Chambers & Partners, an independent and research-based publisher of client and leading practitioner surveys, has recognized Fried Frank as a “Leading Firm” in its Chambers USA 2018 guide. The guide also recognizes 54 individual Fried Frank attorneys and ranks the Firm in 19 categories across its District of Columbia, Nationwide, and New York regions.
 
The Firm was ranked in the following categories and regions:
 
District of Columbia
Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
Real Estate
Tax
 
Nationwide
Banking & Finance
Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
Corporate/M&A: The Elite
Government: Government Contracts
Investment Funds: Hedge Funds
Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation
Private Equity: Buyouts
Real Estate
Tax: Corporate & Finance
 
New York
Corporate/M&A: The Elite
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Real Estate: Mainly Corporate & Finance
Real Estate: Mainly Dirt
Tax
 
The following Fried Frank attorneys were ranked in the following categories and regions:
 
District of Columbia
 
Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
Brian T. Mangino, Andrew P. Varney
 
Litigation: Securities
James D. Wareham
 
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
James D. Wareham
 
Real Estate
Valerie Kelly and Franz R. Rassman
 
Tax
Michael J. Alter, Michelle B. Gold, Alan S. Kaden, and W. Reid Thompson
 
Nationwide
 
Banking & Finance
Emil Buchman, J. Christian Nahr, and F. William Reindel
 
Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
Andrew B. Barkan, Daniel J. Bursky, and Stuart H. Gelfond
 
Capital Markets: Derivatives
David S. Mitchell
 
Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance)
V. Gerard Comizio
 
Government: Government Contracts
James J. McCullough
 
Government: Government Contracts: Bid Protests
James J. McCullough
 
International Trade: CFIUS Experts
Michael T. Gershberg
 
Investment Funds: Hedge Funds
Jonathan S. Adler, Lawrence N. Barshay, and Walid Khuri
 
Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation
Richard I. Ansbacher, Lawrence N. Barshay, and Kenneth I. Rosh
 
Private Equity, Buyouts
Christopher Ewan, Brian T. Mangino, and Robert C. Schwenkel
 
Real Estate
Jonathan L. Mechanic, Joshua Mermelstein, and Robert Sorin
 
Securities Regulation: Advisory
Karl A. Groskaufmanis

New York
 
Antitrust
Nathaniel L. Asker
 
Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Gary L. Kaplan and Brad Eric Scheler
 
Corporate/M&A
Steven Epstein, Arthur Fleischer Jr., and Philip Richter
 
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Donald P. Carleen and Jeffrey Ross
 
Environment: Mainly Transactional
Donna Mussio
 
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Evan T. Barr, Lawrence Gerschwer, Stephen M. Juris, and Steven M. Witzel
 
Real Estate
Jonathan L. Mechanic, Joshua Mermelstein, Ross Z. Silver, and Robert Sorin
 
Real Estate: Corporate
Fiona J. Kelly
 
Real Estate: Finance
Michael Barker
 
Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use
Zachary Bernstein, David Karnovsky, Stephen A. Lefkowitz, Melanie Meyers, and Carol E. Rosenthal
 
Tax
Robert Cassanos, Christopher Roman, and David I. Shapiro