The Legal 500 United States 2025 Recognizes WilmerHale Lawyers and Practice Areas

The Legal 500 United States 2025 Recognizes WilmerHale Lawyers and Practice Areas

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Handling complex antitrust and competition litigation across the US, UK and Europe, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in various high-stakes cases.
Combining our trial and appellate strengths allows us to shape litigation strategy from the outset to maximize the likelihood of ultimate success.
Sophisticated knowledge of the bankruptcy process, combined with top-notch appellate and trial experience and the perspective and insight required to address a wide range of bankruptcy litigation and regulation issues.
Leveraging our sophisticated technical, market and legal experience to help clients effectively and efficiently manage complex transactions and get the deal done.
Providing effective, creative and efficient representation for clients’ most complex commercial disputes.
A premier corporate governance and disclosure practice providing timely, tailored and practical advice to public company clients based on in-depth experience and insight.
When legal, public policy and media challenges converge and an institution's reputation and business are at stake, no firm rivals WilmerHale’s ability to navigate fast-moving events and craft lasting solutions.
We help companies protect data, comply with evolving regulations, and respond to investigations and litigation.
We guide clients through today’s ever-changing debt markets, representing them in a broad variety of debt deals that range from complex financial structures to traditional loan transactions.
Helping clients launch their businesses and transform their innovative ideas into successful companies.
Lawyers with deep and broad experience counseling clients in every industry on the design, implementation, and interpretation of executive compensation arrangements and on general compensation and benefits issues.
WilmerHale has played a leading role in shaping the rules that govern the financial services industry in the United States.
Representing FinTech clients throughout their lifecycles.
We have successfully handled a number of the most challenging CFIUS cases on record.
Drawing on years of experience in the public and private sectors, our lawyers handle a range of litigation involving the federal government, state and foreign governments, and complex regulatory regimes.
Bringing significant depth and critical experience to government contracting matters.
Comprehensive counseling for healthcare providers, insurers and the companies that supply them with products and services.
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Providing comprehensive solutions for the acquisition, enforcement and protection of IP.
Clients trust us to protect their most important intellectual property matters.
WilmerHale offers one of the world’s premier international arbitration and dispute resolution practices.
Clients turn to us to advance their objectives and manage risk in today’s complex, ever-changing global trade landscape.
Guiding clients through high-stakes and sensitive investigations.
We provide legal insight and practical solutions for one of the most complex and highly regulated areas of business.
Advising life sciences innovators, investors and industry leaders on complex transactions, legal issues and business challenges.
WilmerHale lawyers have decades of experience advising public and private companies in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
Providing sophisticated counsel on complex regulatory issues and high-stakes litigation while leveraging the experience of some of the nation’s best strategic counselors and advocates focused on tribal issues.
WilmerHale is renowned for its sophisticated representation of investors, developers, landlords, tenants, lenders and institutions on complex real estate projects and transactions.
WilmerHale has defended clients in hundreds of class, derivative, shareholder and individual actions alleging securities fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and other corporate misconduct.
A deep and diverse practice focused on maximizing tax efficiencies and minimizing tax risks for clients nationally and internationally.
Critical industry insight and formidable strength across key practices.
We leverage technical knowledge, business acumen and legal experience to structure, prepare and negotiate innovative and effective technology-related agreements.
Uncompromising defense of corporations and individuals in high-profile and complex litigation and investigations.

The Legal 500 recognized WilmerHale across 39 practice areas in the 2025 edition. The guide also recognized six WilmerHale lawyers in its “Hall of Fame” for their practice areas, named 28 on the “Leading Partners” list, one as a “Leading Associate” and eight on the “Next Generation Partners” list.

The guide’s rankings are determined based on various criteria, including feedback from peers, clients and law firms to evaluate overall visibility and reputation.

The recognized practice categories are as follows:

Antitrust: Cartel

Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense

Antitrust: Merger Control

Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeals / Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal): Appellate: Courts of Appeal

Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeals / Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal): Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal)

Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates

Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals

Dispute Resolution: Financial Services Litigation

Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes

Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration

Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense

Environment: Environment: Regulatory

Finance: Capital Markets: Debt Offerings - Advice to Issuers

Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings - Advice to Issuers

Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings - Advice to Managers

Finance: Commercial Lending - Advice to Borrowers

Finance: Financial services regulation: Banking

Finance: Fintech

Finance: Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy) - Corporate

Government: Government Contracts

Government: Government Relations

Government: State Attorneys General

Healthcare: Life sciences

Industry Focus: Education

Industry Focus: Native American law

Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage)

Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (International Trade Commission)

International Trade and National Security: CFIUS

International Trade and National Security: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions

International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy

Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans - Transactional

M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Corporate governance

M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)

M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture capital and emerging companies

Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (Including data privacy and data protection)

Media, Technology and Telecoms: Media and Entertainment - Litigation

Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing

Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology Transactions

Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious

Six WilmerHale Lawyers are named to the Hall of Fame in their areas of practice:

Robert Finkel (Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing)

Bill Lee (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))

Ronald Meltzer (International Trade and National Security: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions)

Thomas Mueller (Antitrust: Cartel)

Robert Novick (International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy

Seth Waxman (Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeal and Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal))

Twenty-Eight WilmerHale Lawyers are named elite “Leading Partners” in their areas of practice:

Andrew Bonnes (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500M 999M))

Andrew Shipley (Government: Government Contracts)

Benjamin Powell (International Trade and National Security: CFIUS and Media, Technology and Telecoms: Cyber Law (Including Data Privacy and Data Protection))

Brittany Amadi (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))

Bruce Berman (Industry Focus: Education)

Chris Barnstable-Brown (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500M 999M))

Daniel Volchok (Industry Focus: Native American Law)

David Ross (International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy)

Felicia Ellsworth (Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes)

Gary Schall (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Venture Capital and Emerging Companies)

Hal Leibowitz (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500M 999M))

Hallie Levin (Dispute Resolution: General Commercial Disputes)

Howard Shapiro (Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense)

Jason Chipman (International Trade and National Security: CFIUS)

Joseph Mueller (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))

Judith Hasko (Healthcare: Life Sciences and Intellectual Property: Patents: Licensing)

Mark Fleming (Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Courts of Appeal and Dispute Resolution: Appellate: Supreme Courts (States and Federal))

Michael Bongiorno (Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense)

Peggy Otum (Environment: Environment: Regulatory)

Rachael Kent (Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration)

Ronald Machen (Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense)

Seth Waxman (Industry Focus: Native American Law and Industry Focus: Education)

Sonal Mehta (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))

Stephanie Evans (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Middle-Market ($500M 999M))

Steven Cherry (Antitrust: Cartel)

Susan Muck (Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense)

Zachary Goldman (International Trade: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions)

One WilmerHale Lawyer is recognized as a “Leading Associate” in their area of practice:

Benjamin Conery (Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense)

Eight WilmerHale Lawyers are recognized as “Next Generation Partners” in their areas of practice:

Alex Bahn (M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Corporate Governance)

George Varghese (Industry focus: Education)

Lauren Mandell (International Trade and National Security: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy)

Mark Ford (Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense)

Nana Wilberforce (Antitrust: Cartel)

Omar Khan (Intellectual Property: Patents: Litigation (Full Coverage))

Tiffany Smith (Finance: Fintech)

Timothy Perla (Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation: Defense)

To read more, visit The Legal 500 United States website.


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