Mayer Brown announced that the 2016 edition of Legal 500 United States ranked the firm in 46 categories. Of these rankings, six are top-tier:

  • Finance: Structured Finance, for the sixth consecutive year
  • Finance: Project Finance: Advice to Lender
  • Litigation: Supreme Court and Appellate: Appellate, for the 10th consecutive year
  • Litigation: Supreme Court and Appellate: Supreme Court, for the 10th consecutive year
  • Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology: Outsourcing, for the ninth consecutive year
  • Tax: Contentious, for the 10th consecutive year

The publication also listed 20 Mayer Brown lawyers as “Leading Individuals” in their practice areas:

  • Rebecca Eisner – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology: Outsourcing
  • Paul Forrester – Finance: Structured Finance 
  • Dale Giali – Litigation: Trade Secrets 
  • Tom Kittle-Kamp – Tax: Tax Controversy
  • Ken Klein – Tax: International Tax 
  • Jason Kravitt – Finance: Structured Finance 
  • Larry Langdon – Tax: Tax Controversy 
  • Barry Machlin – Finance: Project Finance
  • Marcia Madsen – Government: Government Contracts
  • John Mancini – Litigation: Trade Secrets 
  • Dan Masur – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology: Outsourcing 
  • Brad Peterson – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology: Outsourcing 
  • Andy Pincus – Litigation: Supreme Court and Appellate 
  • Nancy Ross – Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
  • Paul Roy – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology: Outsourcing 
  • Joe Seliga – Finance: Project Finance
  • Steve Shapiro – Litigation: Supreme Court and Appellate 
  • Liz Stern – Labor and Employment: Immigration  
  • Jon Van Gorp – Finance: Structured Finance 
  • Joel Williamson – Tax: Tax Controversy 

Following is a complete list of the practice categories in which Mayer Brown is ranked in the 2016 edition of Legal 500 United States:

Antitrust

  • Cartel
  • Civil Litigation/Class Actions

Finance

  • Asset Finance and Leasing
  • Bank Lending (including Other Sources of Financing)
  • Capital Markets: Debt Offerings: Advice to Issuers
  • Capital Markets: Debt Offerings: Advice to Managers
  • Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Issuers
  • Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Managers
  • Capital Markets: Global Offerings: Advice to Corporates
  • Capital Markets: Global Offerings: Advice to Financial Institutions
  • Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt Offerings: Advice to Issuers
  • Corporate Restructuring (including Bankruptcy) 
  • Financial Services: Litigation
  • Financial Services: Regulatory
  • Project Finance: Project Advice to Lender
  • Project Finance: Project Advice to Sponsor
  • Structured Finance

Government

  • Government Contracts
  • Government Relations

Industry Focus

  • Environment: Litigation
  • Insurance: Non-Contentious

Intellectual Property

  • Patent Litigation: Full Coverage
  • Patent Litigation: International Trade Commission
  • Trademarks: Litigation

Investment Fund Formation and Management

  • Private Equity Funds

Labor and Employment

  • Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
  • ERISA Litigation
  • Immigration

Litigation

  • Commercial Disputes
  • International Trade
  • Product Liability and Mass Tort Defense: Toxic Tort
  • Securities: Shareholder Litigation
  • Supreme Court and Appellate: Appellate
  • Supreme Court and Appellate: Supreme Court
  • Trade Secrets
  • White-Collar Criminal Defense

Media, Technology and Telecoms

  • Cyber Law
  • Technology: Data Protection and Privacy
  • Technology: Outsourcing
  • Telecoms and Broadcast: Regulatory

Real Estate and Construction

  • Construction
  • Land Use/Zoning
  • Real Estate

Tax

  • Contentious
  • Financial Products 
  • International Tax 
  • Non-contentious