McDermott Ranked Among Top International Law Firms in 2010 by PLC Which Lawyer?
CHICAGO (March 9, 2010) — McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce that it has again been named among the top global law firms for 2010 by the legal directory PLC Which Lawyer?. The handbook ranks McDermott in 42 practice areas and singles out 48 of its lawyers in the United States, Europe and China for individual recognition—42 of whom were previously listed in the guide in 2009.
McDermott’s Private Client Practice Group is ranked as a Leading Practice and the Firm is also Highly Recommended in the areas of Competition/Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Private Equity/Venture Capital, Restructuring and Insolvency, and Tax.
Among the Firm’s individual lawyers, Jeff Bates, Philip Bentley, Laurence Bronska, Joel Chefitz, Henry Christensen, Susan Cooke, David Dalgarno, Scott Faust, Martyn Gowar, Carol Harrington, Mark Harris, John Hendrickson, Raymond Jacobsen, David Marx, Andrew McCune, Terrence McMahon, Robert McMenamin, Gary Moss, Hiroshi Sheraton, Clive Stanbrook, Massimo Trentino, Alison Wetherfield and Joseph Winterscheid were designated as Leading Individuals. Highly Recommended lawyers include Raphael Lupo, Peter Nias and Lowell Yoder.
The following is a complete overview of the Firm’s practice-area and individual recognitions for 2010 in PLC Which Lawyer?.
China
Corporate/M&A
John Huang (MWE China Law Offices)
EU/Belgium
Competition/Antitrust
Clive Stanbrook
Philip Bentley
Germany
Tax
Dirk Pohl
Arndt Raupach
Media
Ralf Weisser
Italy
Banking & Finance
Capital Markets (Debt)
Massimo Trentino
Capital Markets (Equity)
Corporate/M&A
Filippo Mazza
Investment Funds
Massimo Trentino
United Kingdom
Corporate/M&A
Hugh Nineham
IP (Patent Litigation)
Gary Moss
Hiroshi Sheraton
IP (Non-Patent Litigation)
Labour & Employee Benefits
Employment
David Dalgarno
Alison Wetherfield
Private Client
Martyn Gowar
Tax
Peter Nias
United States
Competition/Antitrust
Life Sciences (Intellectual Property)
Private Client
Henry Christensen III
Carol Harrington
Restructuring & Insolvency
Tax
Thomas Borders
William Goldman
Jean Pawlow
Lowell Yoder
United States: California: Los Angeles
Tax
United States: California: San Francisco/Silicon Valley
Intellectual Property
Terrence McMahon
Tax
Frederick Chilton
United States: District of Columbia
Competition/Antitrust
Raymond Jacobsen
Joseph Winterscheid
Intellectual Property
Joel Freed
Raphael Lupo
Tax
James Riedy
Blake Rubin
Stephen Wells
United States: Florida
Dispute Resolution
Bruce Berman
United States: Illinois
Banking & Finance
Robert McMenamin
Competition/Antitrust
Joel Chefitz
David Marx
Corporate/M&A
Helen Friedli
Stanley Meadows
Dispute Resolution
Employee Benefits
John Hendrickson
Insurance
Intellectual Property
Margaret Duncan
Private Equity/Venture Capital
Laurence Bronska
Mark Harris
Andrew McCune
Restructuring & Insolvency
William Smith
Tax
Jared Kaplan
Lowell Yoder
United States: Massachusetts
Environment
Jeff Bates
Susan Cooke
Labor & Employment
Scott Faust
United States: New York
Real Estate
Tax
Peter Faber
Arthur Rosen
PLC Which Lawyer?’s research is based on feedback from in-house counsel and private practitioners. For complete information on the Firm’s rankings, recognized lawyers, and client and editorial commentary, please visit www.practicallaw.com.
Additional details on these rankings, including excerpts from the publication’s editors, can be found here http://www.mwe.com/info/media/PLC_2009.pdf.
McDermott Will & Emery is a leading international law firm with a diversified business practice. Numbering more than 1,000 lawyers, we have offices in Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Munich, New York, Orange County, Rome, San Diego, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., as well as a strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai.
