Named Best Maine Securities Law Firm for 2009/2010
Portland, Maine, March 25, 2010 – Bernstein Shur, one of northern New England’s largest law firms, announced today that it is the winner of the Best Law Firm in Maine for Securities Work by Corporate INTL Magazine’s 2009/10 Legal Awards.
The award is focused on recognizing the best law firms for industry excellence in various distinct practice areas. Winners are chosen by a panel of industry-leading executive judges and the editor of Corporate INTL Magazine.
Bernstein Shur’s Securities & Financial Services Industry Practice Group regularly handles substantial matters for public and private issuers, banks, investment advisers, mutual funds, hedge funds, broker-dealers, fund industry service providers and diversified financial institutions.
The group’s attorneys include former senior staff members of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, and former in-house attorneys for some of the world’s largest financial institutions and broker-dealers. Bernstein Shur has received this award based on these attorneys’ experience, service excellence and conscientious counseling to the securities and financial service industry.
This award continues to highlight the firm’s expanding securities and financial services industry expertise.
“With a sizable team of dedicated securities lawyers representing capital markets participants in complex matters nationally and around the World, Corporate INTL Magazine has recognized that our Securities & Financial Services Industry Practice Group is unique in Northern New England,” said Scot Draeger, the co-practice leader of Bernstein Shur’s Securities & Financial Services Industry Practice Group.
“We are pleased and honored with this award, which reflects not only the work and skill of our team but also the exemplary forward-looking support we’ve received here at Bernstein Shur,” said Dana Lukens, the firm’s co-practice leader of the Securities & Financial Services Industry Practice Group.
Corporate INTL is a leading monthly publication for business leaders, professional advisers and providers of finance throughout the world and has a receivership of 70,000 worldwide. The magazine provides unique insight into the business world, discussing key issues of the day as well as featured up-to-date commentary on various domestic and international markets.
About Bernstein Shur
Widely regarded as one of New England’s most entrepreneurial firms, Bernstein Shur is a multi-service law firm with more than 100 attorneys in offices in Maine and New Hampshire. Founded in 1915, the firm provides practical and innovative counsel to clients throughout the region and around the world. Bernstein Shur is Maine’s exclusive member of Lex Mundi, the world’s leading association of independent law firms. More information is available at www.bernsteinshur.com.
