Bio

Noreen Weiss is an entrepreneurial lawyer with deep expertise in corporate, M&A, securities and commercial law, specializing in cross border expansion and transactions, capital formation, and the evolving law around cutting- edge technology, with a unique blend of expatriate, in-house and founder experience. As Chair of gunnercookeUS and Managing Partner of the New York office, Noreen has opened the firm’s first office in the United States, and will be spearheading its growth effort across the country. She has a decade of founder and law firm leadership experience as the co-founder of MacDonald Weiss PLLC, a boutique corporate and commercial firm. Combined with her early career as a capital markets and M&A lawyer in the New York, London and Tokyo offices of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, and followed by years as Senior Counsel for International Corporate Development for HBO (Home Box Office), she has a diverse global, client and founder perspective. Noreen embraces disruption and marries her deep specialization with the curiosity of a generalist, advising clients on the cutting edge of law and technology, and assisting clients with navigating a global marketplace.