The 2016 edition of Chambers USA ranked Mayer Brown in 55 practice categories, including six Band One nationwide rankings:
- Capital Markets: Securitization, for the ninth consecutive year
- Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance & Litigation)
- Outsourcing, for the 13th consecutive year
- Projects: PPP, for the seventh consecutive year
- Tax: Controversy, for the 11th consecutive year
- Transportation: Road (Carriage/Commercial), for the 12th consecutive year
In addition, Mayer Brown received top-band rankings in five state categories:
- Antitrust, Illinois
- Communications, Illinois
- Latin American Investment, Texas
- Technology & Outsourcing, District of Columbia
- Technology & Outsourcing, Illinois
The new Chambers edition also recognized 143 Mayer Brown lawyers with 165 total rankings in 78 practice categories, including 34 lawyers who achieved a total of 43 Band One or higher rankings:
Senior Statesmen
- Lee Abrams – Franchising: Mainly Franchisee, Nationwide; and Antitrust, Illinois
- Andy Frey – Appellate Law, Nationwide
- John Gearen – Real Estate, Illinois
- Bob Helman – Corporate/M&A, Illinois
- Rob Jenkins – Transportation: Rail (for Railroads), Nationwide
- Marvin Katz – Real Estate, Texas
- Jason Kravitt – Capital Markets: Securitization, Nationwide
- Bert Krueger – Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation, Illinois
- Larry Langdon – Tax, California
- Ed Osterberg – Tax, Texas
- John Schmidt – Projects: PPP, Nationwide
- Steve Shapiro – Appellate Law, Nationwide; and Litigation: General Commercial, Illinois
- Timothy Sherck – Tax, Illinois
Star Individual
- Andy Marovitz – Antitrust, Illinois
- Laurence Platt – Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)
- Joel Williamson – Tax: Controversy, Illinois
Eminent Practitioner
- Mark McLaughlin – Antitrust, Illinois
Band One
- Rob Baptista – Banking & Finance, Illinois
- Tim Bishop – Environment: Litigation, Illinois
- Josh Cohn – Capital Markets: Derivatives, Nationwide
- Vince Connelly – Litigation: General Commercial, Illinois; and Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations, Illinois
- Rebecca Eisner – Outsourcing, Nationwide; and Technology & Outsourcing, Illinois
- Dennis Friedman – Communications, Illinois
- Erika Jones – Transportation: Road (Carriage/Commercial), Nationwide
- Philip Lacovara – International Arbitration: Arbitrators, Nationwide
- Barry Machlin – Projects, Nationwide
- Marcia Madsen – Government: Government Contracts, Nationwide
- Dan Masur – Outsourcing, Nationwide; and Technology & Outsourcing, District of Columbia
- Brad Peterson – Outsourcing, Nationwide; and Technology & Outsourcing, Illinois
- Paul Roy – Outsourcing, Nationwide; and Technology & Outsourcing, Illinois
- Larry Urgenson – FCPA, Nationwide
- Paul Virtue – Immigration, Nationwide; and Immigration, District of Columbia
- Neil Wasserstrom – Real Estate, Texas
- Joel Williamson – Tax: Controversy, Nationwide
- Keith Willner – Real Estate, District of Columbia
Following is a complete list of the 2016 Chambers USA rankings for Mayer Brown.
Practice Category Rankings:
Nationwide
- Antitrust
- Antitrust: Cartel
- Appellate Law
- Capital Markets: Derivatives
- Capital Markets: Securitization
- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance)
- Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Enforcement & Investigations)
- Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance & Litigation)
- Government: Government Contracts
- Government: Government Relations
- Immigration
- Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
- International Trade
- International Trade: Intellectual Property (Section 337)
- Outsourcing
- Product Liability & Mass Torts
- Projects: PPP
- Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy
- Real Estate
- Tax: Controversy
- Tax: Corporate & Finance
- Transportation: Rail (for Railroads)
- Transportation: Road (Carriage/Commercial)
District of Columbia
- Antitrust
- Immigration
- Intellectual Property: Litigation
- Litigation: General Commercial
- Real Estate
- Technology & Outsourcing
Illinois
- Antitrust
- Banking & Finance
- Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Communications
- Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
- Environment
- Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
- Intellectual Property
- Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation
- Litigation: General Commercial
- Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Real Estate
- Tax
- Technology & Outsourcing
New York
- Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
- Latin American Investment
- Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
- Tax
North Carolina
- Banking & Finance
- Real Estate: Finance
Texas
