Willkie Earns 33 Practice Area Rankings in The Legal 500 United States 2023

Willkie earned 33 practice area rankings and additional individual recognitions in The Legal 500 United States 2023, a guide to the top law firms and attorneys in the country.

The rankings recognize Willkie’s practice groups among the foremost nationwide and highlight the firm’s broad capabilities. The guide also recognizes Willkie attorneys across the country as leaders in their respective fields.

Willkie and its lawyers have been recognized for outstanding work in the following practice areas:

• Alternative/hedge funds
• Capital markets: debt offerings
• Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
• Commercial lending
• Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to corporates; advice to individuals
• Crypto
• Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
• Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
• Energy regulation: electric power
• Energy transactions: oil and gas
• Energy: renewable/alternative power
• Environment: transactional
• ERISA Litigation
• Fintech
• General commercial disputes
• Insurance: non-contentious
• Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage)
• Leading trial lawyers
• M&A litigation: defense
• M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
• Merger control
• Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
• Private equity buyouts
• Private equity funds (including venture capital)
• Real estate
• Real estate finance
• Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
• Securities litigation: defense
• Shareholder activism: advice to shareholders
• Sport
• Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
• US Taxes: non-contentious
• Technology transactions
• Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory

View The Legal 500 United States 2023 rankings here.