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Law Firm Overview

Having grown to more than 155 lawyers, WilmerHale's New York office has developed a premier practice founded on many of the firm's core strengths. Across all practice areas, the New York office has been built on the firm's guiding principles of collegiality, diversity, commitment to public service, and dedication to our clients and the practice of law.

The major practice areas of the New York office are securities regulation and enforcement, intellectual property, patent and trademark litigation, trial and appellate litigation, white collar defense, corporate, bankruptcy and financial institutions. Our clients consist of a broad array of companies, including the major New York financial, investment management and investment banking firms, pharmaceutical and life-sciences companies, venture-backed corporate start-ups, and technology firms based throughout the US as well as in Europe and Israel. Throughout these various practice areas our work often involves novel and interesting matters of first impression.

As an office integrated within a global firm of more than 1000 lawyers, we benefit from the range, breadth of experience and technical support of lawyers and professionals throughout the firm. We frequently work as part of teams with lawyers from other offices to insure that in the most complex and challenging matters our clients are able to draw seamlessly upon the resources and expertise of the entire firm.

Consistent with longstanding firm tradition, the office has developed a strong pro bono program. Lawyers within the office are encouraged to work on important pro bono matters and do so routinely. Recent examples of our pro bono work includes two successful wrongful conviction cases, several cases that were briefed or argued by the firm before the U.S. Supreme Court, the successful defense at trial of a non-profit social services organization, a case before the New York Court of Appeals successfully challenging restrictions on funding for the defense of indigent criminal defendants, and a series of immigrant rights cases that have been argued by our associates before federal courts of appeals. As is the case throughout the firm, many lawyers in the New York office have significant government, regulatory or public interest careers prior to joining the firm, and many of our New York-based associates joined the firm following one or more federal court clerkships.

Office Contacts
Peter Macdonald Partner +1 212 937 7223 peter.macdonald@wilmerhale.com	Paul Engelmayer Partner +1 212 230 8820 paul.engelmayer@wilmerhale.com
Marian Freed New York Administration Director +1 212 230 8824 marian.freed@wilmerhale.com

Areas of practice

• Aerospace and Defense
• Antitrust and Competition
• Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation
• Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring
• Complex Commercial Litigation
• Copyrights
• Corporate
• Due Diligence and Opinions
• Education
• Emerging Energy Technology
• Energy
• Enforcement
• Financial Institutions
• Financial Services
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• Government and Public Policy Litigation
• Insurance
• Intellectual Property
• Intellectual Property Litigation
• International Arbitration
• International Litigation
• Investigations and Criminal Litigation
• Investment Management
• Labor and Employment
• Licensing and Technology Transfer
• Life Sciences
• Litigation
• Litigation and Arbitration
• Media and Entertainment
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Nanotechnology
• National Security and Data Protection
• Patents
• Professional Services
• Proprietary Information and Trade Secrets
• Real Estate
• Regulatory
• Securities
• Securities Enforcement
• Securities Litigation
• Technology Transactions and Licensing
• Telecommunications
• Trademarks, Trade Dress and Domain Names
• Underwriting

