Willkie Recognized as Market Leader in Legal 500 United States 2026

Willkie's practices and attorneys have been recognized across more than 50 areas in the Legal 500 United States 2026, an annual guide to the leading law firms and attorneys nationwide.

The rankings further establish practice groups across Willkie’s platform as market leaders and reflect the firm’s comprehensive capabilities as well as its ongoing growth. In addition, the guide recognized numerous Willkie attorneys among the top lawyers in their respective fields.

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

• Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense
• Antitrust: Merger Control
• 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: Electric Power – Mid-Market ($0-$500m)
• Energy: Energy Transactions: Oil And Gas – Large Cap ($500m+)
• 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
• Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Bank Lenders
• Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Borrowers
• Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Direct Lenders/Private Credit
• 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
• Latin America: International Firms: Corporate and M&A 
• Latin America: International Firms: Projects and Infrastructure 
• 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
• Private Equity
• Private Wealth
• Real Estate: Real Estate Large Cap ($500m+)
• Real Estate: Real Estate Large Cap-Mid Market ($0-$500m)
• Real Estate: Real Estate Finance
• US Taxes: Non-Contentious
• White-Collar Crime

View Willkie’s rankings in Legal 500 United States 2026 here.