NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper ranked in 39 national practice areas and 190 metropolitan practice areas in the 13th edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms.” The firm also was named the 2023 “Law Firm of the Year” in Energy Law. Only one law firm is awarded “Law Firm of the Year” in each nationally eligible practice area.
Rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in the field, and review of additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process.
To be eligible for a 2023 ranking, a law firm must have at least one lawyer recognized in the 29th edition of The Best Lawyers in America© list for that location and specialty.
Troutman Pepper’s national rankings are noted below. View all firm rankings online here.
National Tier 1
Banking and Finance Law
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Commercial Litigation
Construction Law
Copyright Law
Corporate Law
Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Employment Law – Management
Energy Law
Environmental Law
Insurance Law
Land Use & Zoning Law
Litigation – Banking & Finance
Litigation – Bankruptcy
Litigation – Construction
Litigation – Environmental
Litigation – First Amendment
Litigation – Intellectual Property
Litigation – Labor & Employment
Litigation – Mergers & Acquisitions
Litigation – Patent
Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Patent Law
Real Estate Law
Securities / Capital Markets Law
Tax Law
Trademark Law
Trusts & Estates Law
National Tier 2
Financial Services Regulation Law
Litigation – Antitrust
Media Law
Securities Regulation
Securitization and Structured Finance Law
National Tier 3
Advertising Law
Antitrust Law
Appellate Practice
Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Labor Law – Management
Litigation – Securities
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from start-ups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
ATLANTA – Troutman Pepper eMerge has received the coveted Best Innovation: Enterprise award from global legal and compliance technology company, Relativity, for its development of the bespoke application Xtractor. The award recognizes a Relativity customer that uses the Relativity platform in creative ways to solve unique challenges.
Xtractor is a custom solution created by eMerge for converting unstructured text from forms – such as invoices, contracts, employment records, and meeting minutes – into structured data, allowing for filtering, sorting, and analysis. The tool significantly reduces the time it takes for attorneys to review documents, saving legal teams hundreds of hours and clients thousands in legal fees.
“The volume of information and the need to analyze it quickly is always increasing. Leveraging AI and machine learning are critical to uncovering key information quickly and discovering the facts. With Xtractor, we are doing just that, and our clients are benefiting,” said Chris Haley, director of legal technology at Troutman Pepper eMerge.
“Our founding directive has been to deliver strategic end-to-end eDiscovery and data management solutions for clients. We are proud to be recognized by Relativity for our efforts to develop applications that leverage technology to improve the speed and precision of certain types of legal work,” said Alison Grounds, eMerge’s managing director.
Relativity’s Innovation Awards program celebrates trailblazing individuals and teams who are building custom solutions, empowering their colleagues or clients, and shaping new paths to benefit the industry and its communities.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Troutman Pepper eMerge combines legal strategy with advanced technology for the management of ESI in legal matters including litigation and internal and governmental investigations. Several leading industry authorities, including Chambers USA, have recognized Troutman Pepper eMerge with awards and accolades. Learn more at troutmanemerge.com.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Troutman Pepper client American Tire Distributors, Inc. (ATD) recently completed the sale of its Canadian subsidiary, National Tire Distributors, Inc. (NTD), to Groupe Touchette Inc. (Groupe Touchette). Read a company press release about the strategic transaction.
ATD will continue supporting NTD and Groupe Touchette through its new commercial relationship, under which ATD will supply the combined company with its proprietary Hercules and Ironman brand tires and make its advanced analytics software and productivity-enabling tools available to Groupe Touchette’s network.
“It is always a pleasure to work with long-time client American Tire Distributors, and we are proud to have assisted in this important value-creating transaction involving the carveout of its Canadian operations,” said Troutman Pepper Partner Chad Warpula.
ATD is one of the largest independent suppliers of tires to the replacement tire market. It operates more than 115 distribution centers serving approximately 80,000 customers across the United States.
The Troutman Pepper team advising ATD was led by Chad Warpula and included Mason Bayler, David Carter, and Chelsea MacArthur (Corporate) and Howard Goldberg and Joel Post (Tax). The firm has counseled ATD since 2015, and Warpula has represented ATD since 1999, including actively serving as ATD’s General Counsel as part of the ATD management team.
Consistently recognized as a top-tier national practice, Troutman Pepper’s corporate attorneys regularly handle multimillion- and multibillion-dollar transactions. Core areas of service include capital markets transactions and other significant domestic and cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities laws compliance, and corporate finance. The firm has particular expertise in the private equity and private fund services space, advising clients on matters from fund formation to investments and exit transactions.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from start-ups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
BOSTON – Troutman Pepper represented Nanoramic Laboratories, an R&D company focused on developing high-end energy storage and thermal management technologies based on carbon composites, in the sale of its Thermal Management business, Thermexit, to Henkel. Read a company press release about the acquisition.
