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.
  • September 24, 2019

    Rising Star: Cleary Gottlieb's Joseph Lanzkron

    Joseph Lanzkron of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has racked up experience handling major transactions, such as helping a hedge fund acquire $5.2 billion in assets including real estate from the Sears bankruptcy estate and representing Goldman Sachs in a $530 million mortgage loan to Blackstone affiliates, landing him a spot on this year’s list of real estate attorneys under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • September 24, 2019

    Rising Star: Lewis Brisbois' Brantley Rowlen

    Lewis Brisbois' Brantley Rowlen has notched defense wins in multimillion-dollar medical malpractice cases in recent years, defending local governments and major health care providers in high-stakes wrongful death lawsuits to earn himself a spot among the top medical malpractice attorneys under 40 honored by Law360.

  • September 24, 2019

    Rising Star: Kendall Brill's Patrick Somers

    Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP's Patrick J. Somers has scored numerous trial victories on behalf of his media industry clients, including Paramount Pictures, landing him a spot as one of the media and entertainment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 24, 2019

    Rising Star: Edelson's Rafey Balabanian

    Rafey Balabanian of Edelson PC has landed notable wins for consumers throughout his career, including recently obtaining the largest privacy verdict in U.S. history, earning him a spot among the class action attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 24, 2019

    Rising Star: Cahill Gordon's Sean Tonolli

    Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP partner Sean Tonolli takes on clients facing serious legal jeopardy, including a former KPMG accounting partner caught up in a major fraud scheme, earning him a spot as one of five white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360.

  • September 24, 2019

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Christopher Greco

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Christopher Greco has played a key role in several big restructurings over the past few years, taking the reins for the debtor in EXCO Resources Inc.’s $1.4 billion case and helping creditors recover roughly $1 billion in FirstEnergy Solutions Corp.’s Chapter 11, landing him a spot as one of five bankruptcy attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 23, 2019

    Rising Star: Bird Marella's Ariel Neuman

    Ariel Neuman of Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg & Rhow PC went to bat for North America's largest pipeline company in a recent criminal oil spill trial and is currently defending a former Backpage.com executive in a highly watched federal case, putting him among Law360's White Collar Rising Stars.

  • September 23, 2019

    Rising Star: Akin Gump's John Bain

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP partner John Bain has built a broad real estate practice that blends elements of the energy and retail sectors, and thanks in part to his multibillion-dollar transactional work for 7-Eleven, Bain has earned a spot among a small group of real estate lawyers under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 23, 2019

    Rising Star: Davis Polk's Brian Wolfe

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP partner Brian Wolfe pushed Comcast through its purchase of Sky PLC for £29.7 billion ($38.8 billion at the time), while helping it negotiate a particularly complex deal over Hulu's future, earning him a spot as a Law360 Rising Star for media and entertainment.

  • September 23, 2019

    Rising Star: Sidley Austin's Nilofer Umar

    Sidley Austin LLP's Nilofer Umar has guided Walgreens through shareholder litigation against its officers for allegedly falling prey to fraud from Theranos and represented Keurig in a shareholder action seeking to halt its $13.9 billion merger, making her one of six securities attorneys under 40 selected as one of Law360's Rising Stars.

  • September 23, 2019

    Rising Star: Cravath's Omid Nasab

    Omid Nasab of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP has been in the middle of several high-profile bankruptcy cases over his career, including leading a team investigating liabilities in Pacific Gas and Electric's Chapter 11 proceedings, earning him a spot as one of the bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 23, 2019

    Rising Star: Covington's Andrew Soukup

    Andrew Soukup of Covington & Burling LLP has seen big wins in his class action practice, and in one notable case secured a crucial court finding that mortgage servicers can charge borrowers for property inspections, landing the Washington, D.C.-based attorney a spot among the class action law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 23, 2019

    Rising Star: Aldous/Walker's Brent Walker

    Brent Walker of Aldous/Walker LLP helped obtain a $25 million wrongful death verdict against a nightclub that overserved alcohol to a pro football player that led to a teammate's death, and won a $37.6 million product liability case against Honda, earning him a spot as one of three personal injury and medical malpractice law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360.

