CHICAGO – Mayer Brown was recognized in 69 practice areas in the 2025 edition of Legal 500 US, including nine top-tier rankings:
• Finance: Financial services regulation: Consumer finance
• Finance: Fintech
• Finance: Project finance: Infrastructure and PPP
• Finance: Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
• Finance: Structured finance: securitization
• Media, technology and telecoms: Outsourcing
• Tax: Financial products
• Tax: International tax
• Tax: US taxes: contentious
The 2025 Legal 500 US edition recognized 60 Mayer Brown lawyers.
“Leading Lawyers”
• David Alberts – Insurance: non-contentious
• Jason Bazar – Tax: US taxes: non-contentious
• David Beam – Finance: Fintech
• Rajesh De – International trade and national security: National Security
• Lisa Ferri – Healthcare: Life sciences
• Fred Fisher – Finance: Commercial lending
• Steven Garden – Tax: Financial products
• Julie Gillespie – Finance: Structured finance: Securitization
• Robert Goldberg – Finance: Project finance
• Mark Hanchet - Dispute resolution: Financial services litigation
• Adam Hickey – International trade and national security: National Security
• John Hildy – Tax: US taxes: contentious
• Joanna Horsnail – Real estate: Construction (including construction litigation)
• Christopher Houpt – Dispute resolution: Financial services litigation
• Steven Kaplan – Finance: Fintech
• Brian Kittle – Tax: US taxes: contentious
• Alex Lakatos – Labor and employment: ERISA litigation
• Stephen Lilley – Media, technology and telecoms: Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
• Stuart Litwin – Finance: Structured finance: securitization
• Paul Meyer – Real estate: Real estate
• Britt Miller – Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: defense
• Sydney Mintzer – International trade and national security: Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
• Russell Nance – Tax: Financial products
• Michael Olsen – Dispute resolution: Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
• Jason Osborn – Tax: International tax
• Anna Pinedo – Finance: Capital markets: Debt, Equity, and Global offerings; and Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
• Philip Recht – Government: Government relations
• Remmelt Reigersman – Tax: Financial products
• Leah Robinson – Tax: US taxes: contentious
• Nicole Saharsky – Dispute resolution: Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
• Vikram Sidhu – Insurance: Insurance: non-contentious
• Mark Ter Molen – Environment: Environment: litigation
• Angela Ulum – Finance: Structured finance: securitization
• Stephanie Wagner – Finance: Project finance
• Reb Wheeler – Healthcare: Life sciences
• Scott Zemser – Finance: Commercial lending
“Next Generation Lawyers”
• Ryan Castillo – Finance: Capital markets: debt offerings
• Rohith George – Finance: Fintech
• Brian Hirshberg – Finance: Capital markets: equity offerings
• Mitchell Holzrichter – Government: Government relations
• Marla Matusic – Finance: Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
• Grace Shie – Labor and employment: Immigration
• Ryan Suda – Finance: Structured finance: securitization
• Stephanie Vasconcellos – Labor and employment: Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
• Brantley Webb – Labor and employment: ERISA litigation
• Jared Wilner – Insurance: Insurance: non-contentious
• Jing Zhang – International trade and national security: Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
“Hall of Fame Lawyers”
• Rajesh De – Media, technology and telecoms: Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
• Elizabeth Espín Stern – Labor and employment: Immigration
• Thomas Kittle-Kamp – Tax: US taxes: contentious
• Kenneth Klein – Tax: International tax
• Brad Peterson – Media, technology and telecoms: Outsourcing
• Andrew Pincus – Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
• Nancy Ross – Labor and employment: ERISA litigation
• Joseph Seliga – Finance: Project finance
• Jon Van Gorp – Finance: Structured finance: securitization
• Joel Williamson – Tax: US taxes: contentious
“Rising Stars”
• Priya Desai – Dispute resolution: Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
• Yuliya Feldman – Insurance: Insurance: non-contentious
• Arteen Mnayan – Real estate: Land use/zoning
• Brennan Young – Tax: Financial products
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