O’Melveny Earns Top Rankings in Chambers USA 2022

June 08, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOS ANGELES—June 8, 2022—Chambers has recognized O’Melveny as a leading law firm in 41 practice areas in the 2022 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. This year, Chambers ranked the firm in Band 1, the top rank, in:

• Corporate Crime & Investigations: Highly Regarded – Nationwide

• ERISA Litigation – Nationwide

• General Commercial Litigation: Highly Regarded – New York

• White Collar Crime & Government Investigations: Highly Regarded – New York

• Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (Electricity) - Texas

Chambers also recognized 71 O’Melveny lawyers, with 12 lawyers earning Band 1 status, including four who were ranked in their category nationally:

• Robert Blashek – Tax (CA)

• Brian Boyle – ERISA (Nationwide)

• Apalla Chopra – Labor & Employment (CA)

• Katie Coleman – Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (TX)

• Lindsay Conner – Media & Entertainment: Transactional (CA)

• Jeffrey Fisher – Appellate Law (Nationwide)

• Greta Lichtenbaum – International Trade: Export Controls (Nationwide)

• Phillip Oldham – Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (TX)

• Daniel Petrocelli – Litigation: Trial Lawyers (Nationwide)

• Daniel Petrocelli – Media & Entertainment: Litigation (CA)

• Eric Rothenberg – Environment: Mainly Transactional (NY)

• Lou Strubeck – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (TX)

• Rex VanMiddlesworth – Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (TX)

Chambers once again named partner Daniel Petrocelli, Chair of O’Melveny’s Trial Practice and Vice Chair of the firm, a “Star Individual”—an elite ranking above Band 1.

Chambers also recognized partners Jennifer Taylor, Ryan Cicero and counsel David Ribner as “Up & Coming” lawyers, a ranking given to practitioners at the forefront of their generation.

Practice Area Rankings (Bands 1-5)

USA Nationwide

• White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations – Corporate Crime & Investigations: Highly Regarded (Band 1)

• Labor & Employment – ERISA Litigation (Band 1)

• Antitrust & Competition – Antitrust: Cartel (Band 2)

• Insurance – Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer (Band 2)

• Intellectual Property & Technology – Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets (Band 2)

• Product Liability & Mass Torts – Product Liability: Consumer Class Actions (Band 2)

• Project Development & Real Estate – Projects: PPP (Band 2)

• Supreme Court & Appellate – Appellate Law (Band 3)

• White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations – International Trade: CFIUS Experts (Band 3)

• Product Liability & Mass Torts – Product Liability & Mass Torts (Band 3)

• Entertainment, Sports & Media – Sports Law (Band 3)

• White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations – International Trade: Exports Controls & Economic Sanctions (Band 4)

• Restructuring – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Band 5)

• White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations – International Trade: Intellectual Property (Section 337) (Band 5)

• Project Development & Real Estate – Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy (Band 5)

• Securities Litigation – Securities: Litigation (Band 5)

California

• Entertainment, Sports & Media – Media & Entertainment: Litigation (Band 2)

• Tax (Band 2)

• Antitrust & Competition – Antitrust (Band 3)

• Capital Markets – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Band 3)

• Intellectual Property & Technology – Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation (Band 3)

• Intellectual Property & Technology – Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets (Band 3)

• Labor & Employment – Labor & Employment (Band 3)

• General Litigation – Litigation: General Commercial (Band 3)

• Securities Litigation – Litigation: Securities (Band 3)

• White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations – Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Band 3)

• Entertainment, Sports & Media – Media & Entertainment: Transactional (Band 3)

• Labor & Employment – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Band 3)

• Insurance – Insurance: Insurer (Band 4)

• Restructuring – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Band 5)

New York

• General Litigation – Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded (Band 1)

• Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations: Highly Regarded (Band 1)

• Environmental – Environment: Mainly Transactional (Band 3)

• Insurance – Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer (Band 3)

