Vedder Price is pleased to announce that a number of our attorneys and practice groups have been ranked by Chambers USA in 2023, including a nationwide Band 1 firm ranking for Transportation: Aviation: Finance, the guide’s highest honor, for the thirteenth year in a row.

Practice Group Rankings

Band 1

• Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
  
  

Band 2

• Labor & Employment: Highly Regarded (California)
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Illinois)
• Media & Entertainment: Litigation (Illinois)
• Government Contracts: Highly Regarded (Nationwide)
  
  

Band 3

• Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Illinois)
• Labor & Employment: The Elite (Illinois)
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Texas)
• Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance (Nationwide)
  
  

Band 4

• Banking & Finance (Illinois)
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Illinois)
  
  

Band 5

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

Attorney Rankings

Band 1

• Cathy Gonzales O’Kelly – Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Jeffrey T. Veber – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
  
  

Band 2

• Wayne M. Aaron – Financial Services Regulation: Broker Dealer – Enforcement (Nationwide)
• Jeffrey J. Ansley – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Texas)
• Marguerite C. Bateman – Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Adam R. Beringer – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
• Michael M. Eidelman – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Illinois)
• Geoffrey R. Kass – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
• Blaine C. Kimrey – Media & Entertainment: Litigation (Illinois)
• Douglas J. Lipke – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Illinois)
  
  

Band 3

• John E. Bradley – Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance (Nationwide)
• Kevin P. Connelly – Government Contracts (Nationwide)
• Brent Connor – Transportation: Aviation: Regulatory (Nationwide)
• Bradley C. Crawford – Banking & Finance (California)
• Thomas G. Hancuch – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Illinois)
• Ryan S. Hedges – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Illinois)
• Michael A. Nemeroff – Corporate/M&A (Illinois)
• Kenneth F. Sparks – Labor & Employment (Illinois)
• Stephanie C. Sparks – Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation – Electricity (Texas)
• Kelly A. Starr – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Illinois)
• Thomas M. Wilde – Labor & Employment (Illinois)
• Junaid A. Zubairi – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Illinois)
  
  

Band 4

• Christopher T. Collins – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Illinois)
• Thomas P. Desmond – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Illinois)
• Cameron A. Gee – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
• Renee M. Hardt – Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Anthony Pacheco – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (California)
  
  

Band 5

• Deborah Bielicke Eades – Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Elizabeth N. Hall – Labor & Employment (Illinois)
• Amy Ward Pershkow – Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Jeremy I. Senderowicz – Registered Funds (Nationwide)

Up and Coming

• Kelly E. Buroker – Government Contracts (Nationwide)
• Arianna Goodman – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Texas)
• John S. Marten – Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Candice T. Zee – Labor & Employment (California)
  
  

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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