McDermott Will & Emery

Antitrust Law

McDermott Will & Emery is the best law firm in the field of Antitrust Law, and Andrew Lee in particular has handled cases related to DOJ as well as FTC well.

Health Care Law

McDermott Will & Emery consistently provides excellent counsel to our company. McDermott Will & Emery attorneys take the time to understand our business objectives, risk tolerance and cost targets as they deliver the highest quality legal advice to meet our needs. We could not ask for better representation.

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Marcus Helt is the smartest, most creative attorney I have ever encountered.

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

McDermott Will & Emery's Chicago team has provided excellent and efficient support in connection with their representation of independent directors in a financial restructuring transaction. Felicia Pearlman and Brad Giordano led the representation and always responded promptly to address any questions or issues and provided an appropriate level of support throughout the process as the restructuring evolved. I would recommend them to anyone looking for a restructuring team that strikes the right balance between being thorough and being efficient.

Insurance Law

The McDermott team and great partners to me and my team -- knowledgeable, experienced and responsive as we navigate through novel issues for my organization.

Antitrust Law

Stephen Wu at McDermott Will & Emery is an excellent antitrust lawyer who has been our trusted legal counsel for antitrust compliance matters for several years. He understands the pertinent legal and business issues, is very responsive and provides practical advice and real-world examples for our business team. We enjoy working with Stephen. In addition to his experience, he is personable and a clear communicator.

Health Care Law

We have been very happy with the legal services we have received from McDermott Will & Emery over the years.

Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Mark Pearlstein of McDermott Will & Emery has on numerous occasions provided the very best professional advice to our company. We continue to use him without hesitation.

Patent Law

Jed Gordon, Head of Intellectual Property transactions at McDermott Will & Emery, has solid expertise in working through patent issues in a mergers and acquisitions context.

Information Technology Law

It is refreshing to find that intersection of 'get the deal done' with well-balanced fairness for all parties involved. "Win-win" is key to complex outsourcing arrangements, and the McDermott technology & outsourcing legal team brings that to the table with vast industry experience, cost efficiency and utmost professionalism.

Technology Law

The Technology team at McDermott Will & Emery is unrivaled. Their competence is superior no matter the opposing counsel. Their client service makes you feel cared for and valued.

Labor Law - Management

We genuinely value our relationship with McDermott Will & Emery. They are outstanding to work with, responsive to our needs and work hard to help us through what are often time-sensitive issues.

Real Estate Law

David Wolff and team at McDermott Will & Emery are by far my go-to team for all my real estate deals. I wish I could use them for everything. They are smart, efficient, cost-conscious and great negotiators.

Trusts & Estates Law

McDermott Will & Emery has always proven themselves top-tier of their knowledge in the field. Over the years they have also become best-in-class for not just responsiveness but relevance of their response. They know me, my family and my business so solutions and discussion are always tailored to my needs, not just off the shelf. Let's face it, estate matters are very personal and unique, and they get that. I have never felt anything other than that they are worth it.

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

McDermott Will & Emery's team based in Chicago is excellent in all respects. They have deep experience, clear communication, are timely, considerate and patient.

Health Care Law

The partners and associates timeliness gives me the impression that I'm their only client and the level of expertise and understanding in their advice is consistently exceptional!

Health Care Law

McDermott Will & Emery has provided excellent legal support and guidance in a number of our transactions. Their partners and staff are very responsive and proactive. Their expertise in healthcare matters has been instrumental in tackling difficult issues and generating positive outcomes.

Mergers & Acquisitions Law

The IP Transaction team led by Jed Gordon is very proactive in help get M&A deals done.

Information Technology Law

McDermott Will & Emery's work in Information Technology Law is first-in-class. Todd McClelland is one of the finest lawyers with whom we have ever worked. Todd is both a lawyer and an engineer and has a keen intellect, business sense, unrivaled knowledge of the law and a client-friendly outlook. All of these attributes make Todd one of America's great information technology lawyers, if not the best.

Privacy and Data Security Law

Scott Ferber is my contact in the Privacy and Cybersecurity department at McDermott Will & Emery. He is a fantastic attorney. His knowledge base and client service are absolutely top-tier. I would recommend him highly.

Technology Law

McDermott Will & Emery's work in Technology Law is first-in-class. Todd McClelland is one of the finest lawyers with whom we have ever worked. Todd is both a lawyer and an engineer and has a keen intellect, business sense, unrivaled knowledge of the law and a client-friendly outlook. All of these attributes make Todd one of America's great information technology lawyers, if not the best.

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Marcus Helt of McDermott Will & Emery is the most knowledgeable and hard-working attorney I have ever worked with. He is a fantastic deal guy who is very creative and accretive to finding common ground. He and his team will tirelessly work to find a solution and compromise that will work for all parties of the case while ensuring his clients are properly represented.

