At the 2019 Chambers USA – New York Awards, Davis Polk partner and global Capital Markets Group co-head Richard Truesdell received the prestigious “Outstanding Contribution” award in recognition of his exceptional achievements.

According to Chambers, “Star practitioner Richard Truesdell is lauded as ‘simply the best capital markets lawyer in the world’ by his loyal clients, and wins our Outstanding Contribution in New York award. Leading investment banks and corporate entities turn to him for his first-class expertise as it relates to securities offerings and praise him for his ‘incredible knowledge of the law.’ He remains ‘one of the most astounding partners in the profession’ who ‘clearly knows his stuff’ when it comes to high-profile and complex IPOs and continues to stand out for his ‘extremely practical, hard-working and collaborative’ approach. His preeminent abilities in this space mean peers agree that ‘he is in a category of his own,’ while clients label him ‘the first person we would go to’ for their most complex mandates.”

The Chambers USA – New York Awards were presented on June 19, 2019, in New York.