Willkie Earns 42 Practice Area Rankings in The Legal 500 United States 2025

Willkie has earned 42 practice area rankings and a number of individual recognitions in The Legal 500 United States 2025, a guide to the leading law firms and attorneys across the country.

The rankings recognize Willkie’s practice groups as market leaders and highlight the strength of the firm’s platform. The guide also recognizes Willkie’s attorneys among the top lawyers in their respective fields.

Willkie or its lawyers have been recognized in the following practice areas:

• Antitrust: Merger control
• Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions: defense
• 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: Financial services litigation
• Dispute resolution: General commercial disputes
• Dispute resolution: Leading trial lawyers
• Dispute resolution: M&A litigation: defense
• Dispute resolution: Securities litigation – defense
• Energy: Energy regulation: electric power 
• Energy: Energy transactions: oil and gas
• Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power
• Environment: transactional
• Finance: Capital Markets: Debt Offerings: advise to issuers
• Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: advise to issuers
• Finance: Capital Markets: Global Offerings
• Finance: Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt Offerings: advice to issuers
• Finance: Commercial lending: Advice to borrowers
• Finance: Commercial lending: Advice to direct lenders/private credit
• Finance: Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
• Finance: Financial services regulation: Banking
• Finance: Fintech
• Finance: Project finance: Energy and Power
• Finance: Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Corporate
• Finance: Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
• Industry Focus: Sport
• Insurance: Advice to Insurers
• Insurance: non-contentious
• Intellectual property: Patents: litigation (full coverage)
• International trade and national security: National Security
• Investment fund formation and management: Alternative/hedge funds
• Investment fund formation and management: Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
• Investment fund formation and management: Private equity funds (including venture capital)
• Labor and employment: Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
• Labor and employment: ERISA Litigation
• M&A/corporate and commercial: M&A: large deals ($1bn +)
• M&A/corporate and commercial: Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
• M&A/corporate and commercial: Shareholder activism: advice to shareholders
• Media, technology & telecoms: Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
• Media, technology & telecoms: Media and entertainment: transactional
• Media, technology & telecoms: Technology transactions
• Media, technology & telecoms: Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
• Real estate
• Real estate: Real estate finance
• US taxes: Non-contentious

View The Legal 500 United States 2025 rankings here.