Cleary Women Lawyers Earn Top-Tier Directory Rankings

As part of Cleary Gottlieb’s celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re spotlighting the firm’s women lawyers who have earned outstanding recognition from prominent legal directories.

In the last year, a total of 38 women received 62 top-tier rankings, with honorees based in various offices across the firm, including the Bay Area, Brussels, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, and Washington, D.C.

These women were lauded for their experience and prowess in areas such as antitrust, banking and finance, bankruptcy and restructuring, capital markets, corporate governance, e-discovery, international arbitration, investigations, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, private funds, real estate, and tax:

Laurie Achtouk-Spivak

• Rising Star – Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration (The Legal 500 EMEA 2021)

Mary Alcock

• Next Generation Partner – Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans: Transactional (The Legal 500 U.S. 2021)

Katharina Apel

• Rising Star – Antitrust (The Legal 500 EMEA 2021)

Robin Bergen

• Local Litigation Star – General Commercial, Securities, White Collar Crime (Benchmark Litigation 2022)
• Highly Regarded – Capital Markets: Equity; Capital Markets: Structured Finance & Securitisation; Capital Markets: Derivatives (IFLR1000 2022)

Leah Brannon

• National Practice Area Star; Local Litigation Star – Antitrust, General Commercial (Benchmark Litigation 2022)
• Leading Lawyer – Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense (The Legal 500 U.S. 2021)

Kimberly Brown Blacklow

• Leading Lawyer – Real Estate: Real Estate Finance (The Legal 500 U.S. 2021)

Amélie Champsaur

• Up and Coming – Banking & Finance: Financial Services Regulation (Chambers Global 2022)
• Next Generation Partner – Banking and Finance: Bank Regulatory (The Legal 500 EMEA 2021)

Connie Chu

• Expertise Based Abroad in China – Corporate and Finance (Chambers Global 2022)
• Foreign Expert for Philippines – Capital Markets (Chambers Global 2022)

Anne-Sophie Coustel

• Band 1 – Tax (Chambers Europe 2021)
• Leading Individual – Tax (The Legal 500 EMEA 2021)

Elaine Ewing

• Up and Coming – Antitrust (Chambers USA 2021)
• Next Generation Partner – Antitrust: Cartel (The Legal 500 U.S. 2021)
• Next Generation Partner – Antitrust: Merger Control (The Legal 500 U.S. 2021)

Natascha Gerlach

• Expertise Based Abroad in Belgium – e-Discovery & Information Governance (Chambers Global 2022)
• Leading Lawyer – Dispute Resolution: e-Discovery (The Legal 500 U.S. 2021)

Helena Grannis

• Highly Regarded – Capital Markets: Debt; Capital Markets: Equity (IFLR1000 2022)

Jackie Holland

• Leading Individual – EU and Competition (The Legal 500 UK 2022)

Cunzhen Huang

• Foreign Expert for China – Competition/Antitrust (Chambers Global 2022)

Jennifer Kennedy Park

• National Practice Area Star; Local Litigation Star – White Collar (Benchmark Litigation 2022)

Julia Knight

• Notable Practitioner – Capital Markets: Debt; Capital Markets: Equity (IFLR1000 2022)

Chantal Kordula

• Notable Practitioner – Project Finance; Restructuring; M&A (IFLR1000 2022)

Valérie Lemaitre

• Leading Individual – Capital Markets: Debt Capital Markets (The Legal 500 EMEA 2021)

Liza Lenas

• Market Leader – Investment Funds (IFLR1000 2022)

Polina Lyadnova

• Expertise Based Abroad in UK – Banking and Finance (Chambers Global 2022)
• Foreign Expert for Russia – Banking and Finance (Chambers Global 2022)
• Next Generation Partner – Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans (The Legal 500 UK 2022)
• Expertise Based Abroad – Banking and Finance (Chambers Europe 2021)

Jennifer Maskell

• Rising Star – Corporate Tax (The Legal 500 UK 2022)

Heather Nyong’o

• Band 1 – Antitrust: Cartel (Chambers Global 2022)

Francesca Odell

• Band 1 – Capital Markets (Chambers Global 2022)
• Foreign Expert for Brazil – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity; Corporate/M&A (Chambers Global 2022)
• Foreign Expert for Latin America-wide – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity; Corporate/M&A (Chambers Global 2022)
• Band 1 – Capital Markets (Chambers Latin America 2022)
• Highly Regarded – Capital Markets; Banking; Project Finance; M&A (IFLR1000 2022)
• Leading Lawyer – Capital Markets: Global Offerings (The Legal 500 U.S. 2021)

Meme Peponis

• Highly Regarded – Banking (IFLR1000 2022)
• Leading Lawyer – Commercial Lending (The Legal 500 U.S. 2021)

Nicole Puppieni

• Up and Coming – Capital Markets – Equity (Chambers Global 2022)

Vania Petrella

• Leading Individual – Tax (The Legal 500 EMEA 2021)

Romina Polley

• Hall of Fame – Antitrust (The Legal 500 EMEA 2021)

Nallini Puri

• Next Generation Partner – M&A: Upper Mid-Market and Premium Deals, £500M+ (The Legal 500 UK 2022)

Katie Reaves

• Rising Star Partner – Banking (IFLR1000 2022)

Sandra Rocks

• Notable Practitioner – Banking and Finance; Capital Markets (IFLR1000 2022)

Séverine Schrameck

• Next Generation Partner – EU Competition and Distribution (The Legal 500 EMEA 2021)

Lisa Schweitzer

• National Practice Area Star; Local Litigation Star – Bankruptcy (Benchmark Litigation 2022)
• Highly Regarded – Financial Restructuring (IFLR1000 2022)
• Leading Lawyer – Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Corporate (The Legal 500 U.S. 2021)

Amy Shapiro

• Highly Regarded – Investment Management (IFLR1000 2022)

Yulia Solomakhina

• Leading Individual – Capital Markets (The Legal 500 EMEA 2021)

Kim Spoerri

• Highly Regarded – M&A (IFLR1000 2022)

Marie-Laurence Tibi

• Band 1 – Capital Markets: Equity (Chamber Global 2022)
• Band 1 – Capital Markets: Equity (Chambers Europe 2021)
• Leading Individual – Capital Markets: Equity (The Legal 500 EMEA 2021)

Jeanne Theuret

• Up and Coming – Capital Markets: Equity (Chambers Global 2022)

Lisa Vicens

• Litigation Star – White Collar (Benchmark Litigation 2022)
• Up and Coming – FCPA (Chambers Global 2022)
• Up and Coming – FCPA (Chambers USA 2021)
• Next Generation Partner – Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Corporates (The Legal 500 U.S. 2021)