Published Works

• Fast Pace of FCPA Enforcement Continues
• WilmerHale raid increases King & Spalding NY woes
• Secondary Pharmaceutical Patents Post-KSR: Do They Have A Future?, 2008
• Supreme Court Rebuffs Attempt to Impose "Scheme" Liability on Secondary Actors, 2008
• FCPA Enforcement Related to UN Oil-for-Food Program Continues; Recent Fifth Circuit Decision Holds that FCPA Gives Fair Notice of Illegal Conduct, 2008
• "Recent Developments in Case Law Relating to Sections 327-330 of the Bankruptcy Code", 2007
• Protecting A Web Site Design, 2007
• Investment Management Industry News Summary, 2007
• Privilege Standing Committee Update, 2007
• US Court Enjoins New Patent Office Rules, 2007
• Changes to TTAB Rules in Trademark Proceedings, 2007
• FCPA Developments Include Increased Enforcement Related to UN Oil-for-Food Program and Reinstatement of Charges in Kozeny Case, 2007
• Don't Leave Money on the Table: Run an IP Audit, 2007
• Financial Times: Class Action Lawsuits, 2007
• IP Law & Business: Big Deals, 2007
• Patent Specification Drafting, 2007
• Taking Invention Disclosures, 2007
• Purchaser of Debt on the Secondary Market Takes Free from Taint on Account of Seller's Alleged Improper Conduct, 2007
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Update, 2007
• Bring in the Experts, 2007
• Important Changes to the UK Intellectual Property Office's Trademark Examination Practice, 2007
• King & Spalding Managing Partner Joins WilmerHale, 2007
• Wilmer Cutler captures NY chief of US rival, 2007
• KLA, Safenet, Brooks Executives Face Backdating Charges, 2007
• Net Trading, Market Making, and the SEC's View of Best Execution, 2007
• New Take on New Value? Recent Seventh Circuit Decisions Limit the “New Value” Defense to Bankruptcy Preference Liability, 2007
• Supreme Court Decision Regarding Standard for “Willful” Violations of the FCRA, 2007
• Who's News; Noted, 2007
• Proskauer Rose Corporate Partner Joins WilmerHale, 2007
• Law Firm Adds Securities Partner, 2007
• Trade-Offs in Defending Willful Infringement Charge, 2007
• Movers, 2007
• Nine Years After—SEC Approves NASD Mark-Up Guidance for Debt Securities, 2007
• Why Cross-Border Deals May Get Trickier, 2007
• Supreme Court Holds Federal Law Preempts State Regulation of National Bank Operating Subsidiaries, 2007
• WilmerHale Adds Latham's Vice Chair of Litigation, 2007
• Court Overturns Fee-Based Brokerage Rule, 2007
• Hedge Fund Oversight: Key Action Items for Hedge Funds, Broker-Dealers and Other Market Professionals, 2007
• SEC Proposes to Amend Financial Responsibility Rules for Broker-Dealers, 2007
• 2006 Antitrust and Competition Annual Report, 2007
• Privilege Standing Committee Update, 2007
• Know Your Customer: Prime Broker Must Return All Margin Payments after Bankruptcy Court Finds That They Were Fraudulent Transfers, 2007
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Update, 2007
• 2006 IPO Report, 2007
• 2006 M&A Report, 2007
• 2006 Venture Capital Report, 2007
• Investment Management Industry News Summary, 2007
• PharmaBulletin, 2007
• Investment Management Industry News Summary, 2007
• Privilege Standing Committee Update, 2007
• Ink Meets Inc.; Tatoos Can Still Raise Eyebrows at the Office, 2007
• Home Depot’s Surprising Choice For CEO; Wall Street Isn’t Convinced That New CEO Frank Blake Has the Job For the Long Haul. But His Skills May Surprise His Detractors, 2007
• Privilege Standing Committee Update, 2007
• SEC and PCAOB Propose SOX 404 Relief Measures, Extend Compliance Dates, 2006
• Nonprofits wired for fast growth, 2006
• NASD Amends Proposed Debt Mark-up Policy to Exclude Certain Transactions with Institutional Customers, 2006
• State Regulators and the Mutual Fund Industry, 2006
• The Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 Is Signed Into Law, 2006
• Hands Across the Water, 2006
• Eleventh Circuit Holds That Bankruptcy Reorganization Plan Does Not Bar Intercreditor Claims between Debtor's Lenders, 2006