• Restructuring – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Band 4)

• Securities Litigation – Litigation: Securities (Band 4)

District of Columbia

• General Litigation – Litigation: General Commercial (Band 4)

• Antitrust & Competition – Antitrust (Band 5)

• White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations – Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Band 5)

Texas

• Environmental & Natural Resources Litigation – Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation – Electricity (Band 1)

Ranked Lawyers by Practice Area

Antitrust

California:

• Michael Tubach

Antitrust: Cartel

Nationwide:

• Michael Tubach

Antitrust: Litigation Specialists

Washington DC:

• Katrina Robson

• Ian Simmons

Appellate Law

Nationwide:

• Michael Dreeben

• Jeffrey Fisher

• Jonathan Hacker

Banking & Finance

California:

• Thomas W. Baxter

Texas:

• Ryan Cicero

Bankruptcy/Restructuring

Nationwide:

• John Rapisardi

• Lou Strubeck

Texas:

• Lou Strubeck

• Greg Wilkes

New York:

• John Rapisardi

California:

• Jennifer Taylor

E-Discovery & Information Governance

Nationwide:

• Jeffrey Fowler

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

California:

• Jeff Walbridge

Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)

Nationwide:

• Steven Torello

Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (Electricity)

Texas:

• Katie Coleman

• Ben Hallmark

• Phillip Oldham

• Rex VanMiddlesworth

Environment

California:

• Kelly McTigue

Environment: Mainly Transactional

New York:

• Eric Rothenberg

• John Rousakis

ERISA

Nationwide:

• Shannon Barrett

• Brian Boyle

• Meaghan VerGow

Government Relations: Congressional Investigations

Nationwide:

• David Leviss

Healthcare

California:

• David Deaton

Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer

Nationwide:

• Richard Goetz

• Tancred Schiavoni

New York:

• Tancred Schiavoni

Insurance: Insurer

California:

• Richard Goetz

Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation

California:

• Darin Snyder

• Ryan Yagura

International Trade: CFIUS Experts

Nationwide:

• Theodore Kassinger

• Greta Lichtenbaum

• David Ribner

International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions

Nationwide:

• Greta Lichtenbaum

International Trade: Intellectual Property (Section 337)

Nationwide:

• Sean Trainor

Labor & Employment

California:

• Eric Amdursky

• Apalla Chopra

• Adam Karr

• Robert Siegel

New York:

• Jeffrey Kohn

Litigation: General Commercial

California:

• Matt Kline

• Daniel Petrocelli

New York:

• Andrew Frackman

Texas:

• Timothy Durst

Litigation: Securities

California:

• Seth Aronson

• Matthew Close

New York:

• Jonathan Rosenberg

Litigation: Trial Lawyers

Nationwide:

• Daniel Petrocelli

Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations

California:

• Daniel Bookin

• Steven Olson

• Michael Tubach

New York:

• Howard Heiss

• Mark Racanelli

Texas:

• Danny Ashby

Washington DC:

• Benjamin Singer

Media & Entertainment: Litigation

California:

• David Marroso

• Daniel Petrocelli

Media & Entertainment: Transactional

California:

• Lindsay Conner

• Amy Siegel

• Bruce Tobey

Product Liability & Mass Torts

Nationwide:

• Steve Brody

• Richard Goetz

• Sabrina Strong

Product Liability: Consumer Class Actions

Nationwide:

• Matt Powers

Projects: LNG

Nationwide:

• Monica Hwang

Projects: PPP

Nationwide:

• M. Elizabeth Dubeck

• Denise Raytis

• Eric A. S. Richards

Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy

Nationwide:

• Junaid Chida

Real Estate

California:

• Michael Hamilton

Securities: Regulation: Advisory

Nationwide:

• Robert Plesnarski

Tax

California:

• Robert Blashek

• Luc Moritz

Technology: Transactions

California:

• Adit Khorana

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP
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bjacobsen@omm.com

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