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 14, 2023

    Rising Star: Skadden's Mana Ghaemmaghami

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's Mana Ghaemmaghami has counseled a variety of clients, including crypto native companies, crypto exchanges, banks, entertainment conglomerates and sports leagues, on legal and regulatory issues related to digital assets, earning her a spot among the fintech law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 14, 2023

    Rising Star: Locke Lord's Rachel Fitzgerald

    Locke Lord LLP partner Rachel Fitzgerald is building a reputation as one of its go-to corporate attorneys in the energy sector, leading or co-leading deals ranging from $1 million to more than $3 billion and earning her a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 recognized by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 14, 2023

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Ty'Meka Reeves-Sobers

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Ty'Meka Reeves-Sobers has used her environmental, regulatory, corporate and securities background to advise clients on hundreds of transactions, including multibillion-dollar deals, earning her a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 13, 2023

    Rising Star: Debevoise's Sally Bergmann

    In just the past couple of years, Sally Bergmann of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has steered private equity and venture capital firms through several cutting-edge, multibillion-dollar transactions, including a $3 billion Breakthrough Properties fund and Paradigm's record-breaking $2.5 billion closed-end crypto fund, earning her a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 13, 2023

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Rachel Levick

    Rachel Levick, a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, cut a huge deal to resolve diesel emissions violations by Mercedes-Benz, helped win total victory for an oil company facing a remediation lawsuit in Indonesia, and regularly advises major automobile companies on emerging compliance issues, earning her a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 13, 2023

    Rising Star: Pillsbury's Anne Leidich

    Anne Leidich of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has become a go-to lawyer for the nuclear energy industry, earning her a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 13, 2023

    Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Molly Swartz

    Paul Hastings LLP's Molly Swartz has shepherded new financial services into successful launches and helped a lending platform's credit underwriting model move forward without fears of regulatory scrutiny, earning her a spot among the fintech law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 13, 2023

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Ashley Rogers

    Ashley Rogers of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has built a prominent practice in the emerging legal field of data privacy with her representation of technology companies including Meta Platforms Inc., earning her a spot among the cybersecurity and privacy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 12, 2023

    Rising Star: Greenberg Traurig's April Kim

    April Kim of Greenberg Traurig LLP has made a name for herself by  representing Korean companies seeking to get their foot in U.S.-based energy projects, in addition to representing major U.S. companies like U.S. Bank in financing domestic green energy projects, earning her a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 12, 2023

    Rising Star: McDermott's Joseph Evans

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP's Joe Evans secured a landmark compensation plan for creditors of the defunct cryptocurrency broker Voyager Digital Holdings Inc. and led a novel lawsuit against a decentralized autonomous organization, earning him a spot among the fintech law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 12, 2023

    Rising Star: Paul Weiss' Conrad Van Loggerenberg

    Thanks to a variety of work for General Atlantic, including helping with a nearly $8 billion fundraising and a separate first-ever climate-focused fund, Conrad van Loggerenberg of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has earned a spot among fund formation attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 12, 2023

    Rising Star: Arnold & Porter's Lauren Daniel

    Arnold & Porter partner Lauren Daniel saw her first trial work in Deepwater Horizon litigation and now is lead managing counsel for Honeywell International Inc. in a series of suits over its uranium conversion facility in Illinois, earning her a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 10, 2023

    Rising Star: Covington's Thomas Brugato

    Thomas Brugato's talent for deals, enforcement issues and regulatory processes have made him an asset at Covington & Burling LLP, where he's helped facilitate nuclear power business mergers, settle cleanup disputes and work with an electric car giant on fuel economy rules, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 10, 2023

    Rising Star: Akin's Jonathan Ross

    Jonathan Ross of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has shepherded in hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of fund formation deals in his career — including a multibillion-dollar fund for one of the firm's founding clients — earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 10, 2023

    Rising Star: Morgan & Morgan's Ryan McGee

    Morgan & Morgan's Ryan McGee has gone toe to toe with the world's biggest tech giants in suits filed over Google's alleged secret surveillance and Facebook's failure to stop a hack, earning him a spot among the cybersecurity and privacy lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 10, 2023

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Nathan Goralnik

    Nathan Goralnik of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has spearheaded a number of legal firsts in the past three years, including securing the first ever judicial decision interpreting the ISDA North American Gas Annex, earning him a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 10, 2023

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Ella Alves Capone

    Ella Alves Capone of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP advises emerging financial technology companies on the ever-evolving regulatory landscape and has been working on headline-grabbing investigations of the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, earning her a spot among the fintech law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 10, 2023

    Rising Star: White & Case's Kevin Adam

    Kevin Adam of White & Case LLP helped Gilead fend off a novel "soft switch" product-hopping theory in an antitrust suit over the introduction of certain HIV treatments, earning him a spot among the competition attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 07, 2023

    Rising Star: Dechert's Jennifer Rees

    Dechert LLP capital markets partner Jennifer Rees has advised a team overseeing a $2.5 billion Eurobond issuance by the Kingdom of Morocco, the first in three years for the kingdom, earning her a top spot as one of the capital markets attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 07, 2023

    Rising Star: Mattos Filho's Alexandre Arlota

    Alexandre Arlota of Mattos Filho has advised owners of some of Latin America's largest natural gas plants and wind and solar installations, earning him a spot among the construction law practitioners honored by Law360's Rising Stars.

  • July 07, 2023

    Rising Star: WilmerHale's Michelle Diamond

    Michelle Diamond of WilmerHale has been one of the firm's leaders in conducting civil rights audits and workplace culture reviews for major companies such as Google, Pinterest and the New York Mets, along with leading trial teams to victory in state fights for reproductive rights, earning her a spot among the compliance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 07, 2023

    Rising Star: Dechert's Julia Chapman

    Julia Chapman of Dechert LLP helped Endo Pharmaceuticals convince a jury that it hadn't struck an illegal deal with Impax Laboratories to delay the release of a generic version of Endo's Opana ER painkiller, earning her a spot among the competition attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 06, 2023

    Rising Star: Latham's Erin Brown Jones

    Erin Brown Jones of Latham & Watkins LLP has worked on a matter stemming from former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016 election and built long-lasting compliance relationships with major corporate clients, earning her a spot among the compliance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 06, 2023

    Rising Star: Sidley's Kate Lashley

    Kate Lashley of Sidley Austin LLP focuses on advising derivatives market participants on compliance issues related to the Commodity Exchange Act and has served as derivatives counsel for GE Capital for more than a decade, earning her a spot among the compliance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 06, 2023

    Rising Star: Kirkland & Ellis' Tracie L. Bryant

    Tracie Bryant of Kirkland & Ellis LLP is representing nutritional drink maker Abbott Laboratories in two pending putative class actions in California, crafting the firm's strategy and managing day-to-day aspects of the cases, earning her a spot among the class action litigators under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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