Chambers USA 2021 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 USA 2021 guide as a “leading firm.” The guide recognizes 68 individual Fried Frank attorneys and ranks the Firm in 32 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
Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
Real Estate
Tax
 
Nationwide
Banking & Finance
Capital Markets: Equity: Issuer Counsel
Capital Markets: Investment Grade Debt: Issuer Counsel
Capital Markets: Investment Grade Debt: Manager Counsel
Corporate/M&A: The Elite
Derivatives
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Government Contracts: The Elite
Hedge Funds
Private Equity: Buyouts: Mid-Market
Private Equity: Fund Formation
Real Estate
REITs
Tax: Corporate & Finance
 
New York
Banking & Finance
Corporate/M&A: The Elite
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
Environment: Mainly Transactional
Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded
Litigation: Securities
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations: The Elite
Private Equity: Buyouts
Real Estate: Litigation
Real Estate: Mainly Corporate & Finance
Real Estate: Mainly Dirt
Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use
Tax
Technology
 
Fried Frank attorneys were ranked in the following categories and corresponding regions:

District of Columbia
 
Antitrust
Bernard (Barry) A. Nigro Jr.
 
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
 
Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Eastern United States
Andrew B. Barkan, Daniel J. Bursky, and Mark Hayek
 
Derivatives
Darren A. Littlejohn, Robert M. McLaughlin, and David S. Mitchell
 
Government Contracts: The Elite
Michael J. Anstett and James J. McCullough
 
Government Contracts: Bid Protests
James J. McCullough
 
Hedge Funds
Jonathan S. Adler, Lawrence N. Barshay, Walid Khuri, and Lisa M. Schneider
 
International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions
Michael T. Gershberg
 
Investment Funds: Regulatory & Compliance
Jessica Forbes
 
Private Equity: Fund Formation
Richard I. Ansbacher, Lawrence N. Barshay, Gerald H. Brown Jr., Matthew W. Howard, Kenneth I. Rosh, and Rebecca Neuschatz Zelenka

Real Estate
Jonathan L. Mechanic and Robert Sorin
 
REITs
Stuart A. Barr
 
REITs: Tax
Cameron N. Cosby
 
New York
 
Antitrust
Nathaniel L. Asker
 
Banking & Finance
F. William Reindel and J. Christian Nahr
 
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 and Peter L. Simmons
 
Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Evan T. Barr, Stephen M. Juris, and Steven M. Witzel
 
Private Equity: Buyouts
Christopher Ewan, Robert C. Schwenkel, and Steven J. Steinman
 
Real Estate: Corporate
Fiona J. Kelly
 
Real Estate: Finance
Michael J. Barker, Suzanne deVries Decker, and Michael Vines
 
Real Estate: Litigation
Janice Mac Avoy and Matthew D. Parrott
 
Real Estate: Mainly Dirt
Jonathan L. Mechanic, 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  
 
Technology
Amir R. Ghavi