McDermott Will & Schulte

McDermott Will & Schulte is an international law firm formed by the August 2025 merger of McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel. The predecessor firm, McDermott Will & Emery, was founded in Chicago in 1934 by Edward H. McDermott and William M. Emery, initially focusing on tax law. Howard A. Will joined in 1941, establishing a corporate department. The legacy Schulte Roth & Zabel was founded in 1969. The combined entity is a global legal powerhouse with approximately 1,750 lawyers across more than 20 offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and a combined revenue of around $3 billion.

The firm serves a wide range of commercial, industrial, and financial enterprises, from large corporations and financial institutions to medium-sized companies, family offices, and private equity firms. It operates as a full-service law firm with a business model centered on providing comprehensive legal counsel across numerous practice areas and industries. The merger combined McDermott's strengths in healthcare, tax, and mid-market M&A with Schulte's expertise in investment funds, financial services regulation, and private equity buyouts.

McDermott Will & Schulte's key practice areas include corporate and transactional, litigation and dispute resolution, intellectual property, private client and wealth management, tax, employee benefits, employment, and regulatory matters. The firm has a particularly strong reputation in healthcare, financial services, life sciences, private equity, and energy sectors. Its services cover complex commercial litigation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate governance, securities, white-collar defense, and wealth management for high-net-worth individuals and families. The firm is led by Chairman Ira Coleman, who held the same position at the legacy McDermott firm.

Keywords: international law firm, corporate law, tax law, healthcare law, private equity, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, financial services regulation, intellectual property, wealth management, M&A, regulatory law, white-collar defense, employee benefits, antitrust law, private capital, investment funds, securities litigation, cross-border transactions, transactional law