The 2017 Legal 500 Guide Ranks Andrews Kurth Kenyon in 22 Practice Areas

(Houston, TX)—Legal 500 has recognized Andrews Kurth Kenyon as one of the leading practices in the United States in the areas of:

• Capital Markets: Debt Offerings – Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets: Equity Offerings – Advice to Issuers
• Capital Markets: Equity Offerings – Advice to Managers
• Dispute Resolution: Product Liability, Mass Tort & Class Action: Toxic Tort – Defense
• Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation – Defense
• Energy: Litigation – Oil & Gas
• Energy: Regulatory – Conventional Power
• Energy: Regulatory – Oil & Gas
• Energy: Renewables/Alternative
• Energy: Transactions – Conventional Power
• Energy: Transactions – Oil & Gas
• IP: Copyrights
• IP: Patents: Licensing
• IP: Patents: Litigation (full coverage)
• IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings)
• IP: Trademarks: Litigation
• IP: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management & licensing)
• M&A: Middle-Market (sub-$500 million)
• Project Finance – Advice to Sponsors
• Real Estate
• Technology Transactions
• US Taxes: Non-Contentious

Two Andrews Kurth Kenyon lawyers are listed as elite “Leading Lawyers:”

• Michael Lennon – IP: Patents: Licensing
• Jim Rosini – IP: Trademarks: Litigation; IP: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management & licensing)

One Andrews Kurth Kenyon lawyer is listed as a “Next Generation Lawyer:”

• Jennie Jackson Miller – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)

In addition, 58 Andrews Kurth Kenyon lawyers are recommended/mentioned in the 2017 Legal 500 United States editorial:

• Gary Abelev – IP: Patents: Licensing; IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings); IP: Patents: Litigation (full coverage)
• Alan Bickerstaff – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m); Technology: Transactions
• Joseph Blizzard – Dispute Resolution: Product Liability, Mass Tort & Class Action: Toxic Tort – Defense
• Michael Boyd – Real Estate
• Peter Bogdanow – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• Melinda Brunger – Capital Markets: Equity Offerings; M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• David Buck – Capital Markets: Debt Offerings; Capital Markets: Equity Offerings; M&A: Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• Courtney Cochran Butler – Capital Markets: Equity Offerings
• John Clutterbuck – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• Edward Colbert – IP: Patents: Licensing; IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings); IP: Patents: Litigation (full coverage);  IP: Trademarks: Litigation; IP: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management & licensing)
• William Cooper – Capital Markets: Debt Offerings; M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• Jon Daly – Capital Markets: Equity Offerings; M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• Brian Dillavou – Technology: Transactions
• Jeff Dodd – IP: Copyrights; IP: Patents: Licensing; IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings); IP: Patents: Litigation (full coverage)
• Adrian Doxey – Real Estate
• Jack Fields – Real Estate
• Thomas Ford – US Taxes: Non-Contentious
• Bradley Foster – Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation – Defense
• Ted Gilman – Technology: Transactions
• Alexis Gomez – Energy: Litigation – Oil & Gas; Dispute Resolution: Product Liability, Mass Tort & Class Action: Toxic Tort - Defense
• Carmelo Gordian – Technology: Transactions
• Hal Haltom – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m); Project Finance
• Walter Hanley – IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings)
• Henry Havre – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• Jordan Hirsch – Capital Markets: Equity Offerings
• Stuart Hollimon – Energy: Litigation – Oil & Gas
• Bob Jewell – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• Michael Lennon – IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings)
• Matthew Lyons – Technology: Transactions
• Mark Mandel – Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation – Defense
• Allison Mantor – US Taxes: Non-Contentious
• Chanse McLeod – Real Estate
• Robert McNamara – US Taxes: Non-Contentious
• Matthew Nielsen – Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation – Defense
• Charlie Ofner – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• Michael O'Leary – Capital Markets: Debt Offerings; Capital Markets: Equity Offerings; Energy: Transactions – Oil & Gas; M&A: Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• Thomas Popplewell – US Taxes: Non-Contentious
• Gregory Porter – IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings); IP: Patents: Litigation (full coverage)
• Vera Rechsteiner – Energy: Transactions – Conventional Power; Project Finance
• Jonathan Reichman – IP: Copyrights
• Angela Richards – US Taxes: Non-Contentious
• Christopher Richardson – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• Jim Rosini – IP: Trademarks: Litigation; IP: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management & licensing)
• Michele Schwartz – IP: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management & licensing)
• Daniel Shanley – IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings)
• Susan Smith - IP: Trademarks: Litigation; IP: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management & licensing)
• Mark Solomon – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• Craig Stahl – Energy: Litigation – Oil & Gas
• Mark Sundback – Energy: Regulatory – Conventional Power; Energy: Regulatory – Oil & Gas
• Thomas Taylor – Dispute Resolution: Product Liability, Mass Tort & Class Action: Toxic Tort – Defense
• Mark Thurber – Energy: Transactions – Conventional Power; Project Finance
• Tim Unger – Project Finance; Energy: Renewable/Alternative; Energy: Transactions – Conventional Power; Energy: Transactions – Oil & Gas
• George Vlahakos – Energy: Transactions – Oil & Gas
• Ping Wang – IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings); IP: Patents: Licensing
• David Washburn – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
• David Whittlesey – Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation – Defense
• Kenneth Wiseman – Energy: Regulatory – Conventional Power; Energy: Regulatory – Oil & Gas
• Victor Zanetti – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)

As released by the former Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP