Cahill Gordon & Reindel history

1920 Led by McAdoo, the Firm served as the general counsel for the founders of United Artists, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith.

In 1921 William G. McAdoo moved out west and the firm was renamed Cotton & Franklin.

1922 William McAdoo leaves the Firm to pursue a political career in California, where voters elect him to a seat in the United States Senate.

Reindel’s work in this area includes creation of a war reparations formula under the Dawes Plan of 1924.

1925 At the conclusion of World War I, Harold Reindel represents the Firm in its association with prominent Berlin attorney Geheimart Kempner for the purpose of establishing public works projects to stimulate the shaky German economy.

1928 Joseph P. Cotton led the Firm’s efforts in the representation of investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. in the merger of Chrysler and Dodge.

1929 A friend and advisor to President Herbert Hoover, Joseph P. Cotton takes leave from the Firm to join the administration as Under Secretary of State.

Reindel was a prominent corporate lawyer who led the development of securities law following the enactment of the Securities Act of 1933, in part helping the Firm earn its reputation as a leading “Securities Act” firm.

Earlier, Ohl helped draft the Revenue Act of 1934.

1935 The Firm opens an office in Washington, D.C., reflecting the impact of new federal regulations for Wall Street practice.

1939 John T. Cahill takes leave from the Firm to become United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

1942 Senior tax partner, John Ohl helps draft the wartime Excess Profits Tax Act and provisions to permit the five-year amortization of war facilities.

1944 Senior partner Boykin C. Wright attempts a merger with the firm Shearman & Sterling.

1948 After leading the Claims Division and the Antitrust Division of the United States Justice Department, John Sonnett returns to the Firm.

1953 John T. Cahill prevails in defending three banking clients in United States v.

image: John Sonnett 1966 John T. Cahill dies at age 62 after a brief illness while in London.

1969 The Firm celebrates its 50th anniversary, with forty-five partners and seventy associates.

1971 The Firm represents The New York Times Company in a landmark First Amendment matter New York Times Company v.

Partner John Ohl, a tax specialist, retired in 1976.

1977 Landmark Communications and its newspaper, The Virginian-Pilot, were indicted by a grand jury and subsequently convicted (without a jury trial) for disclosing information concerning the Virginia Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission's investigation into a state judge.

1978 The Firm represents the federal government throughout the financial restructuring of the Chrysler Corporation.

The Detroit automobile manufacturer avoids bankruptcy by winning $1 billion in government support through enactment of the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979.

1983 Cahill Gordon & Reindel wins a case for The New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC and The Daily Herald Company (of Washington State) in the first challenge to state laws banning exit polling.

1988 The Firm represents Drexel Burnham Lambert as underwriter in Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts's historic $24.6 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco, which was chronicled in the book, Barbarians at the Gate.

1989 Following two years of litigation through the federal courts, a team of twenty-nine Cahill lawyers and twenty-seven summer associates prevail in a pro bono capital punishment case on behalf of the Southern Prisoners' Defense Committee.

1990 Following the dissolution of banking giant Drexel Burnham Lambert, the Firm leverages its longstanding relationships with former Drexel investment bankers who had moved to other investment banks, including Bank of America, Citibank, J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley.

1991 The Firm begins a decade-long defense of Sony Music in a series of state and federal antitrust litigations that alleged price fixing among the other major music company distributers.

1993 On behalf of Burroughs Welcome, the Firm prevails in a highly publicized antitrust patent case involving issues of validity, infringement and misuse with respect to one of the early AZT AIDS/HIV drugs.

2000 The Firm's European office relocates from Paris to London.

2007 On behalf of 3M Company, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP prevails in an en banc hearing before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, affirming dismissal of an antitrust case against the company in NicSand v.

Cahill’s experience and reputation for client service has led Chambers USA to rank the firm among New York’s "Elite" law firms for Commercial Litigation since 2008.

Since 2009, Cahill has won the dismissal of over 30 substantial lawsuits against McGraw Hill Financial, Inc and Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC arising out of the recent financial crisis.

2010 The Firm prevails before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Senator Mitch McConnell as amicus curiae, defending the rights of corporations and labor unions to speak publicly about politics and elections in Citizens United v.

2011 Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP advises underwriters in the $4.35 billion "mega-offering" of shares by HCA, Inc., and in the $1.89 billion IPO of Nielsen Holdings, widely reported to be the two largest private equity-based initial public offerings in United States history.

2015 Cahill Gordon & Reindel& LLP litigators prevail on behalf of drug-maker Amarin Pharma Inc. in a ground breaking challenge to the constitutionality of FDA restrictions of off-label promotion of approved prescription drugs.

Cahill Gordon & Reindel >LLP was named a "Standout" law firm by The Financial Times in its North American Innovative Lawyers Awards 2016 and the lead partners were named "Litigators of the Week" by The American Lawyer and to the "Litigation Trailblazers" list by The National Law Journal.

2017 Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP wins two dismissals of shareholder suits related to S&P's ratings of structured finance securities in New York Supreme Court.

2018 A Cahill capital markets team represents active book-runners BofA Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo Securities and the other book-running managers and co-managers in the fourth largest bond sale to date.

2019 Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP proudly celebrates its centennial.