Raymond A. Atkins

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RAYMOND ATKINS is widely recognized as a leader in the transportation field. With 25 years of experience, Ray advises some of the world’s largest transportation companies on high-stakes transportation issues, including issues involving transactions, regulatory litigations, appeals, competition law, and federal preemption. Ray is the co-leader of Sidley’s Transportation practice, which has been ranked as one of the nation’s top-tier practices by Chambers USA for Nationwide Transportation: Rail (for Railroads) every year since 2007. The group is routinely praised by Chambers for being “highly experienced in complex and sophisticated rail transactions” (2023) and the team is lauded as “true experts in the field of transportation law” (2015).