Vedder Price is pleased to announce that a number of our attorneys and practice groups have been ranked by Chambers USA in 2018, including a nationwide Band 1 firm ranking for Transportation: Aviation Finance, the guide’s highest honor for the eighth year in a row. In addition, Vedder Price has earned five new *first time rankings.

Practice Group Rankings

Band 1

• Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
  
  

Band 2

• Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation (Illinois)
• Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance (Nationwide)
  
  

Band 3

• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Illinois)
  
  

Band 4

• Banking & Finance (Illinois)
• Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Illinois)
• Labor & Employment (Illinois)
• Investment Funds: Registered Funds (Nationwide)
  
  

Band 5

• Corporate/M&A & Private Equity (Illinois)
  
  

Attorney Rankings

Band 1

• Dean N. Gerber – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
• Ronald Scheinberg - Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
  
  

Band 2

• Thomas P. Desmond – Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation (Illinois)
• Douglas J. Lipke – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Illinois)
• Dean N. Gerber – Banking & Finance (Illinois)
• Blaine C. Kimrey – Media & Entertainment: Litigation (Illinois)
• Francis X. Nolan III – Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance (Nationwide)
• Cathy Gonzales O’Kelly – Investment Funds: Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Richard W. Pearse (Retired) – Construction (Illinois)
• Robert J. Stucker – Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation (Illinois)
• Jeffrey T. Veber – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
• Junaid A. Zubairi – Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Illinois)
  
  

Band 3

• Bradley C. Crawford – Banking & Finance (California)
• Michael M. Eidelman – Bankruptcy/ Restructuring (Illinois)
• *Cameron A. Gee – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
• Edward C. Jepson Jr. – Labor & Employment (Illinois)
• Geoffrey R. Kass – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
• John T. McEnroe – Banking & Finance (Illinois)
• Michael A. Nemeroff – Corporate/M&A (Illinois)
• Kenneth F. Sparks – Labor & Employment (Illinois)
• Kelly A. Starr – Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation (Illinois)
  
  

Band 4

• David A. Sturms – Investment Funds: Registered Funds (Nationwide)
  
  

Associates to Watch

• Bryan Clark – Media & Entertainment: Litigation (Illinois)
  
  

Recognized Practitioner

• *Adam R. Beringer – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
• Gabrielle M. Buckley – Immigration (Nationwide)
• *Kevin P. Connelly – Government: Government Contracts (Nationwide)
• *Thomas G. Hancuch – Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits & Compensation (Illinois)
  
  

Other Noted Firm

• *Media & Entertainment: Litigation (Illinois)

Chambers & Partners is a notable resource for the legal profession and has built a reputation for in-depth, objective research. Chambers conducts thousands of interviews with lawyers and their clients worldwide to identify and rank the world’s best lawyers according to the criteria most valued by clients, such as technical knowledge, business acumen, prompt delivery and value. On the basis of this research, Chambers ranks both firms and individual attorneys around the world. Click here for the firm’s full Chambers & Partners profile.