The Legal 500 United States 2024 Recognizes WilmerHale Lawyers and Practice Areas

The Legal 500 United States 2024 Recognizes WilmerHale Lawyers and Practice Areas

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The Legal 500 recognized WilmerHale lawyers across 41 practice areas in the 2024 edition. In this year’s rankings, six lawyers were named to the guide’s “Hall of Fame” for their practice areas, 23 were highlighted on the elite “Leading Lawyers” list, 11 were included on its “Next Generation Lawyers” list and one was named to its "Rising Stars” list.

The guide’s rankings are based on a series of criteria, including information provided by feedback from peers, clients and law firms to assess overall visibility and reputation.

The recognized practice categories are as follows:
Antitrust: Cartel
Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense
Antitrust: Merger Control
Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeal
Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal)
Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
Dispute Resolution: Financial Services Litigation
Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes
Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration
Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense
Environment: Environment: Regulatory
Finance: Capital Markets: Debt Offerings - Advice to Issuers
Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings - Advice to Issuers
Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings - Advice to Managers
Finance: Commercial Lending - Advice to Borrowers 
Finance: Financial Services Regulation - Broker-Dealers
Finance: Fintech
Finance: Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy) - Corporate 
Government: Government Contracts
Government: State Attorneys General
Government: Government Relations
Government: Government Relations - Congressional Investigations
Healthcare: Life Sciences
Industry Focus: Education
Industry Focus: Native American Law
Intellectual Property: Patents - Litigation (Full Coverage)
Intellectual Property: Patents - Litigation (International Trade Commission)
International Trade: CFIUS 
International Trade: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions 
International Trade: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy
Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans - Transactional
M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Corporate Governance
M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)
M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (Including data privacy and data protection)
Media, Technology and Telecoms: Media and Entertainment - Litigation
Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology Transactions
Real Estate: Real Estate
Tax: US Taxes - Non-Contentious

Six WilmerHale Lawyers are named to the Hall of Fame in their areas of practice:
Robert Finkel (Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing)
Bill Lee (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))
Ronald Meltzer (International Trade: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions)
Thomas Mueller (Antitrust: Cartel)
Robert Novick (Dispute Resolution: International Trade)
Seth Waxman (Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeal and Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal))

Twenty-Three WilmerHale Lawyers are named elite “Leading Lawyers” in their areas of practice:
Brittany Amadi (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))
Chris Barnstable-Brown (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500M 999M))
Bruce Berman (Industry Focus: Education) 
Michael Bongiorno (Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense)
Andrew Bonnes (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500M 999M))
Steven Cherry (Antitrust: Cartel)
Jason Chipman (International Trade: CFIUS)
Joseph Conahan (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500M 999M))
Felicia Ellsworth (Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes) 
Mark Fleming (Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeal and Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal))
Rachael Kent (Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration)
Hallie Levin (Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes) 
Hal Leibowitz (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500M 999M))
Ronald Machen (Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals)
Sonal Mehta (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))
Susan Muck (Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense)
Peggy Otum (Environment: Environment: Regulatory)
Benjamin Powell (International Trade: CFIUS and Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law)
David Ross (Dispute Resolution: International Trade)
Gary Schall (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies)
Howard Shapiro (Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates)
Andrew Shipley (Government: Government Contracts) 
Seth Waxman (Industry Focus: Native American Law and Industry Focus: Education)

Eleven WilmerHale Lawyers are recognized as “Next Generation Lawyers” in their areas of practice:
Alex Bahn (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Corporate Governance)
Mark Ford (Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense)
Zachary Goldman (International Trade: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions)
Omar Khan (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))
Lauren Mandell (International Trade: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy)
Timothy Perla (Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense)
Alan Schoenfeld (Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeal and Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal))
Tiffany Smith (Finance: Fintech)
Ariel Soiffer (Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology Transactions)
Daniel Volchok (Industry Focus: Native American Law)
Nana Wilberforce (Antitrust: Cartel)

One WilmerHale Lawyer is recognized as a “Rising Star” in their area of practice:
Frances Mosley (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies)

To read more, visit The Legal 500 United States website.

 

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