Katten announced today that its New York office has been named to Crain's New York Business's Largest Law Firms list. The annual ranking recognizes the 50 largest law firms in New York City and reflects the office’s sustained growth and prominence. Located in the heart of Midtown at Rockefeller Plaza, Katten's New York location serves as a hub for regional, national and international client work.
The office, led by New York Managing Partner Wendy Cohen, serves many of Wall Street's largest financial institutions, top-tier asset managers, leading real estate investors, and other market leaders across key industries. Numerous practices and 24 attorneys in New York have been recognized by Chambers, and the office's lawyers have also been recently honored by leading publications such as Forbes, the New York Law Journal, and the New York Real Estate Journal.
Several of the firm's practices are chaired or co-chaired from New York, including Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Financial Markets and Regulation, Intellectual Property, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Private Wealth, Public Finance, Real Estate, Securities Litigation, Structured Finance and White Collar and Internal Investigations. The office offers additional capabilities in Investment Management & Trading, M&A and Private Equity, Private Credit, Capital Markets, Health Care and Transactional Tax Planning. Together, these practices reflect the office's role in guiding clients across complex, multi-practice matters and diverse sectors of the economy, ranging from life sciences and health care to private equity and finance.
Katten's finance and financial services capabilities are particularly deep in New York. The office includes numerous attorneys with prior in-house and government experience at leading investment banks and regulatory agencies such as the SEC, DOJ, CFTC, and FINRA, offering clients a unique perspective drawn from their experience in the industry. Recently, the office hosted the Futures and Derivatives Law Report's Digital Asset Leadership Summit, featuring SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins and CFTC Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham, underscoring Katten's leadership and engagement in the financial services sector.
Katten's Chicago office was also recently named to the Crain's Chicago Largest Law Firms list. New York and Chicago are the firm’s largest offices and demonstrate Katten's strong footprint in two of the most significant global financial centers.
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