Hunton Andrews Kurth Recognized Among Top US Law Firms in Legal 500 USA 2018 Guide

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP earned top rankings in the 2018 Legal 500 USA Guide. The guide recommended 32 practices and 93 attorneys. Eight Hunton Andrews Kurth attorneys were listed as Leading Lawyers.

The following practices received Tier 1 recommendations:

Cyber Law

Data Privacy and Data Protection

The firm was recognized as a leading practice in the areas of: 

• Structured Finance: Securitization
• Energy Transactions: Oil and Gas
• Energy: Renewable/Alternative
• Environment: Litigation
• Environment Regulatory
• Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including Prosecution, Portfolio Management and Licensing)
• M&A: Middle Market (sub-$500m)
• Outsourcing
• Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action: Toxic Tort – Defense
• Project Finance – Advice to Lender
• Energy Regulatory: Conventional Power
• Energy Regulatory: Oil and Gas
• Patents: Licensing
• Trademarks: Litigation
• Real Estate
• Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
• Capital Markets – Debt Offerings – Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets – Debt Offerings – Advice to Underwriters
• Capital Markets – Equity Offerings – Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets – Equity Offerings – Advice to Managers
• Project Finance – Advice to Sponsor
• Energy Litigation: Oil and Gas
• Environmental Transactional
• Patents: Prosecution (including Reexamination and Post-Grant Proceedings)
• Employment Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
• US Taxes: Non-Contentious
• Securities Litigation: Defense
• Energy Transactions: Conventional Power

The following attorneys were listed as Leading Lawyers in their respective practices:

• William Brownell - Environment: Litigation
• George Howell - REITs
• Michael Lennon - Patents: Licensing
• Lorelie Masters - Insurance: Advice to Policyholders
• Michael O’Leary - Energy Transactions: Oil and Gas
• Michael O’Leary - M&A: Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• Randall Parks - Outsourcing
• James Rosini - Trademarks: Litigation
• James Rosini - Trademarks: Non-Contentious
• Lisa Soto - Cyber Law

Ninety-three attorneys were recommended in the Legal 500 USA 2018 Guide  (* denotes Leading Lawyer, ** denotes Next Generation Lawyer):

Product Liability, mass Tort and Class Action: Toxic Tort - Defense

• Joseph Blizzard
• Alexis Gomez
• Tom Taylor

Securities Litigation: Defense

• Bradley Foster
• Mark Mandel

Capital Markets - Debt Offerings

• Bud Ellis
• Susan Failla
• Lindsay Ferguson
• Steven Friend
• Henry Havre
• Jordan Hirsch
• Steven Leshin
• Peter O’Brien
• Michael O’Leary
• Lake Taylor
• David Wright

Capital Market – Equity Offerings

• Melinda Brunger
• Courtney Cochran Butler
• James Davidson
• Susan Failla
• Jordan Hirsch
• George Howell
• Christina Kwon
• Peter O’Brien
• Michael O’Leary
• Robert Smith
• David Wright

Project Finance

• David Lowman
• Douglas Murphy
• John O’Neill
• Eric Pogue
• Vera Rechsteiner
• Jeffrey Schroeder
• Lisa Montgomery Shelton
• Jo Anne Sirgado
• John Tormey
• Timothy Unger

Structured Finance: Securitization

• John Dedyo
• Rudene Mercer Haynes
• Tom Hiner
• Brent Lewis
• Mike Nedzbala
• Amy Williams

Energy Litigation: Oil and Gas

• Stuart Hollimon

Energy Regulatory: Oil and Gas

• Shemin Proctor

Energy: Transactions: Conventional Power

• Vera Rechsteiner
• Mark Thurber
• Timothy Unger

Energy Transactions: Oil and Gas

• Hal Haltom
• Michael O’Leary*

Energy: Renewable/Alternative

• David Lowman
• Eric Pogue
• Jeffrey Schroeder
• Lisa Montgomery Shelton
• Timothy Unger

Environment: Litigation

• Tom Boer
• Shannon Broome
• William Brownell*
• Timothy Carlstedt
• Deidre Duncan
• Makram Jaber
• Charles Knauss
• Eric Murdock

Environment: Regulatory

• Tom Boer **
• Timothy Carlstedt
• Eric Murdock

Environment: Transactional

• Lisa Montgomery Shelton

Insurance - Advice to Policyholders

• Lorie Masters*

Copyrights

• Edward Colbert
• Jeff Dodd
• Jonathan Reichman
• James Rosini

Patent Litigation: Full Coverage

• John Flock
• Michael Lennon
• Susan Smith

Patents: Prosecution (including Reexamination and Post-Grant Proceedings)

• Gregory Porter
• Daniel Shanley

Patents: Licensing

• Gary Abelev
• Edward Colbert
• Jeff Dodd
• Michael Lennon*
• Gregory Porter
• Shawn O’Dowd

Trademarks: Litigation

• Edward Colbert
• Jeff Dodd
• James Rosini*
• Susan Smith

Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including Prosecution, Portfolio Management and Licensing)

• Edward Colbert
• Jeff Dodd
• James Rosini*
• Susan Smith

Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional

• Emily Cabrera
• Anthony Eppert
• Matthew Grunert

M&A: Middle-Market (sub-$500m)

• Fernando Alonso
• Melinda Brunger
• John Clutterbuck
• Hal Haltom Jr
• Steven Haas
• Henry Havre
• Jordan Hirsch
• Robert Jewell
• Ashley Burns Muehlberger**
• Michael O’Leary*
• Steven Patterson
• Mark Young

Cyber Law

• Brittany Bacon**
• Phyllis Marcus
• Aaron Simpson
• Lisa Sotto*
• Paul Tiao

Outsourcing

• Andrew Geyer
• Jeffrey Harvey
• Cecilia Oh
• Randall Parks*

Real Estate

• Mark Arnold
• Michael Boyd
• Robert Collins
• Marvin Ehrlich
• Howard Schreiber
• Carl Schwartz

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

• James Davidson
• George Howell*
• Robert Smith
• Mark Wickersham
• David Wright

US Taxes: Non-Contentious

• Anthony Eppert
• Andrew Feiner
• Thomas Ford
• Terri Lacy
• Allison Mantor
• Robert McNamara
• Thomas Popplewell

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