Chambers USA 2025 Recognizes Akin Lawyers and Practices

Chambers and Partners, in its Chambers USA 2025 Guide, has recognized more than 100 Akin lawyers as leaders in their respective areas of practice, as well as more than 50 practices across the publication’s nationwide and state-level categories.

Nationwide, the ranked lawyers are as follows, with ranked practices in bold:

Accountant and Auditor Liability

• Claudius B. Modesti

Appellate Law

• Pratik A. Shah

Artificial Intelligence

• Natasha G. Kohne

Bankruptcy/Restructuring

• Ira S. Dizengoff
• Michael S. Stamer

Bankruptcy/Restructuring: The Elite

Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Central United States

• John Goodgame

Corporate Crime & Investigations: The Elite

Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded

Energy Transition

Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)

• Stephen J. Hug

Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)

• Emily P. Mallen

Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)

• Charlie Ofner
• John Goodgame
• Wesley P. Williams

False Claims Act

• Robert S. Salcido

Government: Government Contracts

• Angela B. Styles
• Scott M. Heimberg

Government Contracts: The Elite

Government Relations: Congressional Investigations

• Karen Christian
• Raphael A. Prober
• Miranda Dore

Government Relations: Federal

• Ed Pagano
• Brian A. Pomper
• Hunter Bates
• Jeffrey D. McMillen

Healthcare: Highly Regarded

Hedge Funds

• Barbara Niederkofler
• Ira P. Kustin
• Max Karpel

Higher Education

• Michael J. Vernick

International Trade: CFIUS Experts

• Christian C. Davis
• Katherine P. Padgett

International Trade: Customs

• Lars-Erik A. Hjelm
• Suzanne Kane

International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions

• Anne E. Borkovic
• Jaelyn Edwards Judelson
• Jonathan C. Poling
• Kevin J. Wolf
• Ryan P. Fayhee
• Shiva Aminian
• Susan M.C. Kovarovics
• Thomas J. McCarthy

International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions: The Elite

International Trade: Trade Remedies & Trade Policy

• Bernd G. Janzen
• Matthew R. Nicely
• Stephen S. Kho
• Yujin McNamara

Investment Funds: Investor Representation

• Prakash H. Mehta

Investment Funds: Regulatory & Compliance

• Jason M. Daniel
• Brian T. Daly

Labor & Employment

Native American Law

• Jason Travis Hauter
• Katie Brossy
• Donald R. Pongrace

Political Law

• Kenneth A. Gross
• Melissa L. Laurenza

Privacy & Data Security: Cybersecurity

• Natasha G. Kohne

Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded

Private Credit

• Jaisohn J. Im

Private Equity: Fund Formation

• Blayne A. Grady
• Dennis P. Pereira
• Fadi G. Samman
• James A. Deeken
• Prakash H. Mehta
• Wendy Gallegos

Private Equity: Secondaries

• Fadi G. Samman

Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy

• Ike Emehelu
• Shariff N. Barakat
• April Kim

Space

• Michael C. Mineiro
• Thomas J. McCarthy

State Attorneys General

• Mark R. Herring
• Martine E. Cicconi

Tax: Corporate & Finance

Tax: Fraud

• Robert S. Fink

In California, the ranked practice areas and lawyers are:

Labor & Employment: Highly Regarded

Litigation: General Commercial

• Neal Ross Marder

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

• Peter I. Altman

Media & Entertainment: Transactional

• Alissa Miller
• Christopher Staton Spicer
• Marissa Román Griffith

Native American Law

• Jenny Patten Magallanes

In New York, the ranked practice areas and lawyers are:

Banking & Finance

• William Brady

Bankruptcy Litigation

• Abid Qureshi

Bankruptcy/Restructuring

• Abid Qureshi
• Arik Preis
• Ira S. Dizengoff
• Meredith A. Lahaie
• Michael S. Stamer
• Philip C. Dublin

Bankruptcy/Restructuring: The Elite

Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded

Corporate/M&A: Shareholder Activism

• Douglas A. Rappaport

Intellectual Property: Patent

• Michael P. Kahn

Labor & Employment

• Jessica Taub Rosenberg
• Richard J. Rabin

Labor & Employment: Highly Regarded

Labor & Employment: Transactional

Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded

Litigation: Securities

• Douglas A. Rappaport

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

• James Joseph Benjamin, Jr.
• Katherine R. Goldstein
• Michael A. Asaro
• Parvin D. Moyne
• Anne M. Evans

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations: The Elite

Securities: Institutional Plaintiffs: Mainly RMBS Litigation

• Uri A. Itkin

Tax

• Patrick B. Fenn
• Stuart E. Leblang
• Olivier De Moor

In Massachusetts, the ranked lawyers are:

Banking & Finance

• Ranesh Ramanathan

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

• Wells W. Miller

In Pennsylvania, the ranked practice area and lawyers are:

Intellectual Property

• Matthew A. Pearson
• Steven D. Maslowski

In Texas, the ranked practice areas and lawyers are:

Banking & Finance

• Chad Nichols

Bankruptcy/Restructuring

• Sarah Link Schultz
• Marty L. Brimmage Jr.

Capital Markets: Debt & Equity

• John Goodgame

Corporate/M&A

• Thomas H. Yang
• Wesley P. Williams

Corporate/M&A: The Elite

Litigation: General Commercial

• Lacy M. Lawrence
• Jim Wetwiska

Litigation: Securities

• Scott Barnard

Private Equity: Buyouts

• Wesley P. Williams

Real Estate

Tax

• Alison L. Chen
• Julia Pashin

In Washington, D.C., the ranked practice areas and lawyers are:

Bankruptcy/Restructuring

• James Savin
• Scott L. Alberino
• Kate Doorley

Environment

• Stacey H. Mitchell

Environment: Mainly Transactional

• David H. Quigley

Healthcare

• Robert S. Salcido
• John R. Jacob
• Kelly M. Cleary

Healthcare: Pharmaceutical/Medical Products Regulatory

• Nathan A. Brown

Intellectual Property: Litigation

• Cono A. Carrano
• Rachel Elsby

Labor & Employment

• Robert G. Lian Jr.

Litigation: General Commercial

• Anthony T. Pierce

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

• Charles F. Connolly
• Claudius B. Modesti

Telecom, Broadcast & Satellite

• Jennifer L. Richter

For further details on the firm’s rankings and commentary, please click here.