Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell's practice combines corporate transactions with litigation, investigations, and advice to boards and senior executives. Its published work includes mergers and acquisitions, private equity, financial regulation, and matters requiring coordinated legal and business judgment. The firm's General Practice and Litigation groups provide different perspectives on those client needs.

Its materials show work extending beyond the execution of a transaction to governance, regulatory developments, and sensitive business situations. Banking-law analysis, for example, addresses the standards applied by financial regulators, while strategic advisory work can involve the decisions of directors and management during a transaction or investigation.

For students, the firm's practice structure is useful when distinguishing types of business law. The same client may need an acquisition negotiated, a governance issue assessed, or a dispute defended. Sullivan & Cromwell's published matters connect those functions while showing the different analytical and advocacy skills involved in corporate and contentious work.