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Rankings: Rising Stars

Law360’s Rising Stars profiles the top legal talent under 40. The winners are comprised of top litigators and dealmakers practicing at a level usually seen from veteran attorneys. Submissions highlight the winner’s age and reasons why his or her record deserves attention.
  • July 21, 2023

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Mark Skerry

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Mark Skerry assisted a British company in the $11 billion hostile takeover of an aerospace and defense producer, and represented three private equity giants in the largest leveraged buyout in the health care sector's history, earning him a spot among international trade attorneys under 40 honored by Law360's Rising Stars.

  • July 21, 2023

    Rising Star: McDermott's Kate McDonald

    Kate McDonald has led a team of 35 attorneys in McDermott Will & Emery's Washington, D.C.-based health care team since late 2022, while simultaneously excelling in her own practice as co-chair of the firm's managed care team, earning her a spot among the health care law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 21, 2023

    Rising Star: Jenner & Block's Nathaniel Castellano

    Jenner & Block LLP's Nathaniel Castellano helped defend SpaceX's $2.94 billion space lander deal and contested the $10 billion JEDI procurement, while also notching a rare injunction shielding a teen pregnancy prevention program, earning him a spot among government contracts practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 21, 2023

    Rising Star: Hyman Phelps' James Valentine

    James Valentine of Hyman Phelps & McNamara PC started his career working at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, experience he exchanged for a job assisting clients obtain approval for drugs that treat rare diseases, putting him among the life sciences law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 20, 2023

    Rising Star: Freshfields' Santiago Gatica

    Santiago Gatica of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP represented a Spanish agricultural group before an international tribunal in a dispute against Venezuela over the nationalization of its operations by the administration of former President Hugo Chávez, earning him a spot among the international arbitration law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 20, 2023

    Rising Star: Wiley Rein's Elizabeth S. Lee

    Elizabeth S. Lee of Wiley Rein LLP has represented U.S. manufacturers, including the Coalition of American Millwork Producers, in securing and defending U.S. Court of International Trade rulings that foreign manufacturers had harmed her clients by dumping their products in the United States, earning her a spot among the international trade law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 20, 2023

    Rising Star: WilmerHale's Timothy Cook

    Timothy Cook of WilmerHale helped lead Gilead Sciences to victory in a case in which a jury rejected a claim that Gilead infringed government-owned patents when it fielded its Truvada and Descovy HIV drugs — earning him a spot among the life sciences law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 20, 2023

    Rising Star: Holland & Knight's Ilenna J. Stein

    Ilenna Stein from Holland & Knight LLP has spent her legal career picking up regulatory and due diligence work for large companies like insurance giant Cigna and bankrupt opioid maker Endo International, moves that have put her among the health care law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 20, 2023

    Rising Star: White & Case's Scott Lerner

    White & Case LLP's Scott Lerner helped successfully defend defense contractor Triple Canopy and its parent company, Constellis Holdings, against former employees' allegations that they were tricked into forced labor as armed guards at a military base in Afghanistan, and challenged claims by a former employee of defense contractor GardaWorld, placing Lerner among the government contract attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.  

  • July 19, 2023

    Rising Star: Latham's Amy Hargreaves

    Amy Hargreaves of Latham & Watkins LLP has helped numerous health care companies, including Tenet Healthcare and Sutter Health, reach favorable settlements amid False Claims Act qui tam litigation and federal investigations into things like false billings and insurance fraud, earning her a spot among the health care attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 19, 2023

    Rising Star: King & Spalding's Fernando Rodriguez-Cortina

    Fernando Rodriguez-Cortina of King & Spalding LLP has represented energy companies, investors and other entities in international disputes against South American countries like Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru, earning him a spot among the international arbitration law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 19, 2023

    Rising Star: DLA Piper's Nicholas Klein

    Nicholas Klein of DLA Piper has helped major international corporations gain crucial approvals from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and close multimillion-dollar transactions, earning him a spot among international trade law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 19, 2023

    Rising Star: Gordon & Rees' Meredith L. Thielbahr

    For Meredith Thielbahr of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP, her passion for construction led her to the world of government contracts, where, as a junior associate, she defended a major contractor hired by the federal government to clean up the Hanford nuclear site, before she represented numerous other contractors in big-dollar deals, earning her a spot among the government contract practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 19, 2023

    Rising Star: Ropes & Gray's Suni Sreepada

    Suni Sreepada of Ropes & Gray LLP has advised with multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions throughout the health care sphere and other spaces, including guiding a pharmaceutical maker in a 10-figure deal with Sanofi, earning her a spot among the life sciences law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars. 

  • July 18, 2023

    Rising Stars: Ropes' Jennifer Romig And Christina Bergeron

    Jennifer Romig and Christina Bergeron of Ropes & Gray LLP advised health care providers in some of the most significant deals in recent years, including One Medical's $3.9 billion acquisition by Amazon, earning them a spot among the health care law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 18, 2023

    Rising Star: Arnold & Porter's Amanda J. Sherwood

    Arnold & Porter's Amanda Sherwood spent the pandemic negotiating massive COVID-19 deals and helped defend a Dell unit's $3.4 billion software deal, landing her a spot among government contracts practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 18, 2023

    Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Adam Weiss

    Paul Hastings LLP's Adam Weiss was on a global counsel team that secured an arbitral award valued at roughly a billion dollars for Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. in a drug royalty dispute with Novartis, earning him a spot among the international arbitration law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 18, 2023

    Rising Star: Hogan Thompson's Christopher Hogan

    Hogan Thompson LLP co-founder and partner Christopher Hogan obtained major wins for energy companies in oil and gas litigation in Texas and beyond — including a multimillion-dollar jury verdict for an oil company over its trespass claims stemming from another energy company's "acid gas" injections — earning him a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 18, 2023

    Rising Star: O'Melveny's Heather Welles

    Heather Welles of O'Melveny & Myers LLP is a member of a founding group of attorneys for the law firm's formal water practice and worked extensively in landmark litigation involving groundwater use in California, placing her among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 17, 2023

    Rising Star: DLA Piper's Daniel Cook

    DLA Piper's Danny Cook worked across a range of high-profile contract negotiations and emergent planning issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, earning him a spot among the government contracts attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 17, 2023

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Erland Modesto

    Erland Modesto, a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, finalized a billion-dollar spinoff of gas pipeline giant DT Midstream from its parent company, secured hundreds of millions of dollars in lending to renewable energy company SunPower, and represented JPMorgan Chase and other high-profile financial institutions in their energy investments, earning him a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 17, 2023

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Deborah Gruen

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Deborah Gruen's work advising leading global investment firms such Stonepeak, The Carlyle Group and KKR on the creation of multibillion-dollar funds, often exceeding fundraising targets, has earned her a spot among the fund formation attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 17, 2023

    Rising Star: Diab Chambers' Ed Diab

    Ed Diab of Diab Chambers LLP has secured more than $1.5 billion in settlements tied to wildfire damage on behalf of his California public entity clients over the past five years, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 14, 2023

    Rising Star: Clark Hill's Chirag Patel

    Chirag Patel of Clark Hill PLC has leveraged his deep technological expertise to secure a novel ruling that Studco Building Systems was owed compensation from the credit union that a scammer used to steal more than $500,000 from the company, and to successfully defend Gorilla Group in a $10 million software implementation arbitration dispute, earning him a place among the cybersecurity and privacy practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 14, 2023

    Rising Star: Cooley's Jimmy Matteucci

    Jimmy Matteucci of Cooley LLP has counseled Founders Fund on over $8 billion worth of funds in the last three years, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

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