Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is an American multinational

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headquartered in

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. Founded in 1879 by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson Cromwell, the firm advised on the creation of Edison General Electric and the formation of U.S. Steel, pioneered modern reorganization efforts for insolvent companies, and influenced key financial and regulatory practices. During the 1930s, the firm became one of the world's largest law firms and contributed to the development of shareholder derivatives, antitrust actions, federal income tax law, and securities registration. Sullivan & Cromwell handled landmark deals, including Ford Motor Company's $643 million offering in 1956, and adapted to evolving business trends by establishing dedicated banking and mergers and acquisitions units. Internationally, the firm has a long history of involvement, from financing America's infrastructure to advising the Panama Canal Authority. It was among the first U.S. firms to open overseas offices, although its history includes controversial actions such as aiding

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

's arms buildup and involvement in the

1954 Guatemalan coup d'état The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état () deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and marked the end of the Guatemalan Revolution. The coup installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in ...

. Sullivan & Cromwell's lawyers have been involved in various controversies, including insider trading scandals, work with tobacco companies, and criticism for its role in the FTX cryptocurrency exchange collapse. In 2024, the firm announced the hiring of a background check company to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian groups. This scrutiny extended to candidates who participated in protests, even if they did not use problematic language themselves. In 2025, the law firm represented President

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and participated in the

second Trump administration Donald Trump's second and current tenure as the president of the United States began upon his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025. On his first day, Trump pardoned about 1,500 people convicted of offenses in the Janua ...

's efforts to punish his political opponents.

History

Founded in 1879 by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and

William Nelson Cromwell William Nelson Cromwell (January 17, 1854 – July 19, 1948) was an American attorney active in promotion of the Panama Canal and other major ventures especially in cooperation with Philippe Bunau-Varilla. Life and career He was born and rai ...

, Sullivan & Cromwell advised

John Pierpont Morgan John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. As the head of the banking firm that ...

during the creation of

Edison General Electric General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston. Over the years, the company had multiple divisions, including aerospace, energy, ...

(1882) and later guided key players in the formation of

U.S. Steel The United States Steel Corporation is an American steel company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It maintains production facilities at several additional locations in the U.S. and Central Europe. The company produces and sells steel products, ...

(1901)."Giant Steel Trust Launched at Last: Will be Known as the United States Steel Corporation," The New York Times, February 26, 1901 Cromwell developed the concept of a

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, persuading New Jersey to include it in state law and enabling companies incorporating there to avoid

antitrust laws Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. Competition law is implemented through public and private enforcement. It is also known as antitrust l ...

.Harnessing the Growth of Corporate Capitalism: Sullivan & Cromwell and its influence on late Nineteenth-century American business,”
by Jason Weixelbaum; paper posted December 25, 2010 The firm also worked with less-successful businesses during the volatile decades before the establishment of modern federal

bankruptcy law Bankruptcy is a legal process through which people or other entities who cannot repay debts to creditors may seek relief from some or all of their debts. In most jurisdictions, bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the deb ...

s; it pioneered efforts to reorganize insolvent companies through what became known as the "Cromwell plan." Cromwell was called "the physician of Wall Street" for his ability to rescue failing companies.Sullivan & Cromwell, pag
"Columbia Law School"
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at FundingUniverse.com The post-

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era saw an expanded need for financing. Sullivan & Cromwell designed many of the equity and debt agreements used during this period, including 94

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s to European borrowers during one seven-year period. The firm's business expanded substantially during the 1930s, when it began to represent companies facing increased regulation and became for a time the world's biggest law firm. During the

Great Depression The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and ...

and its aftermath, the firm litigated in the newly emerging fields of shareholder derivatives, antitrust actions,

federal income tax The United States federal government and most state governments impose an income tax. They are determined by applying a tax rate, which may increase as income increases, to taxable income, which is the total income less allowable deductio ...

law, and registration under the

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. The firm developed the first major

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under the Securities Act of 1933Filing registration with the Securities & Exchange Commission on behalf of the Southern California Edison Company, Ltd., of Los Angeles, Calif., for an issue of refunding mortgage bonds, April 1, 1935; filing accessed via LexisNexis and influenced the development of

tax law Tax law or revenue law is an area of legal study in which public or sanctioned authorities, such as federal, state and municipal governments (as in the case of the US) use a body of rules and procedures (laws) to assess and collect taxes in a ...

in the

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industry.Review by Marie Morris of A Lawyer's Life: Deep in the Heart of Taxes, by Edwin S. Cohen. Federal Lawyer, September 1995, page 1 Sullivan & Cromwell performed the legal work for the

Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational corporation, multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. T ...

