Attorney Profile

Paul Weiffenbach has more than three decades of experience representing major international corporations, banks and governmental agencies in complex commercial and financial transactions in the United States, Europe and Asia. His principal practice areas include general corporate law, business entity formation, commercial financing, mergers and acquisitions and contract drafting and negotiation.

Paul began his legal career as an associate in the Washington D.C. office of Millbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. In 1993, a group of four lawyers, including Paul, left Milbank to start the Washington, DC office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP. Paul started as an associate and eventually became a partner working in the Washington, DC, London and New York offices of Orrick. While in London, Paul had the honor of being named “Deal Maker of the Year for Securitization” in 2000 by The American Lawyer for his work as United States counsel in the first European securitization registered with the SEC and publicly offered in the United States.

After leaving Orrick, Paul was a partner for three years in Bryant & Rabbino where, among other transactions, Paul was counsel to a United States government agency in several securitizations and sales of assets from banks in receivership.

In addition, Paul spent six years in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia as a partner in two leading Mongolian law firms. Paul’s experience also includes acting as the business legal advisor to the CEO of the company holding the Mongolian government’s mining assets.