Chambers USA has recognized Goodwin with 76 practice rankings and 169 total lawyer rankings in the recently released 2024 edition of the guide. For over two decades, Chambers has been a trusted resource for helping clients identify the premiere clients, identifying the premiere lawyers and firms across the United States.
Client feedback praised Goodwin for having "fantastic, business-minded lawyers" who are "creative and solutions-oriented." They also highlighted the ability of Goodwin teams to "provide next-level service" while acting as a "fierce advocate for their clients."
Goodwin continued to build on its strengths in Private Equity, Life Sciences, Technology, Financial Services, Real Estate and Litigation with 18 Band 1 rankings. Goodwin lawyers were highly ranked in 62 categories across 11 geographic regions, including 29 Band 1 practitioners and 10 Up and Coming lawyers.
The breadth and strength of Goodwin's collaborative team have made it the firm of choice for the innovators and investors in the United States and around the world.
The Goodwin practice rankings in Chambers USA 2024 include:
- Antitrust
- Appellate Law
- Banking & Finance
- Banking & Finance: Corporate & Regulatory
- Cannabis Law
- Capital Markets
- Capital Markets: Convertible Debt
- Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
- Capital Markets: Equity: Issuer Counsel
- Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel
- Corporate Crime & Investigations
- Corporate/M&A
- Corporate/M&A & Private Equity
- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- ERISA Litigation
- Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)
- Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Enforcement & Investigations)
- Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
- Financial Services Regulation: Financial Institution M&A
- Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation
- Healthcare
- Healthcare: Medical/Pharmaceutical Products Regulatory
- Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property: Appellate
- Intellectual Property: Litigation
- Intellectual Property: Patent
- Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation
- Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution
- International Trade: CFIUS Experts
- International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions
- Labor & Employment
- Leisure & Hospitality
- Life Sciences
- Litigation: Securities
- Litigation: General Commercial
- Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Privacy & Data Security
- Private Equity: Buyouts
- Private Equity: Fund Formation
- Private Equity: Buyouts: Mid-Market
- Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment
- Products Liability & Mass Torts: Highly Regarded
- Real Estate
- Real Estate: Mainly Corporate & Finance
- Registered Funds
- REITs
- Startups & Emerging Companies
- Tax
- Tax: Corporate & Finance
- Technology
- Venture Capital (includes Fund Formation)
Goodwin lawyers ranked this year include:
- Alison Douglass (Nationwide) ERISA Litigation
- Allison Schoenthal (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
- Andrew Sucoff (MA) Real Estate
- Andrew Cheng (CA) Banking & Finance
- Andrew Roeder (MA) Private Equity: Fund Formation
- Anna Dodson (MA) Banking & Finance
- Annie Railton (NY) Healthcare / (NY) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Anthony McCusker (CA) Venture Capital / (Nationwide) Startups & Emerging Companies / (CA) Corporate/M&A
- Anthony Alexis (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Enforcement & Investigations)
- Anne Bandes (MA) Banking & Finance
- Barbara Shander (PA) Corporate/M&A and Private Equity
- Ben Tschann (Nationwide) Leisure & Hospitality
- Bibek Pandey (DC) Employee Benefits & Executive Comp
- Bradford J. Smith (MA) Labor & Employment
- Bradley Weber (CA) Capital Markets: Debt & Equity / (Nationwide) Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Western United States
- Brett Schuman (Nationwide) Cannabis Law: Western United States
- Brooks Brown (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
- Brynn Peltz (Nationwide) Investment Funds: Regulatory & Compliance
- Caine Moss (CA) Venture Capital
- Caroline Bullerjahn (MA) Litigation: Securities
- Chauncey Swalwell (CA) Real Estate
- Christopher Holding (MA) Antitrust
- Cisco Palao-Ricketts (CA) Employee Benefits & Executive Comp
- Daniel Roeser (NY) Litigation: Securities
- Daniel Karelitz (MA) Tax
- Daniel Adams (Nationwide) REITs
- Danielle Lauzon (MA) Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment
- David Lynn (Nationwide) Securities: Regulation: Advisory
- David Zimmer (Nationwide) Appellate Law
- David Cappillo (MA) Healthcare
- David Watson (MA) Private Equity: Fund Formation / (Nationwide) Private Equity: Fund Formation
- Deborah Birnbach (MA) Litigation: Securities
- Diana Brummer (NY) Real Estate: Finance
- Diane McCabe (MA) Real Estate
- Douglas Kline (MA) Intellectual Property
- Duncan Greenhalgh (MA) Intellectual Property
- Dustin Calkins (CA) Real Estate
- Edward Glazer (Nationwide) REITs: Tax
- Elaine Blais (MA) Intellectual Property
- Ettore Santucci (MA) Capital Markets / (Nationwide) REITs
- Freddie Akrouche (MA) Real Estate
- Geoffrey Ossias (CA) Corporate/M&A
- Gilbert Menna (Nationwide) REITs / (MA) Capital Markets
- Grant Fondo (CA) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- H. Neal Sandford (MA) Tax / (Nationwide) REITs: Tax
- Howard Cubell (MA) Tax
- Ian O'Donnell (CA) Venture Capital: Fund Formation / (Nationwide) Venture Capital: Fund Formation
- Jacob Osborn (Nationwide) International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions / (Nationwide) International Trade: CFIUS Experts
- Jaime Santos (Nationwide) Appellate Law / (Nationwide) ERISA Litigation
- James Barri (Nationwide) Capital Markets: Convertible Debt
- James Fleckner (Nationwide) ERISA Litigation
- James Mattus (MA) Employee Benefits & Executive Comp
- James Moriarty (NY) Private Equity: Buyouts
- James Gatta (NY) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- James Hutchinson (DC) Corporate/M&A and Private Equity
- James Curley (MA) Private Equity: Buyouts
- Jared Fine (MA) Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment
- Jennifer Chunias (MA) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Jennifer Fisher (Nationwide) Cannabis Law: Western United States
- Jennifer Fay (MA) Labor & Employment
- Jennifer Porter (PA) Corporate/M&A and Private Equity
- Joanne Gray (Nationwide) Food & Beverages: Regulatory & Litigation
- John Servidio (Nationwide) Capital Markets: Convertible Debt / (Nationwide) Derivatives
- John Jones (PA) Healthcare
- John Egan (MA) Technology / (MA) Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment / (MA) Corporate/M&A / (Nationwide) Startups & Emerging Companies
- John LeClaire (MA) Private Equity: Buyouts
- Jon Herzog (MA) Private Equity: Buyouts
- Jon Novotny (Nationwide) Startups & Emerging Companies
- Jonathan Shapiro (CA) Litigation: Securities
- Joseph Theis (MA) Capital Markets / (MA) Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment
- Joseph Savage (MA) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Joshua Klatzkin (DC) Corporate/M&A and Private Equity
- Jud Welle (Nationwide) Privacy & Data Security: Cybersecurity
- Julie Tibbets (DC) Healthcare: Pharmaceutical/Medical Products Regulatory
- Karen Turk (MA) Tax
- Kate MacLeman (MA) Litigation: General Commercial
- Kelsey Lemaster (CA) Tax
- Ken Gordon (MA) Technology
- Kevin Kabler (CA) Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution
- Kingsley Taft (MA) Life Sciences / (Nationwide) Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial
- Kirk Ogrosky (DC) Healthcare / (Nationwide) False Claims Act
- Koray Bulut (CA) Labor & Employment
- Kristopher Ring (CA) Banking & Finance
- Lawrence Chu (CA) Corporate/M&A
- Lisa Haddad (MA) Corporate/M&A
- Lynda Galligan (CA) Employee Benefits & Executive Comp
- Maggie Wong (CA) Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial
- Mark Abate (NY) Intellectual Property: Patent
- Mark Bettencourt (MA) Corporate/M&A
- Martin Healy (MA) Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use
- Matthew Giles (MA) Private Equity: Fund Formation
- Matthew Sheldon (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
- Michael Shuster (CA) Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution / (CA) Life Sciences: IP/Patent Litigation
- Michael Kendall (MA) Private Equity: Buyouts
- Michelle Treadwell Briggs (Nationwide) E-Discovery & Information Governance
- Michelle Knoop (Nationwide) Startups & Emerging Companies
- Minta Kay (MA) Real Estate
- Miranda Hooker (MA) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Mitchell Bloom (MA) Corporate/M&A / (MA) Capital Markets / (MA) Life Sciences / (Nationwide) Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial / (Nationwide) Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Eastern United States / (Nationwide) Startups & Emerging Companies
- Natascha George (MA) Employee Benefits & Executive Comp
- Neel Chatterjee (CA) Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation / (Nationwide) Intellectual Property / (CA) Intellectual Property: Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets
- Nicholas Losurdo (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Broker Dealer (Compliance)
- Nicole Peppe (Nationwide) Venture Capital: Fund Formation / (MA) Private Equity: Fund Formation
- Omer Tene (Nationwide) Privacy & Data Security: Privacy
- Pat Mitchell (MA) Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment / (Nationwide) Startups & Emerging Companies
- Patrick Menasco (DC) Employee Benefits & Executive Comp
- Paul Verbesey (Nationwide) Private Equity: Fund Formation
- Rachael Bushey (PA) Corporate/M&A and Private Equity
- Richard Matheny (Nationwide) International Trade: CFIUS Experts / (Nationwide) International Trade: Export Controls & Economic Sanctions
- Richard Strassberg (NY) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations / (Nationwide) Litigation: Trial Lawyers
- Robert Puopolo (MA) Capital Markets
- Robert Fore (Nationwide) Venture Capital: Fund Formation
- Robert Hale (MA) Labor & Employment
- Roger Cohen (NY) Healthcare
- Romina Weiss (NY) Tax
- Sabrina Rose-Smith (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Enforcement & Investigations)
- Sam Zucker (CA) Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial
- Samantha Kirby (MA) Banking & Finance: Corporate & Regulatory / (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Financial Institutions M&A
- Scott Bluni (MA) Intellectual Property
- Scott Chase (Nationwide) REITs
- Shane Albright (CA) Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial
- Siobhan Murphy (MA) Real Estate
- Stephen Lee (CA) Private Equity: Buyouts
- Stephen Charkoudian (MA) Intellectual Property: Licensing / (MA) Technology
- Stuart Cable (MA) Corporate/M&A / (MA) Life Sciences
- Teresa Goebel (Nationwide) Leisure & Hospitality
- Thomas Gallagher (PA) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Thomas Beaudoin (MA) Private Equity: Fund Formation / (Nationwide) Venture Capital: Fund Formation
- Thomas Hefferon (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
- William Harrington (NY) Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- William Weiss (NY) Tax
- William Jay (Nationwide) Appellate Law / (Nationwide) Intellectual Property: Appellate
- William Stern (Nationwide) Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance)
- Yoel Kranz (Nationwide) REITs