Who’s Who Legal 2020 Recognizes Akin Gump Lawyers

(Washington, D.C.) – Who’s Who Legal has selected 64 Akin Gump lawyers for inclusion in its 2020 publications, which identify the foremost legal practitioners and consulting experts from over 150 national jurisdictions in business law based upon comprehensive, independent research.

The following Akin Gump lawyers were selected by Who’s Who Legal:

Asia

Central (Hong Kong)

• Vena Cheng (Investigations)

Hong Kong

• Naomi Moore (Restructuring & Insolvency)

Singapore

• Paul Greening (Energy)
• Robert Griffin (Private Funds - Formation)
• Michael Joyce (Energy)

Russia

Moscow

• Natalia R. Baratiants (Energy)
• Alexey Kondratchik (Energy)

Switzerland

Geneva

• Alan Yanovich (Switzerland - Trade & Customs and Trade & Customs)

United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi

• Wael Jabsheh (Sports)

Dubai

• Rizwan Kanji (Capital Markets - Islamic Finance)

United Kingdom

London

• John Daghlian (Private Funds - Formation)
• Davina Garrod (Competition)
• Christopher M. Gorman-Evans (Private Funds - Formation)
• Jasper Helder (Trade & Customs - International Sanctions and Trade & Customs)
• Thomas John Holton (Private Funds - Formation)
• Chiara Klaui (Trade & Customs - International Sanctions and Trade & Customs)
• Hamish Lal (Construction)
• Kambiz Larizadeh (Asset Recovery)
• Ian Meade (Private Funds - Formation)
• Tim Pearce (Private Funds - Formation)
• James Roome (Restructuring & Insolvency)
• Barry G. Russell (Restructuring & Insolvency)
• James Terry (Restructuring & Insolvency)

United States

Dallas

• James A. Deeken (Private Funds - Formation)
• Eliot D. Raffkind (Private Funds - Formation)
• Randall M. Ratner* (Real Estate)
• Michelle A. Reed (Investigations)

Houston

• Stephen D. Davis (Energy, Project Finance)
• John Goodgame (Energy)
• David H. Sweeney (Energy)

Los Angeles

• P. John Burke* (Entertainment)
• Marissa Román Griffith (Entertainment)
• Alissa Miller (Entertainment)
• Christopher Staton Spicer (Entertainment)

New York

• Michael A. Asaro (Investigations)
• James J. Benjamin Jr. (Business Crime Defence - Corporates and Individuals; Investigations; Thought Leaders - GIR - Business Crime Defense - Corporates and Individuals; and Thought Leaders - GIR - Investigations)
• Ira S. Dizengoff (Restructuring & Insolvency)
• Patrick B. Fenn (Thought Leaders - Corporate Tax)
• Stuart E. Leblang (Corporate Tax - Advisory, Private Funds - Formation and Thought Leaders - Corporate Tax)
• Prakash Mehta (Private Funds - Formation)
• Kelli L. Moll (Private Funds - Formation)
• Abid Qureshi (Restructuring & Insolvency)
• Michael S. Stamer (Restructuring & Insolvency)
• Stephen M. Vine (Private Funds - Formation)

Philadelphia

• Dianne B. Elderkin (Life Sciences - Patent Litigation and Patents)

Washington, D.C.

• Nathan Brown (Healthcare)
• Rick L. Burdick* (Energy)
• Tom Davidson (Data - Telecoms & Media)
• John Gilliland (Trade & Customs)
• Spencer S. Griffith (Trade & Customs)
• Paul B. Hewitt (Competition)
• Lars-Erik A. Hjelm (Trade & Customs)
• John R. Jacob (Healthcare)
• Bernd G. Janzen (Trade & Customs)
• Christopher L. Keough* (Healthcare)
• Stephen Kho (Trade & Customs)
• Jim Langdon* (Energy)
• Daniel L. Nash (Labor & Employment and Sports)
• Matthew Nicely (Trade & Customs)
• Jonathan Poling (Trade & Customs - International Sanctions)
• Robert S. Salcido (Healthcare)
• Hal S. Shapiro (Trade & Customs)
• Angela B. Styles (Government Contracts)
• Kevin J. Wolf (Trade & Customs)

*Partner Emeritus

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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