Sullivan & Cromwell

Advised J.P. Morgan in the creation of Edison General Electric in 1882.

Aided formation of US Steel in 1901.

Represented Ford Motor Co. in 1956.

Banking arm formed in 1968.

Mergers and acquisitions in 1980.

Worked with firms establishing the Panama Canal.

Notable partners:
 * M. Bernard Aidinoff, partner and chairman of Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association
 * Ann Althouse, blogger and professor of law
 * Louis Auchincloss, lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist
 * Michael Bryant, lawyer and politician
 * Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, Judge of the Supreme Court of India
 * Jay Clayton, current Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
 * Amal Clooney
 * H. Rodgin Cohen, corporate lawyer
 * Lori Damrosch [de], president, American Society of International Law
 * Norris Darrell, president, American Law Institute
 * Florence A. Davis, president of the Starr Foundation
 * Arthur Dean, lawyer and diplomat
 * Allen Welsh Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence (1953-1961)[55]
 * John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State (1953-1959)[55]
 * Ronald Dworkin, philosopher and law professor
 * Judith Kaye, chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals
 * Robert MacCrate, counsel to New York Governor Nelson D. Rockefeller, special counsel to the Department of the Army for its investigation of the My Lai Massacre
 * Paul Mahoney, former dean, University of Virginia Law School
 * Bruce Menin, businessman
 * Steven Peikin, co-director of the SEC Enforcement Division
 * Keith Rabois, technology entrepreneur and investor
 * Frederic C. Rich, author, lawyer, and environmentalist
 * Samuel W. Seymour, former president of the NYC Bar Association
 * Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice of the United States
 * Peter Thiel, technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal
 * Joseph Tsai, vice chairman of Alibaba Group
 * Elizabeth Carroll Wingo, judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
 * Mark Wiseman, Head of Global Active Equity and Chairman of the Global Investment Committee, BlackRock; former president & chief executive officer, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board