Corporate Counsel and InsideCounsel, leading ALM publications, have honored partner Jacquelyn E. Stone with a prestigious National Women in Law Award for Lifetime Achievement. This prestigious guide to the United States’ elite legal market affirmed McGuireWoods’ strengths as a national leader in 27 practice areas and honored the firm’s lawyers 87 times. The nationwide rankings underscore the firm’s strengths in energy; M&A and private equity; banking and finance; healthcare; white-collar criminal defense; commercial litigation; technology; transportation; and other areas. Corporate counsel rate McGuireWoods among the top firms with the strongest brands in BTI’s Brand Elite Report, praising the firm’s reputation for innovation and client service. “The firm truly shines with a strong presence as an innovator,” BTI wrote. “Clients bestow the firm with Leader status in driving value and for being one of the few firms making changes to how legal services are delivered” — attributes becoming more important to clients seeking out core legal providers. McGuireWoods continued its powerhouse performance for clients in league tables, placing No. 4 for deal count in rankings of announced U.S. M&A transactions and No. 5 for worldwide deals, while also maintaining the firm’s dominance in mid-market M&A. Among the 200 McGuireWoods attorneys included in Best Lawyers, 20 were named Lawyers of the Year and 25 were honored for banking and finance law, the most of any firm in the nation. McGuireWoods represented Scottish private equity firm Clyde Blowers Capital in an agreement to sell Michigan industrial gearing manufacturer Cone Drive to Timken.

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