoise & Plimpton
2
Corporate (2); Cybersecurity & Data Privacy (1); Executive Compensation & Employee 438
Manhattan
615
6/4
8/7
Beneits (1); International Dispute Resolution (1); Investment Management (1)
9 Cravath, Swaine & Moore
1 Executive Compensation and Beneits (1); Litigation (1)
406 Manhattan 442 2/2 4/4

10 Sidley Austin
8
Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives (3); Mergers and Acquisitions (3); Securities 386
Manhattan
1,761
24/4
32/6
and Shareholder Litigation (3); Complex Commercial Litigation (2); Global Finance (2);
Antitrust/Competition (1); Food, Drug and Medical Device Compliance and Enforce-
ment (1); Healthcare (1); Insurance (1); Intellectual Property Litigation (1); Privacy, Data
Security and Information Law (1); Real Estate (1); Securities & Derivatives Enforcement
and Regulatory (1); Supreme Court and Appellate (1); Tax (1); White-Collar: Government
Litigation & Investigations (1)

11 Kirkland & Ellis
Corporate (33); Litigation (26); Intellectual Property (15); Restructuring (6); Debt Finance 364
Manhattan 1,576 90 / 18
29
82 / 14
(2); Private Funds (2); Real Estate (2); Tax (2); Employee Beneits (1); Environmental (1)
12 Proskauer Rose
Corporate (3); Tax (2); Labor & Employment (2); Mergers & Acquisitions (1); 361
Manhattan 721 9/5 9/2 2
Private Client Services (1)

13 Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Corporate and Financial Services (5)
347
Manhattan 554 5/5 9/7 1

Latham & Watkins
Corporate (9); Finance (7); Litigation (4); Tax (4); Banking (2); Mergers & Acquisitions (1); 344
Manhattan
2,101
34/5
25/5 12
14 Antitrust & Competition (1); Capital Markets (1); Emerging Companies (1); Environment,
Land & Resources (1); International Arbitration (1); Public Company Representation (1);
Securities Litigation & Professional Liability (1)

15 Milbank, Tweed, Alternative Investments (1); Corporate (1); Leveraged Finance (1); Litigation 326 Manhattan 614 5/4 9/3 1
Hadley & McCloy
& Arbitration (1); Securities (1)

16 White & Case
Mergers & Acquisitions (10); Project Finance (6); Commercial Litigation (4); 321
Manhattan
1,878
31/4
37/4 11
Banking (3); International Arbitration (3); Antitrust (2); Capital Markets (1);
Financial Restructuring and Insolvency (1); Intellectual Property (1)
17 Wilson Elser Moskowitz
Litigation (12); Corporate (2)
318
White Plains
745
14/9
9/6
7
Edelman & Dicker

18 Schulte Roth & Zabel
Management and Regulatory & Compliance (1) 316 Manhattan 351
1/0 1/1 1

19 Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Corporate (3)
315
Manhattan
327 3/ 3 3/3 0
20 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Litigation (4); Intellectual Property (2); Mergers and Acquisitions (1); Real Estate (1);
315 Manhattan 1,204 8/2 12/4 2

21 Shearman & Sterling
Capital Markets (3); International Arbitration (3); Mergers & Acquisitions (2); Litigation (1); 304
Manhattan
821
12/4
13/5
3
Investment Funds (1); Finance (1); Tax (1)
22 Fried, Frank, Harris, Corporate (5); Bankruptcy and Restructuring (2); Real Estate (2); 288 Manhattan 414
10/8 7/6 3
Shriver & Jacobson
Executive Compensation and Employee Beneits (1)

23 Kasowitz, Benson, Litigation (2)
277 Manhattan 337 2/2 3/2 1
Torres & Friedman
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Corporate and Business Transactions (6); Environmental (3); Intellectual Property (2); 274
Manhattan
1,839
29/0
17/ 1
6
24 Securities Enforcement and Litigation (2); Telecommunications, Media and Technology (2);
White-Collar (2); Commercial Litigation (1); FDA (1); Emerging Business and Technology (1);
Employee Beneits (1); ERISA (1); Labor & Employment (1); Oil and Gas Transactions (1);
Private Funds Formation (1); Registered and Private Funds (1); Tax (1); Tax-Exempt
Organizations (1); Transactional Finance (1)

25 Wachtell, Lipton, 267
Manhattan
267
1
3/3 4/4
Corporate (2); Restructuring and Finance (1)
Rosen & Katz

SOURCE: Information obtained from press releases or provided directly from the irm.
1. Number of New York attorneys and total irm size as published in the NYLJ 100 special report of the New York Law Journal, June 15, 2015, where irms were ranked by number of lawyers in their New York oice(s).
Firms that tied were ranked equally and listed alphabetically.
2. Due to irms announcing promotions at diferent times of the year, the igures
listed relect the previous and most recent rounds of partner promotions—as opposed to igures as of a certain date—to ensure consistency in comparisons.