NEW YORK, June 15, 2022 – Proskauer, a leading international law firm, has again been ranked as one of the top law firms in the 2022 edition of The Legal 500 United States, where 40 of the Firm’s practice areas received top-tier rankings and 117 lawyers, including six newly ranked attorneys, were among the best in their field.

This year, seven of the Firm’s practice areas received a first-tier ranking, including Labor & Employment, Sports Law, ERISA Litigation, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, and Media, Technology and Telecoms. Forty-three lawyers were named in the Hall of Fame, Leading Lawyer, Next Generation or Rising Star categories.

Tier 1-Ranked Practices:

• Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design
• Labor & Employment: ERISA Litigation
• Labor & Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense
• Labor and Employment: Labor-Management Relations
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Advertising & Marketing: Litigation
• Sport
• Labor and Employment: Workplace and Employment Counseling

Proskauer was also named a leader in the following practice areas:

• Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense
• Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeals
• Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal)
• Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
• Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
• Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes
• Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense
• Environment: Transactional
• Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Firm to Watch
• Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Lenders
• Finance: Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate
• Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Healthcare: Service Providers
• Insurance: Advice to Policyholders
• Intellectual Property: Copyright
• Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-Contentious Matters)
• Intellectual Property: Trademarks: Litigation
• Investment Fund Formation & Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds
• Investment Fund Formation & Management: Mutual/Registered/Exchange-Traded Funds
• Investment Fund Formation & Management: Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital)
• Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
• M&A/Corporate & Commercial: M&A: Large Deals ($1bn+)
• M&A/Corporate & Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (including Data Privacy and Protection)
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Media and Entertainment: Litigation
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Media and Entertainment: Transactional
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology Transactions
• Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast: Transactions
• Real Estate
• Real Estate: Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
• Tax: International Tax
• Tax: Not-For-Profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations)
• Tax: U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious

Hall of Fame:

• Mark Batten – Labor & Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense; Labor & Employment: Labor-Management Relations
• Martin Bienenstock – Finance: Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate
• Elise Bloom – Labor & Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense
• Stuart Coleman – Investment Fund Formation & Management: Mutual/Registered/Exchange-Traded Funds
• Paul Hamburger – Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional; Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design
• Joseph Leccese – Sport
• David Miller – Tax: Financial Products; Hall of Fame – Tax: U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious
• Brendan O’Rourke – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Advertising & Marketing: Litigation; Media, Technology and Telecoms: Advertising & Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory
• Robin Painter – Investment Fund Formation & Management: Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital); M&A Corporate & Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies
• Bernard Plum – Labor & Employment: Labor-Management Relations
• Myron Rumeld – ERISA Litigation
• Bradley Ruskin – Sport
• Paul Salvatore – Labor & Employment: Labor-Management Relations
• Seth Schafler – Insurance: Advice to Policyholders

Leading Lawyers:

• Neil Abramson – Labor & Employment: Labor-Management Relations
• Ann Ashton – Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense
• Howard Beber – Investment Fund Formation & Management: Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital)
• Lauren Boglivi – M&A/Corporate & Commercial: M&A: Large Deals ($1bn+)
• Michael Choate – Real Estate: Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
• Robert Cleary – Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates; Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
• Steven Ellis – Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Lenders
• John Failla – Insurance: Advice to Policyholders
• Ralph Ferrara – Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense
• Siegmund Gutman – Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Russell Hirschhorn – Labor & Employment: ERISA Litigation
• Jeff Marwil – Finance: Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate
• Kelli Moll – Investment Fund Formation & Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds
• Amanda Nussbaum – Tax: U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious
• Anthony Oncidi – Labor & Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense
• Jon Oram – Sport
• Andrea Rattner – Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
• Seth Safra – Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Design
• Ronald Sernau – Real Estate
• Sandra Crawshaw-Sparks – Intellectual Property: Copyright
• Bart Williams – Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes; Dispute Resolution: Leading Trial Lawyers

Rising Stars:

• Michelle Annese – Labor & Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense
• Jeffrey Warshafsky – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Advertising & Marketing: Litigation
• Jennifer Yang – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Advertising & Marketing: Litigation

Next Generation:

• Wai Choy – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
• Keisha-Ann G. Gray– Labor & Employment: Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense
• Susan Gutierrez – Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes
• Nathan Lander – Insurance: Advice to Policyholders
• Steve Porzio – Labor & Employment: Labor-Management Relations

The Legal 500 United States is one of the leading independent legal industry guides. The rankings are based on independent research and client feedback, and highlight the practice area teams who are providing the most cutting edge and innovative advice to corporate counsel.

View a complete list of the 2022 Legal 500 United States rankings: https://www.proskauer.com/uploads/2022-legal-500-us-list-of-rankings

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