Vedder Price is pleased to announce that a number of our attorneys and practice groups have been ranked by Chambers USA in 2020, including a nationwide Band 1 firm ranking for Transportation: Aviation Finance, the guide’s highest honor for the tenth year in a row.

Practice Group Rankings

Band 1

• Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)

Band 2

• Media & Entertainment: Litigation (Illinois)
• Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation (Illinois)
• Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance (Nationwide)

Band 3

• Banking & Finance (Illinois)

Band 4

• Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Illinois)
• Investment Funds: Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Labor & Employment (Illinois)
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Illinois)

Band 5

• Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (Illinois)

Attorney Rankings

Band 1

• Ronald Scheinberg – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
• Jeffrey T. Veber – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)

Band 2

• Thomas P. Desmond – Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation (Illinois)
• Douglas J. Lipke – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Illinois)
• Geoffrey R. Kass – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
• Blaine C. Kimrey – Media & Entertainment: Litigation (Illinois)
• Francis X. Nolan, III – Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance (Nationwide)
• Cathy Gonzales O’Kelly – Investment Funds: Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Junaid A. Zubairi – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Illinois)

Band 3

• Adam R. Beringer – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
• John E. Bradley – Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance (Nationwide)
• Bradley C. Crawford – Banking & Finance (California)
• Michael M. Eidelman – Bankruptcy: Restructuring (Illinois)
• Ryan S. Hedges – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Illinois)
• Michael A. Nemeroff – Corporate/M&A (Illinois)
• Kelly A. Starr – Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation (Illinois)

Band 4

• Kevin P. Connelly – Government: Government Contracts (Nationwide)
• Thomas G. Hancuch – Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation (Illinois)
• Renee M. Hardt – Investment Funds: Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Kenneth F. Sparks – Labor & Employment (Illinois)
• Thomas M. Wilde – Labor & Employment (Illinois)

Senior Statespeople

• Robert J. Stucker – Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation (Illinois)

Associates to Watch

• Bryan K. Clark – Media & Entertainment: Litigation (Illinois)
• Jason P. Faust – Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation (Illinois)

Chambers & Partners is a notable resource for the legal profession and has built a reputation for in-depth, objective research. Chambers conducts thousands of interviews with lawyers and their clients worldwide to identify and rank the world’s best lawyers according to the criteria most valued by clients, such as technical knowledge, business acumen, prompt delivery and value. On the basis of this research, Chambers ranks both firms and individual attorneys around the world.

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