Milbank LLP is pleased to announce that Legal 500 US has recognized the firm in 32 practice areas, with 33 individual attorneys (across 41 categories) featured in the 2026 rankings. The Legal 500 rankings and editorial content are based on feedback from 300,000 in-house peers as well as a review of law firms’ deals and matters.
Milbank is ranked Tier 1 in the following practice areas:
- Capital Markets: Global Offerings: Advice to Issuers
- Capital Markets: Global Offerings: Advice to Underwriters
- Commercial Lending: Advice to Bank Lenders
- Commercial Lending: Advice to Direct Lenders/Private Credit
- Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power
- Project Finance: Energy and Power
- Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
- Structured Finance: Securitization
- Transport: Aviation and Air Travel: Finance
The firm also is ranked in the following categories:
- Antitrust: Cartel
- Antitrust: Merger Control
- 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
- Capital Markets: High-yield Debt Offerings: Advice to Issuers
- Capital Markets: High-yield Debt Offerings: Advice to Underwriters
- Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
- Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates
- Energy Transactions: Electric Power
- Energy Transactions: Oil and Gas
- Environment: Transactional
- General Commercial Disputes
- Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
- Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast: Transactions
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Large Deals ($1B+)
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts: Middle-Market (Up to $500M)
- Project Finance: Infrastructure and PPP
- Real Estate Finance
- Securities Litigation: Defense
- Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious
Earlier this year, the inaugural Legal 500 US Private Client Guide ranked Milbank’s Trusts, Estates and Exempt Organizations Group in the top tier for Private Wealth in New York, commending co-practice group leader Austin Bramwell as a Leading Partner and co-practice group leader Jessica Soojian as Recommended.
The following Milbank attorneys are recognized in the Legal 500 2026 US Rankings:
- Daniel Bartfeld – Energy Transactions: Electric Power (Leading Partner); Project Finance (Hall of Fame); Renewable/Alternative Power (Leading Partner)
- Adam Brenneman – Capital Markets: Global Offerings (Leading Partner)
- Matthew Brod – Restructuring, including Bankruptcy (Next Generation Partner)
- Patrick Campbell – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast: Transactions (Leading Partner)
- George Canellos – Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense (Hall of Fame)
- Adam Di Vincenzo – Antitrust: Cartel (Leading Partner); Antitrust: Merger Control (Leading Partner)
- Marcus Dougherty – Commercial Lending: Advice to Bank Lenders (Leading Partner); Commercial Lending: Advice to Direct Lenders/Private Credit (Leading Partner)
- Dennis Dunne – Restructuring, including Bankruptcy (Hall of Fame)
- Drew Fine – Aviation and Air Travel: Finance (Hall of Fame)
- Evan Fleck – Restructuring, including Bankruptcy (Leading Partner)
- Lauren Hanrahan – Commercial Lending: Advice to Bank Lenders (Hall of Fame); Commercial Lending: Advice to Direct Lenders/Private Credit (Leading Partner)
- Nola Heller – Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates (Leading Partner)
- Jonathon Jackson – Capital Markets: Debt Offerings (Leading Partner); Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt Offerings (Leading Partner)
- Alexandra Johnson – Aviation and Air Travel: Finance (Leading Partner)
- Jonathan Karl – Real Estate Finance (Next Generation Partner)
- Neal Katyal – Appellate: Courts of Appeals: Supreme Courts: States and Federal (Hall of Fame)
- Samuel Khalil – Restructuring, including Bankruptcy (Leading Partner)
- Matthew Laroche – Corporate investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates (Next Generation Partner)
- Jeffrey Leider – Project Finance (Next Generation Partner)
- Freyda Mechlowicz – Aviation and Air Travel: Finance (Next Generation Partner)
- Dan Michalchuk – Project Finance (Leading Partner)
- Rod Miller – Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt Offerings (Leading Partner)
- Marcelo Mottesi – Capital Markets: Global Offerings (Hall of Fame)
- Sean Murphy – Securities Litigation: Defense (Leading Partner)
- Dara Panahy – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast: Transactions (Leading Partner)
- Richard Parker – Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense (Hall of Fame); Antitrust: Merger Control (Leading Partner)
- Jim Pascale – Aviation and Air Travel: Finance (Leading Partner)
- Michael Price – Restructuring, including Bankruptcy (Next Generation Partner)
- Henry Scott – Renewable/Alternative Power (Leading Partner)
- Yaakov Sheinfeld – Real Estate Finance (Leading Partner)
- Ross Shepard – M&A: Large Deals, $1 billion+ (Next Generation Partner)
- Charles Stern – Commercial Lending: Advice to Bank Lenders (Leading Partner); Commercial Lending: Advice to Direct Lenders/Private Credit (Leading Partner)
- Timothy Wendling – Renewable/Alternative Power (Leading Partner)
