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
  • Larry Langdon – Tax, Northern California
  • 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
  •  Stephanie Monaco – Investment Funds: Regulatory & Compliance, Nationwide
  • 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
Edward Best
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)
Elena Rubinov
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

Investment Funds: Regulatory & Compliance
Stephanie Monaco

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

Tax
Larry Langdon

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
Edward Best
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