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Rankings: Rising Stars
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August 07, 2020
Rising Star: Debevoise's Uri Herzberg
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's Uri Herzberg has assisted on numerous significant private equity deals since joining the firm in 2007, including multiple recent multibillion-dollar transactions for major private equity clients like Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, earning him a spot as one of five PE attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 07, 2020
Rising Star: Hogan Lovells' Hannah Graae
Hogan Lovells' Hannah Graae has steered automotive clients such as Ford Motor Co. through environmental regulatory hurdles, as well as new rules governing emerging mobility technology and autonomous vehicles, earning her a spot among transportation attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 07, 2020
Rising Star: Baker McKenzie's Lawrence Lee
Baker McKenzie partner Lawrence Lee helps buy and sell startups, and in the past year he's worked on the Blackstone Group's buy of dating apps Badoo and Bumble and Curbside's sale to Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, earning him a spot among the practitioners in the technology world under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 06, 2020
Rising Star: Williams & Connolly's Katherine Trefz
Williams & Connolly partner Katherine (Katie) Trefz was part of the team that represented former Jefferies & Co. bond trader Jesse Litvak on retrial, helping win his acquittal on nine of 10 securities fraud charges and landing a spot as one of five white collar lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 06, 2020
Rising Star: Skadden's Aryan Moniri
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's Aryan Moniri represented SunEdison in connection with $4 billion in financing over the course of six years and spearheaded multimillion-dollar restructuring and financing projects for Talen Energy, earning him a spot as one of five project finance lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 06, 2020
Rising Star: Stoel Rives' Kirk Maag
Kirk Maag of Stoel Rives LLP leverages his first-hand knowledge of the effects policy and law can have on his natural resource industry clients to advocate for their livelihood both in and out of court, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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August 06, 2020
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Steven Klar
Steven Klar of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has co-led Blackstone on the fund aspects of multiple high-profile acquisitions, as well as on the establishment of the largest ever U.S. private equity fund, which earned him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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August 05, 2020
Rising Star: Steptoe & Johnson's Georgios Leris
Steptoe & Johnson LLP's recently departed associate Georgios Leris coordinated key details of advocates' challenge to the rollback of net neutrality rules last year and helped Dish Network facilitate the blockbuster T-Mobile/Sprint merger, earning him a spot among the telecommunications law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 05, 2020
Rising Stars: Sullivan & Cromwell's Beth Newton
Beth Newton of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has represented one of the world's largest oil companies in foreign bribery investigations and helped MUFG Bank out of a thorny regulatory quandary, putting her among the white collar practitioners named Law360 Rising Stars.
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August 05, 2020
Rising Star: Wiley's Derick G. Holt
Derick Holt of Wiley Rein LLP has successfully represented U.S. steel manufacturers in countervailing duty and anti-dumping investigations to secure trade remedies against foreign competitors and protect American jobs, earning him a place among the international trade attorneys under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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August 05, 2020
Rising Star: Sidley Austin's David Form
David Form of Sidley Austin LLP has advised hedge fund startup ExodusPoint Capital Management from its 2018 launch that took in $8 billion to its second capital raise this year, anticipated to be worth $3 billion, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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August 05, 2020
Rising Star: Morgan & Morgan's Rene Rocha
Rene Rocha of Morgan & Morgan has helped plaintiffs score major settlements in high-stakes environmental litigation, including helping soybean farmers secure a $400 million settlement over Monsanto's dicamba pesticide, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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August 05, 2020
Rising Star: Kirkland's Rustin Brown
Acting as financing counsel on a series of high-value energy industry transactions, including the acquisition of a $2 billion stake in a gas liquefaction plant by Brookfield and a $1.6 billion purchase of a gas business by Goldman Sachs, has secured Rustin Brown of Kirkland & Ellis LLP a spot as one of five project finance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 04, 2020
Rising Stars: Steptoe & Johnson's Shawn Davisson
Shawn Davisson of Steptoe & Johnson LLP has represented a longtime BP executive in a probe of his handling of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Volkswagen AG in connection with its diesel emissions controversy, earning a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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August 04, 2020
Rising Star: Holland & Knight's Lara Rios
Holland & Knight's Lara Rios helped secure one of the first sustainability-linked loans in Latin American history and was instrumental in connecting five liberal arts colleges to a solar energy farm in New England, earning her a spot as one of five project finance practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 04, 2020
Rising Star: Robins Kaplan's Lauren J. Coppola
Lauren Coppola of Robins Kaplan LLP took critical steps on behalf of telecom clients at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to push for changes in Federal Communications Commission rules ensuring that conference calls remained affordable, helping her land a spot among telecommunications practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 04, 2020
Rising Star: King & Spalding's Mercedes C. Morno
King & Spalding LLP's Mercedes Morno helped mount a successful defense of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers' authority to collect preliminary tariffs and was a member of the U.S. delegation to the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation, making her the youngest international trade lawyer to be honored as a Law360 Rising Star.
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August 04, 2020
Rising Star: Kirkland's Nicole Washington
Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Nicole Washington has steered flagship funds like Clearlake Capital's $7 billion vehicle while corralling investors from across the globe, earning her a spot on this year's list of fund formation practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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August 04, 2020
Rising Star: Hamburg Rubin's William Roark
William Roark of Hamburg Rubin Mullin Maxwell & Lupin PC represented the bulk of Pennsylvania's medical marijuana permit holders in a suit over the future of the program, helping stave off a challenge that would have cost his clients their licenses, earning himself a spot among the cannabis attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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August 04, 2020
Rising Star: Manko Gold's Diana A. Silva
Manko Gold Katcher & Fox LLP partner Diana Silva has provided counsel on major Pennsylvania environmental projects including the multibillion-dollar Mariner East pipeline system that stretches across the entire Keystone State, earning her a spot among environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 03, 2020
Rising Star: Morgan & Morgan's Frank Kerney
Morgan & Morgan's Frank Kerney nabbed a record-breaking $459,000 Telephone Consumer Protection Act arbitration award for a client who claimed she had been harassed with more than 300 illegal robocalls from a debt collector, landing him a spot among the telecommunications law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 03, 2020
Rising Star: Dentons' Joanne Caceres
Joanne Caceres of Dentons has helped shepherd major cannabis companies through their initial public offerings on the Nasdaq and pushed the industry toward achieving social equity, earning her a spot among the cannabis law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 03, 2020
Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Gabriel Soledad
Gabriel Soledad of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has successfully defended the governing body of South American soccer in a sprawling bribery case and beaten back a $2.3 billion failed merger suit by pharmaceutical giant Teva, earning him a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 03, 2020
Rising Star: Hunton's Samuel L. Brown
Samuel L. Brown of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP draws from his deep expertise in environmental and natural resource regulation developed during his time as an EPA lawyer to advise clients through complex and oftentimes multifaceted compliance matters, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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August 03, 2020
Rising Star: Fried Frank's Bryan Hunkele
Bryan Hunkele of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP advised Bain Capital as it raised about $20 billion across three funds over roughly two years, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.