Legal provides transactional and regulatory advice, general legal advisory services, litigation services, documentation review, negotiation and guidance on compliance and reputational issues.
Our legal professionals are organized into practice groups that either directly support a business or more broadly support the activities of the entire firm. The various practice groups often coordinate with other members of the Legal and Global Compliance departments on cross-jurisdictional products, transactions and issues, and work closely with our business areas to structure transactions that optimize business opportunities while limiting the firm’s risks.
Legal Practice Groups
Business Intelligence Group is a global research and due diligence group focused on legal, regulatory and reputational risk associated with the firm’s activities. The group works closely with the business areas in the Investment and Merchant Banking, Fixed Income and Equities and Investment Management divisions, firmwide and divisional committees, as well as other areas of the Legal Department, outside corporate investigative firms and law firms, to ensure more fully informed commercial and reputational risk management decisions. The group is composed of lawyers, other professionals and legal analysts, and is located in New York, London and Hong Kong.
Contracts, Technology, Privacy and Intellectual Property Group provides legal support on technology law matters and vendor agreements, privacy issues related to the firm’s practices and businesses, and intellectual property matters related to the firm’s products and businesses. The group is composed of lawyers and other professionals and is located in New York, London and Bangalore.
Employment Law Group coordinates closely with Human Capital Management and the firm’s business areas. The group provides counseling, supervises employee related litigation and supports initiatives that impact the firm’s employees and contingent workers. The group is composed of lawyers and other professionals, and is located in New York, London, Hong Kong and Bangalore.
Finance and Corporate Legal is primarily responsible for providing legal support for the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., the parent company of Goldman Sachs, including the public filings and other corporate documents that are required to support the firm’s activities as a U.S. public company, the financing activities of the Goldman Sachs Group.
Investment Banking Legal supports the Investment Banking division by structuring, negotiating and executing financing transactions for clients, and drafting and negotiating engagement letters, confidentiality agreements and other documents associated with merger and acquisition activity. Legal analysts participate in both the investment banking and securities law training programs. The group is composed of lawyers and other professionals, and is located in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Investment Management Division Legal supports Private Wealth Management and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. The firm’s legal analysts work with in-house and external counsel, and with professionals within and supporting Goldman Sachs Asset Management, including portfolio and sales managers, client service operations and fund treasury personnel. For Private Wealth Management, attorneys are responsible for keeping current with legal and regulatory developments, drafting policies and procedures, and supporting regional offices by answering questions from compliance, investment professionals, regional managers, operations and technology staff. The group is composed of lawyers and other professionals, and is located in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
The Litigation and Regulatory Proceedings Group oversees and handles litigation, arbitration, regulatory and other proceedings that involve Goldman Sachs, its affiliates or their employees, as well as numerous orders and notices in connection with proceedings in which the firm is not a party, including third-party subpoenas, restraining notices and regulatory inquiries from the NYSE and the SEC, which are received by the firm. The group is composed of litigation and regulatory attorneys and paraprofessionals, and is located in New York, London and Hong Kong.
Merchant Banking Legal supports the Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area, the Real Estate Principal Investment Area and the Infrastructure Investment Group.
Securities Legal provides guidance and advice to the firm’s equity and fixed income related marketing, structuring, and trading business units, and to related compliance personnel regarding rules and regulations that apply to their products and businesses. Securities Legal also is heavily involved with supporting other areas in the firm, including credit, trading, operations, treasury and tax.