New York, June 16, 2021 – Proskauer, a leading international law firm, has again been ranked as one of the top law firms in the 2021 edition of The Legal 500 United States, one of the leading independent legal industry guides. Based on independent research and client feedback, the Firm earned rankings across 41 practices, and 130 lawyers were distinguished as among the best in their field, with 45 of those receiving Hall of Fame, Leading Lawyer, Next Generation, or Rising Star recognition.
Proskauer’s first-tier rankings included:
- Investment Fund Formation and Management: Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital)
- Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design
- Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense
- Labor and Employment: Labor-management Relations
- Labor and Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling
- Media, Technology and Telecoms: Advertising and Marketing: Litigation
- Sport
Proskauer was also named a leader in the following practice areas:
- Antitrust: Civil Litigation/class Actions: Defense
- Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeals
- 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: General Commercial Disputes
- Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense
- Finance: Commercial Lending - Advice to Lenders
- Finance: Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate
- Environment: Transactional
- Healthcare: Life Sciences
- Healthcare: Service Providers
- Insurance: Advice to Policyholders
- Intellectual Property: Copyright
- Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-contentious Matters)
- Intellectual Property: Trademarks: Litigation
- Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/hedge Funds
- Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
- Labor and Employment: Immigration
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Large Deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts
- Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (including Data Privacy and Data Protection)
- Media, Technology and Telecoms: Media and Entertainment: Litigation
- Media, Technology and Telecoms: Media and Entertainment: Transactional
- Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
- Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology: Transactions
- Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast: Transactions
- Real Estate
- Real Estate: Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
- Tax: International Tax
- Tax: Not-for-profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations)
- Tax: US Taxes: Non-contentious
Hall of Fame:
- Mark Batten – Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense; Labor-management Relations
- Martin Bienenstock – Finance: Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate
- Stuart Coleman – Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/registered/exchange-traded Funds
- David Grunblatt – Labor and Employment: Immigration
- Paul Hamburger – Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design; Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- Joseph Leccese – Sport
- David Miller – Tax: Financial Products; US Taxes: Non-contentious
- Brendan O'Rourke – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Advertising and Marketing: Litigation; Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory
- Robin Painter – Investment Fund Formation and Management: Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital); M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
- Bettina Plevan – Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense; Workplace and Employment Counseling
- Bernard Plum – Labor and Employment: Labor-management Relations
- Myron Rumeld – Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
- Bradley Ruskin – Sport
- Paul Salvatore – Labor and Employment: Labor-management Relations
- Seth Schafler – Insurance: Advice to Policyholders
- Lawrence Weinstein – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Advertising and Marketing: Litigation; Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory
Leading Lawyers:
- Neil Abramson – Labor & Employment: Labor-management Relations
- Ann Ashton – Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense
- Elise Bloom – Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective actions): Defense
- Lauren Boglivi – M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Large Deals ($1bn+)
- Michael Choate – Real Estate: Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
- Robert Cleary – Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
- Sandra Crawshaw-Sparks – Intellectual Property: Copyright
- Steven Ellis – Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Borrowers
- John Failla – Insurance: Advice to Policyholders
- Ralph Ferrara – Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense
- Siegmund Gutman – Healthcare: Life Sciences
- Russell Hirschhorn – Labor and Employment: ERISA Litigation
- Jeff Marwil – Finance: Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate
- Amanda Nussbaum – Tax: US Taxes: Non-contentious
- Anthony Oncidi – Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense
- Jon Oram – Sport
- Andrea Rattner – Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- Ronald Sernau – Real Estate
Next Generation Partners:
- Evandro Gigante – Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense
- Susan Gutierrez – Dispute resolution: General Commercial Disputes
- Nathan Lander – Insurance: Advice to Policyholders
- Valarie McPherson – Labor and Employment: Immigration
- Rachel Philion – Labor and Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense
- Steven Porzio – Labor and Employment: Labor-management Relations
- Seth Safra – Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design
Rising Stars:
- Lindsey Collins – Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
- Eliska Krausova – Real Estate
- Jeffrey Warshafsky – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Advertising and Marketing: Litigation
- Jennifer Yang – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Advertising and Marketing: Litigation