June 1, 2018 (NEW YORK) – Proskauer has again been ranked as one of the top law firms in the 2018 edition of The Legal 500 United States, one of the leading independent legal referral guides. The Firm earned rankings across 49 practices, and 149 lawyers were distinguished as among the best in their field, with 31 of those receiving leading lawyer or hall of fame recognition. Proskauer was newly ranked in Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals, Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Managers and Investment Fund Formation & Management: Mutual/Registered Funds/Exchange-Traded Funds.
Our first-tier rankings included:
- Labor & Employment: Disputes Defense (including Collective Actions)
- Labor & Employment: Employee Health and Retirement Plan
- Labor & Employment: ERISA Litigation
- Labor & Employment: Labor Management Relations
- Labor & Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling Sports
- Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Media, Technology & Telecoms: Advertising & Marketing: Litigation
- Sports
The Firm was also named a leader in the following practice areas:
- Advertising & Marketing
- Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions
- Appellate: Court of Appeals
- Appellate: Supreme Court (Federal and State)
- Capital Markets: Debt Offerings – Advice to Issuers
- Capital Markets: Debt Offerings – Advice to Underwriters
- Capital Markets: Equity Offerings – Advice to Issuers
- Capital Markets: Global Offerings – Advice to Underwriters
- Capital Markets: Global Offerings – Advice to Issuers
- 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
- Copyright
- Corporate Investigation and White Collar Criminal Defense
- Cyber Law (including Data Protection & Privacy)
- Data Protection & Data Breach Response
- Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
- Environment: Transactional
- Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Managers
- General Commercial Disputes
- Healthcare: Service Providers
- Insurance Advice to Policyholders
- International Tax
- Investment Fund Formation & Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds
- Investment Fund Formation & Management: Mutual/Registered Funds/Exchange-Traded Funds
- Investment Fund Formation & Management: Private Equity Funds
- Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Transactions)
- Labor & Employment: Immigration
- M&A Corporate & Commercial: Large Deals ($1bn+)
- M&A Corporate & Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts
- Media and Entertainment
- Not-For-Profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations)
- Real Estate
- Real Estate Investment Trusts
- Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
- Securities: Litigation Defense
- Technology: Data Protection & Privacy
- Technology: Outsourcing
- Technology: Transactions
- Telecoms and Broadcast: Transactional
- Trade Secrets
- Trademarks: Litigation
- U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious
Leading Lawyers:
- Rory Judd Albert – Employee Health and Retirement Plan
- Mark Batten – Labor & Employment Disputes Defense (including Collective Actions)
- Martin Bienenstock – Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
- Elise Bloom – Labor & Employment Disputes Defense (including Collective Actions)
- Stuart Coleman – Investment Fund Formation & Management: Mutual/Registered Funds
- Sandra Crawshaw-Sparks – Copyright
- Ralph Ferrara – Dispute Resolution: Securities: Litigation Defense
- Howard Ganz – Sports
- Joe Leccese – Sports
- Jeff Marwil – Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
- David Miller – U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious
- Jeffrey Neuburger – Technology: Outsourcing
- Amanda Nussbaum - Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious
- Anthony Oncidi – Labor & Employment: Disputes (incl. Collective Actions): Defense
- Bradley Ruskin – Sports
- Paul Salvatore – Labor & Employment: Labor Management Relations
- Neal Schelberg – Employee Health and Retirement Plan
Hall of Fame:
- Peter Fass – Real Estate Investment Trusts
- David Grunblatt – Labor & Employment: Immigration
- Paul Hamburger – Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design
- Leslie Loffman – Real Estate Investment Trusts
- Kristen Mathews – Cyber Law (including Data Protection & Privacy); Data Protection and Data Breach Response
- David Miller – Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious
- Brendan O’Rourke – Advertising & Marketing
- Robin Painter – Investment Fund Formation & Management: Private Equity Funds
- Betsy Plevan – Labor & Employment Disputes Defense (including Collective Actions); Labor & Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling
- Bernard Plum – Labor & Employment: Labor Management Relations
- Myron Rumeld – ERISA Litigation; Appellate: Court of Appeals
- Seth Schafler – Insurance Advice to Policyholders
- Howard Shapiro – ERISA Litigation
- Michael Sirkin – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Transactions)
- Larry Weinstein – Advertising & Marketing
Next Generation:
- Jonathan Benloulou – M&A Corporate & Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts
- Guy Brenner – Labor & Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling
- Stacey Cerrone – ERISA Litigation
- Evandro Gigante – Labor & Employment Disputes Defense (including Collective Actions)
- Russell Hirschhorn – ERISA Litigation
- Nathan Lander – Insurance Advice to Policyholders
- Joshua Miller – Employee Benefits & Exec Compensation: Transactional
- Seth Safra – Labor & Employment: Employee Health and Retirement Plan
- Jurate Schwartz – Labor & Employment Disputes Defense (including Collective Actions)
- Paresh Trivedi – Technology Transactions