• Investigations and Criminal Litigation Briefing Series, 2006
• Web Gambling Firm Chairman Locked Up in Big Apple Clinker, 2006
• Partner Resigns Bar Over Litany of Misconduct, 2006
• SEC Chairman Cox's Senate Testimony Addressing SEC Hedge Fund Actions after Goldstein Decision, 2006
• Citigroup, Bear Stearns ask to use fund for investor suits, 2006
• Seeing Double: In re Oakwood Homes and the "Double Discounting" of Interest-Bearing Debt, 2006
• SEC Settlement Announced for Violations of FCPA Accounting Provisions by a Subsidiary of Oil States International, Inc., 2006
• Coming of Age - What is next for biologics as patents expire?, 2006
• In the Beginning: GE's legendary lawyer explains how he revolutionized the role of in-house counsel, 2006
• "St. John's LL.M. Students Get Rare Glimpse Inside Supreme Court Argument", 2006
• 2005 Venture Capital Report, 2006
• 2005 M&A Report, 2006
• SEC Proposes Overhaul of Compensation Disclosure Rules, 2006
• Seeking Provisional Meaures in ICSID Arbitration, 2006
• Method for Compensating a Manager Eligible for Patent Protection, 2005
• Financial Institutions Law Update, 2005
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2005
• Securities Law Update, 2005
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2005
• 2005 Information and Technology Compensation Study, 2005
• 2005 Life Sciences Compensation Study, 2005
• Securities Law Update, 2005
• PharmaBulletin, 2005
• Investigations and Criminal Litigation Update, 2005
• SEC Issues Regulation NMS Adopting Release, Starting the Clock on Sweeping Overhaul of the National Market System, 2005
• New SEC, PCAOB Guidance Seeks to Re-balance Costs and Benefits of Implementing Section 404, 2005
• Financial Institutions Law Update, 2005
• 2004 M&A Report, 2005
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2005
• 2004 Venture Capital Report, 2005
• PharmaBulletin, 2005
• "A Congressional Montage of Two Systems of Law - Mandatory Subordination Under the Code", 2005
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Update, 2005
• Self-Regulation Revisited: SEC Seeks Comment on Potential Enhancements to Securities Self-Regulatory System, 2005
• Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, 2005
• Emails and the Recordkeeping Obligations of Investment Advisers, 2005
• Securities Law Update, 2005
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Update, 2005
• Financial Institutions Law Update, 2005
• Keeping Current with Form 8-K: A Practical Guide, 2004
• Securities Law Update, 2004
• Bankruptcy and Commercial Advisor, 2004
• Columbia's GC Has Worked in Biglaw, for the Feds and In-House, 2004
• The Assumption of Credit Card Merchant Agreements in Bankruptcy: Another Important Right of Debtors Filing for Chapter 11, 2004
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2004
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2004
• Specialists Tapping Governance Gusher: Clients Hire Lawyers, Accountants, and Others to Ensure Compliance, 2004
• Wilmer Cutler Hires Former CSFB Counsel, 2004
• Wilmer Cutler Celebrates Merger with Top NY Hire, 2004
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2004
• Charitable Counsel: Fellowship Honors Lloyd Cutler, 2004
• Theater's Antitrust Case Passes Early Screening, 2004
• FEC Challenges Reform Leaders' Standing in Suit, 2004
• Executive Moves, 2004
• Portability of Investment Performance, 2003
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2003
• Baby Bells Beat Class Action, 2003
• Capping the Cost of Atrocity; Survivor of Nazi Experiments Says $8,000 Isn't Enough, 2003
• Anticipation by Inherency, 2003
• Movers, 2003
• Associate Is Making Film About the Exonerated, 2003
• News In Brief, 2003
• Movers & Shakers: November 3, 2003, 2003
• New Festo Decision Focuses on Foreseeability of Equivalents, 2003
• Swiss to Widen Access to Holocaust-Era Accounts, 2003
• Swiss Banks Will Allow Access to Holocaust-Era Accounts, 2003
• Movers and Shakers, 2003