The Thermexit portfolio includes patented, high-performance thermal interface gap pads based on an innovative nano-filler technology. The acquisition, which closed in August, will strengthen the position of Henkel’s Adhesive Technologies business unit in the growing markets for Thermal Interface Materials (TIM) by expanding its capabilities in high-performance segments.
The Troutman Pepper team advising Nanoramic in the sale included Nicholas Stawasz, Daniel Sieck, Thomas Walker, Benjamin Bevilacqua, Thomas Phelan, and David Wormser.
Consistently recognized as a top-tier national practice, Troutman Pepper’s corporate attorneys regularly handle multimillion- and multibillion-dollar transactions. Core areas of service include capital markets transactions and other significant domestic and cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities laws compliance, and corporate finance. The firm has particular expertise in the private equity and private fund services space, advising clients on matters from fund formation to investments and exit transactions.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper advised FundFormer, a top electronic subscription document provider for fund managers and their investors, in connection with its acquisition by Ontra, a leading provider of contract automation and intelligence for the world’s most prominent asset managers. Abe Kwon and Geoff Starr led the team advising FundFormer, which also included Chrissy Allen, Tom Phelan, Mike Crumbock, and Jessica Rothenberg.
The acquisition will allow Ontra’s asset management customers to raise funds faster and more efficiently, while providing a superior investment experience for their limited partners. Read a company press release about the acquisition.
Troutman Pepper’s emerging companies practice counsels some of today’s most exciting companies. With a lifecycle perspective, from formation to exit, the firm takes an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to counsel clients’ complex, evolving needs, providing critical support including intellectual property prosecution, corporate finance, governance, privacy and cybersecurity, litigation, regulatory, and enforcement.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
The Pepper Center for Public Service and its president and CEO, Troutman Pepper Senior Counsel Amy B. Ginensky, are prominently featured in a video from the Philadelphia Bar Foundation about The Law & Justice Mentoring Program (LJMP), a pilot program that was launched in January 2022 by the Philadelphia School District’s Office of Strategic Partnerships and the Pepper Center.
In the LJMP pilot, 20 students at the Kensington Health Sciences Academy had the opportunity to:
- Examine current social issues using a collaborative problem-solving approach, as well as have conversations with local attorneys and advocates tackling those and similar issues,
- Participate in a summer law and justice related internship or shadowing experience, and
- Develop a mentor relationship with a law student or attorney mentor.
NEW YORK – Genna Garver, a partner in Troutman Pepper’s Corporate Practice Group, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Society of Compliance Professionals (NSCP). She will serve a three-year term.
The NSCP is dedicated to serving and supporting compliance professionals in the financial services industry, including investment advisors, brokers, dealers, and fund managers. Garver has been an active member of NSCP for more than a decade, regularly presenting at key events and contributing articles on timely topics like new SEC rules for private fund advisers and operational due diligence on managers investing in digital assets. Notably, she chaired NSCP’s SEC Comment Letter Committees for both the SEC’s new Marketing Rule 206(4)-1 and its proposed Private Fund Rules.
Garver has been able to grow her practice in large part because of her unique ability to guide clients through the complex maze of investment regulation. She routinely advises clients on SEC and state investment adviser, broker-dealer, and private fund regulation; Investment Advisers Act compliance programs, annual reviews, and ongoing compliance matters; and regulatory examinations and investigations.
Garver is also actively involved in women’s and diversity initiatives in the financial services industry. In her new leadership role with NSCP, Garver will bring her experiences and perspectives to provide more resources and drive more professional growth opportunities for the community of compliance professionals.
Consistently recognized as a top-tier practice, Troutman Pepper’s corporate attorneys guide clients through their most important transactions, critical day-to-day matters, and the full range of issues that arise in a company’s evolution. Core areas of service include capital markets transactions and other significant domestic and cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities laws compliance, and corporate finance.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from start-ups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
ATLANTA – Troutman Pepper has been named a recipient of the Page Pate Exemplar of Service Award from the Georgia Innocence Project. The firm was recognized for the critical role it played in the exoneration of Devonia Inman, who was wrongfully convicted of robbing and killing a Taco Bell manager in South Georgia. Award recipients were honored during the nonprofit’s 20th Anniversary Freedom Celebration Dinner on October 6.
