Chambers USA 2021 ranks Mayer Brown in 52 practices, with 144 individual lawyers recognized

The 2021 edition of Chambers USA ranked Mayer Brown in 52 practice categories, including eight Band One nationwide rankings:

• Capital Markets: Securitization: ABS
• Capital Markets: Securitization: RMBS
• Capital Markets: Structured Products
• Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance), for the sixth consecutive year
• Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded
• Projects: PPP, for the 12th consecutive year
• Tax: Controversy, for the 16th consecutive year
• Technology

In addition, Mayer Brown received top-band rankings in seven state categories:

• Antitrust, Illinois
• Communications, Illinois
• Technology & Outsourcing, Illinois
• Technology & Outsourcing, District of Columbia
• Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded, District of Columbia
• Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded, New York
• Tax: State & Local, New York

The new Chambers edition also recognized 144 Mayer Brown lawyers with 167 total rankings, including 29 lawyers who achieved a total of 30 Band One or higher rankings.

Star Individuals

• Laurence Platt – Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance), Nationwide
• Joel Williamson – Tax: Controversy, Illinois

Senior Statespeople

• Vincent Connelly – Litigation: General Commercial, Illinois; and Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations, Illinois
• Rob Jenkins – Transportation: Rail (for Railroads), Nationwide
• Phyllis Korff – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Eastern United States, Nationwide
• Frederick Thomas – Corporate/M&A, Illinois
• Ed Osterberg – Tax, Texas
• Laurence Urgenson – FCPA, Nationwide

Eminent Practitioners

• Paul Theiss – Corporate/M&A, Illinois
  

Band One

• Christian Binnig – Communications, Illinois
• Rebecca Eisner – Technology, Nationwide; and Technology & Outsourcing, Illinois
• Erika Jones – Transportation: Road (Automotive), Nationwide
• Steven Kaplan – Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance), Nationwide
• Thomas Kittle-Kamp – Tax: Controversy, Illinois
• Marcia Madsen – Government Contracts, Nationwide
• Dan Masur – Technology, Nationwide; and Technology & Outsourcing, District of Columbia
• Britt Miller – Antitrust, Illinois
• Brad Peterson – Technology, Nationwide; and Technology & Outsourcing, Illinois
• Andrew Pincus – Appellate Law, Nationwide
• Anna Pinedo – Capital Markets: Structured Products, Nationwide
• Tristan Propst – Banking & Finance, Texas
• Nancy Ross – ERISA Litigation, Nationwide
• Joseph Seliga – Projects: PPP, Nationwide
• Elizabeth Espín Stern – Immigration, District of Columbia
• Jon Van Gorp – Capital Markets: Securitization: RMBS, 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 Chambers USA 2021 rankings for Mayer Brown.

Practice Category Rankings:

Nationwide

• Antitrust
• Appellate Law
• Banking & Finance
• Capital Markets: Securitization: ABS
• Capital Markets: Securitization: RMBS
• Capital Markets: Structured Products
• Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded
• Derivatives
• E-Discovery & Information Governance
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Energy: Electricity (Transactional)
• ERISA Litigation
• FCPA
• Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance)
• Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Enforcement & Investigations)
• Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)
• Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Enforcement & Investigations)
• Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
• Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation
• Government Contracts: The Elite
• Immigration
• Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
• International Arbitration: Enforcement
• International Arbitration: Highly Regarded
• International Trade: Trade Remedies & Trade Policy
• Outsourcing
• Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded
• Product Liability & Mass Torts: The Elite
• Projects: PPP
• Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy
• Real Estate
• Tax: Controversy
• Tax: Corporate & Finance
• Technology
• Transportation: Rail (for Railroads)
• Transportation: Road (Automotive)

District of Columbia

• Antitrust
• Immigration
• Intellectual Property: Litigation
• Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
• Real Estate
• Tax
• Technology & Outsourcing
  

Illinois

• Antitrust
• Banking & Finance
• Bankruptcy/Restructuring
• Communications
• Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Environment
• Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
• Intellectual Property
• Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
• Litigation: General Commercial
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
• Real Estate
• Tax
• Technology & Outsourcing
  

New York

• Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded
• Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
• Intellectual Property: Patent
• Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
• Tax
• Tax: State & Local

North Carolina

• Banking & Finance
• Real Estate: Finance
  

Northern California

• Tax

Southern California

• Real Estate

Texas

• Banking & Finance
• Corporate/M&A: The Elite
• Real Estate
  

Individual Rankings:

Nationwide

Antitrust
Andrew Marovitz
Britt Miller

Appellate Law
Dan Himmelfarb
Andrew Pincus
Charles Rothfeld
Nicole Saharsky
Evan Tager

Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Eastern United States
Anna Pinedo
Phyllis Korff

Capital Markets: Securitization: ABS
Julie Gillespie
Carol Hitselberger
Linda Boss
Stuart Litwin
Jerry Marlatt
Keith Oberkfell
Angela Ulum
Jon Van Gorp

