Meta Platforms Inc. paid WilmerHale, a prominent law firm with ties to the company’s lead independent board director, less than 4% of the firm’s total revenue last year as Meta fended off a major antitrust suit and took a loss in a youth addiction and social media safety case.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr’s gross revenue for 2025 hovered around $1.61 billion, according to data compiled by The American Lawyer, so Meta’s fees totaled an unspecified amount between $48.3 million (or 3% of revenue) and $64.4 million, according to the company’s proxy statement filed Thursday.

Meta discloses the payments because its lead independent board director, Robert Kimmitt, is WilmerHale’s senior international counsel. The tech giant’s payments to the firm appear to have risen from 2024’s roughly $48 million. WilmerHale received $67 million from Meta in 2023, $75 million in 2022, and about $65 million in 2021.

WilmerHale represented Meta in antitrust, personal injury, and fraud litigation throughout 2025, according to Bloomberg Law data. That included successfully defending the company against the Federal Trade Commission’s claim that the company maintains an illegal monopoly on social networking services.

The firm also had a role representing Meta in youth addiction and social media safety cases, one of which handed the tech giant a high-profile defeat last month.

“WilmerHale, when engaged for legal work, is chosen by our company’s legal group on the basis of the directly relevant factors of experience, expertise, and efficiency,” according to Meta’s proxy. “WilmerHale has implemented measures to ensure that Ambassador Kimmitt is walled off from any legal representation of Meta undertaken by WilmerHale.”