  • September 20, 2019

    Rising Star: Skadden's Katja Butler

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP partner Katja Butler has helped guide big investors through major deals, including a consortium led by HgCapital that bought up a multibillion-dollar stake in Norwegian software company Visma, earning her a spot on this year's list of private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 20, 2019

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Daniel Salinas-Serrano

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Daniel Salinas-Serrano has helped to secure an initial victory for U.S. casino investors suing Mexico for more than $100 million, and is representing mining investors suing Bolivia for more than $1 billion, helping to land him a spot among five international arbitration lawyers under 40 honored by Law360.

  • September 20, 2019

    Rising Star: Susman Godfrey's Rocco Magni

    Susman Godfrey's Rocco Magni has amassed victories over his career including assisting in the largest verdict ever awarded in Bexar County, Texas, after a jury agreed that a Quicken Loans affiliate brazenly stole proprietary data recipes for home appraisals and comparisons from another company, earning a spot among the top trial lawyers under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • September 20, 2019

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Courtney Lyons Snyder

    Jones Day partner Courtney Lyons Snyder has been a key part of the firm’s representation of Wells Fargo in litigation over residential mortgage-backed securities and maintains a non-traditional practice working with state attorneys general and government investigations, earning her a spot among five banking attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 20, 2019

    Rising Star: Orrick's Rohit Sachdev

    Rohit Sachdev of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP led a team that helped secure a major development of battery-based energy storage projects in the United Kingdom for a U.K.-based energy provider, earning him a spot among the project finance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 20, 2019

    Rising Star: Pomerantz's Michael Grunfeld

    Pomerantz LLP's Michael Grunfeld has amassed numerous victories on behalf of his investor clients over his career, including paving the way for shareholders to bring class actions over data breaches, earning him a spot as one of six securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 19, 2019

    Rising Star: Richards Layton's Travis Hunter

    Richards Layton & Finger PA partner Travis Hunter played a key role on a multi-firm team that helped a Bristol-Myers Squibb unit defeat a potentially billion-dollar trade secrets claim at trial, landing him a spot as one of five trials attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • September 19, 2019

    Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Marisa Sotomayor

    While Marisa A. Sotomayor of Paul Hastings LLP says that any deal she works on, no matter the value, is of equal importance to her, she’s represented some big fish like Bank of America and Wells Fargo as arrangers in $5.1 billion credit facilities to support Bass Pro Shops’ purchase of Cabela’s, earning her a spot as one of five banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 19, 2019

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Naveed Anwar

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Naveed Anwar has assisted on a plethora of major private equity transactions, including last year's complicated tracking stock deal featuring Dell Technologies and Silver Lake Partners, earning him a spot as one of five private equity attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 19, 2019

    Rising Star: Reed Smith's Ben Love

    Reed Smith LLP counsel Ben Love has helped secure key wins for clients in challenging arbitration proceedings, including a $1.3 billion award for East Mediterranean Gas Co., earning him a place as one of five international arbitration attorneys under 40 named to Law360's list of Rising Stars.

  • September 19, 2019

    Rising Star: Latham's Chirag Dedania

    Chirag Dedania of Latham & Watkins LLP worked on the Calcasieu Pass LNG facility, which involved a $1.3 billion equity investment and $5.8 billion in construction financing, for his client Venture Global, earning him a spot as one of five project finance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • September 19, 2019

    Rising Star: Latham's Sarah A. Tomkowiak

    During a rare securities class action trial earlier this year, Latham & Watkins LLP’s Sarah Tomkowiak helped convince a jury to award minimal damages to investors who had accused Puma Biotechnology Inc. of misrepresenting the results of a clinical trial involving a breast cancer treatment, earning her a spot as one of six securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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