(Houston, TX)—Legal 500 has recognized Andrews Kurth Kenyon as one of the leading practices in the United States in the areas of:

  • Capital Markets: Debt Offerings – Advice to Issuers
  • Capital Markets: Equity Offerings – Advice to Issuers
  • Capital Markets: Equity Offerings – Advice to Managers
  • Dispute Resolution: Product Liability, Mass Tort & Class Action: Toxic Tort – Defense
  • Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation – Defense
  • Energy: Litigation – Oil & Gas
  • Energy: Regulatory – Conventional Power
  • Energy: Regulatory – Oil & Gas
  • Energy: Renewables/Alternative
  • Energy: Transactions – Conventional Power
  • Energy: Transactions – Oil & Gas
  • IP: Copyrights
  • IP: Patents: Licensing
  • IP: Patents: Litigation (full coverage)
  • IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings)
  • IP: Trademarks: Litigation
  • IP: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management & licensing)
  • M&A: Middle-Market (sub-$500 million)
  • Project Finance – Advice to Sponsors
  • Real Estate
  • Technology Transactions
  • US Taxes: Non-Contentious

Two Andrews Kurth Kenyon lawyers are listed as elite “Leading Lawyers:”

  • Michael Lennon – IP: Patents: Licensing
  • Jim Rosini – IP: Trademarks: Litigation; IP: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management & licensing)

One Andrews Kurth Kenyon lawyer is listed as a “Next Generation Lawyer:”

  • Jennie Jackson Miller – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)

In addition, 58 Andrews Kurth Kenyon lawyers are recommended/mentioned in the 2017 Legal 500 United States editorial:

  • Gary Abelev – IP: Patents: Licensing; IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings); IP: Patents: Litigation (full coverage)
  • Alan Bickerstaff – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m); Technology: Transactions
  • Joseph Blizzard – Dispute Resolution: Product Liability, Mass Tort & Class Action: Toxic Tort – Defense
  • Michael Boyd – Real Estate
  • Peter Bogdanow – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
  • Melinda Brunger – Capital Markets: Equity Offerings; M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
  • David Buck – Capital Markets: Debt Offerings; Capital Markets: Equity Offerings; M&A: Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
  • Courtney Cochran Butler – Capital Markets: Equity Offerings
  • John Clutterbuck – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
  • Edward Colbert – IP: Patents: Licensing; IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings); IP: Patents: Litigation (full coverage);  IP: Trademarks: Litigation; IP: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management & licensing)
  • William Cooper – Capital Markets: Debt Offerings; M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
  • Jon Daly – Capital Markets: Equity Offerings; M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
  • Brian Dillavou – Technology: Transactions
  • Jeff Dodd – IP: Copyrights; IP: Patents: Licensing; IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings); IP: Patents: Litigation (full coverage)
  • Adrian Doxey – Real Estate
  • Jack Fields – Real Estate
  • Thomas Ford – US Taxes: Non-Contentious
  • Bradley Foster – Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation – Defense
  • Ted Gilman – Technology: Transactions
  • Alexis Gomez – Energy: Litigation – Oil & Gas; Dispute Resolution: Product Liability, Mass Tort & Class Action: Toxic Tort - Defense
  • Carmelo Gordian – Technology: Transactions
  • Hal Haltom – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m); Project Finance
  • Walter Hanley – IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings)
  • Henry Havre – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
  • Jordan Hirsch – Capital Markets: Equity Offerings
  • Stuart Hollimon – Energy: Litigation – Oil & Gas
  • Bob Jewell – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
  • Michael Lennon – IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings)
  • Matthew Lyons – Technology: Transactions
  • Mark Mandel – Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation – Defense
  • Allison Mantor – US Taxes: Non-Contentious
  • Chanse McLeod – Real Estate
  • Robert McNamara – US Taxes: Non-Contentious
  • Matthew Nielsen – Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation – Defense
  • Charlie Ofner – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
  • Michael O'Leary – Capital Markets: Debt Offerings; Capital Markets: Equity Offerings; Energy: Transactions – Oil & Gas; M&A: Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
  • Thomas Popplewell – US Taxes: Non-Contentious
  • Gregory Porter – IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings); IP: Patents: Litigation (full coverage)
  • Vera Rechsteiner – Energy: Transactions – Conventional Power; Project Finance
  • Jonathan Reichman – IP: Copyrights
  • Angela Richards – US Taxes: Non-Contentious
  • Christopher Richardson – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
  • Jim Rosini – IP: Trademarks: Litigation; IP: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management & licensing)
  • Michele Schwartz – IP: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management & licensing)
  • Daniel Shanley – IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings)
  • Susan Smith - IP: Trademarks: Litigation; IP: Trademarks: Non-Contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management & licensing)
  • Mark Solomon – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
  • Craig Stahl – Energy: Litigation – Oil & Gas
  • Mark Sundback – Energy: Regulatory – Conventional Power; Energy: Regulatory – Oil & Gas
  • Thomas Taylor – Dispute Resolution: Product Liability, Mass Tort & Class Action: Toxic Tort – Defense
  • Mark Thurber – Energy: Transactions – Conventional Power; Project Finance
  • Tim Unger – Project Finance; Energy: Renewable/Alternative; Energy: Transactions – Conventional Power; Energy: Transactions – Oil & Gas
  • George Vlahakos – Energy: Transactions – Oil & Gas
  • Ping Wang – IP: Patents: Prosecution (including reexamination & post-grant proceedings); IP: Patents: Licensing
  • David Washburn – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)
  • David Whittlesey – Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation – Defense
  • Kenneth Wiseman – Energy: Regulatory – Conventional Power; Energy: Regulatory – Oil & Gas
  • Victor Zanetti – M&A Middle-Market (sub-$500m)

As released by the former Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP