2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America
Herrick is proud to announce that partners Yariv Ben-Ari, Morris DeFeo and Irwin Kishner have been selected for inclusion in the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America.
The guide notes that it honors "the lawyers who shake the world with the deals they make happen."
In naming the honorees, Lawdragon highlights, "[t]heir skill is a superpower, bringing together the vast knowledge required of a client, its strategy and legal and financial underpinnings, with the momentary apple of its eye – financing, an acquisition, a joint venture, a multi-billion-dollar merger. Working through the morass of detail while steering through the waves and vicissitudes of an industry, an economy and shareholder, worker and executives’ wants and needs. They have clockwork brains, an athlete’s instinct and an overdrive that would make a Formula 1 driver grin.
That skill has made these among the most coveted lawyers in the world. Their mere presence can make or break a deal."
Click here to read the full list of 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America.
Lawdragon's selection process has been created over 35 years and combines independent journalistic research, submissions from as wide a group as possible and vetting from established dealmakers and clients.