Since 2016, a team of Troutman Pepper attorneys partnered with the Georgia Innocence Project to serve as counsel to Inman, who was sentenced to life in prison without parole for a 1998 crime he did not commit. Last December, after 23 years of wrongful imprisonment, Inman walked out of Augusta State Medical Prison a free man just in time to spend Christmas with his family. The core Troutman Pepper pro bono team who devoted more than five years to Inman’s exoneration included Tom Reilly, Tiffany Bracewell, Kasia Hebda, Majda Muhic, and Alan Long, assisted by many others.
“Our team is privileged to have played a role in Devonia’s exoneration and to work at a firm that remains committed to important pro bono matters like this,” said Reilly. “We are humbled by this award and look forward to continuing our support of the Georgia Innocence Project and the critical work they do for the wrongfully convicted.”
The Georgia Innocence Project is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to helping individuals who have been convicted of crimes they did not commit in the state of Georgia. The nonprofit works to prevent and correct wrongful convictions while also connecting freed clients to resources to rebuild their lives. Learn more at georgiainnocenceproject.org.
Each year, Troutman Pepper attorneys dedicate thousands of pro bono hours in support of nonprofits, immigrants, military veterans, children, the wrongfully convicted, civil rights and social justice initiatives, and so many more. Learn more at troutman.com/pro-bono.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper has achieved Diversity Lab’s Mansfield Rule 5.0 Certification Plus status, which aims to boost the representation of diverse lawyers in law firm leadership by broadening the pool of candidates considered for such opportunities; promoting a diverse hiring pool of candidates; encouraging diverse pitch teams and staffing; and increase diverse candidates being considered for partnership.
Mansfield Rule 5.0 also requires firms to:
- Track their candidate pools in a disaggregated manner, prompting them to measure the impact of the Mansfield Rule by each underrepresented group. Firms must also include an option for Middle Eastern/North African identity, a demographic often overlooked by current self-identification options.
- Consider at least 30% of underrepresented lawyers for nominations to Chambers USA to increase the external visibility of underrepresented lawyers with clients and in the marketplace more broadly.
- Consider 30% underrepresented individuals when hiring and promoting C-level or other senior-level professional staff roles.
To achieve Mansfield 5.0 Certification Plus, Troutman Pepper collaborated with Diversity Lab over a 12-month certification period with built-in measurement, transparency, and accountability mechanisms. “Plus” status indicates that the firm not only considered but also achieved diverse representation during the certification period.
“Our firm is proud to participate in the Mansfield certification process each year to make meaningful progress on diversifying law firm leadership,” said Partner Kassem Lucas, chair of Troutman Pepper’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee. “As early adopters, we have seen firsthand the positive change that happens when law firms and the greater legal community work together to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the industry.”
Named for the first woman admitted to the practice of law in the United States, the Mansfield Rule measures whether law firms have affirmatively considered at least 30% of women, attorneys of color, LGBTQIA+, and lawyers with disabilities for leadership and governance roles, equity partner promotions, formal client pitch opportunities, and senior lateral positions. Firms are audited bi-annually and certified annually as they follow, comply with, and achieve the Rule’s requirements.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are among Troutman Pepper’s core values and are fundamental to the firm’s culture. Earlier this month, the firm was named a Top Performer and Compass Award winner by the Leadership Council for Legal Diversity, one of the nation’s leading organizations promoting diversity.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
NEW YORK – The Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), an organization committed to creating a diverse legal profession, has named Troutman Pepper a Top Performer and Compass Award winner. The Top Performer award recognizes those organizations in the top 20% for participation in LCLD programs and activities.
The Compass Award recognizes those individuals and organizations that fulfill all of the following requirements in a single calendar year:
- Member attendance at the LCLD Annual Membership Meeting and/or Member attendance at a 2022 Leadership Summit and/or submission of a Leader’s Pledge.
- Participation in the LCLD Fellows and Pathfinder Programs.
- Participation in an LCLD Pipeline program (the 1L Scholars program or the Success in Law School Mentoring Program).
LCLD is one of the nation’s leading organizations promoting diversity and consists of more than 430 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners who have dedicated themselves to creating a truly diverse U.S. legal profession.
Since the organization’s inception in 2009, Troutman Pepper has participated in several LCLD programs, including its Fellows, Alumni, Pathfinders, and 1L Scholars programs. The firm also serves as the city-lead for Philadelphia area law schools as part of LCLD’s Success in Law School Mentoring Program, which pairs practicing attorneys from LCLD member organizations with first-year law students from diverse backgrounds to serve as mentors.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are among Troutman Pepper’s core values and are fundamental to the firm’s culture. The firm was named among 118 leading law firms to earn Diversity Lab’s Mansfield Rule 4.0 Certification Plus status, which aims to increase the representation of diverse lawyers in law firm leadership by broadening the pool of candidates. The Mansfield Rule 5.0 certified firms will be announced later this month.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.