Overview
The Legal 500 US 2025 recognized Schulte Roth & Zabel in multiple categories with clients describing the firm as having “exceptional private equity funds expertise and deep understanding of complex transactional matters” and being “simply the best, most sophisticated, legal team representing activists.”
New practice rankings for Schulte included Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans and Finance: Advice to Direct Lenders/Private Credit.
The firm’s ranked practices include:
Dispute Resolution
- Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
- Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
- Financial Services Litigation
- General Commercial Disputes
- M&A Litigation: Defense
- Securities Litigation: Defense
Finance
- Advice to Direct Lenders/Private Credit
- Financial Services Regulation
- Fintech
- Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Corporate
- Structured Finance: Securitization
Investment Fund Formation and Management
- Alternative/Hedge Funds
- Mutual/Registered/Exchange-Traded Funds
- Private Equity Funds (Including Venture Capital)
Intellectual Property
- Patents: Litigation
Labor and Employment
- Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- ERISA Litigation
M&A/Corporate and Commercial
- M&A: Middle-Market ($500M-999M)
- Private Equity Buyouts: Middle-Market (up to $500M)
- Shareholder Activism
Real Estate
- Real Estate
- Real Estate Finance
Tax
- US Taxes: Non-Contentious
Ranked lawyers include:
- Stephanie Breslow
- Sean Brownridge
- David Efron
- Peter Greene
- Dan Hunter
- Ele Klein
- Eileen Overbaugh
- Julian Rainero
- Adriana Schwartz
- Craig Stein
- Boris Ziser
New York City Elite
Commercial Disputes
- Taleah Jennings
Corporate and M&A
- Ele Klein
- Marc Weingarten
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Full rankings here.