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Rankings: Rising Stars
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June 22, 2021
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Danielle Jackson
Danielle Jackson of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has helped steer Blackstone through $55 billion in real estate deals — including the world's largest-ever private real estate transaction — earning her a spot among the real estate attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 21, 2021
Rising Star: Freshfields' Kate Apostolova
Kate Apostolova of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has led multijurisdictional investor-state disputes, including representing one of the largest Chinese national oil companies in a nearly $500 million dispute, earning her a spot among the top international arbitration practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 21, 2021
Rising Star: DLA Piper's Brian Awe
Brian Awe of DLA Piper leads a team representing developer Millennium Partners in its development of the $1.3 billion mixed-use Winthrop Center, which, once complete, will be one of Boston's largest buildings, earning him a spot among the real estate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 21, 2021
Rising Star: Covington & Burling's Emily Ullman
Covington & Burling LLP's Emily Ullman has defeated class certification in the sprawling opioid multidistrict litigation and ended another MDL over allegations that Cialis and Viagra cause melanoma, earning her a spot among the product liability law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 21, 2021
Rising Star: Skadden's Nick Gianou
Nick Gianou of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has guided a variety of clients through the tax implications of several multimillion-dollar transactions, including advising Westfield Corp. through a $15.7 billion takeover, earning him a spot among the tax law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 21, 2021
Rising Star: Akin Gump's Daniel Lynch
Daniel Lynch of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has helped energy funds like Excelsior Energy Capital and NextEnergy Capital invest in and purchase large renewable-energy-generating facilities across the country, earning him a spot among the project finance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 18, 2021
Rising Star: Covington's Rani Gupta
Rani Gupta of Covington & Burling LLP has taken a lead role in advising Major League Baseball and Goodwill Industries of Orange County in two major pandemic coverage suits, earning her a spot among insurance practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 18, 2021
Rising Star: Andrus Wagstaff's David Wool
Andrus Wagstaff PC partner David Wool's trial and appellate wins on behalf of a Roundup user who won a $25 million judgment against Monsanto over his claims that its weedkiller caused his cancer landed him a place on Law360's list of product liability lawyers under 40 honored as Rising Stars for 2021.
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June 18, 2021
Rising Star: Fried Frank's Joseph Fox
Joseph E. Fox of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP advised T-Mobile on its merger with Sprint last year and guided SoftBank in monetizing its T-Mobile stockholding in the largest nongovernmental secondary offering of all time, earning him a spot among the tax law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 18, 2021
Rising Star: Skadden's Avelina Burbridge
Avelina Burbridge of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has for nearly a decade worked on a massive mixed-use development project in Brooklyn, as well as the $13 billion redevelopment of John F. Kennedy Airport and major matters for Silverstein Properties, earning her a spot among the real estate lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 18, 2021
Rising Star: King & Spalding's Anisha Sud
Anisha Sud of King & Spalding LLP has participated in precedent-setting international arbitration victories involving Shell and Chevron, conglomerate Reliance Industries and Unión Fenosa Gas, winning her a spot among international arbitration attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 18, 2021
Rising Star: McDermott's Chris Gladbach
Chris Gladbach of McDermott Will & Emery has helped clients develop major energy projects, including assisting a developer secure financing for a major wind farm planned for off the coast of Maryland, earning him a spot among the project finance practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 17, 2021
Rising Star: Wilkinson Stekloff's Rakesh Kilaru
Over the past year, Wilkinson Stekloff LLP partner Rakesh Kilaru has helped the NCAA fight a massive case that could forever alter college sports, defended the NFL in protracted antitrust litigation, and secured a jury verdict on behalf of the NCAA in a defamation lawsuit, earning him a spot as one of four sports and betting attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 17, 2021
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's William Allen
William Allen of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP served as a chief day-to-day manager in the $27 billion sale of Refinitiv to the London Stock Exchange Group, in a deal involving complex regulatory hurdles that closed in January, earning him a spot among the top private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 17, 2021
Rising Star: Arnold & Porter's Zachary Fayne
Zachary Fayne of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP represented British Petroleum as the oil giant dealt with the immediate aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the plethora of litigation that followed, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 17, 2021
Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Lauren Blas
Lauren Blas of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped Ashley Judd revive a sexual harassment claim against Harvey Weinstein and secured a successful decertification bid of a class of 11,000 drivers for J.B. Hunt Transport Inc., earning her a spot among the top employment law practitioners under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 17, 2021
Rising Star: Wiley Rein's Tara L. Ward
Tara L. Ward has logged wins on behalf of several Wiley Rein LLP clients in high-stakes cases, including a thorny prime-subcontractor dispute that went to trial last year, earning her a spot among the government contracts attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 17, 2021
Rising Star: Cohen Ziffer's Meredith Elkins
Meredith Elkins of Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP has represented Verizon in seeking almost $120 million in D&O coverage and helped TIAA recover 100% of its underlying defense costs over an investor dispute, earning her a spot among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 16, 2021
Rising Star: Blank Rome's Stephanie M. Harden
Stephanie Harden of Blank Rome LLP has successfully defended three of Oshkosh Defense's U.S. Army contracts to replace tactical vehicles, earning her a spot among the government contract attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 16, 2021
Rising Star: Pillsbury's Janine Stanisz
Janine Stanisz of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP represented Northrop Grumman, a multibillion-dollar global defense contractor, in seeking $130 million in D&O coverage and has been fighting for more than 100 companies across all industries in COVID-19 business interruption suits, earning her a spot among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 16, 2021
Rising Star: Hunton Andrews Kurth's Kerry L. McGrath
Kerry L. McGrath of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has scored victories for clients in cases tackling key aspects of the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act and other major federal laws, making her one of the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 16, 2021
Rising Star: Jones Day's Marc A. Weinroth
Marc A. Weinroth of Jones Day is defending more than a dozen universities in federal multidistrict litigation consolidating more than 500 putative class actions led against the NCAA, conferences and universities by college football athletes seeking damages relating to the long-term cognitive effects of participation in college football, earning him a spot among the top sports & betting law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 16, 2021
Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Silpa Maruri
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Silpa Maruri helped a proposed class of Dell minority shareholders obtain certification in their $10 billion fiduciary breach suit against the company's executives in 2021, earning her a spot among private equity law practitioners under 40 who are recognized by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 16, 2021
Rising Star: Morgan Lewis' Jocelyn R. Cuttino
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP partner Jocelyn Cuttino has carved out a practice helping organizations like National Public Radio, Vice Media Inc. and UNICEF work through difficult diversity and inclusion issues, earning her a spot on this year's list of employment practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 15, 2021
Rising Star: Latham's Kegan Brown
Kegan Brown of Latham & Watkins LLP provides his clients with comprehensive guidance through a whole host of environmental issues, including being on the front lines of a burgeoning crop of complex and evolving "forever chemical" contamination matters, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.