Cadwalader has been recognized across a broad range of practice areas in the 2023 edition of The Legal 500 United States.
The firm is nationally ranked in the following categories:
- Antitrust – Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Plaintiff
- Dispute resolution – Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense
- Dispute resolution – Securities Litigation: Defense
- Finance – Commercial Lending
- Finance – Financial Services Regulation
- Finance – Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Corporate
- Finance – Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Municipal
- Finance – Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products
- Finance – Structured Finance: Securitization
- Labor and Employment – Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial – M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m)
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial – Shareholder Activism
- Real Estate – Real Estate Finance
- Tax – International Tax
- Tax – Financial Products
- Tax – US 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:
- Mike Gambro, Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products; Structured Finance: Securitization
- Lary Stromfeld, Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Municipal; Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products
- Linda Swartz, US Taxes: Non-Contentious
- Neil Weidner, Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products; Structured Finance: Securitization
In addition, the following Cadwalader lawyers are recognized as Leading Lawyers, Next Generation Partners, and Rising Stars:
Leading Lawyers
- Richard Brand, Shareholder Activism
- Brian Foster, Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products
- Jason Halper, Dispute Resolution; Security Litigation: Defense
- Ivan Loncar, Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products; Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Municipal
- Bonnie Neuman, Real Estate Finance
Next Generation Partners
Rising Stars
Additionally, the following Cadwalader attorneys are recommended in their respective practice areas:
- Jodi Avergun, Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense
- Angela Batterson, Commercial Lending
- Michael Bergmann, Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- Richard Brand, M&A: Middle Market ($500m-999m); Shareholder Activism; Shipping: Finance
- Nicholas Brandfon, Real Estate Finance
- Kenneth Breen, Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense; Security Litigation: Defense
- Jon Brose, Financial Products; US Taxes: Non-contentious
- Holly Chamberlain, Real Estate Finance
- Brian Foster, Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products
- Stephen Fraidin, M&A: Middle Market ($500m-999m); Shareholder Activism
- James Frazier, Financial Services Regulation; Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products; Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- Mike Gambro, Structured Finance: Securitization
- Stuart Goldstein, Structured Finance: Securitization
- Nicholas Gravante, Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Plaintiff; Security Litigation: Defense
- Phara Guberman, Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense; Security Litigation: Defense
- Jason Halper, Security Litigation: Defense
- Ellen Holloman, Security Litigation: Defense
- Mark Howe, US Taxes: Non-contentious
- Philip Iovieno, Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Plaintiff
- Gregg Jubin, Structured Finance: Securitization
- Philip Khinda, Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense
- Ivan Loncar, Financial Services Regulation; Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products; Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Municipal
- Michael Lynch, Commercial Lending
- Peter Malyshev, Financial Services Regulation; Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products
- Braden McCurrach, M&A: Middle Market ($500m-999m)
- Christopher McDermott, Commercial Lending
- Ryan McNaughton, Structured Finance: Securitization
- Daniel Meade, Financial Services Regulation
- William Mills, M&A: Middle Market ($500m-999m); Shareholder Activism
- Jeffrey Nagle, Commercial Lending
- Bonnie Neuman, Real Estate Finance
- Gregory Petrick, Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Corporate; Shipping: Finance
- Rachel Rodman, Financial Services Regulation
- Michael Rupe, Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Corporate
- Richard Schetman, Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products
- Casey Servais, Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Municipal
- Gary Silverstein, Financial Products; US Taxes: Non-contentious
- Lary Stromfeld, Restructuring/Bankruptcy: Municipal; Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products
- Linda Swartz, Financial Products; International Tax; US Taxes: Non-contentious
- Mercedes Tunstall, Financial Services Regulation; Structured Finance: Derivatives and Structured Products
- Brian Wallach, Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Plaintiff
- Neil Weidner, Structured Finance: Securitization
View Cadwalader’s rankings on The Legal 500 website.
