Four Rubin Rudman Partners Named to 2027 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America

BOSTON, Oct. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Rubin Rudman is pleased to announce that four partners – Christine Parise Cordes and Neal F. Splaine, co-chairs of the firm's Corporate, Business & Tax department, David M. Shamberger, and Ariadna Caulfield – have been named to the 2027 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America list, which honors the lawyers who "close the transactions that remake industries, redraw markets, and move trillions of dollars of value."

Cordes represents a wide range of clients including closely held private companies, multi-generational family-owned businesses, middle-market private companies in a variety of industries (including manufacturing, construction, hospitality, distribution and professional services), real estate developers and high net worth investors and technology start-ups. With over 20 years of experience, Cordes has a diverse practice encompassing corporate, mergers and acquisitions and finance matters as well as structuring real estate joint ventures. She was named a Legal 500 Boston Elite in Corporate and M&A (2025-2026), a "2026 Top Woman of Law" and a "2024 Go To Business Transaction Lawyer" by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, and is listed in Boston Magazine's Top Lawyers for Corporate Law (2022-2025). Cordes received her J.D. from Boston University School of Law and her B.A., cum laude from the University of Delaware.

Splaine has over 30 years of experience serving as outside general counsel to closely held businesses many of which are family-owned, where he handles everything from day-to-day operational issues to sophisticated corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing transactions, strategic alliances and complex business succession planning. He also represents issuers and borrowers in various equity and debt investment transactions with private equity investment firms and financial institutions. He has served as a member of the firm's Executive Committee for eight years. Splaine has been named to Best Lawyers in America for Mergers & Acquisitions (2027), Legal 500 Boston Elite in Corporate and M&A (2026), Boston Magazine's Top Lawyers for Business Law (2021-2025), Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2016-2026), and as a "Go To Business Transaction Lawyer" by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2022). He received his J.D., cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School, his LL.M. from Boston University School of Law, and his M.A., with distinction, and B.A. from Boston College.

Shamberger has a broad-based corporate and transactional practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, and executive employment and equity compensation matters. With over 25 years of experience, he represents public and private companies, private equity investors, strategic buyers, family-owned businesses, and family offices in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures, restructurings, and recapitalizations. Shamberger also counsels venture capital investors and start-ups and early-stage companies seeking venture capital in all aspects of angel, seed, and institutional venture capital rounds of equity, debt securities, and SAFE's. He has been named to Best Lawyers in America for Mergers & Acquisitions (2026-2027), Legal 500 Boston Elite in Corporate and M&A (2026), and Boston Magazine's Top Lawyers for Corporate Law (2021-2025). He received his J.D. from Boston College Law School and his B.A., cum laude, from Dartmouth College.

Caulfield focuses her practice on corporate, banking and financial law, and complex business matters. She represents clients in sophisticated corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity financing transactions. She is also experienced in commercial real estate. Caulfield began her career as an in-house lawyer with the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic. She is a founding member of Rubin Rudman's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee. She has been named an AmLaw New England Legal Awards Rising Star (2026), a Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Up & Coming Lawyer (2025), a Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree (2024), a Boston Magazine Top Lawyer for Corporate Law (2022-2025), and a Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Star (2023-2025). She received an LL.M. in American Law and an LL.M. in Banking and Financial Law from Boston University School of Law. She is a graduate of Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), where she earned an LL.B. (J.D. equivalent). She was a 2012 Fulbright Scholar. Caulfield is a fluent French and native Spanish speaker and is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and the Dominican Republic.

About Rubin Rudman
Founded over a century ago, Rubin Rudman is a full-service law firm based in Boston with more than 100 attorneys serving businesses, institutions, families, and individuals throughout the region and beyond. The firm's core practices include Corporate, Business & Tax, Real Estate, Finance, Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights, Labor & Employment, Litigation, Environmental & Land Use, Construction, Trusts & Estates, Family Law, Elder Law, and Fiduciary Litigation. More information is available at rubinrudman.com.

Contact:
Kristen Weller
Chief Marketing & Growth Officer
617.330.7189
[email protected]

SOURCE Rubin Rudman