14 February 2006 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Fifty-Three Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP lawyers are listed in the 2006 Chambers Global guide to leading business lawyers. The guide highlights the firm’s work in nearly two dozen practice areas throughout the U.S., Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. A complement to the Chambers USA and Chambers UK Guides which come out later in the year, the Global Guide highlights practices serving worldwide markets.
Chambers gave the firm high marks in such areas as antitrust, arbitration, litigation, international trade, European law, private equity, capital markets, energy, intellectual property, tax, real estate, restructuring, telecom, broadcast, and satellite work.
“This is one of the premier law firms in the USA according to clients,” said Chambers of the firm’s corporate practice. “The merger in 2002 of US giant Mayer Brown & Platt and the UK’s Rowe & Maw remains one of the most successful transatlantic mergers to date. The merged firm now offers offices across seven US and six European cities. This, coupled with strength across the board – you get partners who are at the top of their field and then a broad and deep team of associates to back it up, makes for a very fine firm.”
“Some of the reasons cited for this international giant’s position . are its great sense of the market, involvement in the mega-deals and expertise in project finance and emerging markets, especially Latin America,” said Chambers Global in describing the firm’s U.S. banking & finance practice. “The firm’s size and culture has enabled it to adapt well to changes in the Chicago-based banking market and the increasing specialisation in the securitisation markets. Likewise, competitors regard the New York group as an important player in the market. The team has also developed close synergies with its offices in leading financial centres, such as London and Frankfurt.”
Chambers said of the firm’s outsourcing practice: “The outstanding features of this firm’s practice are its impressive international network, allowing it to handle the most global transactions, and the strength of its outsourcing practice, an area where it is one of the out-and-out national leaders. In this latter area, peers acknowledge that it remains a first port of call simply because there are so many people there who have been doing it for a long time.”
Chambers praised the firm’s Germany finance practice: “It has enjoyed particular success in the NPL market where it advised on some of the biggest deals of the year, notably acting for Lone Star on the acquisition of a portfolio of real estate loans from Hypo Real Estate worth ?3.6 billion.”
In France, Chambers noted the firm’s private equity practice: “The Anglo-US giant was described by competitors as really starting to enter the market and pick up deals, and is widely tipped to be the firm to watch in French private equity circles.”
Below is a listing of the lawyers and their practice areas, along with a link to the Chambers rankings and listings of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw lawyers.
http://www.chambersandpartners.com/global/rankings36.aspx?fid=3690&solbar=1
Global Arbitration (International)
Javier H Rubinstein
WTO/International Trade
Michael Kantor
Peter Scher
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Africa Corporate & Finance
Ian Coles
Michael J. Pabst
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Belgium WTO/International Trade
Paulette Vander Schueren
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France Banking & Finance
Matthieu de Varax
Private Equity
Alexis Dargent
Xavier Jaspar
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Germany Banking & Finance:
Acquisition Finance &
Syndicated Lending
Manfred Heemann
Capital Markets: Equity
Peter Nägele
Capital Markets
Securitisation
Jörg Wulfken
Ralf Hesdahl
Private Equity
Markus Strelow
Real Estate
Christoph M. Tegel
Hans Hofmann
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Latin America Corporate & Finance
Douglas A. Doetsch
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United Kingdom Competition/European Law
Frances Murphy
Gillian Sproul
Corporate/M&A
Paul Maher
Energy & Natural
Resources: Mining
Ian Coles
Energy & Natural
Resources: Oil & Gas
Samantha Hampshire
Real Estate
Jeremy Clay
Restructuring/Insolvency
David Allen
Ian McDonald
TMT: Telecommunications
Peter Dickinson
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USA Banking & Finance
Andrew Mattei
Christopher C. Kupec
Douglas A. Doetsch
J. Paul Forrester
Robert C. Baptista
Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
Carol A. Hitselberger
George A. Pecoulas
Robert F. Hugi
Stuart M. Litwin
Capital Markets: Derivatives
Joseph P. Collins
Capital Markets:
Securitisation
Jason H.P. Kravitt
Corporate/M&A
Frederick B. Thomas
Richard Warren Shepro
Robert A. Helman
Scott J. Davis
Intellectual Property
Mark G. Paulson
Michael O. Warnecke
Litigation: Trial Lawyers
Vincent J. Connelly
Tax
Joel V. Williamson
TMT: IT & IT Outsourcing
Daniel A. Masur
David M. Hudanish
Nigel L. Howard
TMT: Telecom, Broadcast & Satellite
Christian F. Binnig
Dennis G. Friedman
Robert M. Dow
Theodore A. Livingston
