12 Moore & Van Allen Practices, 39 Attorneys Earn Top Rankings in Esteemed Chambers USA Legal Guide

Recognitions

06.2025

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Moore & Van Allen PLLC (MVA) is pleased to announce that Chambers and Partners ranked the firm as a national leader in Banking & Finance and Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance), and ranked Edward P. O’Keefe and Neil T. Bloomfield as national leaders in Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance). Additionally, 12 MVA practice areas and 39 attorneys earned Carolinas rankings in the respected 2025 Chambers USA legal industry referral guide.

“Our extensive listing once again this year reflects our high-quality and depth of service to our clients,” said Managing Partner and Chairman Thomas L. Mitchell, who was named in the 2025 rankings. “We are honored to appear so prominently across practice areas and I am proud of the dedication, talent, strategy, and successes that our new rankings represent both for those individuals named and for the firm nationally and in the Carolinas.”

MVA was ranked as one of the top firms in North Carolina in the following 10 practice areas:

• Banking & Finance

• Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory

• Bankruptcy/Restructuring

• Environment

• Intellectual Property

• Labor & Employment

• Litigation: General Commercial

• Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

• Real Estate

• Real Estate: Finance

Chambers ranked MVA as one of the top firms in Charlotte & Surrounds for Corporate/M&A and as one of the top firms in South Carolina for Health Care.

Chambers ranked the following MVA attorneys as among the leading lawyers for business in North Carolina:

• Neil T. Bloomfield (Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory)

• John A. Fagg, Jr. (Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations)

• Joseph “Joe” A. Fernandez (Energy & Natural Resources)

• Stephen E. Gruendel (Bankruptcy/Restructuring)

• Arlene D. Hanks (Intellectual Property)

• Daniel “Danny” L. Johnson, Jr. (Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation)

• James “Jim” R. Langdon (Bankruptcy/Restructuring)

• Wood W. Lay (Labor & Employment)

• Luis M. Lluberas (Bankruptcy/Restructuring)

• Katie A. McConnell (Banking & Finance)

• Valecia M. McDowell (Litigation: General Commercial; Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations)

• Karin M. McGinnis (Labor & Employment)

• Peter J. McGrath, Jr. (Environment)

• C. Wayne McKinzie (Banking & Finance)

• James “Jim” P. McLoughlin, Jr. (Litigation: General Commercial; Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations)

• Thomas L. Mitchell (Banking & Finance, Eminent Practitioner)

• Daniel “Tripp” H. Monroe, III (Banking & Finance)

• Mark A. Nebrig (Litigation: General Commercial)

• J. Christopher “Chris” Oates (Real Estate)

• Edward P. O’Keefe (Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory)

• Tanisha Palvia (Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations)

• William “Tom” Thomas Parrott, IV (Banking & Finance)

• Alan W. Pope (Bankruptcy/Restructuring)

• W. Kevin Ransom (Intellectual Property)

• Frank E. Schall (Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations)

• Ryan M. Smith (Banking & Finance)

• Zachary H. Smith (Bankruptcy/Restructuring)

• John A. Stoker (Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory)

• Mary Katherine H. Stukes (Environment)

• Christopher D. Thompson (Real Estate: Finance)

• Kathryn G. Wellman (Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory)

Chambers ranked the following MVA attorneys as among the leading lawyers for business in Charlotte & Surrounds:

• Jeremy H. Godwin (Corporate/M&A)

• William “Bill” H. Zimmern (Corporate/M&A)

Chambers ranked the following MVA attorneys as among the leading lawyers for business in South Carolina:

• Charles M. Jordan, Jr. (Health Care)

• Trudy H. Robertson (Health Care)

Chambers ranked the following MVA attorneys as Senior Statespeople in their respective practice areas:

• David L. Eades (Bankruptcy/Restructuring)

• Jeffrey “Jeff” W. Glenney (Real Estate)

• J. Richard Hazlett (Banking & Finance)

• James “Jim” W. Hovis (Banking & Finance)

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