Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP

For many, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP is ‘currently the best plaintiffs’ side firm doing corporate litigation in the United States’. Head of corporate governance and shareholder rights Jeroen van Kwawegen, and head of the Delaware office Greg Varallo (who is ‘unmatched in his experience, depth of knowledge and strategic thinking’) lead the practice, which ‘routinely out-litigates first-class defense side firms’. The firm continues handle litigation in the wake of the biggest deals, including a $400m post-trial opinion in a challenge to Columbia Pipeline’s $13bn merger with TransCanada, and a major win at trial for shareholders of Mindbody confirming legal principles regarding the fiduciary duties that directors and senior executives of public companies owe to their stockholders during a company sale. Up-and-coming partner Edward Timlin in New York has taken on settlement responsibilities for the work handled by veteran partner Mark Lebovitch, who retired from the law in 2023. Emerging talents at senior counsel level Andrew Blumberg in Delaware and the ‘highly intelligent and thoughtful’ Thomas James in New York are key to the firm’s prosecution work in corporate governance and fiduciary duty cases. Christopher Orrico has left for Grant & Eisenhofer P.A..