Fenwick has once again been ranked among the nation’s leading firms by Chambers and Partners in Chambers USA. The 2023 guide singled out 49 Fenwick lawyers and 25 of the firm’s practice areas for their excellence.
The firm was honored across 10 practice areas nationwide and continues to receive the highest possible recognition for its startups and emerging companies work, with a Band One ranking nationwide for the eighth consecutive year. “They’re great, pragmatic, business-minded lawyers,” one client told Chambers. “They work to find solutions rather than telling you all the obstacles.”
Additionally, the firm is ranked nationally for capital markets, corporate and finance tax, corporate/M&A (Highly Regarded), intellectual property, life sciences, privacy and data security, tax controversy and technology work.
In California, Fenwick was recognized in 11 practice areas and received Band One rankings for patent prosecution, tax (Northern California region), technology transactions and venture capital. The firm also received a Band One ranking for intellectual property in Vermont, was honored for its corporate/M&A (Highly Regarded) and patent work in New York and received high marks for corporate/M&A in Washington state.
The full list of Fenwick practices and lawyers recognized in the 2023 Chambers USA guide is as follows:
Practice Categories
- Capital Markets: Convertible Debt
- Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
- Capital Markets: Equity: Issuer Counsel
- Corporate/M&A
- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Intellectual Property
- Life Sciences
- Patent
- Patent Litigation
- Patent Prosecution
- Privacy & Data Security
- Securities Litigation
- Startups & Emerging Companies
- Tax
- Tax: Controversy
- Tax: Corporate & Finance
- Technology
- Technology Transactions
- Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
- Venture Capital
Lawyers
- Samuel Angus – Venture Capital
- Daniel Becker – Patent Prosecution
- Ran Ben-Tzur – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
- Andrew Bridges – Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
- William Bromfield – Corporate/M&A
- Douglas Cogen – Corporate/M&A
- Gordon Davidson – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity; Corporate/M&A; Startups & Emerging Companies; Venture Capital
- Melissa Duffy – International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions
- Thomas Ensign – Antitrust
- Michael Esquivel – Startups & Emerging Companies; Venture Capital
- Julia Forbess – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
- David Forst – Tax
- Robert Freedman – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
- James Fuller – Tax; Tax: Controversy
- Elizabeth Gartland – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- David Hadden – Patent Litigation
- Adam Halpern – Tax
- David Hayes – Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets; Technology; Technology Transactions
- Cynthia Hess – Startups & Emerging Companies; Venture Capital
- Catherine Kevane – Securities Litigation
- Dean Kristy – Securities Litigation
- Bomi Lee – Corporate/M&A
- Steven Levine – Venture Capital
- Kevin McGann – Patent
- Stuart Meyer – Intellectual Property
- David Michaels – Capital Markets: Convertible Debt
- Marshall Mort – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Larissa Neumann – Tax
- Tyler Newby – Privacy & Data Security
- Jeff Oelke – Patent
- Ralph Pais – Technology Transactions
- Rajiv Patel – Patent Prosecution
- Rufus Pichler – Technology Transactions
- Amanda Rose – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
- Antonia Sequeira – Patent Prosecution
- Saina Shamilov – Patent Litigation
- Ethan Skerry – Corporate/M&A
- William Skinner – Tax
- Robert Slack – International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions
- Alan Smith – Corporate/M&A
- Christopher Steskal – White Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Mark Stevens – Startups & Emerging Companies; Venture Capital
- David Tellekson – Intellectual Property
- Effie Toshav – Corporate/M&A
- James Trainor – Patent
- Julia Ushakova-Stein – Tax
- Jedediah Wakefield – Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
- Karen Webb – Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets; Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets: Transactional
Retired Fenwick partner Sally Abel was also recognized for Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets.
Chambers USA bases their annual selection process on interviews with in-house legal departments and with industry leaders around the world. The rankings are based on technical legal ability, professional conduct, commitment, client service, commercial astuteness, diligence and other qualities valued by clients. Additional information is available on Chambers USA.
