Cadwalader has been recognized across a broad range of practice areas in the 2022 edition of The Legal 500 United States.
The firm is nationally ranked in the following categories:
- Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Plaintiff
- Commercial Lending
- Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporations
- Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
- Derivatives and Structured Products
- Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- Financial Services Regulation
- M&A: Middle Market ($500 Million - $999 Million)
- Real Estate Finance
- Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Corporate
- Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Municipal
- Securities Litigation: Defense
- Securitization
- Shareholder Activism: Advice to Shareholders
- Tax: Financial Products
- Tax: International
- Tax: U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious
- Transport: Shipping: Finance
The Legal 500 named the following Cadwalader lawyers to its "Hall of Fame," which honors individuals who receive consistent praise from clients and are at the pinnacle of the profession:
- Lary Stromfeld, Derivatives and Structured Products; Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Municipal
- Linda Swartz, U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious
- Neil Weidner, Securitization
The following Cadwalader lawyers are recognized as Leading Lawyers, Next Generation Partners and Rising Stars:
Leading Lawyers:
- Richard Brand, Shareholder Activism: Advice to Shareholders
- Brian Foster, Derivatives and Structured Products
- Michael Gambro, Securitization
- Jason Halper, Securities Litigation: Defense
- Ivan Loncar, Derivatives and Structured Products; Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Municipal
- Bonnie Neuman, Real Estate Finance
Rising Stars:
- Michelle Abad, Securitization
- Nicholas Brandfon, Real Estate Finance
- Casey Servais, Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Municipal
Additionally, the following Cadwalader attorneys are recommended in their respective practice areas:
- Jodi Avergun, Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense
- Ingrid Bagby, Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Corporate; Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Municipal
- Joseph Beach, Securitization
- Michael Bergmann, Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- Todd Blanche, Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense
- Richard Brand, M&A: Middle Market; Transport: Shipping: Finance
- Holly Chamberlain, Real Estate Finance
- Tom Curtin, Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Corporate; Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Municipal
- Leah Edelboim, Commercial Lending
- Stephen Fraidin, M&A: Middle Market; Shareholder Activism: Advice to Shareholders
- James Frazier, Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- Douglas Gansler, Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense
- Chris Gavin, Securitization
- Stuart Goldstein, Securitization
- Nicholas Gravante, Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Plaintiff
- Perry Hicks, Commercial Lending
- Mark Howe, Tax: Financial Products; U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious
- Philip Iovieno, Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Plaintiff
- Gregg Jubin, Securitization
- Philip Khinda, Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense
- Michele Maman, Restructuring/Bankruptcy Corporate; Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Municipal
- Braden McCurrach, M&A: Middle Market
- Christopher McDermott, Commercial Lending
- Daniel Meade, Financial Services Regulation
- Jed Miller, Derivatives and Structured Products
- William Mills, M&A: Middle Market; Shareholder Activism: Advice to Shareholders
- Jeffrey Nagle, Commercial Lending
- Gregory Petrick, Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Corporate; Transport: Shipping: Finance
- Daniel Raglan, M&A: Middle Market
- Rachel Rodman, Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense
- Richard Schetman, Derivatives and Structured Products
- Casey Servais, Restructuring/Bankruptcy Corporate
- Gary Silverstein, Tax: Financial Products; U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious
- Chad Stackhouse, Commercial Lending
- Linda Swartz, Tax: Financial Products; Tax: International
- Anne Tompkins, Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense
- Brian Wallach, Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Plaintiff
View Cadwalader’s complete 2022 rankings on The Legal 500 website.