's $643 million offering in 1956, the biggest ever to that date. Evolving business trends continued to be reflected in the firm's organization; a banking practice was formed in 1968, and a

mergers and acquisitions Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of a company, business organization, or one of their operating units is transferred to or consolidated with another entity. They may happen through direct absorpt ...

unit was established in 1980, as M&A began to accelerate. By the middle of that decade, the M&A unit generated a third of the firm's revenue.

International practice

The firm's international practice dates back to its early years and the development of America's industrial and transportation infrastructure. Sullivan & Cromwell represented European bankers who were financing the construction of railroads and other elements of the nation's infrastructure. By the turn of the century, the firm Cromwell represented French interests that owned land in Panama and was involved in the financing of the

Panama Canal The Panama Canal () is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. It cuts across the narrowest point of the Isthmus of Panama, and is a Channel (geography), conduit for maritime trade between th ...

; the firm still represents the

Panama Canal Authority The Panama Canal Authority (; ACP) is the agency of the government of Panama responsible for the operation and management of the Panama Canal. The ACP took over the administration of the canal from the Panama Canal Commission, the joint US–Pa ...

to this day.“Development and implementation of a risk model and contingency estimation for the Panama Canal Expansion Program,”
prepared by Angie Hanily (ODP), Patricia Alvarado (FMXR) and Ricardo Ungo (FMP), March 2006 Sullivan & Cromwell was one of the earliest U.S. firms to open overseas offices,Top Law Schools

/ref> beginning with Paris in 1911. By 1928, offices also were open in Buenos Aires and Berlin. In 1935,

Allen Dulles Allen Welsh Dulles ( ; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American lawyer who was the first civilian director of central intelligence (DCI), and its longest serving director. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the ea ...

, then a partner in the firm and later

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, visited Germany and returned somewhat disturbed by the direction of the regime. Over the sole opposition of Allen's brother and fellow partner,

John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959. A member of the ...

, the firm's partners voted in 1935 to close the Berlin office and a subsidiary in Frankfurt. However, later the firm backdated the announcement of the closing of their German offices by one year, to 1934.The Secret War: The Office of Strategic Services in World War II, edited by George C. Chalou. Chapter "From Hitler's Doorstep: Allen Dulles and the Penetration of Germany," by Neal H. Petersen; National Archives and Records Administration, 1992 Under Foster Dulles, the firm had helped the regime's arms buildup effort by including the German company

I.G. Farben I. G. Farbenindustrie AG, commonly known as IG Farben, was a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. It was formed on December 2, 1925 from a merger of six chemical companies: Agfa, BASF, Bayer, Griesheim-Elektron, Hoechst, and We ...

into an international nickel

cartel A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collaborate with each other as well as agreeing not to compete with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market. A cartel is an organization formed by producers ...

, which included American, Canadian, and French producers. Two former chairmen of the firm held senior foreign policy positions during the Eisenhower administration: John Foster Dulles, who served as

U.S. Secretary of State The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States and the head of the U.S. Department of State. The secretary of state serves as the principal advisor to the p ...

; and Arthur Dean, who represented the United States in negotiations resulting in the

Korean Armistice Agreement The Korean Armistice Agreement (; zh, t=韓國停戰協定 / 朝鮮停戰協定) is an armistice that brought about a cessation of hostilities of the Korean War. It was signed by United States Army Lieutenant General William Kelly Harrison Jr ...

.“Arthur H. Dean, Envoy to Korea Talks, Dies at 89,”
by Albin Krebs, The New York Times, December 1, 1987 It is one of the most profitable law firms in the world, with 2021 profits per partner exceeding $6 million and profits per lawyer exceeding $1.3 million.

Controversies

I.G. Farben and Nazi Germany

Under Foster Dulles, the firm assisted

's arms buildup effort by incorporating the German chemical company

into an international nickel

alongside American, Canadian, and French companies. By the 1940s, I.G. Farben relied on slave labor from

concentration camps A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploit ...

, including 30,000 from

Auschwitz Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschw ...

, and was involved in medical experiments on inmates at both Auschwitz and

Mauthausen Mauthausen was a German Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern ...

. One of its

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BASF BASF SE (), an initialism of its original name , is a European Multinational corporation, multinational company and the List of largest chemical producers, largest chemical producer in the world. Its headquarters are located in Ludwigshafen, Ge ...

, would later supply the poison gas

Zyklon B Zyklon B (; translated Cyclone B) was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s. It consists of hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid), as well as a cautionary eye irritant and one of several adsorbents such ...