• Holocaust Fund Overseer Fears Some Claimants Are Left Out, 2003
• Overseer of Holocaust Fund Fears Many Will Be Left Out, 2003
• Report: Lawyer Says Many Holocaust Victims May Never Be Compensated By Swiss Banks, 2003
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2003
• Who's Cheating on you Today?, 2003
• Great Lakes Carbon Income Fund Completes $185M IPO, 2003
• Pop-Up Ads Survive Legal Challenge in the United States, but Rejected in Germany, 2003
• Microsoft, Bell enter strategic alliance in Web portal services: Big Deals, 2003
• Broad reach, 2003
• LeBoeuf, Lamb Gets Leaner, And Some Say Meaner, 2003
• Wilmer's Class Act, 2003
• Interview With Andrew D. Kaizer, 2003
• Corruption's Upside, 2003
• Cybertrespass: The Final Stage?, 2003
• Maintaining Compliance with Updated EEOC Regulations, 2003
• Movers and Shakers, 2003
• Survey Finds Fraud's Reach in Big Business, 2003
• Cerberus Faces ANC Creditor Objections, 2003
• Breath of Fresh Air--DNA Trio Enjoy Life on Outside, 2003
• DNA Evidence Leads L.I. Judge to Vacate Murder, Rape Convictions After 17 Years, 2003
• Freed After 17 Years --Convictions Vacated in Lynbrook Teen's 1984 Rape-Murder, 2003
• DNA Evidence Frees 3 Men in 1984 Murder of L.I. Girl, 2003
• Pro Bono, 2003
• 2nd Circuit Rulings Favor Non-Citizens Fighting Removal, 2003
• Democracy 21: Court Decision on Constitutionality of New Campaign Finance Law Upholds Important Portions of Law, 2003
• In The Name of Her Father - Jersey Woman Sues German Firm Over Stores Nazis Took From Her Family, 2003
• Reporters Run Risk of Being Detained as Prisoners of War - Embedded Journalists May Know More Than US Wants Them To, 2003
• ANC Bids for DIP Funding, 2003
• N.Y. Summer Associates' Buildable Hours, 2003
• SEC Takes on Justice Department Over Antitrust Actions Against Investment Bankers, 2003
• DOJ, SEC Square Off Over Antitrust Actions, 2003
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2003
• Felons have Allies in Vote-Ban Case, 2003
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2003
• Movers, Laterals, 2003
• Wilmer Cutler & Pickering adds two, 2003
• Wilmer Cutler & Pickering Add Two, 2003
• Wilmer's NYC Hires, 2003
• E-mails reveal Tyco's accounting abuses, 2002
• Email Reveal Tyco Lawyers Knew of Funds, 2002
• Tyco's lawyers concerned, 2002
• E-mails show concerned Tyco lawyers: report, 2002
• News In Brief, 2002
• Wall Street Banks Ask Court to Throw Out IPO Case, 2002
• Wall Street Banks Ask Court to Throw Out IPO Case, 2002
• Case Digests, 2002
• Weddings/Celebrations, 2002
• Citigroup Chief Weill Will Testify in Probe, 2002
• WSJ:NY Atty Genl To Question Citigroup's Weill Sources, 2002
• New York to Question Citigroup CEO Weill, 2002
• Citigroup Chief Sanford Weill Will Testify in Salomon Probes, 2002
• Guilty Pleas Expected From ImClone's Waksal; Trading Case Ensnared Martha Stewart, 2002
• ImClone's Former CEO May Plead Guilty to Insider-Trading Charges, 2002
• Guilty Pleas Expected From ImClone's Waksal, 2002
• ImClone Ex-CEO May Plead Guilty As Soon As Tuesday, 2002
• ImClone Ex-CEO May Plead Guilty As Soon As Tuesday, 2002
• ImClone's Waksal Likely To Plead Guilty, 2002
• Bank Cleared of Liability for Client-Managed Accounts, 2002
• Decision of the Day, 2002
• Giant IPO Suit Hinges on Defense Motion …, 2002
• Citigroup Is Ready to Settle Probes into Stock Research, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Potential Impact of the New US Corporate Reform Law on Companies Whose Shares Trade in the UK Securities Markets, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Recent Decisions on Patent and Copyright Jurisdiction, 2002
• Ex-CEO Pleads Not Guilty to ImClone Fraud, 2002
• ImClone's Waksal Pleads Not Guilty, 2002
• The Lawyer's Bookshelf, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Feds Buys More Time to Probe Martha Trades, 2002
• Martha Pal Seeking Deal to Duck Prison, 2002
• Scandal Draws Top Lawyers, 2002
• Judge Refuses to Dismiss IPO Class Action Against Credit Suisse, 2002
