Cleary Gottlieb Earns High Rankings in Legal 500 U.S. 2018

May 30, 2018

Cleary Gottlieb continues to achieve recognition as a premier law firm in the 2018 edition of The Legal 500 U.S.

In the rankings published on May 30, 2018, the firm earned 39 practice rankings, 18 of which were top-tier (up from 17 in 2017). Cleary lawyers earned a total of 235 mentions, with 30 individuals named as “Leading Lawyers” in their respective practice areas (up from 29 in 2017). The Legal 500 U.S. also recognized 14 Cleary lawyers in its list of “Next Generation Lawyers,” a guide to up-and-coming lawyers nationwide.

Cleary was recommended as a top-tier firm in the following practice areas:

  • Antitrust: Cartel
  • Antitrust: Civil litigation/class actions
  • Antitrust: Merger control
  • Dispute resolution: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: Advice to corporates
  • Dispute resolution: International litigation
  • Finance: Capital markets: Debt offerings: Advice to issuers
  • Finance: Capital markets: Debt offerings: Advice to underwriters
  • Finance: Capital markets: Equity offerings: Advice to issuers
  • Finance: Capital markets: Equity offerings: Advice to underwriters
  • Finance: Capital markets: Global offerings: Advice to issuers
  • Finance: Capital markets: Global offerings: Advice to underwriters
  • Finance: Financial services: Regulation
  • Finance: Structured finance: Derivatives and structured products
  • Labor and employment: Employee benefits and executive compensation: Transactional
  • M&A/corporate and commercial: Corporate governance
  • Tax: Financial products
  • Tax: International tax
  • U.S. taxes: Non-contentious

View Cleary’s complete results on Legal 500’s website.