Vedder Price is pleased to announce that a number of our attorneys and practice groups have been ranked by Chambers USA in 2022, including a nationwide Band 1 firm ranking for Transportation: Aviation: Finance, the guide’s highest honor, for the twelfth year in a row.

Practice Group Rankings

Band 1

• Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
  
  

Band 2

• Labor & Employment: Highly Regarded (California)
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Illinois)
• Media & Entertainment: Litigation (Illinois)
  
  

Band 3

• Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance (Nationwide)
• Bankruptcy/Restructuring (Illinois)
• Labor & Employment: The Elite (Illinois)
  
  

Band 4

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

Band 5

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

Attorney Rankings

Band 1

• Cathy Gonzales O’Kelly – Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Jeffrey T. Veber – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
  
  

Band 2

• Wayne M. Aaron – Financial Services Regulation: Broker Dealer – Enforcement (Nationwide)
• Jeff Ansley – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Texas)
• Marguerite Bateman – Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Geoffrey R. Kass – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide)
• Blaine C. Kimrey – Media & Entertainment: Litigation (Illinois)
• Douglas J. Lipke – Bankruptcy & Restructuring (Illinois)
  
  

Band 3

• Adam Beringer – Transportation: Aviation: Finance (Nationwide) 
• John Bradley – Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance (Nationwide)
• G. Brent Connor – Transportation: Aviation: Regulatory (Nationwide)
• Bradley C. Crawford – Banking & Finance (California)
• Thomas P. Desmond – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Illinois)
• Michael M. Eidelman – Bankruptcy & Restructuring (Illinois)
• Thomas G. Hancuch – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Illinois)
• Ryan Hedges – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Illinois)
• Michael A. Nemeroff – Corporate/M&A (Illinois)
• Kenneth F. Sparks – Labor & Employment (Illinois)
• Kelly A. Starr – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Illinois)
• Junaid A. Zubairi – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (Illinois)
  
  

Band 4

• Christopher T. Collins – Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Illinois)
• Kevin P. Connelly – Government Contracts (Nationwide)
• Renee Hardt – Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Thomas M. Wilde – Labor & Employment (Illinois)
  
  

Band 5

• Deborah Bielicke Eades – Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Elizabeth Hall – Labor & Employment (Illinois)
• Anthony Pacheco – Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (California)
• Amy Ward Pershkow – Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Jeremy I. Senderowicz – Registered Funds (Nationwide)
  
  

Up and Coming

• John S. Marten – Registered Funds (Nationwide)
• Stephanie C. Sparks – Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation – Electricity (Texas)
  
  

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.

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