Editing Cahill Gordon & Reindel

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| key_people                = William M. Hartnett; Chairman, Executive Committee*Landis Best; Co-Administrative Partner*John A. Tripodoro; Co-Administrative Partner
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}}'''Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP''' (founded 1919) is a prominent [[New York City|New York]]-based international [[law firm]] with  offices in New York, Washington, D.C. and London. According to The ''[[American Lawyer]]'', Cahill is consistently among the most profitable law firms in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=1202647800417|title=The Am Law 100, the Early Numbers: Elite New York Firms Pull Away|publisher=American Lawyer|date=2014-03-20|accessdate=2014-04-22}}</ref><ref>http://www.americanlawyer.com/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=1202589810409</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=1202670803411|title=The Global 100: Most Profits Per Partner|date=2014-09-29|accessdate=2014-10-23}}</ref> 

[[File:Floyd Abrams by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|Famous [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] advocate [[Floyd Abrams]] has been with Cahill since 1963]]

==History==
Cahill opened its doors at 120 Broadway in 1919 as a small firm that quickly built a national reputation in the financial and corporate areas. By the end of the [[Great Depression|Depression]], it had expanded to handle bankruptcies, reorganizations, and regulatory matters. During and after the [[Second World War]], under the leadership of [[John T. Cahill]], former [[United States Attorney]] for the [[Southern District of New York]], the firm grew dramatically. As Cahill Gordon Reindel & Ohl, it moved to 80 Pine Street, where it remains. Partner John Ohl, a tax specialist, retired in 1976.<ref>{{ cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00EEDA1331F930A25752C0A962958260|title=John P. Ohl, 84, Dies; A Retired Tax Lawyer|publisher=The New York Times|date=1994-01-13}}</ref> The firm established its [[Paris]] office in 1928, though it closed in 2000 when the firm opened its [[London]] office.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=102955|title=Cahill shuts in Paris as it opens in City|publisher=The Lawyer|date=2000-06-12}}</ref>  Today, Cahill maintains offices in London and Washington D.C., though by far its largest office is in New York City.  Renowned for its corporate finance practice and work in high-stakes lawsuits, Cahill remains a successful law firm with approximately 350 attorneys.

==Prominent litigation work==
Cahill's litigation practice is one of the more prominent in the United States, handling high-profile securities, antitrust and first amendment litigation. The firm's partners have made frequent appearances before the [[United States Supreme Court]].  For instance, ''[[National Broadcasting Co. v. United States]]'' helped establish the power and authority of the [[Federal Communications Commission]].  Another case, ''Times-Picayune v. United States'', is among the Court's most important [[antitrust]] rulings.

On behalf of Cahill, [[Floyd Abrams]] successfully defended ''[[The New York Times]]'' in the landmark ''[[New York Times Co. v. United States]]'' case.  In that 1971 case the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] refused to permit the [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] Administration to stop the publication of thousands of pages of [[Vietnam War]]-related government documents. Thereafter, Abrams and Cahill became prominent defenders of the media and [[First Amendment rights]]. On September 9, 2009, Abrams argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of Senator Mitch McConnell in the highly publicized re-argument ordered by the Court on the constitutionality of McCain-Feingold, defending the rights of corporations and unions to donate unlimited amounts of money to political allies in ''[[Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission]]''.  Cahill attorneys have appeared before the Supreme Court on behalf of the press in numerous cases of national importance.

==Prominent corporate work==

Cahill's corporate practice has assisted in the development of numerous financial products and services. This firm is prominent in the US capital markets, the Euromarket and bank lending market, often advising the investment and commercial banks in their roles as underwriters, initial purchasers, arrangers, agents and dealer managers. It was Cahill that represented the financing sources in many of [[Wall Street]]'s historic buyouts, beginning with the [[leveraged buyout]] of [[RJR Nabisco]] in 1989, up through the mega-buyouts of [[Energy Future Holdings|TXU]], [[Hospital Corporation of America]], [[Kinder Morgan]], [[Harrah’s]], [[Alltel]], [[First Data]] and [[Clear Channel]] in the 2006 and 2007 [[LBO history#Age of the mega-buyout|LBO boom]], where the largest buyout records were set.

Cahill is also active in the equity markets, especially as underwriter's counsel. They advised the underwriters in the [[Initial Public Offering|IPO]] of [[Ally Financial]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=1202650661627|title=Davis Polk, Cahill, S&C Handle Year's Biggest IPO to Date|publisher=The American Lawyer|date=2014-04-10}}</ref> represented the underwriters in the IPO of hospital-operator HCA Holdings, which is reported to be the largest ever private equity-backed IPO on a US exchange [https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/10/us-hca-ipo-debut-idUSTRE72949H20110310] represented JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and the other underwriters in the IPO of media measurement group [[Nielsen Company]], which raised $1.6 billion and represented the underwriters in the IPO of [[Caesars Entertainment Corporation]].

Described by [[Hoovers]] as “a name plenty of high-profile clients have banked on,”<ref>http://www.hoovers.com/company/Cahill_Gordon__Reindel_LLP/cfkfri-1.html</ref> Cahill advises [[Bank of America]], [[Merrill Lynch]], [[Barclays]], [[Citigroup]], [[Credit Suisse]], [[Deutsche Bank]], [[JPMorgan]], [[UBS]], and [[Wells Fargo]] as underwriters in debt and equity offerings, including IPOs, and as arrangers in leveraged loans.  [[Bloomberg L.P.]] and [[Thomson Reuters]] consistently rank Cahill as the number one legal advisor to U.S. and Euromarket [[high yield bond]] underwriters in their legal league tables, and rank the firm among the most active law firms representing underwriters in other debt and equity categories. Reuters Loan Pricing Corp. ranks Cahill among the leading law firms representing bank lenders in the U.S. leveraged loan market.

==Offices==
*[[New York City|New York]] ([[Financial District, Manhattan|Financial District]])
*[[London]]
*[[Washington, DC]]

==See also==
*[[Floyd Abrams]]
*[[List of prominent cases argued by Floyd Abrams]]
*''[[Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission]]''
*[[Thomson Financial League Tables]]

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://www.cahill.com/ Cahill Gordon & Reindel <span style="font-variant:small-caps;text-transform:lowercase">llp</span> Web Site]
*[https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/Bloomberg-2014-Q1-Global-Legal-Adviser-League-Tables.pdf Bloomberg Global Legal Adviser League Tables]
*[http://www.linkedin.com/company/cahill-gordon-&-reindel Cahill Gordon & Reindel Profile on LinkedIn]
*[http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/how-the-financial-crisis-changed-cahill-28379/ JD Supra: How the Financial Crisis Changed Cahill Gordon]
*[http://www.chambersandpartners.com/USA/Firms/3549-36457 Chambers USA Profile]
*[http://www.chambersassociate.com/Law/FirmFeature/3549 Chambers Associate Profile]
*[http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/40/40701.html Yahoo! Finance Profile]

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