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 25, 2023

    Rising Star: Hughes Hubbard's Fara Tabatabai

    Fara Tabatabai of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP helped Tepco, a Japanese company at the center of the Fukushima meltdown, defend a contract dispute that ended up awarding a small portion of the $700 million the company stood to lose, earning her a spot among the international arbitration law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 24, 2023

    Rising Star: Covington's Neema Sahni

    Since starting her career at Covington & Burling LLP over a decade ago, Neema Sahni has helped lead high-powered litigation teams representing clients such as Universal, Warner, Sony, CBS Interactive and the NFL, earning her a spot among media and entertainment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law 360 Rising Stars.

  • July 24, 2023

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Lindsay Borgeson

    Lindsay Borgeson of Kirkland & Ellis LLP spearheaded health care company Owens & Minor's $1.6 billion acquisition of equipment provider Apria Inc., earning her a spot among the health care law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 24, 2023

    Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Brad King

    Brad King of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has advised several high-figure deals surrounding innovative biotechnology and emerging health science applications, including guiding Seagen during an acquisition valued at more than $40 billion, earning him a spot among the life sciences practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 24, 2023

    Rising Star: Faegre Drinker's Nicolas Guzman

    Nicolas Guzman of Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has helped companies navigate international trade matters, utilizing his Mexican background in U.S.-Mexico trade issues, while giving back to his community and helping pro bono clients with immigration matters, earning him a spot among the international trade practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 24, 2023

    Rising Star: Dentons' Diora Ziyaeva

    Diora Ziyaeva of Dentons has been representing Canadian gold mining company Aris Mining Corp. in its $300 million dispute with the Republic of Colombia before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, earning her a spot among the international arbitration law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 21, 2023

    Rising Star: V&E's Rob Landicho

    Vinson & Elkins LLP's Rob Landicho won a $1.47 billion award from the International Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the Republic of Iraq against Turkey and handled several other disputes on behalf of Iraqi state-owned oil companies, landing him among the international arbitration law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • 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.

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