, which was used to kill over one million people in

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s during

the Holocaust The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...

. Once the

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seized the company at the end of the war in 1945, US authorities put 23 IG Farben directors on trial for war crimes, with 13 ultimately convicted..

1954 Guatemala coup d'état

Sullivan & Cromwell's involvement in the 1954 coup d'état in

Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...

is documented. At the time, the firm represented the

United Fruit Company The United Fruit Company (later the United Brands Company) was an American multinational corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was ...

(UFC), which had major holdings in Guatemala. UFC used its lobbying power, through the firm and through other means, to convince

President Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary ...

, as well as Secretary of State

, and his brother, CIA director Allen Dulles, both former partners of the firm, to depose the democratically elected President of Guatemala,

Jacobo Arbenz Jacobo is both a surname and a given name of Spanish origin. Based on the name Jacob Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis a ...

Insider trading

In 2008, police uncovered an

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conspiracy involving a former Sullivan & Cromwell attorney; Toronto

Dorsey & Whitney Dorsey & Whitney LLP (known as Dorsey) is a law firm based in the United States with approximately 580 attorneys, located between 21 offices in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia as of 2023. The firm's headquarters is in Minneapolis, Min ...

partner Gil Cornblum had discovered inside information at both Sullivan & Cromwell and Dorsey and, with his co-conspirator, a former lawyer and Cornblum's law school classmate, was found to have gained over $10 million in illegal profits over a 14-year span."Insider trading and suicide in Canada: a buddy story"
/ref> Cornblum committed suicide by jumping from a bridge as he was under investigation and shortly before he was to be arrested but before criminal charges were laid against him, one day before his alleged co-conspirator pleaded guilty.

Tobacco companies

Sullivan & Cromwell has worked on behalf of tobacco companies. In 2008, the law firm advised on a merger on the tobacco companies

Altria Altria Group, Inc. (previously known as Philip Morris Companies, Inc. until 2003) is an American corporation and one of the world's largest producers and marketers of tobacco, cigarettes, and medical products in the treatment of illnesses ca ...

and UST.

FTX

Sullivan and Cromwell has been criticized for its involvement with

FTX FTX Trading Ltd., trading as FTX (Futures Exchange), is a bankrupt company that formerly operated a cryptocurrency exchange and crypto hedge fund. The exchange was founded in 2019 by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang and collapsed in 2022 after ...

, a fraud-ridden

cryptocurrency exchange A cryptocurrency exchange, or a digital currency exchange (DCE), is a business that allows customers to trade cryptocurrencies or digital currencies for other assets, such as conventional fiat money or other digital currencies. Exchanges may acce ...

. Sullivan and Cromwell did significant pre-bankruptcy work for FTX. In January 2023, a bipartisan group of four

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published a letter arguing that Sullivan and Cromwell had a conflict of interest as FTX bankruptcy counsel due to its significant pre-bankruptcy work. Law Professors Jonathan Lipson and

David Skeel David Arthur Skeel, Jr. (born September 10, 1961) is an American law professor specializing in bankruptcy law and corporate law. He is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a position he has he ...

argue that as FTX was nearing bankruptcy, Sullivan and Cromwell urged then-CEO

Sam Bankman-Fried Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried (born March 5, 1992), commonly known as SBF, is an American entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud and related crimes in November 2023. Bankman-Fried founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and was celebrated as a ...

to transfer control of the company to John J. Ray III by making false promises about Ray's role and failed to suggest that Bankman-Fried and others might face criminal liability. Sullivan and Cromwell also reported concerns about FTX to federal authorities at or near the time it was encouraging Bankman-Fried to transfer control of FTX, possibly in violation of their ethical duties to FTX. Lipson and Skeel have criticized Sullivan and Cromwell as FTX bankruptcy counsel for failing to pursue potentially fruitful claims for malpractice against other law firms who also did pre-bankruptcy work for FTX, or pursue claims against

Binance Binance Holdings Ltd., branded Binance, is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of daily trading volume of cryptocurrencies. Binance was founded in 2017 by Changpeng Zhao, a developer who had previously created high-frequency trading ...

, whose withdrawals started the run on deposits that left FTX in a liquidity crisis. In its pre-bankruptcy work for FTX, both Sullivan and Cromwell and

Fenwick & West Fenwick & West LLP is a law firm of more than 470 attorneys with offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, Santa Monica, Washington, DC, Boston, and Shanghai. The firm focuses on the technology and life sciences sectors, ...

used auto-deleting messages in some communications with FTX employees and directors. Although initially cleared by a U.S. Bankruptcy Examiner, Sullivan and Cromwell is being investigated for its advising of

on his purchase of part of the Robinhood trading platform and whether the firm should have discovered FTX's fraud as part of that representation.

