An audience of in-house and private practice lawyers gathered to celebrate the achievements of those firms setting the standard in terms of attracting, developing, retaining and promoting talent and rising star attorneys leading the field in the legal sector across the Americas.
In the firm categories, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton was named the best international firm for talent management and Osler Hoskin & Harcourt took home the national prize. The best mentoring trophies were taken home by Fenwick & West and Sullivan & Cromwell. Other major winners included: Cravath Swaine & Moore; Weil Gotshal & Manges; Gibson Dunn & Crutcher; Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados; Shearman & Sterling; Ropes & Gray; Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría; Sidley Austin; and Proskauer Rose.
A full list of winners is detailed below. For more information, please contact Melanie Petch on mpetch@euromoneyplc.com.
Individual rising stars
Best in antitrust/competition
Margaret Segall D'Amico, Cravath Swaine & Moore
Best in aviation
Mark Ditto, Vedder Price
Best in banking & finance (incl project finance)
Sven Mickisch, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Best in bankruptcy litigation
Omid Nasab, Cravath Swaine & Moore
Best in capital markets
Ryan Dzierniejko, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Best in commercial arbitration
Jonathan Tompkins, Shearman & Sterling
Best in copyright and trademark
Jim Pastore, Debevoise & Plimpton
Best in energy, natural resources & mining
Clark Wohlferd, White & Case
Best in environment
Stacie Fletcher, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Best in financial regulation
Jared Fishman, Sullivan & Cromwell
Best in insolvency & restructuring
Ryan Preston Dahl, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Best in insurance & reinsurance
Joseph Gottlieb, Sidley Austin
Best in investment funds
Stephanie Epstein Srulowitz, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Best in labor & employment
Monique Ngo-Bonnici, Winston & Strawn
Best in life sciences
John Partridge, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Best in litigation: Appellate
Blaine Evanson, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Best in litigation: General commercial
Eric Hochstadt, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Best in litigation: Securities
Jared Gerber, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Best in litigation: Trial lawyer
Susan Gutierrez, Proskauer Rose
Best in media & entertainment
Frank Saviano, Proskauer Rose
Best in mergers & acquisitions
Keith Hallam, Cravath Swaine & Moore
Best in patent
Anish Desai, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Best in private equity (including venture capital)
Garrett Charon, Ropes & Gray
Best in product liability
Elizabeth Chiarello, Sidley Austin
Best in real estate
John Creedon, Ropes & Gray
Best in structured finance (incl securitization & derivatives)
Robert Kao, Sidley Austin
Best in tax and tax disputes
Ora Grinberg, Fenwick & West
Best in transfer pricing
Sirathorn Dechsakulthorn, DLA Piper
Best in white collar crime
Michael Mann, Sidley Austin
Latin America individual awards
Best banking & finance rising star in Latin America
Marcela Silva, Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Best corporate rising star in Latin America
Diana Henne, Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Best energy rising star in Latin America
Daniel Szyfman
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Best intellectual property rising star in Latin America
Juanita Pérez,Gómez-Pinzón Abogados
Best rising star litigator in Latin America
Jorge Sepúlveda, CorreaGubbins
Best tax rising star in Latin America
Vinicius Jucá Alves, TozziniFreire Advogados
National awards
Brazil
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Canada
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Caribbean region
OMG
Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua)
Consortium
Chile
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Colombia
Gómez-Pinzon
Peru
Estudio Echecopar
Venezuela
InterJuris Abogados
Firm awards
Best national mentoring program
Fenwick & West
Best international mentoring program
Sullivan & Cromwell
Best national firm for talent management
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Best international firm for talent management
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Matters of the year
Petrobras's US securities fraud litigation
Jared Gerber, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Time Warner's victory against the DOJ's attempt to block the AT&T acquisition
Margaret Segall D'Amico, Cravath Swaine & Moore
Sale of the Carolina Panthers
Frank Saviano, Proskauer Rose
Successful defence of Johnson & Johnson's position regarding talc products
Susan Gutierrez, Proskauer Rose
Comcast's defence of patents against Rovi
Krishnan Padmanabhan, Winston & Strawn
Moynihan Train Hall redevelopment project financing
Jocelyn Redman, Shearman & Sterling
The World Bank's 'pandemic bonds'
Joseph Gottlieb, Sidley Austin
Acquisition financing of Becton Dickinson's $24 billion purchase of CR Bard
Ryan Dzierniejko, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
AIG's dual-track sale of United Guaranty
Jared Fishman, Sullivan & Cromwell
Partners Group's acquisition of an ownership stake in GlobalLogic
Garrett Charon, Ropes & Gray
Summary judgment for International Paper in Alabama environmental suit
Stacie Fletcher, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
