Vedder Price is pleased to announce that a number of our attorneys and practice groups have been ranked by Chambers USA in 2021, including a nationwide Band 1 firm ranking for Transportation: Aviation Finance, the guide’s highest honor for the eleventh year in a row.

Practice Group Rankings

Band 1

• Transportation: Aviation: Finance - Nationwide

Band 2

• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation - IL
• Media & Entertainment: Litigation - IL

Band 3

• Banking & Finance - IL
• Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance - Nationwide

Band 4

• Bankruptcy/Restructuring - IL
• Investment Funds: Registered Funds - Nationwide
• Labor & Employment - The Elite - IL
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations - IL

Band 5

• Corporate/M&A & Private Equity - IL
  
  

Attorney Rankings

Band 1

• Cathy Gonzales O'Kelly- Investment Funds: Registered Funds - Nationwide
• Jeffrey T. Veber- Transportation: Aviation: Finance - Nationwide

Band 2

• Douglas J. Lipke- Bankruptcy/Restructuring - IL
• Thomas P. Desmond- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation - IL
• Wayne M. Aaron- Financial Services Regulation: Broker Dealer (Enforcement) - Nationwide
• Junaid A. Zubairi- Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations- IL
• Blaine C. Kimrey- Media & Entertainment: Litigation - IL
• Geoffrey R. Kass- Transportation: Aviation: Finance - Nationwide

Band 3

• Bradley C. Crawford- Banking & Finance - CA
• Michael M. Eidelman- Bankruptcy/Restructuring - IL
• Michael A. Nemeroff- Corporate/M&A & Private Equity - IL
• Kelly A. Starr- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation - IL
• Marguerite C. Bateman- Investment Funds: Registered Funds - Nationwide
• Ryan S. Hedges- Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations- IL
• Adam R. Beringer- Transportation: Aviation: Finance - Nationwide
• John E. Bradley- Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance - Nationwide

Band 4

• Christopher T. Collins- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation - IL
• Thomas G. Hancuch- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation - IL
• Kevin P. Connelly- Government: Government Contracts - Nationwide
• Renee M. Hardt- Investment Funds: Registered Funds - Nationwide
• Kenneth F. Sparks- Labor & Employment - IL
• Thomas M. Wilde- Labor & Employment - IL

Band 5

• Amy Ward Pershkow- Investment Funds: Registered Funds - Nationwide
• Anthony Pacheco- Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations - CA

Senior Statesman

• Ronald Scheinberg- Transportation: Aviation: Finance - Nationwide

Up And Coming

• John S. Marten- Investment Funds: Registered Funds - Nationwide

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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