Chambers USA 2025 recognizes US lawyers from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Chambers USA 2025 has recognized Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer and 39 of its US lawyers for excellence across 19 practice areas.

On June 1, 2025, Kramer Levin officially combined with Herbert Smith Freehills to become Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, known as HSF Kramer.

The firm was recognized in the following areas:

• Advertising: Litigation (US)
• Advertising: NAD Proceedings (US)
• Bankruptcy/Restructuring: The Elite (US and New York)
• Capital Markets: Securitization: ABS (US)
• Capital Markets: Securitization: PACE (US)
• Corporate Crime & Investigations: Highly Regarded (US)
• Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded (New York)
• Derivatives (US)
• Environment (New York)
• Immigration (US and New York)
• Intellectual Property: Patent (New York)
• International Arbitration: The Elite (US)
• Labor & Employment: The Elite (New York)
• Litigation: General Commercial: Highly Regarded (New York)
• Litigation: Securities (New York)
• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations: The Elite (New York)
• Product Liability & Mass Torts: Tobacco (US)
• Real Estate: Litigation (New York)
• Real Estate: Mainly Dirt (New York)
• Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (New York)
• Tax (New York)

The following lawyers were recognized: 

Accountant and Auditor Liabilty (US)

• Michael J. Dell

Advertising: Litigation (US)

• Eileen M. Patt
• Norman C. Simon

Advertising: NAD Proceedings (US)

• Norman C. Simon

Appellate Law (US)

• Roy T. Englert, Jr.

Bankruptcy/Restructuring (New York) 

• Amy Caton
• Kenneth H. Eckstein
• Rachael Ringer
• Thomas Moers Mayer

Bankruptcy/Restructuring (US)

• Kenneth H. Eckstein
• Thomas Moers Mayer

Capital Markets: Securitization: ABS (US) 

• Gilbert K.S. Liu
• Jamie Kocis
• Laurence Pettit

Capital Markets: Securitization: PACE (US) 

• Gilbert K.S. Liu
• Jamie Kocis
• Laurence Pettit

Corporate/M&A (New York)

• Ernest S. Wechsler

Derivatives (US)

• Fabien Carruzzo
• Linda Sharkey

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (New York)

• Marissa J. Holob

Environment (New York)

• Toni L. Finger

Immigration (New York)

• Matthew S. Dunn
• Scott Gorski
• Allison D. Gray
• Mark D. Koestler

Immigration (US)

• Mark D. Koestler
• Matthew S. Dunn

Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory (New York)

• Daniel Rabinowitz

Intellectual Property: Patent (New York)

• Aaron Frankel

International Arbitration: Counsel (US)

• Christian Leathley 
• Amal Bouchenaki

Labor & Employment (New York)

• Kevin B. Leblang
• Eliza A. Kaiser
• Robert N. Holtzman

Litigation: General Commercial (New York)

• Marc Gottridge 

Litigation: Securities (New York)

• Michael J. Dell

Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (New York)

• Paul H. Schoeman

Private Equity: Buyouts (New York)

• Howard T. Spilko

Product Liability & Mass Torts: Tobacco (US)

• Benjamin Rubinstein 
• Gregory Loss
• Maxwell Herman 

Real Estate: Litigation (New York)

• Ronald S. Greenberg

Real Estate: Mainly Dirt (New York)

• Jonathan Canter
• Jay A. Neveloff

Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (New York)

• Valerie G. Campbell
• James Power
• Paul D. Selver
• Elise Wagner

Securities: Regulation: Enforcement (US)

• Michael J. Dell

Tax (New York)

• Pamela M. Capps
• Barry Herzog
• Abraham (Avi) Reshtick