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

MWE is developing a terrific restructuring group. I've worked with their professionals across the country and find them to be top notch.

Insurance Law

McDermott Will & Emery's New York team is the best in the field for all aspects of insurance law.

Health Care Law

Lisa Mazur is a stand out in the McDermott Will & Emery health care practice and the leader in digital health.

Mergers & Acquisitions Law

As a global law firm, McDermott Will & Emery provides excellent advice on mergers and acquisitions for multinational companies.

Litigation - Intellectual Property

Best firm

Information Technology Law

We continue to be thankful that Jason and his team continue to work with our small firm given how they have grown their practice. They always answer the call and provide nuanced advice and help me sleep better every night.

Employment Law - Management

We have partnered with MWE over the last 8 years or so and the service we have received has been exemplary. The lawyers we work with are outstanding, and their ability to understand the culture of our business is paramount. We are grateful to have them as a part of our team.

Trusts & Estates Law

They are the best of the best. Super deep expertise. We work with T&E lawyers across the U.S. and MWE in the top echelon.

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Since 5 December 2020, I have had almost daily contact with Darren Azman at MWE, first as a member of a creditors' committee and since April 2021 as one of three trustees of Chapter 11 bankruptcy trust. The case is extremely complex and concerns many novel areas of law as the bankrupt entities in question were involved in the loaning, borrowing, and investing of cryptocurrency. The losses exceed $100m and concern more than 6,000 creditors in many different countries. Targets of recovery are also numerous and in many different countries. Darren and Joe Evans have lead the MWE team as the Trust's lead counsel coordinating recovery using many other law firms. I have found these two and the whole team to be extremely professional, basically working 365 days of the year, and responding in detail and very helpfully in a very prompt manner. The Trust has already enjoyed significant success including in recovering very substantial amounts of stollen cryptocurrency having secured some very unusual court orders. MWE has proven itself a top law firm and I find to hard to think how they could have performed any better.

Corporate Law

McDermott Will & Emery has provided excellent legal support and guidance in a number of our transactions. Their partners and staff are very responsive and proactive.

Health Care Law

We can always count on McDermott to advise us on complex legal issues with limited precedence. They seek to understand our position and what we want to accomplish. Through the years we have encountered unique challenges and they have offered creative ways to solve them. McDermott is a a high quality firm that stands behind their work. It is a pleasure to work with them.

Commercial Litigation

I have been extremely impressed by the commercial litigation team at McDermott Will & Emery being led by Andrew Kratenstein and the responsiveness as we begin to move through the preliminary stages of litigation and hope to continue to see the same.

Commercial Litigation

McDermott Will & Emery did a great job for us and was very commercial and efficient.

Patent Law

Ahsan and his team at McDermott Will & Emery are great. They have helped us implement a patent program and really got us moving in an area we had not focused on. They keep us organized and timely.

Information Technology Law

The technology team at MWE is unrivaled. Their competence is superior no matter the opposing counsel. Their client service makes you feel cared for and valued.

Technology Law

It is refreshing to find that intersection of 'get the deal done' with well-balanced fairness for all parties involved. "Win-win" is key to complex outsourcing arrangements, and the McDermott technology & outsourcing legal team brings that to the table with vast industry experience, cost efficiency and utmost professionalism.

Trusts & Estates Law

In my opinion, a review is most powerful when the background of the reviewer is considered. In this regard, my accounting firm has the highest concentration of billionaires per employee of any firm in the country. My clients have incredibly complex trust, estate, business, investment and charitable matters and operate on tight deadlines. McDermott Will & Emery has the best private wealth practice in the country with dedicated specialists that can address specific questions and fast. In the past year, we used Tom Ward to structure a family office, Elise McGee to form and operate of a private trust company, Dick Lang to implement a shareholder agreement to allow for intra-family transfers of stock at favorable values, Fred Ackerson to assist us with the new Pass Through Entity rules, and Dick Lang and Dan Zucker advised on the largest LBO post Great Financial Crisis. Inevitably, a client will be selected for examination by the IRS. McDermott Will & Emery has one of the top tax controversies lawyer in the country in Jenny Johnson. During the past year, Jenny took over an audit from a big New York law firm that had pursued a less than effective strategy, quickly identified the strengths in the client’s case, the weaknesses in the IRS’ position and closed out the audit at appeals with refunds in all years under examination.

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

McDermott Will & Emery is a premier bankruptcy and reorganization practice.

Corporate Law

McDermott Will & Emery has been the most innovative law firm in healthcare. From their conferences to their content distribution, they are pushing the boundaries of what it means to be a law firm and are setting a higher standard of expertise.

Mergers & Acquisitions Law

McDermott Will & Emery has provided excellent legal support and guidance in a number of our transactions. Their partners and staff are very responsive and proactive.

