Dechert partner Barton Winokur has been honored with a Hall of Fame award for lifetime achievement by the Philadelphia Business Journal in its Best of the Bar Awards 2022.
Hall of Fame honorees are selected for outstanding achievements made over the course of their careers that have had a transformational impact on the legal profession.
In a trailblazing career marked by numerous novel accomplishments, pioneer international dealmaker Mr. Winokur has overseen some of the world’s toughest M&A deals. In 1984, he orchestrated Getty Oil’s dramatic, hard-fought US$10.1 billion acquisition by Texaco, then the largest corporate takeover ever; his strategies setting the tone for public M&A activity for a decade.
Having earlier built Dechert’s London office into a strong UK practice, he began a 15-year stretch as the firm’s chairman and CEO in 1996, transforming a regional law firm into a global presence with 21 offices, doubling headcount along the way. The firm’s leap into the top ten in The American Lawyer’s pro bono rankings earned him an AmLaw Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.
Even while leading a global enterprise, Mr. Winokur maintained a thriving practice, and since returning to full-time legal practice in 2011 he has played a pivotal role in some of the nation’s most significant corporate transactions.
He has been listed as a leading lawyer for the past 26 years by Best Lawyers in America and was also recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” for mergers and acquisitions law in 2012 and as “Lawyer of the Year” for corporate law in 2014. In 2013, he received the “Law Firm Leader” award at The American Lawyer’s 10th annual Lifetime Achievement Awards dinner. He is consistently designated at the highest level as a star individual for Corporate/M&A and Private Equity in Chambers USA and has been described in recent editions as “in a different class” and “a force of nature.”
Mr. Winokur was recognized and interviewed on stage at the Best of the Bar event held at the Crystal Team Room in Philadelphia and was also featured in a special edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal.
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