Pro-Palestinian protestors

In 2024, Sullivan and Cromwell was criticized for scrutinizing students involved with pro-Palestinian student groups, hiring a background check company to scour social media and review news reports and footage from protests. Candidates could face scrutiny even if they weren’t using problematic language but were involved with a protest where others did. Roderick A. Ferguson, a Yale professor of American studies, argued that to "make the leap that it’s all the students", “can mimic racist thinking, sexist thinking, homophobic thinking, that one instance becomes a character of all.”

Representation of Donald J. Trump

In January 2025, Sullivan and Cromwell announced its representation of Donald J. Trump in the appeal of his conviction on 34 felony counts for paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election. In doing so, the firm became the first major law firm to risk its reputation by defending Trump from criminal prosecution, with the New York Times writing that "Some clients might look askance at any affiliation with a polarizing president."

Robert Giuffra Robert Joseph Giuffra Jr. (born ) is an American attorney. He is Co-Chair and a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, and is a member of their Management Committee. Personal life and education Giuffra graduated from Bronxville (N.Y.) Hi ...

, co-chair of Sullivan & Cromwell, sat in on a meeting where President Donald Trump negotiated an agreement with the law firm Paul, Weiss which he had targeted as part of a larger retaliation campaign against law firms that represented his political opponents. Giuffra was involved in negotiating an agreement where Paul, Weiss would give in to various of Trump's demands.

Notable employees

* M. Bernard Aidinoff (partner), chairman of Section of Taxation of the

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Ann Althouse Ann Althouse (born January 12, 1951) is an American law professor and blogger. Early life and education Althouse was raised in Newark and Wilmington, Delaware (and later as a teen in Wayne, New Jersey). She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from ...

, blogger and professor of law *

Louis Auchincloss Louis Stanton Auchincloss (; September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010)Holcomb B. Noble and Charles McGrath''The New York Times''. Retrieved on January 27, 2010. was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novel ...

, novelist, historian, and essayist * Michael Bryant, member of the

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* Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, Ex Chief Justice of India * Jay Clayton, chair of the

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(2017–20) *

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, human rights lawyer, activist, wife of

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H. Rodgin Cohen Henry Rodgin "Rodge" Cohen (born 1944) is an American corporate lawyer whose practice focuses on commercial banking and financial institutions. He is currently the senior chairman of the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. Early life and education ...

, corporate lawyer * Lori Fisler Damrosch, law professor * Norris Darrell, president of the

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* Florence A. Davis, president of the

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* Arthur Dean, lawyer and diplomat * Michael G. DeSombre, partner and former

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to the

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Allen Welsh Dulles Allen Welsh Dulles ( ; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American lawyer who was the first civilian director of central intelligence (DCI), and its longest serving director. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the e ...

(1953–61) *

(1953–59) *

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, philosopher and law professor * Vicente Blanco Gaspar, lawyer and ambassador *

Judith Kaye Judith Ann Kaye ( Smith; August 4, 1938 – January 7, 2016) was an American lawyer, jurist and the longtime Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, serving in that position from 1993 to 2008. She was the first woman to serve as chief j ...

, chief judge of the

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* Alexandra D. Korry (partner), chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee *

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, law professor * Robert MacCrate, counsel to Governor Nelson D. Rockefeller and the

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for its investigation of the My Lai Massacre * Paul Mahoney, former dean of

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* Robert McC. Marsh, member of the

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and Justice of the

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* John O. McGinnis, professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law * Bruce Menin, businessman * Steven Peikin, co-director of the SEC Enforcement Division (2017–20) *

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, technology entrepreneur and investor * Frederic C. Rich, author, lawyer, and environmentalist * Samuel W. Seymour, former president of the New York City Bar Association *

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professor and mentor of

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, Chief Justice of the United States *

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, lawyer and activist *

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, New England Patriots executive vice president *

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, venture capitalist and co-founder of

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Joseph Tsai Joseph Chung-Hsin Tsai ( zh, t=蔡崇信, poj=Chhòa Chông-sìn; born January 1964) is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire business magnate, lawyer, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder and chairman of the Chinese multinational technology company ...

, vice chairman of Alibaba Group * Jeffrey B. Wall, former principal deputy solicitor general of the United States * Elizabeth Carroll Wingo, Judge on the

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and

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executive

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Sullivan & Cromwell's websiteNational Law Review profile
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