Chambers USA 2020 Recognizes Fried Frank as “Leading Firm”

Chambers & Partners, an independent and research-based publisher of client and leading practitioner surveys, has recognized Fried Frank in its Chambers 2020 USA guide as a “leading firm.” The guide recognizes 59 individual Fried Frank attorneys and ranks the Firm in 21 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: Derivatives
Capital Markets: Equity: Issuer Representation 
Capital Markets: Investment Grade Debt: Issuer Representation
Capital Markets: Investment Grade Debt: Manager Representation
Corporate/M&A: The Elite
Investment Funds: Hedge Funds
Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation
Private Equity: Buyouts: Mid-Market
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
 
Fried Frank attorneys were ranked in the following categories and corresponding regions:
 
District of Columbia
 
Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
Brian T. Mangino and 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, Shane C. Hoffmann, and Alan S. Kaden
 
Nationwide
 
Banking & Finance
J. Christian Nahr and F. William Reindel
 
Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Eastern United States
Andrew B. Barkan and Daniel J. Bursky
 
Capital Markets: Derivatives
Darren A. Littlejohn, Robert M. McLaughlin, and David S. Mitchell
 
Government Contracts
James J. McCullough
 
Government Contracts: Bid Protests
James J. McCullough
 
Investment Funds: Hedge Funds
Jonathan S. Adler, Lawrence N. Barshay, Walid Khuri, and Lisa M. Schneider
 
Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation
Richard I. Ansbacher, Lawrence N. Barshay, Kenneth I. Rosh, and Rebecca Neuschatz Zelenka
 
Investment Funds: Regulatory & Compliance
Jessica Forbes
 
Private Equity: Buyouts
Christopher Ewan, Brian T. Mangino, Robert C. Schwenkel, and Steven J. Steinman
 
Real Estate
Jonathan L. Mechanic, Joshua Mermelstein, and Robert Sorin
 
REITs
Stuart A. Barr
 
REITs: Tax
Cameron N. Cosby
 
New York
 
Antitrust
Nathaniel L. Asker
 
Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Gary L. Kaplan and Brad Eric Scheler
 
Corporate/M&A
Steven Epstein and Philip Richter
 
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Donald P. Carleen and Jeffrey Ross
 
Environment: Mainly Transactional
Mary Beth Houlihan (Phipps) and Donna Mussio
 
Litigation: Securities
Scott B. Luftglass
 
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Evan T. Barr, Stephen M. Juris, and Steven M. Witzel
 
Real Estate: Corporate
Fiona J. Kelly
 
Real Estate: Finance
Michael J. Barker and Suzanne deVries Decker
 
Real Estate: Litigation
Janice Mac Avoy
 
Real Estate: Mainly Dirt
Jonathan L. Mechanic, Joshua Mermelstein, Ross Z. Silver, and Robert Sorin
 
Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use
Zachary Bernstein, David Karnovsky, Stephen Lefkowitz, Melanie Meyers, and Carol E. Rosenthal
 
Tax
Robert Cassanos, Christopher Roman, and David I. Shapiro