The Legal 500 US 2021 ranks Mayer Brown in 57 categories, with 23 lawyers recognized as “Leading Individuals”

Mayer Brown announced that the 2021 edition of The Legal 500 United States ranked the firm in 57 categories. Of these rankings, nine are top-tier:

• Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeals / Appellate: Supreme Courts, for the 15th consecutive year
• Finance: Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products, for the third consecutive year
• Finance: Structured Finance: Securitization, for the third consecutive year
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing, for the 14th consecutive year
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Fintech, for the second consecutive year
• Tax: International Tax, for the third consecutive year
• Tax: Financial Products, for the third consecutive year
• Tax: US Taxes: Contentious, for the 15th consecutive year
• Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious, for the third consecutive year

The publication also recognized individual lawyers in the following lawyer rankings:

Leading Individuals

• Nicole Saharsky – Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeals / Appellate: Supreme Courts
• Mark Hanchet – Dispute Resolution: Financial Services Litigation
• Christopher Houpt – Dispute Resolution: Financial Services Litigation
• Scott Zemser – Finance: Commercial Lending
• Thomas Delaney – Finance: Financial Services Regulation
• Anna Pinedo – Finance: Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products; and Finance: Capital Markets: Global Offerings
• Julie Gillespie – Finance: Structured Finance: Securitization
• Stuart Litwin – Finance: Structured Finance: Securitization
• Philip Recht – Government: Government Relations
• Tim Bishop – Industry Focus: Environment: Litigation
• Lisa Ferri – Industry Focus: Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Reb Wheeler – Industry Focus: Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Evan Tager – Industry Focus: Transport: Rail and Road – Litigation and Regulation
• Rajesh De – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (including Data Privacy and Data Protection)
• Lauren Goldman – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (including Data Privacy and Data Protection)
• David Beam – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Fintech
• Joanna Horsnail – Real Estate: Construction (including Construction Litigation)
• Thomas Humphreys – Tax: Financial Products
• Mark Leeds – Tax: Financial Products
• John Hildy – Tax: US Taxes: Contentious
• Brian Kittle – Tax: US Taxes: Contentious
• James Barry – Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious
• Jason Bazar – Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious

Hall of Fame

• Andrew Pincus – Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeals / Appellate: Supreme Courts
• Paul Forrester – Finance: Structured Finance: Securitization
• Jason Kravitt – Finance: Structured Finance: Securitization
• Jon Van Gorp – Finance: Structured Finance: Securitization
• Rebecca Eisner – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
• Daniel Masur – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
• Brad Peterson – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
• Paul Roy – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
• Kenneth Klein – Tax: International Tax
• Joel Williamson – Tax: US Taxes: Contentious
• Thomas Kittle-Kamp – Tax: US Taxes: Contentious
• Barry Machlin – Finance: Project Finance
• Joseph Seliga – Finance: Project Finance
• Marcia Madsen – Government: Government Contracts
• Nancy Ross – Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
• Elizabeth Stern – Labor and Employment: Immigration
• Dale Giali – Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-Contentious Matters)
• John Mancini – Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-Contentious Matters)

Next Generation Lawyers

• Ryan Suda – Finance: Structured Finance: Securitization
• Rohith George – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Fintech
• Joe Pennell – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
• Remmelt Reigersman – Tax: Financial Products
• Nadav Klugman – Finance: Project Finance; and Industry focus: Energy – Renewable/Alternative Power
• Mitch Holzrichter – Government: Government Relations
• Jaimy Hamburg – Industry Focus: Environment: Litigation
• Grace Shie – Labor and Employment: Immigration
• Keri Borders – Dispute Resolution: Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action – Defense: Consumer Products (Including Tobacco)
• Ryan Castillo – Capital Markets: Debt Offerings
• Ruth Zadikany – Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (Including Collective Actions)
• Stephanie Vasconcellos – Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
• Rising Lawyers
• Marla Matusic – Finance: Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products
• Samuel Myler – Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
• Timothy D'Arduini – Labor and Employment: Immigration

Following is a complete list of the practice categories in which Mayer Brown is ranked in the 2021 edition of The Legal 500 United States:

Antitrust

• Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense
• Merger Control

Dispute Resolution

• Appellate: Courts of Appeals
• Appellate: Supreme Courts
• Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
• Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
• E-Discovery
• Financial Services Litigation
• General Commercial Disputes
• International Arbitration
• International Trade
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Actions: Consumer Products (including tobacco)
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Actions – Defense: Consumer Products
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Actions – Defense: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action – Defense: Toxic Tort
• Securities Litigation: Defense

Finance

• Capital Markets: Debt Offerings: Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets: Debt Offerings: Advice to Underwriters
• Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Managers
• Capital Markets: Global Offerings: Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets: Global Offerings: Advice to Underwriters
• Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt Offerings: Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt Offerings: Advice to Underwriters
• Commercial Lending: Advice to Borrowers
• Commercial Lending: Advice to Lenders
• Financial Services Regulation
• Project Finance: Advice to Lenders
• Project Finance: Advice to Sponsors
• Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate
• Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products
• Structured Finance: Securitization

Government

• Government Contracts
• Government Relations

Industry Focus

• Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power
• Energy: Transactions: Oil & Gas
• Environment: Litigation
• Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Insurance: Advice to Insurers
• Insurance: Non-Contentious
• Transport: Rail and Road – Finance
• Transport: Rail and Road – Litigation and Regulation

Intellectual Property

• Copyright
• Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage)
• Trademarks: Litigation
• Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-Contentious Matters)

Investment Fund Formation and Management

• Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital)

Labor and Employment

• Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans (Design)
• Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans (Transactional)
• ERISA Litigation
• Immigration
• Labor and Employment Disputes (Including collective actions): Defense
• Workplace and Employment Counseling

Media, Technology and Telecoms

• Cyber Law (including data privacy and data protection)
• Fintech
• Outsourcing
• Telecoms and Broadcast: Regulatory

M&A/Corporate and Commercial

• M&A: Large Deals ($1bn+)

Real Estate

• Construction (including Construction Litigation)
• Land Use/Zoning
• Real Estate
• Real Estate Finance
• REITs

Tax

• Financial Products
• International Tax
• US Taxes: Contentious
• US Taxes: Non-contentious