BASF Members Named on Best Lawyers’ Ones to Watch in America List 2022

Appellate Practice:

James R. Sigel, Morrison & Foerster; Stacy M. Boven, Nixon Peabody

Banking and Finance Law:

Dario David Avram, Morrison & Foerster, and Victor Liang, Morrison & Foerster

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law:

Michael S. Myers, Buchalter, and Matthew R. Klinger, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton

Commercial Litigation:

Nicholas M. Costanza, Goodwin; Roey Z. Rahmil, Shartsis Friese; Suzanne Stafford, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton; and Ellen P. Liu, Sideman & Bancroft

These awards are recognitions given to attorneys who are earlier in their careers for outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States. The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch recipients typically have been in practice for 5-9 years.

Leaders Circle Firms Recognized as 2022 Vault Law 100

Vault’s national ranking of the most prestigious law firms is based on the assessments of lawyers at peer firms. This year, more than 20,000 associates rated the reputations of firms other than their own. Vault’s 2022 Rankings are derived from Vault’s Annual Associate Survey conducted from March 2021 through May 2021.

BASF Leaders Circle Firms and Member Recognized in the Women in Business Law Americas Awards 2021

Firm Awards:

Fenwick & West in Diversity, Mentorship Program, Pro Bono

Morrison & Foerster in Gender Diversity

Baker McKenzie in Mentorship Program.

Jurisdiction Awards – Firm of the Year in the U.S.:

Greenberg Traurig, Morrison & Foerster, and Fenwick & West

Practice Area Awards – Lawyer of the Year:

Bonnie Lau, Morrison & Foerster, in Antitrust and Competition

The Women in Business Law Americas Awards recognize leading women for their contributions to the practice of business law along with the firms that have developed the most progressive initiatives towards diversity and inclusion from throughout the continent.

Past JDC Board Member Belinda Lee Named to Global Competition Review‘s Women in Antitrust 2021

Past JDC board member, Belinda Lee, Latham & Watkins, was named to Global Competition Review‘s (GCR) 2021 Women in Antitrust list. GCR’s sixth edition of Women in Antitrust profiles leading female competition lawyers, economists, academics and enforcers. For over two decades, GCR has been recognizing women at the forefront of competition law who have made groundbreaking contributions to the ever-changing, increasingly globalized competition landscape.

Fabio Elia Marino Recognized As Daily Journal’s Top Trade Secrets Lawyers

BASF member, Fabio Elia Marino, Polsinelli, was named among the “Top Trade Secrets Lawyers” by the Daily Journal. 

 

BASF Leaders Circle Firms and Member Received the Deal Awards 2021

The fourth annual Deal Awards program honors the top dealmakers in sector specialties as well as areas of dealmaking including restructuring, activism and private equity. The Deal research team combed through thousands of transactions and hundreds of nominations to decide the top advisers and identify the deals that exemplified the biggest trends of the year.

Deal of the Year (Large Cap)

Target/Seller: Sprint Corp./SoftBank Group Corp.

Outside Counsel: Goodwin Procter; Morrison & Foerster

Counsel to I-bank: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

Acquirer: T-Mobile US Inc./Deutsche Telekom AG

Outside Counsel: Cooley; DLA Piper; Latham & Watkins

Deal of the Year (Middle Market)

Target: Tubi Inc.

Outside Counsel: Cooley; Fenwick & West

Private Equity

Deal of the Year (Large Cap)

Target/Seller: Ellie Mae Inc./Thoma Bravo LLC

Outside Counsel: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Counsel to I-bank: Alston & Bird

Consumer, Retail, Food & Beverage

‘Deal of the Year (Middle Market)

Target/Seller: Beverages & More Inc./TowerBrook Capital Partners

Outside Counsel: Cooley

Energy & Industrials

Energy & Industrials – Law Firm (Middle Market):

Baker Botts

Financial Services

Deal of the Year (Large Cap)

Target/Seller: TD Ameritrade Holding Corp./Ricketts Family Foundation and Toronto-Dominion Bank

Counsel to I-bank: Alston & Bird

Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech

Deal of the Year (Large Cap)

Target/Seller: Livongo Health Inc./Kinnevik AB

Counsel to I-bank: Cooley

Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech – Law Firm (Large Cap):

Cooley

Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech – Dealmaker (Large Cap):

Maggie Lui Wong, Goodwin

Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech – Law Firm (Middle Market):

Latham & Watkins

Technology, Media and Telecom

Deal of the Year (Large Cap)

Target: Slack Technologies Inc.

Lead Counsel: Latham & Watkins

Outside Counsel: Goodwin Procter

Counsel to I-bank: Paul Hastings

Outside Counsel: Morrison & Foerster

Target: Tubi Inc.

Outside Counsel: Cooley; Fenwick & West

Technology, Media & Telecom – Law Firm (Middle Market):

Fenwick & West