Partner & Chief Legal Officer, Apollo Global Management
Search every verified Whitney Chatterjee interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Whitney Chatterjee, a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell at the time, discussed her career and experiences in a 2014 interview. She noted that she was a new partner in a class where four out of five new partners were women, which she described as exciting. Chatterjee stated that she began her career in the firm's Washington, D.C. office and later transitioned to New York, where she felt quickly integrated due to prior phone interactions with colleagues. Chatterjee said she worked extensively with partner Raj Cohen on financial institutions matters, describing the experience of collaborating with leaders in the field as a valuable learning opportunity. Reflecting on her own career decision-making, she recalled feeling overwhelmed as a law student choosing a firm but decided to select one with broad strengths to keep future options open, a choice that led her to remain at Sullivan & Cromwell.
“I'm in the general practice group in financial institutions and corporate and finance. I'm a brand new partner this year; there were five new partners and four out of the five were women, which was very exciting to be a part of that class.”
“I started out in our Washington DC office; when I came back to New York having been in Washington for three years, I really felt very quickly integrated and familiar with a lot of people who I spent a lot of time talking to over the phone, so it was a smooth transition.”
“I've spent a lot of time working with Raj Cohen on financial institutions matters, simply just working with these partners who were leaders in their field day in and day out, getting feedback from them, interacting with them, putting your heads together to solve a problem that neither of you know the answer to really—y...”
“I recall specifically how difficult it was for me when I was a second-year law student trying to choose the law firm that I wanted to go to for the summer. I felt overwhelmed by the number of choices that there were, but I felt that if I chose from where they had such strength in every area, I thought that would positi...”
Whitney Chatterjee is co-head of the Alternative Investment Management Group and a member of the Firm's Financial Institutions ...
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