Cadwalader has been recognized across a broad range of practice areas in the 2020 edition of The Legal 500 United States.
The firm is nationally ranked in the following categories:
- Alternative/Hedge Funds
- 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
- 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, Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Municipal; Derivatives and Structured Products; Securitization
- Linda Swartz, U.S. Taxes: Non-Contentious
- Neil Weidner, Derivatives and Structured Products; Securitization
In addition, the following Cadwalader lawyers are recognized as Leading Individuals, Next Generation Partners, Rising Stars and Key Lawyers:
Leading Individuals
- Richard Brand, Shareholder Activism: Advice to Shareholders
- Scott Cammarn, Financial Services Regulation
- Brian Foster, Derivatives and Structured Products
- Michael Gambro, Securitization
- Ivan Loncar, Derivatives and Structured Products; Restructuring/Bankruptcy
Rising Stars
- Michelle Abad, Securitization
- Casey Servais, Restructuring/Bankruptcy
Key Lawyers
- Todd Blanche, Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense
- Holly Chamberlain, Real Estate
- Stephen Fraidin, M&A: Middle Market; Shareholder Activism: Advice to Shareholders
- Douglas Gansler, Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense
- Gregg Jubin, Securitization
- Matthew Lefkowitz, Alternative/Hedge Funds
- Bonnie Neuman, Real Estate
- Gregory Petrick, Transport: Shipping - Finance
- Ira Schacter, Securitization
- Gary Silverstein, Tax
- Anne Tompkins, Corporate Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense
- Jonathan Watkins, Securities Litigation - Defense
View Cadwalader’s rankings on The Legal 500 website.