- Banking & Finance
- Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
- Corporate/M&A
- Latin American Investment
- Real Estate
Individual Rankings:
Nationwide
Antitrust
Andrew Marovitz
Appellate Law
Andrew Frey
Kenneth Geller
Dan Himmelfarb
Andrew Pincus
Charles Rothfeld
Stephen Shapiro
Evan Tager
Banking & Finance
Robert Baptista
Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Brian Trust
Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
Edward Best
Capital Markets: Derivatives
Joshua Cohn
Douglas Donahue
Capital Markets: Securitization
Carol Hitselberger
Paul Jorissen
Jason Kravitt
Stuart Litwin
Keith Oberkfell
Angela Ulum
Jon Van Gorp
Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
Thomas Moore
ERISA Litigation
Nancy Ross
FCPA
Laurence Urgenson
Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance)
Scott Anenberg
Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Enforcement & Investigations)
Thomas Delaney
Financial Services Regulation: Broker Dealer (Compliance)
Jerome Roche
Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)
Costas Avrakotos
Melanie Brody
Steven Kaplan
Laurence Platt
Phillip Schulman
Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
Laurence Platt
Franchising: Mainly Franchisee
Lee Abrams
Government: Government Contracts
David Dowd
Marcia Madsen
Government: Government Contracts: Bid Protests
Marcia Madsen
Immigration
Elizabeth Stern
Paul Virtue
International Arbitration
Michael Lennon
International Arbitration: Arbitrators
Philip Lacovara
International Trade: Intellectual Property (Section 337)
Jamie Beaber
Gary Hnath
Investment Funds: Registered Funds
Stephanie Monaco
Litigation: E-Discovery
Michael Lackey
Outsourcing
Rebecca Eisner
Daniel Masur
Brad Peterson
Paul Roy
Product Liability & Mass Torts
Daniel Ring
Projects
Barry Machlin
Projects: PPP
David Narefsky
John Schmidt
Joseph Seliga
Stephanie Wagner
Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy
David Burton
Robert Goldberg
Real Estate
Neil Wasserstrom
Tax: Controversy
David Abbott
Thomas Kittle-Kamp
Joel Williamson
Transportation: Rail (for Railroads)
Peter Denton
Robert Jenkins
Adrian Steel
Transportation: Road (Carriage/Commercial)
Erika Jones
Adam Sloane
California
Banking & Finance
Brian Newhouse
Insurance: Insurer
James Woods
Intellectual Property: Patent
Michael Molano
Litigation: Appellate
Donald Falk
Litigation: General Commercial
Edward Johnson
Tax
Larry Langdon
District of Columbia
Antitrust
Robert Bloch
Richard Favretto
Mark Ryan
Environment
John Hahn
Immigration
Elizabeth Stern
Paul Virtue
Intellectual Property: Litigation
Stephen Baskin
Alan Grimaldi
Real Estate
Frank Henneburg
Keith Willner
Tax
Christine Hooks
Technology & Outsourcing
Daniel Masur
Linda Rhodes
Illinois
Antitrust
Lee Abrams
Andrew Marovitz
Mark McLaughlin
Britt Miller
Banking & Finance
Robert Baptista
Zachary Barnett
Douglas Doetsch
Frederick Fisher
Paul Forrester
James Patti
Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Thomas Kiriakos
Communications
Christian Binnig
Tyson Covey
Dennis Friedman
Hans Germann
Corporate/M&A
Scott Davis
Robert Helman
William Kucera
Jodi Simala
Marc Sperber
Paul Theiss
Frederick Thomas
Corporate/M&A: Private Equity
John Noell
Energy & Natural Resources: Transactional
Paul Forrester
Environment: Litigation
Timothy Bishop
Mark Ter Molen
Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
Edward Best
Larry Hamilton
Intellectual Property
James Ferguson
Labor & Employment
Marcia Goodman
Kim Leffert
Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation
Debra Hoffman
Herbert Krueger
Lennine Occhino
Nancy Ross
Litigation: General Commercial
Vincent Connelly
Michele Odorizzi
Stephen Shapiro
Herbert Zarov
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Vincent Connelly
Lori Lightfoot
Real Estate
John Gearen
Ivan Kane
Paul Meyer
Jeffrey Usow
Tax
James Barry
George Craven
Timothy Sherck
Tax: Controversy
Thomas Kittle-Kamp
Scott Stewart
Joel Williamson
Technology & Outsourcing
Rebecca Eisner
Brad Peterson
Kevin Rang
Paul Roy
New York
Antitrust
Richard Steuer
Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Howard Beltzer
Brian Trust
Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
David Alberts
Francis Monaco
Stephen Rooney
Richard Spitzer
Latin American Investment
David Duffee
Litigation: Securities
Joseph De Simone
Tax
Jason Bazar
North Carolina
Banking & Finance
Carol Hitselberger
Keith Oberkfell
Real Estate: Finance
David Saye
Texas
Banking & Finance
Bill Hart
Tristan Propst
Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
William Heller
Corporate/M&A
Robert Gray
Intellectual Property
Sharon Israel
Latin American Investment
Pablo Ferrante
Gabriel Salinas
José Valera
Real Estate
Marvin Katz
Ronald Shoss
Neil Wasserstrom
Tax
Edward Osterberg