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June 01, 2017

Legal 500 US 2017 Recognizes Kramer Levin

Legal 500 US 2017 has recognized Kramer Levin and its attorneys for excellence in a number of practice areas. Fifty-one attorneys were recognized across 17 practice areas, including 10 attorneys who were included on the elite Leading Lawyers list, and four attorneys who were included on the Next Generation Lawyers list.

The firm was ranked in the top tier in two categories:

  • Media, technology and telecoms – Advertising and marketing
  • Real estate – Land use/zoning

The firm was also recognized in the following areas:

  • Dispute resolution – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
  • Dispute resolution – General commercial disputes
  • Dispute resolution – Securities litigation: defense
  • Finance – Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
  • Finance – Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal 
  •  Finance – Structured finance
  • Investment fund formation and management – Alternative/hedge funds
  • Labor and employment – Immigration
  • Labor and employment – Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
  • M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
  • M&A/corporate and commercial – Private equity buyouts
  • Real estate
  • Tax – International tax
  • Tax – US taxes: non-contentious

The following attorneys were included on the elite Leading Lawyers list:

Dispute resolution – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense

  • Barry Berke
  • Gary Naftalis

Dispute resolution – Leading trial lawyers

  • Barry Berke 
  • Gary Naftalis 
  • Michael Dell

Finance – Restructuring (including bankruptcy) - corporate

  • Kenneth Eckstein

Finance – Structured finance

  • Gilbert Liu

Labor and employment – Immigration

  • Theodore Ruthizer

M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A – middle-market (sub-$500m)

  • Thomas Molner

Media, technology and telecoms – Advertising and marketing

  • Harold Weinberger
  • Norman Simon

Real estate – Land use/zoning

  • Paul Selver

The following attorneys were included on the Next Generation Lawyers list:

Dispute resolution – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense

  • Darren Laverne

Finance – Restructuring (including bankruptcy) - corporate

  • Joshua Brody

Labor and employment – Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions) - defense

  • Eliza Kaiser

Media, technology and telecoms – Advertising and marketing

  • Eileen Patt

Attorneys were recommended as follows:

Dispute resolution – Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense

  • Barry Berke
  • Darren Laverne
  • Eric Tirschwell
  • Gary Naftalis
  • Paul Schoeman

Dispute resolution – General commercial disputes

  • Barry Berke
  • Daniel Goldman
  • Gary Naftalis
  • John Coffey
  • Jonathan Wagner

Dispute resolution – Leading trial lawyers

  • Barry Berke
  • Gary Naftalis

Dispute resolution – Securities litigation – defense

  • Alan Friedman
  • Arthur Aufses
  • Barry Berke
  • Gary Naftalis
  • John Coffey
  • Jonathan Wagner
  • Michael Dell

Finance – Restructuring (including bankruptcy) - corporate

  • Amy Caton
  • Joshua Brody
  • Kenneth Eckstein
  • Thomas Moers Mayer

Finance – Restructuring (including bankruptcy) - municipal

  • Amy Caton
  • Kenneth Eckstein
  • Thomas Moers Mayer

Finance – Structured finance

  • Gilbert Liu
  • Laurence Pettit

Investment fund formation and management – Alternative/hedge funds

  • George Silfen
  • Kevin Scanlan
  • Ronald Feiman

Labor and employment – Immigration

  • Allison Gray
  • Mark Koestler 
  • Matthew Dunn
  • Theodore Ruthizer

Labor and employment – Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions) - defense

  • Eliza Kaiser
  • Kevin Leblang
  • Robert Holtzman

M&A/corporate and commercial – M&A – middle-market (sub-$500m)

  • Ernest Wechsler
  • Howard Spilko
  • James Grayer
  • James Moriarty
  • Scott Rosenblum
  • Steven Goldman
  • Thomas Molner

M&A/corporate and commercial – Private equity buyouts

  • Ernest Wechsler
  • Howard Spilko
  • James Moriarty 
  • Thomas Molner

Media, technology and telecoms – Advertising and marketing

  • Eileen Patt
  • Harold Weinberger
  • Norman Simon

Real estate

  • James Godman
  • Jay Neveloff
  • Jonathan Canter
  • Neil Tucker
  • Tzvi Rokeach

Real estate – Land use/zoning

  • Elise Wagner
  • Gary Tarnoff
  • Michael Sillerman
  • Paul Selver

Tax – International tax

  • Barry Herzog
  • Howard Rothman 
  • Maria Jones
  • Pamela Capps

Tax – US taxes – non-contentious

  • Barry Herzog
  • Howard Rothman
  • María Jones

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