Richards, Layton & Finger Leads Delaware Firms in Best Lawyers
August 17, 2015
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WILMINGTON, Delaware (August 17, 2015) – Richards, Layton and Finger is pleased to announce that 45 of its directors have been named in the 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Richards, Layton & Finger has more attorneys ranked in Best Lawyers than any other Delaware firm. In addition, the firm is ranked first in Delaware in eight areas of law: Appellate Practice, Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securitization and Structured Finance Law, and Tax Law.
Our firm is committed to providing world-class legal counsel in a wide range of practice areas,” says Robert Krapf, president of Richards, Layton & Finger. “We are pleased that publications consistently recognize our attorneys for their outstanding skills and exceptional client service.
Best Lawyers compiles its annual list of distinguished lawyers by conducting national surveys in which thousands of lawyers provide detailed, confidential evaluations of their peers. The Richards, Layton & Finger attorneys named in The Best Lawyers in America and the areas of law in which they are recognized are:
Michael Allen – Corporate Law
Paul Altman – Business Organizations, Corporate Law
Stephen Bigler – Corporate Law, Corporate Governance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Donald Bussard – Corporate Law, Corporate Governance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Mark Collins – Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights Law, Bankruptcy Litigation
Peter Conaty Jr. – Tax Law, Trusts and Estates
Frederick Cottrell III – Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, Patent Litigation, Patent Law, Trademark Law
Matthew Criscimagna – Business Organizations
Brock Czeschin – Corporate Law
Catherine Dearlove – Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law
Daniel DeFranceschi – Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights Law, Bankruptcy Litigation
Raymond DiCamillo – Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Litigation
Daniel Dreisbach – Commercial Litigation
Richard Facciolo – Securitization and Structured Finance Law
Jesse Finkelstein – Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law
Anne Foster – Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Litigation
Mark Gentile – Corporate Law, Corporate Governance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
William Haubert – Corporate Law, Corporate Governance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
John Hendershot – Commercial Litigation
Tara Hoffner – Securitization and Structured Finance Law
Jennifer Jauffret – Commercial Litigation
Cynthia Kaiser – Commercial Transactions/UCC Law, Privacy and Data Security Law
Bernard Kelley – Business Organizations, Corporate Law
Daniel Klein – Real Estate Law
John Knight – Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights Law
Robert Krapf – Real Estate Law
Gregory Ladner – Business Organizations, Corporate Law
James Leyden Jr. – Business Organizations, Corporate Law, Securitization and Structured Finance Law
Eric Mazie – Securitization and Structured Finance Law
Jeffrey Moyer – Commercial Litigation, Copyright Law, Patent Law, Patent Litigation
Samuel Nolen – Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law
Mark Purpura – Business Organizations
Srinivas Raju – Business Organizations, Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law
Blake Rohrbacher – Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance Law
Richard Rollo – Corporate Law
Lisa Schmidt – Commercial Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions Litigation
Russell Silberglied – Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights Law
Donald Sparks II – Tax Law, Trusts and Estates
Robert Stearn Jr. – Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights Law
Stanford Stevenson III – Tax Law
Gregory Varallo – Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Litigation
William Wade – Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Trusts and Estates Litigation
Robert Whetzel – Environmental Law, Environmental Litigation
Gregory Williams – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law
John Mark Zeberkiewicz – Corporate Law, Corporate Governance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law