Real Estate Law

My experience with McDermott Will & Emery and, in particular, Brian Donnelly has been outstanding. He has been our lead attorney for many years, and I would recommend him to anyone!

Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law

Diane Morgenthaler and her team is exceptional at listening, and using their legal expertise to identify solutions. Diane's translation skills have been absolutely priceless to us in navigating complex DB issues between the multiple lens of financial, actuaries and investments, Strong common sense and has helped me ensure good governance. Don't know what we would do without her!

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

McDermott Will & Emery is strategically focused, competent and provides very effective legal advice and case management. Great results in the matters where I have worked with McDermott Will & Emery.

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Marcus Helt of McDermott Will & Emery was critical in guiding our company through a very difficult and transformative period.

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

MWE is an excellent group of professionals and I have worked really well with them. They have high degree of expertise and experience in the field of bankruptcy/ restructuring which is great in solving the complex problems that we face in the course of our work. In addition their services are provided in an efficient manner which is appreciated by the clients.

Health Care Law

Extremely cost effective. They always have the answer and expertise

Health Care Law

The Ambulatory Surgery Center team at MWE is fantastic. They are extremely thorough yet very efficient with their time. They also have deep bench strength to handle any number of transactions we can throw at them. Jennifer Vecchio is one of the brightest ASC attorneys in the nation. Ryan Higgins is a machine and can handle countless transactions with unmatched turnaround. Danielle Golino is a magician with complex relationships and orchestrated a very complicated multi-health-partner deal, as well as ushering our original relationship with MWE. And Jerry Sokol is not only a highly intelligent individual and accomplished attorney, he is a wonderful human being and sincerely cares about each and every client. We have worked with several others at MWE and all have been impressive and extremely helpful.

Mergers & Acquisitions Law

True intellect and professionalism

Technology Law

McDermott Will & Emery is a great team that knows so much about so many things that they give really practical advice.

Employment Law - Management

I have worked with associates and partners at McDermott Will & Emery. All are very knowledgeable and extremely responsive. They all take calls and answer emails at different times of the day and night.

Patent Law

Jed Gordon is a premiere Patent and IP attorney. He is one of the most intelligent lawyers I have worked with, while being able to take highly technical concepts and "normalize" them for non-technical lawyers and workstreams. He keeps his calm and focus when all else about him is emotional and messy.

Patent Law

Ahsan Shaikh, the partner we work with, is the best patent lawyer with whom we have ever worked.

Trademark Law

Christina Martini and her team oversee our full trademark portfolio, including complex matters pertaining to prosecution, 3rd party licensing, and defense matters across over 70 countries, as well all US states and territories. We would not use any other practice group. They are truly world class.

Information Technology Law

The McDermott Will & Emery team is great. They handle intellectual property work in addition to vendor agreements and much more. They have deep expertise from work for numerous clients and do a good job applying principles from one context to another to help as the law develops in blockchain.

Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law

No one firm has a better understanding or deeper knowledge of complex tax and benefits issues. I trust them implicitly.

Trusts & Estates Law

McDermott Will & Emery is very creative and knowledgeable. They explain complex concepts in "plain English", so clients can understand. McDermott Will & Emery has expertise across the legal spectrum and can bring needed resources to the table.

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

My experience was with Marcus Helt, who was described to me by a restructuring industry notable as being "the best bankruptcy strategist out there". He was right.

Commercial Litigation

Andrew Kratenstein has been an amazing partner during our litigation case. Highly knowledgeable, practical, organized and responsive. He's willing to dive deep into the weeds/details and follow up proactively as needed. He has been terrific to work with at all levels of my company.

Information Technology Law

McDermott Will & Emery continues to demonstrate a market-leading knowledge practice and resource expertise that has been able to assist us in all technology-related acquisitions and negotiations, including the most complex type initiatives. Their market command and responsiveness is stellar, reliable and proven.

Privacy and Data Security Law

Scott Ferber of McDermott Will & Emery is our go-to for matters involving privacy and data security. He is creative, responsive and a pleasure to work with throughout the engagement. I have recommended him to others without reservation, and they have likewise shared in my opinion of Scott as an outstanding partner in navigating complex and often high-stakes privacy and data security matters.

Tax Law

McDermott Will & Emery is an efficient, friendly and knowledge group of attorneys who have been an excellent resource for our company. They work hard to understand your business, the key facts and the team to make sure that they provide the best advice at the best level and that is actionable and clear. It has been a real pleasure to have them on our team, and we look forward to working with them in the future.

Tax Law

McDermott Will & Emery is unparalleled in the area of tax planning and integration work. They are very responsive and efficient and able to layer practical solutions over their top tier technical expertise. I've been very please with their work on one of the largest transactions to occur in the past two years and have come to rely upon the Tax team as my trusted advisors.

Trusts & Estates Law

Christen Douglas is stand-out attorney