Patterson Belknap is proud to announce that the firm has been recognized in The Legal 500’s United States guide as well as in its New York Elite and Private Client guides.   

The following firm practices were recognized by The Legal 500:

• Advertising and Marketing: Litigation – United States
• Art and Cultural Property – Private Client
• Cybersecurity and Data Protection – New York Elite
• Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense – United States
• Not-For-Profit: Fortune 1000 Private Foundations, National Trade Associations, and Charities – United States

In addition, the following firm attorneys received recognition:

• Anne-Laure Alléhaut in Art and Cultural Property – Private Client
• H. Gregory Baker in Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense – United States
• Michael F. Buchanan in Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense – United States and Cybersecurity and Data Protection – New York Elite
• Laura E. Butzel in Not-For-Profit: Fortune 1000 Private Foundations, National Trade Associations, and Charities – United States
• Robert J. Cleary in Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense – United States
• Hugh J. Freund in Art and Cultural Property – Private Client
• Joshua A. Goldberg in Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense – United States
• Joshua Kipnees in Advertising and Marketing: Litigation – United States
• Robin Krause in Not-For-Profit: Fortune 1000 Private Foundations, National Trade Associations, and Charities – United States
• Jane Metcalf in Advertising and Marketing: Litigation – United States
• Lauren Schorr Potter in Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense – United States
• Daniel S. Ruzumna in Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense – United States
• Steven A. Zalesin in Advertising and Marketing: Litigation – United States
• Justin Zaremby in Not-For-Profit: Fortune 1000 Private Foundations, National Trade Associations, and Charities – United States

Comments regarding the firm featured in The Legal 500 guides include:

Advertising and Marketing: Litigation

"Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP has a wealth of experience handling advertising litigation for global multi-jurisdictional brands and companies. The team is sought out by clients from a broad range of industries including pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, cosmetics, apparel and telecoms. It has been active in handling class actions on behalf of brands as well as aiding with claims substantiation, regulatory compliance and advertising clearance." Clients note: "Patterson Belknap are our go-to outside counsel for advertising, marketing, and litigation. They are incredibly responsive and commercial on class actions, FDA, FTC, CBP, NAD, and antitrust concerns, ingredient litigation, and risk mitigation advice."

Art and Cultural Property - Private Client

“Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP houses an art and museum law team with experience of the art, gallery and auction markets. The team draws on the firm’s wider corporate, intellectual property, trusts and estates, and tax practices, and represents major institutions, collectors, galleries and advisors. It handles both transactional matters and disputes, often sensitive and high-value.” 

Dispute Resolution: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense

“Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP‘s ’top-notch practitioners‘ excel in a wide variety of enforcement, litigation, and regulatory matters. The team routinely advises individuals as well as corporate clients across sectors, and has expertise in securities, healthcare, medical device, tax, and pharma fraud, and also False Claims Act matters, asset forfeiture claims, and crisis management issues.” Clients praise the group, calling it: “excellent profile, top-notch practitioners, easy to work with” and stating that: “the Patterson team is highly sophisticated, with significant subject matter expertise in the federal securities laws and the systems that numerous industry experts have implemented to comply with them.”

Not-For-Profit: Fortune 1000 Private Foundations, National Trade Associations, and Charities

“Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP covers the full spectrum of issues affecting exempt organizations, including tax and governance, private foundation compliance, endowment management, international grantmaking, advocacy and political activity, mergers and restructurings, regulatory investigations, and complex corporate transactions. Situated within a full-service corporate and litigation platform, the department integrates expertise in employment, executive compensation, intellectual property, investigations, litigation, real estate, trusts and estates, and tax to deliver coordinated, institution-wide advice.” A client states: “their professionalism, reliability, sound judgment, and deep understanding or our Foundation’s needs truly distinguishes them from their peers and make them trusted advisors."