The Legal 500 US 2020 Recommends 29 Akin Practices and 106 Lawyers
(Washington, D.C.) – The Legal 500, in its 13th edition of The Legal 500 United States, has highlighted a number of Akin Gump practices and lawyers as leaders in their respective areas. According to the publication, the rankings involved careful consideration of evaluations given by law firms, their peers and clients.
For the fifth year in a row, Akin Gump ranked as a top-tier firm in two categories of finance - restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate and government - government relations. The Legal 500 US has also recognized nine Akin Gump lawyers as “Leading Lawyers,” two as “Hall of Fame” and two as “Next Generation Partners” in their respective fields.
The firm’s “Leading Lawyers” include the following:
- Supreme Court and appellate practice co-head Pratik A. Shah
- financial restructuring partner Ira S. Dizengoff
- public law and policy practice co-heads G. Hunter Bates and Brian Arthur Pomper
- global project finance practice co-heads John J. Marciano III and Daniel Phillip Sinaiko
- global corporate practice co-head John Goodgame
- oil and gas partner Christine B. LaFollette
- entertainment partner P. John Burke.
This is the fourth consecutive recognition for Mr. Burke, the third for Mr. Shah, and the second for Messrs. Dizengoff, Bates, Pomper, Marciano and Goodgame.
The firm’s “Hall of Fame” includes financial restructuring partner Daniel H. Golden and investment management practice co-head Stephen M. Vine.
The firm’s “Next Generation Partners” include global project finance partner Matthew C. Nesburn and oil & gas partner David H. Sweeney.
Additionally, 29 of the firm’s practices were recognized and 106 Akin Gump lawyers were recommended:
Alternative/hedge funds
- Caryn Greenspan
- Eliot D. Raffkind
- Kelli L. Moll
- Prakash Mehta
- Stephen M. Vine
Antitrust: Cartel
Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: Defense
- Alexander H. Merritt
- C. Fairley Spillman
- Corey W. Roush
- Haidee L. Schwartz
Antitrust: Merger control
- Corey W. Roush
- Gorav Jindal
- Haidee L. Schwartz
Appellate: Courts of appeal
Appellate: Supreme courts (states and federal)
- James E. Tysse
- Julius Chen
- Pratik A. Shah
- Rex S. Heinke
Capital Markets: Debt offerings: Advice to issuers
- Christine B. LaFollette
- Jeffrey Lazar Kochian
- John Goodgame
- Rosa A. Testani
- Seth R. Molay
Corporate governance
- Christine B. LaFollette
- Jeffrey Lazar Kochian
- John Goodgame
Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to corporates
Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to individuals
- Charles F. Connolly
- Claudius B. Modesti
- James Joseph Benjamin Jr.
- Karen Elizabeth Christian
- Michael A. Asaro
- Paul W. Butler
Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
Energy: Renewable/alternative power
- Andrea Wang Lucan
- Daniel Phillip Sinaiko
- Gregory W. Lavigne Jr.
- John J. Marciano III
- Matthew Nesburn
- Sam Kamyans
- Thomas Ian Dupuis
- Zachary N. Wittenberg
Energy Transactions: Oil and gas
- Christine B. LaFollette
- David Patrick Elder
- David H. Sweeney
- John Goodgame
- Michael J. Byrd
- Seth R. Molay
General commercial disputes
- Joseph Sorkin
- Julius Chen
- Michael A. Asaro
- Michael J. Stortz
- Mike Warnecke
- Mitchell P. Hurley
- Neal Ross Marder
- Pratik Shah
- Scott Barnard
- Seamus C. Duffy
- Stephen M. Baldini
- Susan Kay Leader
Government contracts
- Angela B. Styles
- Elise Farrell
- Robert K. Huffman
- Scott M. Heimberg
- Susan H. Lent
Government relations
- Allison C. Binney
- Arshi Siddiqui
- Brian Arthur Pomper
- G. Hunter Bates
- Jamie Tucker
- Joel Jankowsky
- John F. Jonas
- Scott David Parven
- Susan H. Lent
International trade
Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Brian Glenn Patterson
- Daniel L. Nash
- Donna M. Mezias
- Esther G. Lander
- Gary M. McLaughlin
- Gregory W. Knopp
- Nathan J. Oleson
- Richard J. Rabin
- Robert G. Lian Jr.
- Stacey R. Eisenstein
M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Christine B. LaFollette
- Gerald Brant
- Jeffrey Lazar Kochian
- Kerry E. Berchem
Media and entertainment: transactional
- Alissa Miller
- Christopher Staton Spicer
- Marissa Román Griffith
- P. John Burke
Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Andrew Holtman
- Cono Carrano
- C. Brandon Rash
- Daniel L. Moffett
- David C. Vondle
- Dianne B. Elderkin
- Kevin G. McBride
- Kirt S. O’Neill
- Michael P. Kahn
- Rubén H. Muñoz
- Steven D. Maslowski
Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Andrew Holtman
- Cono Carrano
- C. Brandon Rash
- David Vondle
- Kevin McBride
- Steve Maslowski
Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Ann E. Tadajweski
- Barbara Niederkofler
- Blayne A. Grady
- Eliot D. Raffkind
- Fadi G. Samman
- James A. Deeken
- Prakash H. Mehta
- Stephen M. Vine
Project finance
Project finance: Advice to sponsors
- Daniel Phillip Sinaiko
- Gregory W. Lavigne Jr.
- John J. Marciano III
- Thomas Ian Dupuis
Real estate
- David Stone Phelps
- John Allen Bain
- Marc N. Epstein
Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Abid Qureshi
- Arik Preis
- Daniel H. Golden
- Ira S. Dizengoff
- Katherine Lindsay
- Philip C. Dublin
- Scott L. Alberino
Securities litigation: Defense
- James Joseph Benjamin Jr.
- Michael A. Asaro
- Scott Barnard
- Stephen M. Baldini
Shareholder activism: Advice to shareholders
- Douglas A. Rappaport
- Gerald Brant
- Jeffrey Lazar Kochian
For further details on the firm’s rankings and commentary, please click here.
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