Milbank LLP is pleased to announce that The Legal 500 has recognized the firm in 32 categories and features 32 individual attorneys (across 41 categories) in its 2025 US 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 in Tier 1 in the following categories:
- Commercial Lending: Advice to Bank Lenders
- Commercial Lending: Advice to Direct Lenders/Private Credit
- Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power
- Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast: Transactions
- Project Finance: Energy and Power
- Restructuring (including Bankruptcy)
- 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: Global Offerings: Advice to Issuers
- Capital Markets: Global Offerings: Advice to Underwriters
- 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
- General Commercial Disputes
- Labor and Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional
- Media, Technology and Telecoms: Outsourcing
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Large Deals ($1B+)
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts: Middle-Market (Up to $500M)
- M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts: Large Deals ($500M+)
- Project Finance: Infrastructure and PPP
- Real Estate Finance
- Securities Litigation: Defense
- Structured Finance: Securitization
- Tax: US Taxes: Non-Contentious
In addition, the following Milbank attorneys have been recognized:
- Daniel Bartfeld – Energy Transactions: Electric Power (Leading Partner); Project Finance (Leading Partner); Renewable/Alternative Power (Leading Partner)
- William Bice – Energy Transactions: Electric Power (Hall of Fame); Project Finance (Hall of Fame)
- Matthew Brod – Restructuring, including Bankruptcy (Next Generation Partner)
- Jeremy Butt – Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense (Leading Associate)
- Patrick Campbell – Media, Technology and Telecoms: Telecoms and Broadcast: Transactions (Leading Partner)
- George Canellos – Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates (Leading Partner); Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals (Leading Partner)
- Adam Di Vincenzo – Antitrust: Cartel (Leading Partner); Antitrust: Merger Control (Next Generation 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)
- Jonathon Jackson – Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt Offerings (Next Generation Partner)
- Alexandra Johnson – Aviation and Air Travel: Finance (Next Generation 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)
- Henry Scott – Renewable/Alternative Power (Next Generation 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)
