Jennifer Emmons Named Managing Partner

Jennifer Emmons, a partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, has been named as the firm’s new managing partner.

Jennifer Emmons will join the firm as a managing partner.

Jennifer Emmons will join the firm as a managing partner. Emmons was most recently a senior partner at the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. She has extensive experience in class action litigation and counseling clients on complex matters involving securities regulation, corporate governance, and other business issues.

Ms. Emmons’ practice includes advising companies on internal investigations into alleged misconduct by directors or officers; providing advice on how to respond to shareholder claims;

Advising boards and management teams on corporate governance issues such as executive compensation plans; evaluating relationships between directors and officers so as not only to avoid liability but also facilitate better communications between them later down the road (when an investigation is underway)

Emmons was most recently a senior partner at the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

Jennifer Emmons was most recently a senior partner at the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. She is also a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and an associate at Greenberg Traurig LLC. Ms. Emmons joined Weil in 2013 from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP where she served as co-head of its corporate department for mergers and acquisitions and securities litigation matters.

At Greenberg Traurig, she represented clients in connection with securities fraud class actions against companies including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co., Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse Group AG, and Deutsche Bank AG

At Weil Gotshal, she represented corporate clients in matters involving intellectual property and securities law, white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, and corporate compliance.

At Weil Gotshal, she represented corporate clients in matters involving intellectual property and securities law, white-collar criminal defense, and internal investigations.

Ms. Emmons has also practiced at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP for several years as well as working on a pro bono basis with the Legal Aid Society of New York City. She has served as an adjunct professor at the New York University School of Law teaching courses in white-collar defense and internal investigations.

She also represented clients in litigation in federal and state courts in New York City, before both civil and criminal juries, and heard appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.

• She also represented clients in litigation in federal and state courts in New York City, before both civil and criminal juries, and heard appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.
• Jennifer Emmons is a managing partner at Ropes & Gray LLP’s Business Litigation Department where she focuses on complex commercial disputes involving competition law, intellectual property rights infringement,
• Unfair competition claims and other related issues that arise from mergers and acquisitions as well as joint ventures between entities with complementary business models or products competing against each other under similar market conditions within an industry segment such as software development services (SD).

Before joining Weil Gotshal in 2014, Emmons worked as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP where she practiced corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and shareholder rights litigation.

Jennifer Emmons is a managing partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP. She is also a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP where she practices corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and shareholder rights litigation.

Emmons graduated cum laude from Yale University (JD/MBA), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated magna cum laude from The George Washington University School of Law (JD). She is admitted to practice law in New York state, New Jersey, Connecticut (where she maintains a private practice), Puerto Rico, and California.

Conclusion

Jennifer Emmons has been named managing partner at Weil Gotshal, a global law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers in 19 offices around the world.

As managing partner, Emmons will lead the firm’s compliance and litigation practice groups as well as serve as co-head of the firm’s Global IP Group. She will also oversee our administrative practice group that includes tax matters and intellectual property counseling services including trademark registration and copyright registration.

Before joining Managing Partner in 2014, she was an associate at Sullivan & Managing Partner where she practiced corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and shareholder rights litigation. In addition to this role, she served as an associate at Greenberg Traurig LLC where her practice included white-collar criminal defense and internal investigations. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard J. Sullivan of the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit during his clerkship year at that court from 2003-2004.”