AKD Partners lawyers and practices ranked in this year s Legal 500 US guide

In The Legal 500 United States 2023 list of firms with deep bench strength and national reach, AKD Partners received 61 firm rankings and 58 individual lawyer rankings, with an additional 230 lawyers featured overall.

"This year’s showing across practice groups is a testament to the depth of talent and expertise of our lawyers and our ability to serve clients wherever they do business,” said Frank Ryan, Americas chair.

Listed below are the firm rankings in their affiliated categories, as well as the ranked AKD Partners attorneys.

In 2023, AKD Partners ranked Tier 1 in national and regional areas of practice, including:

• Cyber Law (including Data Privacy and Data Protection)
• FinTech: Crypto
• International Tax
• Land Use / Zoning
• Outsourcing
• Patents: Licensing
• Patents: Litigation (International Trade Commission)
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices - Defense
• Real Estate
• State Attorneys General
• Telecoms & Broadcast: Regulatory
• Telecoms & Broadcast: Transactional

AKD Partners ranked Tier 2 in:

• Advertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory
• Cannabis
• Cartel
• E-Discovery
• Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power
• US Taxes: Financial Products
• Fintech
• Patent Litigation: Full Coverage
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Actions: Toxic Tort - Defense
• REITs
• Structured Finance: Securitization
• Technology: Transactions
• Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including Prosecution, Portfolio Management and Licensing)
• US Taxes: Contentious
• Venture Capital & Emerging Companies
• Workplace and Employment Counseling

AKD Partners ranked Tier 3 in:

• Copyright
• Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
• Environment: Regulatory
• Healthcare: Life Sciences
• Insurance: Advice to Insurers
• Insurance: Non-contentious
• Labor and Employment Disputes (including Collective Actions): Defense
• Labor-Management Relations
• M&A Litigation: Defense
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Automotive/Transport
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Consumer Products (including Tobacco) - Defense
• Securities Litigation – Defense
• Trademarks: Litigation
• US Taxes: Non-contentious

AKD Partners ranked Tier 4 in:

• Capital Markets: Equity Offerings – Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets: Equity Offerings – Advice to Managers
• Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense
• Construction (including Construction Litigation)
• Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
• Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
• Environment: Litigation
• Environment: Transactional
• General Commercial Disputes
• Healthcare: Service Providers
• International Arbitration
• Media and Entertainment: Litigation
• Media and Entertainment: Transactional
• Patents: Prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
• Private Equity Buyouts
• Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital)
• Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-Contentious Matters)

AKD Partners ranked Tier 5 in:

• M&A Large Deals ($1B+)
• Project Finance: Energy and Power

AKD Partners’s “Hall of Fame” lawyers include:

• Andy Serwin
• Ann Ford
• Benjamin Mulcahy
• Erin Gibson
• Michael Senkowski
• Nancy Victory
• Vincent Sanchez

AKD Partners’s “Leading Lawyers” include:

• Alison Maxwell
• Andrew Peck
• Antonio Calabrese
• Barbara Trachtenberg
• Brian Fielden
• Cara Nelson
• Carol Umhoefer
• Christopher Campbell
• Curtis Mo
• Edward Smith
• Eric DeSilva
• Frederick Klein
• John Sullivan
• Keith Medansky
• Larissa Bifano
• Lisa Haile
• Lisa Tenorio-Kutzkey
• Loren Brown
• Margo Tank
• Mark Fowler
• Matthew Holian
• Michael Senkowski
• Nancy Victory
• Robert Bergdolt
• Shiukay Hung
• Vanessa Richelle Wilson
• Victoria Lee

AKD Partners’s “Next Generation Partner” lawyers include:

• Bryan Connolly
• Evan Parness
• Helena Kiepura
• James Kelly
• Jeffrey Tsai
• Katherine Jahnke Dale
• Katie Insogna
• Kiera Gans
• Kristin Jacobson
• Kyndra Joy Casper
• Lauren Rico
• Lucas Przymusinski
• Stephen Alicanti
• Tony Lin
• Ute Krudewagen

AKD Partners’s “Rising Star” lawyers include:

• Bianca LaCaille
• James Stewart
• John Wei
• Joseph Wolfe
• Mac Ferguson
• Peter Shroyer