The Legal 500 US 2019 Recommends Akin Gump Practices and 100+ Lawyers

(Washington, D.C.) – The Legal 500, in its 12th edition of The Legal 500 United States 2019, has highlighted a number of Akin Gump practices and lawyers as leaders in their respective areas. According to the publication, the rankings decisions involved careful consideration of evaluations given by law firms, their peers and clients.

For the fourth 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” and three as “Next Generation Lawyers” in their respective fields.

The firm’s “Leading Lawyers” include the following:

• Supreme Court and appellate practice co-head Pratik A. Shah
• global financial restructuring practice co-chair Daniel H. Golden
• financial restructuring partner Ira S. Dizengoff
• public law and policy practice co-heads Brian Arthur Pomper and G. Hunter Bates,
• global project finance practice co-head John J. Marciano III
• oil & gas partner John Goodgame
• investment management practice co-head Stephen M. Vine
• entertainment partner P. John Burke.

This is the sixth consecutive recognition for Mr. Vine, the fifth for Mr. Golden and third for Mr. Burke.

The firm’s “Next Generation Lawyers” include financial restructuring partner Philip C. Dublin, oil & gas partner David H. Sweeney and entertainment practice head Christopher Staton Spicer.

Additionally, 27 of the firm’s practices were recognized and 101 Akin Gump lawyers were recommended:

Alternative/hedge funds

• Eliot D. Raffkind
• Kelli L. Moll
• Stephen M. Vine

Antitrust: Cartel

• Corey W. Roush

Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: Defense

• Corey W. Roush
• C. Fairley Spillman
• Gorav Jindal
• Paul B. Hewitt

Antitrust: Merger control

• Corey W. Roush
• C. Fairley Spillman
• Gorav Jindal
• Paul B. Hewitt
• Seth R. Molay

Appellate: Courts of appeal
Appellate: Supreme courts (states and federal)

• James E. Tysse
• Pratik A. Shah
• Raymond P. Tolentino
• Rex S. Heinke

Capital Markets: Debt: Advice to issuers

• Christine B. LaFollette
• John Goodgame
• W. Robert Shearer
• Rosa A. Testani
• Seth R. Molay

Capital Markets: High-yield debt offerings: Advice to issuers

• Rosa A. Testani

Corporate governance

• Christine B. LaFollette
• Daniel I. Fisher
• Jeffrey Lazar Kochian
• John Goodgame

Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
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
• Parvin Daphne Moyne
• Robert H. Hotz Jr.

Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)

• Jo-Ellyn Sakowitz Klein
• Kathryn E. Deal
• Meredith C. Slawe
• Michael J. Stortz
• Michelle A. Reed
• Natasha G. Kohne

Energy: Renewable/alternative power

• Daniel Phillip Sinaiko
• Dino Elizardo Barajas
• John J. Marciano III

Energy: Transactions: Oil and gas

• Christine B. LaFollette
• David Patrick Elder
• David H. Sweeney
• Jeffrey Lazar Kochian
• John Goodgame
• Rick L. Burdick
• Seth R. Molay
• W. Robert Shearer

General commercial disputes

• Anthony T. Pierce
• Mitchell P. Hurley
• Neal Ross Marder
• Robert J. Boller
• Stephen M. Baldini
• Susan Kay Leader

Government contracts

• Angela B. Styles
• Robert K. Huffman
• Scott M. Heimberg
• Susan H. Lent
• Thomas P. McLish

Government relations

• Arshi Siddiqui
• Brendan M. Dunn
• Brian Arthur Pomper
• Ed Pagano
• G. Hunter Bates
• Jeffrey D. McMillen
• Joe S. Donnelly
• Joel Jankowsky
• John F. Jonas
• Zachary M. Rudisill

International trade

• Bernd G. Janzen
• Clete R. Willems
• Kevin J. Wolf
• Lars-Erik A. Hjelm
• Spencer S. Griffith
• Thomas J. McCarthy

Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense

• Daniel L. Nash
• Donna M. Mezias
• Esther G. Lander
• Gary M. McLaughlin
• Gregory W. Knopp
• Lauren Helen Leyden
• Nathan J. Oleson
• Richard J. Rabin
• Robert G. Lian Jr.
• Stacey R. Eisenstein

M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)

• C.N. Franklin Reddick III
• Daniel I. Fisher
• Jeffrey Lazar Kochian
• John Goodgame
• Kerry E. Berchem
• Rick L. Burdick
• Thomas H. Yang
• W. Robert Shearer

Media and entertainment: transactional

• Alissa Miller
• Christopher Staton Spicer
• Marissa Román Griffith
• P. John Burke
• Vanessa Foltyn Roman

Private equity funds (including venture capital)

• Ann E. Tadajweski
• Fadi G. Samman
• Prakash H. Mehta
• Stephen M. Vine

Project finance: Advice to sponsor

• Andrea Wang Lucan
• Daniel Phillip Sinaiko
• Dino Elizardo Barajas
• Gregory W. Lavigne Jr.
• John J. Marciano III
• Matthew C. Nesburn
• Thomas Ian Dupuis

Real estate

• David Stone Phelps
• Hushmand Sohaili
• John Allen Bain
• Marc N. Epstein

Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate

• Abid Qureshi
• Daniel H. Golden
• Ira S. Dizengoff
• Philip C. Dublin
• Scott L. Alberino

Securities litigation: Defense

• James Joseph Benjamin Jr.
• Michael A. Asaro
• Mitchell P. Hurley
• Robert H. Pees
• Steven R. Ross

Shareholder activism: Advice to shareholders

• Douglas A. Rappaport
• Jeffrey Lazar Kochian

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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