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Rankings: Rising Stars
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April 21, 2016
Rising Star: Vinson & Elkins' Hilary Preston
Vinson & Elkins LLP intellectual property partner Hilary L. Preston recently helped Fox Sports swat away a $42 million patent suit over the GameTrax feature on its website and steered Dow Jones to win a class action alleging it suppressed a fraudulent subscriber scheme, earning her a spot as one of Law360's top 10 attorneys under 40.
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April 21, 2016
Rising Star: Greenberg Traurig's Christiana Jacxsens
Christiana Jacxsens' proactive litigation strategy helped her engineer a win last year for Alcon Laboratories Inc. in litigation alleging that the company's cataract lenses caused serious eye injuries, among other victories, landing the Greenberg Traurig LLP shareholder on Law360's Rising Stars list of top product liability attorneys under 40.
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April 21, 2016
Rising Star: Weil Gotshal & Manges' Faiza Rahman
Faiza Rahman represents both banks and issuers in a wide range of equity and debt transactions and her broad practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP makes the young partner one of Law360's top capital markets attorneys under age 40.
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April 21, 2016
Rising Star: Baker Botts' Jessica Pulliam
Baker Botts LLP partner Jessica Pulliam takes special satisfaction in her role as one of the lead attorneys for the firm's work on Halliburton Co.'s long-running, precedent-setting securities class litigation, work that earned her a place among Law360's top securities lawyers under 40.
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April 20, 2016
Rising Star: Paul Weiss' Roberto J. Gonzalez
Still just 37, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner Roberto J. Gonzalez has already helped build the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and served as special assistant to the president, achievements that aided him in earning a spot on Law360's list of the top banking attorneys under the age of 40.
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April 20, 2016
Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Brian Lutz
As a partner at Gibson Dunn, Brian Lutz has successfully fought off shareholder suits challenging high-profile mergers while scoring a major victory for Depomed by halting a hostile takeover, work that saw him named on Law360's list of the top securities lawyers under 40.
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April 20, 2016
Rising Star: Shearman & Sterling's David Dixter
Shearman & Sterling LLP partner David Dixter took the lead when the firm guided the Netherlands' largest bank in a post-financial crisis privatization, netting the Dutch government a cool $4.2 billion and making him an easy choice as one of five capital markets attorneys under 40 named Law360 Rising Stars.
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April 20, 2016
Rising Star: DLA Piper's Matt Satchwell
DLA Piper's Matt Satchwell has secured a slew of patent victories for companies like Toyota and Subaru, including a rare decision in the Eastern District of Texas to invalidate a patent under Alice, helping him earn a spot for the second time on Law360's list of top IP lawyers under 40.
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April 20, 2016
Rising Star: Dechert's José-Manuel Garcia Represa
For helping knock $700 million off Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s arbitral award against Ecuador and defending South American countries in other investor disputes, Dechert LLP partner José-Manuel Garcia Represa has earned a spot on Law360's list of top international arbitration lawyers under 40.
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April 19, 2016
Rising Star: Kirkland's Daniel Lavon-Krein
Daniel Lavon-Krein of Kirkland & Ellis LLP has championed a series of large private equity fund formations as well as complex minority investments in existing firms, regularly advising firms like Vista Equity and Carlyle and landing him on Law360's Rising Stars list of top attorneys under 40.
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April 19, 2016
Rising Star: King & Spalding's Frank Bayuk
Frank Bayuk of King & Spalding LLP has become one of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s go-to first-chairs in its trials over smokers' deaths, and just weeks ago won a $38 million trial for the company, making him one of Law360's Rising Stars list of attorneys under 40 in the trials sphere.
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April 19, 2016
Rising Star: White & Case's Francisco Garcia-Naranjo
White & Case LLP partner Francisco Garcia-Naranjo's expertise in Mexican banking law has put him among the most sought-after attorneys by major international banks looking to open in the country and on Law360's list of top banking attorneys under 40.
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April 19, 2016
Rising Star: Shearman & Sterling's Agnes Dunogue
Since joining Shearman & Sterling LLP in 2014 as a partner, securities litigator Agnes Dunogue has delivered courtroom victories for Citigroup Inc., Credit Suisse Group AG and other financial sector clients, earning her a spot on Law360's list of top securities lawyers under the age of 40.