• Sons Also Rising: Fame Relative for Big-Shot Brothers, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Liman to Pilot Two More Ludlam Thrillers, 2002
• PSINet Liquidation Plan Approved, 2002
• ImClone's Ex-CEO Declines To Testify, 2002
• Waksal Silent in Trading Scandal …, 2002
• Insider-Trading Arrest/Ex-ImClone Chief Charged in Stock Scam, 2002
• ImClone Down 5.3% In Aftermath of Sam Waksal's Arrest, 2002
• Ex-CEO Is Accused of Insider Trading, 2002
• Former Chief of ImClone Systems Is Charged With Insider Trading, 2002
• Congress Widens Inquiry of Sales of ImClone Stock by Ex-CEO Kin, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Panel Subpoenas Ex-ImClone Chief …, 2002
• Chubb Unit, Credit Suisse Lock Horns Over E&O Claim, 2002
• CS First Boston Sues to Recoup Fines, 2002
• Cybertrespass: Developments in the Evolution of a New Tort, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• City Bar Pro Bono Society Formed, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Cisco Unit Objects to Sale of PSINet Business, 2002
• Who Invented Hyperlinks? IP Audit Uncovers Potentially Valuable Patent, 2002
• Who Invented Hyperlinks? Summary Judgment for the Defendant in the BT Case, 2002
• Exempt Organizations Must Adapt Their Programs to the Changing Civil Rights Laws, 2002
• Corporate and Securities Law Update, 2002
• Cendant Ex-Executives' Fraud Trial Is Shifted to Connecticut, 2002
• 2001 IPO Report, 2002
• Limits to Certificates of Correction, 2001
• Resting on Protocol, 2001
• Case Digests, 2001
• Resting on Protocol, 2001
• Labor and Employment Bulletin, 2001
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Update, 2001
• Financial Institutions Group Newsletter, 2001
• Paul A. Engelmayer, a partner resident in the New York Office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering,was recently interviewed by Corporate Crime Reporter., 2001
• Paul A. Engelmayer, a partner resident in the New York Office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering,was recently interviewed by Corporate Crime Reporter. The interview focused on Paul’s legal analysis of U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White’s ongoing investigation of all, 2001
• ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION PRACTICE AT WILMER, CUTLER & PICKERING: A Year 2000 Review, 2001
• Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, 2001
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• EC Competition Bulletin, 2000
• 1999 Public Offerings, 1999
• Family Business Report, 1999
• Family Business Report, 1999
• Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, 1997

Representative Cases

• American Express and some of its former subsidiaries , (US District Court for the Southern District of New York)
• European Commission
• PricewaterhouseCoopers , (US District Court for the Southern District of New York)
• Verizon

West Practice Categories

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Arbitration, Art, Banking & Finance Law, Bankruptcy Law, Biotechnology, Commercial Bankruptcy, Commercial Banks, Communications & Media Law, Copyrights, Credit Unions, Criminal Fraud, Criminal Law, Defense Contracts, Education Law, Energy Law, Entertainment, Entertainment, Sports & Leisure Law, Estate & Gift Taxation, Federal, Foreign Investment, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Arbitration, International Law, International Telecommunications, Joint Ventures, Labor Law, Litigation & Appeals, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Patents, Pharmaceutical Products, Print Media, Property (Ad Valorem) Taxes, Public Finance, Public Offerings, Radio, Real Estate Law, Reorganizations & Restructuring, Science & Technology Law, Securities Fraud & Insider Trading, Securities Law, Technology Licensing, Telecommunications, Television & Film, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Venture Capital, White Collar Crimes, Wireless Communications