The Legal 500 US 2017 Recommends 64 Akin Gump Lawyers
(Washington, D.C.) – The Legal 500, in its 10th edition of The Legal 500 United States 2017, has highlighted several Akin Gump practices and lawyers as leaders in their respective areas of practice. The rankings decisions involved careful consideration of evaluations given by law firms, their peers and clients.
Akin Gump was once again ranked as a top-tier firm in the categories of corporate restructuring (including bankruptcy) and government relations, while, entertainment practice head P. John Burke, investment management practice co-head Stephen Vine, global project finance practice head Edward Zaelke and global financial restructuring practice co-chair Daniel Golden were named “Leading Lawyers” in their respective fields. This is the fourth consecutive recognition for Mr. Vine and the third for Mr. Golden.
Additionally, the firm and 64 Akin Gump lawyers were recommended in the following categories:
Alternative/hedge funds
- Kelli Moll
- Eliot Raffkind
- Fadi Samman
- Stephen Vine
Antitrust: Merger control
Capital Markets: Debt offerings
- Kerry Berchem
- John Goodgame
- Seth Molay
Capital Markets: High-yield debt offerings
- Kerry Berchem
- Rosa Testani
Corporate restructuring (including bankruptcy)
- Scott Alberino
- Ira Dizengoff
- Phil Dublin
- Daniel Golden
- James Savin
- Michael Stamer
- Abid Qureshi
Cyber law
- Natasha Kohne
- Michelle Reed
- David Turetsky
Energy: renewable/alternative
- John Marciano
- Edward Zaelke
Energy: transactions: oil and gas
- Douglas Glass
- John Goodgame
- Christine LaFollette
- Steven Otillar
Government contracts
- Robert Huffman
Government relations
- G. Hunter Bates
- Joel Jankowsky
- John Jonas
- Jeffrey McMillen
- Scott Parven
- Donald Pongrace
International trade
- Spencer Griffith
- Lars-Erik Hjelm
- Bernd Janzen
- Thomas McCarthy
- Wynn Segall
- Valerie Slater
Labor and employment
- Stacey Recht Eisenstein
- Robert Lian
- Gary McLaughlin
- Daniel Nash
- Nathan Oleson
- Richard Rabin
M&A middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Kerry Berchem
- Rick Burdick
- John Goodgame
- Daniel Fisher
- Jeffrey Kochian
- Ackneil Muldrow III
- Frank Reddick
- Patrick Rice
- Adam Weinstein
- Thomas Yang
Media and entertainment
Private equity funds
- Angela Adams
- Eliot Raffkind
- Fadi Samman
- Stephen Vine
Supreme Court and appellate
- Scott Heimberg
- Rex Heinke
- Thomas McLish
- Pratik Shah
Founded in 1945, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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