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April 19, 2016
Rising Star: Covington & Burling's David Pinsky
Nearly four decades after David Pinsky's Jewish parents fled the Soviet Union for fear of persecution, the international arbitration attorney at Covington & Burling LLP returns to his birthplace to represent Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas company as it works to settle investment disputes against Russia, after having successfully won similar arbitral cases for other big-league entities.
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April 19, 2016
Rising Star: WilmerHale's Nina S. Tallon
WilmerHale's Nina S. Tallon has never lost a case before the U.S. International Trade Commission and recently co-chaired a case in which McAfee Inc. ducked $13 million in patent infringement claims, distinctions that earned the litigator a spot among Law360's top 10 intellectual property attorneys under 40.
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April 18, 2016
Rising Star: Grant & Eisenhofer's Thomas Ayala
Thomas Ayala of Grant & Eisenhofer PA hasn't lost a beat in his recent switch to the plaintiffs' side in complex pharmaceutical and medical device matters, with some of his latest work helping to secure billions of dollars for individuals suing Stryker and a Johnson & Johnson unit over allegedly defective hip implants and staving off a preemption challenge to litigation over GlaxoSmithKline's anti-nausea drug Zofran, earning him a place among Law360's top product liability attorneys under 40.
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April 18, 2016
Rising Star: BakerHostetler's Seanna R. Brown
BakerHostetler partner Seanna R. Brown has cemented herself as a key member of the team representing the liquidation trustee for Bernie Madoff's collapsed investment firm, helping to amass more than $10 billion for victims of the convicted Ponzi schemer and meriting a spot as one of seven securities attorneys among Law360's 2016 Rising Stars.
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April 18, 2016
Rising Star: Latham & Watkins' Shaun Hartley
Shaun Hartley has secured the trust of Latham & Watkins' powerhouse clients, combining youthful energy and veteran savvy to steer mammoth deals like The Carlyle Group's $2.1 billion sale of Landmark Aviation to BBA Aviation, earning him a spot on Law360's list of top private equity attorneys under age 40.
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April 18, 2016
Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Joseph Paunovich
Quinn Emanuel intellectual property partner Joseph Paunovich played a key role in defending Pfizer Inc. in a retrial of a high-stakes case alleging the drug giant stole trade secrets from a research group and helped clear the company of nearly all of the claims against it, landing him a spot among Law360's top IP attorneys under 40.
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April 18, 2016
Rising Star: Shearman's Jonathan DeSantis
Shearman & Sterling LLP's Jonathan DeSantis has a combination of legal smarts and banking experience that has made him a go-to attorney for firms looking to nail down vital financing, including several multibillion-dollar deals last year, placing him on the list of Law360's top banking attorneys under 40.
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April 18, 2016
Rising Star: O'Melveny & Myers' Stephen Sullivan
O'Melveny & Myers LLP partner Stephen M. Sullivan has become a go-to attorney for Medicare Advantage plans that are increasingly being targeted in False Claims Act investigations, placing him among Law360's top health lawyers under age 40.
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April 15, 2016
Rising Star: Kramer Levin's Stephen Zide
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP partner Stephen D. Zide has played a key role in some of the largest bankruptcies in recent years, from guiding creditors of telecommunications firm NII Holdings Inc. through a tough restructuring process to negotiating a quick turnaround for Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd., earning him a spot on Law360’s list of top bankruptcy attorneys under 40.
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April 15, 2016
Rising Star: Perkins Coie's Adam Marchuk
Perkins Coie LLP partner Adam Marchuk secured a major victory for Ameritox Ltd. by winning a rare post-Alice victory against a bid to invalidate the company's diagnostic patent, earning him a spot on Law360's list of top intellectual property attorneys under the age of 40.
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April 15, 2016
Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Jonathan Phillips
Gibson Dunn’s Jonathan Phillips has leveraged his experience from litigating health care cases at the Justice Department to his private practice, building on his litigation record by successfully representing private clients in False Claims Act cases that has landed him a spot among Law360’s top health care lawyers under the age of 40.
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April 15, 2016
Rising Star: Blank Rome's Jared Zola
Blank Rome LLP partner Jared Zola combines a deep command of insurance law with a trial lawyer's intuition, winning over jurors in a H.J. Heinz Co. insurance row and taking on a groundbreaking case for a professional football player, earning him a place among Law360's top insurance attorneys under the age of 40.