Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Headquarters One Liberty Plaza
New York City
No. of offices 16
No. of attorneys 1,200+
Major practice areas General practice
Key people Mark Leddy, Managing Partner[1]
Revenue $1.131 billion (2012)[2]
Date founded 1946
Company type Limited liability partnership
Website
www.cgsh.com

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is an international law firm headquartered at One Liberty Plaza in New York City. The firm currently has offices in Washington DC, Hong Kong, Beijing, London, Rome, Milan, Brussels, Moscow, Frankfurt, Cologne, Paris, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Abu Dhabi, and Seoul.

The Firm employs over 1,200 lawyers worldwide.[3] It was the first U.S. firm qualified to practice law in Japan, and has represented governments throughout Latin America.[3]

Cleary Gottlieb is known for its representation of national governments in sovereign-debt cases.[4] Lee Buchheit, a partner in the firm who has led debt-restructuring negotiations for several countries, is the originator of the "collective action" clause in debt agreements, whereby a supermajority of bondholders can compel all bondholders to accept a restructuring.

History

The firm was founded in 1946 when six partners from the firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland left to found a firm which they initially called "Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly, & Cox." One of those partners was Henry Friendly, whose name was removed from the firm's name after he was appointed as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1959.

Offices

The New York office is situated in One Liberty Plaza, across the street from the World Trade Center site. The Washington office is located at 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, four blocks northwest of the White House.[5]

Notable lawyers

Some of the notable attorneys who have practiced at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP include George W. Ball, Henry Friendly, and Melvin Steen. Current notable attorneys include former two-time SEC general counsel David M. Becker; former president of the New York City Bar Association, Evan A. Davis; former SEC general counsel Giovanni Prezioso; a former FDIC general counsel; and capital markets lawyer Leslie N. Silverman.

Alumni of Cleary Gottlieb include: former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin; Supreme Court Justice Dewey Ballantine; a former President of the U.N. General Assembly; U.S. National Security Council Director for Russia; Belgium’s Ambassador to the United States; Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation; and Renaud Laplanche, founder of Lending Club.

Notable cases and mandates

Buchheit and collective action

"Much of Cleary Gottlieb's success in sovereign debt," according to Reuters, "is based on the work of partner Lee Buchheit, who has led restructuring negotiations for 20 countries." Buchheit’s "academic papers, books and legal briefs over the past three decades fill much of the void where no formal law exists." For example, in 2002, "Buchheit developed a collective action clause, which says that if a supermajority of bondholders votes in favor of a restructuring, it becomes legally binding for everyone, even for those who voted against it." Buchheit was a lead author of a 2013 Brookings committee report that proposed changes in the approach to sovereign debt, including the collective action clause.[8]

Awards and recognition

Controversies

References

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