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Rankings: Rising Stars
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July 19, 2017
The 2017 Rising Stars, By Firm
Law360's Rising Stars recognizes attorneys under 40 who have demonstrated outstanding career accomplishments. This year, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP led the pack with eight Rising Stars each, followed by Latham & Watkins LLP, Mayer Brown LLP and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, which had six apiece. Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP rounded out the group with five Rising Stars.
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July 18, 2017
Rising Star: O'Melveny's David Almeling
O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s David Almeling has published two books on trade secret law, established himself as a leading voice on the practice and successfully headed patent cases representing Google, landing him on Law360's list of intellectual property attorneys under 40 being honored as Rising Stars.
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July 18, 2017
Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Lee Morlock
Mayer Brown LLP’s Lee Morlock was the lead tax attorney advising Yum! Brands on the tax-free spinoff of its Chinese restaurant business, a novel transaction in China that concurrently had multiple refinancing transactions totaling more than $9 billion, thereby earning him a spot as one of five tax attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 18, 2017
Rising Star: Cohen Milstein's Kalpana Kotagal
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC’s Kalpana Kotagal is dedicated to advocating for equity and diversity in the workplace, including by representing tens of thousands of women who have accused Sterling Jewelers Inc. of widespread gender bias, earning her a spot as one of five employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 18, 2017
Rising Star: Davis Polk's Eli Vonnegut
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s Eli Vonnegut has handled a dizzying array of cases in the short span of his restructuring career, from the government’s $185 billion rescue of American International Group Inc. to a string of lightning-fast oil and gas industry turnarounds, earning him a spot as one of five bankruptcy attorneys under 40 being honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 18, 2017
Rising Star: Greenberg Traurig's Sean Jessee
Greenberg Traurig LLP's Sean Jessee has been part of many important wins for his medical device company clients in litigation over alleged defects and injuries, including playing a key role in a $28 million pelvic mesh case for C.R. Bard, earning him a spot among the five product liability attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 18, 2017
Rising Star: Debevoise's Courtney Dankworth
While still in her early 30s, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP’s Courtney Dankworth helped represent JPMorgan Chase in a historic $25 billion post mortgage-crisis settlement, earning her a spot among Law360’s Rising Stars for banking practitioners under 40.
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July 18, 2017
Rising Star: Kirkland's Jonathan Davis
Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s Jonathan Davis has advised on a series of complex deals totaling roughly $370 billion since becoming a mergers and acquisitions practitioner, including high-profile deals like Mead Johnson’s $17.9 billion acquisition by the U.K.’s Reckitt, earning him a spot among attorneys under 40 being honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 18, 2017
Rising Star: King & Spalding's Joe Wetzel
King & Spalding LLP's Joe Wetzel has amassed numerous victories on copyright and music-licensing issues for household brands, including music streaming giant Pandora Media Inc. in a licensing fight with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, earning him a spot as one of four media and entertainment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 18, 2017
Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Rahim Moloo
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s Rahim Moloo represents clients in some of the world’s most complex and high-profile cross-border disputes, including when he recently helped WalAm Energy Inc. defeat Kenya’s jurisdictional objections in an arbitration with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, earning him a spot as one of three international arbitration practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: King & Spalding's Meredith Redwine
From the inception of her career at King & Spalding LLP, Meredith Redwine has played an integral part in a team representing GlaxoSmithKline in scores of cases alleging the company's Paxil antidepressant has caused birth defects and other injuries, landing her a spot among the five product liability practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Jonathan Goldstein
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP’s Jonathan Goldstein has helped guide tens of billions of dollars’ worth of mergers, acquisitions and private investment fund formations, including Microsoft's $26.2 billion purchase of LinkedIn, earning him a spot as one of five tax law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Andy Corkhill
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s Andy Corkhill has worked on some of the largest cases that came out of the 2008 financial crisis, including Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s $2 billion trial against Citibank NA, earning him a spot as one of five banking practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Jenner & Block's Angela Allen
Jenner & Block LLP’s Angela M. Allen has 10 years of complex bankruptcy litigation under her belt, including representing the examiner in the DACCO Transmission case and serving as lead restructuring attorney for Caesars Entertainment Corp., earning her a spot as one of five bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Barnes & Thornburg's David Pryzbylski
Barnes & Thornburg LLP partner David Pryzbylski recently helped a New York company escape a potentially seven-figure collective action with hardly a scratch and got an arbitrator to side with his client in a union spat over contract language, securing him a spot as one of five labor and employment attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Goodwin Procter's Blake Liggio
Goodwin Procter LLP’s Blake Liggio has steered several multibillion-dollar tie-ups in his young career, including guiding real estate investment trust Monogram Residential Trust Inc. in an newly announced $3 billion sale to a Greystar Real Estate Partners-led fund, earning him a spot as one of five mergers and acquisitions attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Cowan DeBaets' Eleanor M. Lackman
Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLP’s Eleanor M. Lackman secured a copyright win for Jay Z and served as lead counsel in a Second Circuit case that established that directors may not hold separate rights to projects, earning her a spot for the second year among media and entertainment attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Kirkland's Atif Khawaja
Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s Atif Khawaja has racked up a number of victories in high-stakes intellectual property disputes while representing companies like Hotels.com and Honeywell International, earning him a spot as one of five IP law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Sanford Heisler's Alexandra Harwin
Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP’s Alexandra Harwin scored a favorable settlement for workers in a gender bias suit against Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG and is currently pursuing high-profile sex discrimination claims on behalf of female attorneys against BigLaw powerhouses Proskauer Rose LLP and Chadbourne & Parke LLP, making her one of five employment attorneys under 40 recognized by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Law360 Names Top Attorneys Under 40
The 156 attorneys selected as Law360's 2017 Rising Stars are lawyers whose accomplishments belie their age. This elite group of attorneys, all under 40, have distinguished themselves by handling bet-the-company litigation and brokering deals that make headlines.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Adam Wolk
Mayer Brown LLP’s Adam Wolk has become one of the leading lawyers in finance and has helped companies like restaurant giant Yum Brands Inc. and private equity firm The Jordan Co. secure the financing they need to get their businesses moving forward, earning him a spot as one of five banking law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Goldman Ismail's Jennifer Greenblatt
The work of Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP's Jennifer Greenblatt in securing wins on behalf of Merck in litigation over its osteoporosis drug Fosamax — including cases involving allegations of bone disease of the jaw and that the drug caused femoral fractures — landed her a spot as one of five product liability attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Cleary Gottlieb's Aaron Meyers
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP’s Aaron Meyers has cultivated an expertise in handling particularly tricky carve-out transactions and divestitures like Asahi Kasei's acquisition and simultaneous sale of half of Polypore, landing the M&A practitioner — who almost pursued an engineering career instead of law — a spot among attorneys under 40 being honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Cravath's Christopher K. Fargo
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's Christopher K. Fargo has designed and negotiated some of the most challenging multibillion-dollar transactions, including Anheuser-Busch InBev’s $123 billion acquisition of SABMiller, thereby earning him a spot as one of five tax attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Weil's Sunny Singh
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's Sunny Singh learned the ropes of his field as an associate working on Lehman Brothers' landmark Chapter 11 case, and his recent ascension to partner and notable roles in restructurings for J.Crew, grocer Fairway Market and others helped him earn a spot as one of five bankruptcy law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.