Capital Markets: Securitization: CLOS
Keith Oberkfell

Capital Markets: Securitization: RMBS
Jon Van Gorp
Paul Jorissen

Capital Markets: Securitization: Tax
Russell Nance

Capital Markets: Structured Products
Anna Pinedo
Bradley Berman
Marla Matusic

Derivatives
Curtis Doty

Derivatives: Mainly Regulatory
Curtis Doty

E-Discovery & Information Governance
Ethan Hastert
Michael Lackey

ERISA Litigation
Brian Netter
Nancy Ross

Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
Mark Williams

Energy: Electricity (Transactional)
Frederick (Fritz) Lark

Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
Thomas Moore

FCPA
Audrey Harris
Jason Linder
Laurence Urgenson

Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Enforcement & Investigations)
Ori Lev
Thomas Delaney

Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)
Jonathan Jaffe
Steven Kaplan
Laurence Platt
Phillip Schulman

Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Enforcement & Investigations)
Ori Lev

Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
Lucia Nale

Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation
Dale Giali

Franchising: Mainly Franchisee
Lee Abrams

Government Contracts
David Dowd
Marcia Madsen

Government Contracts: Bid Protests
Marcia Madsen

Hedge Funds
Tram Nguyen

Immigration
Elizabeth Stern
Paul Virtue

Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
Lawrence Hamilton

International Arbitration: Counsel
Ted Howes

International Arbitration: Enforcement
Michael Lennon

International Trade: Customs
Sydney Mintzer
 
Outsourcing
Rebecca Eisner
Daniel Masur
Brad Peterson

Privacy & Data Security
Rajesh De

Product Liability & Mass Torts
Michael Olsen
Daniel Ring

Projects
Barry Machlin
John Tormey

Projects: PPP
Mitchell Holzrichter
David Narefsky
Joseph Seliga
Stephanie Wagner 

Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional
Eric Pogue

Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy
Eric Pogue
Jeffrey Davis
Nadav Klugman
Robert Goldberg

REITs
David Freed

Tax: Controversy
Brian Kittle
Joel Williamson
Thomas Kittle-Kamp

Technology
Brad Peterson
Daniel Masur
Rebecca Eisner

Transportation: Rail (for Railroads)
Robert Jenkins

Transportation: Road (Automotive)
Adam Sloane
Erika Jones

California

Labor & Employment
Ruth Zadikany

Litigation: Appellate
Donald Falk

California: Northern

Real Estate
Scott Buser

California: San Francisco, Silicon Valley & Surro

Corporate/M&A
Nina Flax
Peter Wolf

California: Southern

Real Estate
Scott Cooper

District of Columbia

Antitrust
William Stallings

Immigration
Elizabeth Stern
Grace Shie
Paul Virtue

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Kelly Kramer
Michael Levy
Real Estate
Frank Henneburg
Keith Willner

Technology & Outsourcing
Daniel Masur
Linda Rhodes

Telecom, Broadcast & Satellite
Angela Giancarlo

Illinois

Antitrust
Andrew Marovitz
Britt Miller

Banking & Finance
Beth Vogel
Douglas Doetsch
Ermelinda Villagomez
Frederick Fisher
Paul Forrester
Matthew O’Meara

Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Adam Paul
Thomas Kiriakos

Communications
Christian Binnig
Dennis Friedman
Hans Germann

Construction
Joanna Horsnail

Corporate/M&A
Jennifer Keating
William Kucera
Jodi Simala
Marc Sperber
Paul Theiss
Frederick Thomas
Ryan Ferris

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Debra Hoffman
Lennine Occhino
Nancy Ross

Energy & Natural Resources: Transactional
Paul Forrester

Environment: Litigation
Timothy Bishop
Mark Ter Molen

Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
Larry Hamilton

Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
Michael Adams

Labor & Employment
Marcia Goodman

Litigation: General Commercial
Vincent Connelly
Michele Odorizzi

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Vincent Connelly
Gregory Deis

Real Estate
Heather Adkerson
Paul Meyer
Jeffrey Usow

Tax
James Barry
George Craven

Tax: Controversy
John Hildy
Thomas Kittle-Kamp
Scott Stewart
Joel Williamson

Technology & Outsourcing
Rebecca Eisner
Brad Peterson

New York

Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory
Daniel Scher
David Alberts
Frank Monaco
Richard Spitzer
Stephen Rooney

Intellectual Property: Patent
Lisa Ferri

Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
Paul Fakler

Litigation: General Commercial
Lauren Goldman

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government investigations
Daniel Stein

Tax
Jason Bazar
Russell Nance

Tax: State & Local
Leah Robinson

North Carolina

Banking & Finance
Carol Hitselberger
Keith Oberkfell

Real Estate: Finance
David Saye

Texas

Banking & Finance
Tristan Propst

Corporate/M&A
Robert Gray

Real Estate
Ronald Shoss
Neil Wasserstrom

Tax
Edward Osterberg

Tax: Litigation
Shawn O’Brien