Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
- Law360
- Law360 UK
- Law360 Pulse
- Law360 Employment Authority
- Law360 Tax Authority
- Law360 Insurance Authority
- Law360 Real Estate Authority
- Law360 Healthcare Authority
- Law360 Bankruptcy Authority
- Products
- Lexis®
- Law360 In-Depth
- Law360 Podcasts
- Rankings
- Leaderboard Analytics
- Regional Powerhouses
- Law360's MVPs
- Women in Law Report
- Law360 400
- Diversity Snapshot
- Practice Groups of the Year
- Rising Stars
- Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar
- Sections
- Adv. Search & Platform Tools
- About all sections
- Browse all sections
- Banking
- Bankruptcy
- Class Action
- Competition
- Employment
- Energy
- Expert Analysis
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Product Liability
- Securities
- Beta Tools
- Track docs
- Track attorneys
- Track judges
Rankings: Rising Stars
-
April 15, 2016
Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Jeremy Andersen
A lawyer who actually knows his way around a spreadsheet, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s Jeremy Andersen has used his background in accounting to help his firm successfully bring groundbreaking cases against Wall Street giants over their role in the financial crisis and the rigging of benchmark rates, making him one of Law360’s Rising Star attorneys.
-
April 15, 2016
Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Rahim Moloo
Gibson Dunn's Rahim Moloo has represented some of the world's largest multinational corporations in arbitrations that often seek hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation and is working to enforce a $1.4 billion award issued to a mining company in a dispute with Venezuela, earning him a place among the top international arbitration attorneys under 40 honored by Law360.
-
April 15, 2016
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Clare Gaskell
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Clare Gaskell brings unique U.K. capital markets expertise to her work steering complex private equity transactions, like Blackstone Group LP's $450 million cross-border play for London-listed Japanese Residential Investment Co., landing her among Law360's top private equity attorneys under 40.
-
April 15, 2016
Rising Star: Latham & Watkins' Harjaskaran Rai
Latham & Watkins LLP's Harj Rai was the lead partner behind the largest public debut in Middle Eastern history, helping Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank rake in $6 billion in its 2014 initial public offering and landing himself among five project finance attorneys under 40 named Law360 Rising Stars.
-
April 14, 2016
Rising Star: McDermott Will & Emery's Bryan Webster
McDermott Will & Emery LLP's 37-year-old Bryan Webster's successful track record in leading large teams of lawyers and coordinating large defense groups for health insurers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield in high-stakes litigation has helped land him a spot among Law360's top four insurance attorneys under 40.
-
April 14, 2016
Rising Star: Dentons' Oscar Pinkas
Dentons partner Oscar Pinkas has developed expertise advising clients involved in complex cross-border transactions and helped represent STEP Energy Services in its acquisition of GasFrac's waterless fracking assets, earning him recognition on Law360's list of top bankruptcy attorneys under the age of 40.
-
April 14, 2016
Rising Star: King & Spalding's Dan Hettich
Dan Hettich's efforts to secure a positive outcome in a Medicare bad debt reimbursement case that some had written off as effectively impossible to win, among other important Medicare reimbursement work, has earned the King & Spalding LLP partner a place among Law360's top health attorneys under 40.
-
April 14, 2016
Rising Star: Allen & Overy's Sami Asad Mir
Allen & Overy LLP's Sami Mir has helped finance a new airport in Ecuador's capital and one-of-a-kind, $4.5 billion petrochemical project in Mexico, becoming a go-to guy for lenders looking to invest in Latin America and one of five project finance attorneys under 40 named Law360 Rising Stars.
-
April 14, 2016
Rising Star: White & Case's Brody Greenwald
White & Case LLP's Brody K. Greenwald has done invaluable work on some of the most recent important international arbitration cases, including a landmark dispute between the Republic of Uzbekistan and an Israeli metal company, earning him a place among the top international arbitration attorneys under 40 honored by Law360.
-
April 14, 2016
Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Jeffrey B. Wall
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP special counsel Jeffrey B. Wall recently argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court that the Federal Circuit has too stringent a standard for awarding enhanced damages in patent cases, earning him one of six spots on Law360's 2016 list of top appellate attorneys under 40.
-
April 14, 2016
Rising Star: Kirkland's Ted Frankel
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Ted Frankel has been at the helm of billions of dollars' worth of deals for some of the private equity world's largest players, including Bain Capital LP and Arsenal Capital Partners, making him one of five private equity attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as rising legal stars.
-
April 14, 2016
Rising Star: Durie Tangri's Sonali Maitra
Durie Tangri LLP partner Sonali Maitra not only defeated a patent suit against her client Zynga Inc. but got a judge to order the plaintiff and its law firm to pay $1.2 million in fees for filing a "totally unreasonable" suit, earning her a spot among Law360's top IP attorneys under 40.
-
April 13, 2016
Rising Star: DLA Piper's Erin Gibson
A former journalist who’s now bringing her communication skills to the courtroom, trial attorney Erin Gibson of DLA Piper has already racked up an impressive number of intellectual property wins, including helping to secure a verdict for Apple in a $500 million trial, landing her a spot on Law360’s list of IP Rising Stars.
-
April 13, 2016
Rising Star: Kirkland's Elizabeth Hess
Whether it's helping Abbot Laboratories beat a $219 million False Claims Act suit or piloting companies through high-stakes government probes, Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Elizabeth Hess occupies a crucial seat in the corner of some of health care's biggest names, putting her among Law360's top health attorneys under 40.
-
April 13, 2016
Rising Star: WilmerHale's Thomas Saunders
Securing victories that encompass both complex technological issues and novel legal issues, including defying expectations to win a case when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a long-standing patent royalty rule, has made WilmerHale partner Thomas Saunders one of Law360's top appellate lawyers under age 40.
-
April 13, 2016
Rising Star: Freshfields' Elliot Friedman
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP's Elliot Friedman is representing ConocoPhillips Co. in its multibillion-dollar arbitration against Venezuela over the country's expropriation of oil projects, helping him to his place as one of 10 international arbitration lawyers under 40 honored by Law360.
-
April 13, 2016
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Atif Azher
Thanks to his work representing some of the country's biggest private equity shops and guiding various recent high-profile matters, including Dell and Silver Lake Partners' pending mega acquisition of EMC Corp., Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Atif Azher has been named one of Law360's top private equity attorneys under 40.
-
April 13, 2016
Rising Star: Debevoise & Plimpton's Marilyn Lion
Marilyn A. Lion has advised large insurance industry clients in a slew of innovative, multibillion-dollar transactions in recent years, including Protective Life Corp.'s $5.7 billion merger with a Japanese life insurer, landing the Debevoise & Plimpton LLP partner on Law360's list of four top insurance attorneys under age 40.
-
April 13, 2016
Rising Star: Wilson Sonsini's Michael Joyce
Funding alternative energy might be a harder sell than more traditional project finance deals, but not for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC partner Michael Joyce, whose knowledge about renewables and desire to help companies succeed earned him a spot among Law360's top project finance attorneys under 40.
-
April 12, 2016
Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Michael Kimberly
Racking up repeated appearances, and wins, before the U.S. Supreme Court while still an associate, including scoring a unanimous victory for voters challenging gerrymandering in Maryland, has made Mayer Brown LLP partner Michael Kimberly one of Law360's top appellate lawyers under age 40.
-
April 12, 2016
Rising Star: Hinshaw & Culbertson's Suzanne Jones
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP's Suzanne Jones has labored on arguments behind some of the most influential insurance cases, including one involving the Tenth Circuit and the Colorado Supreme Court that made it harder for insurance claimants to argue against their insurers' intent in some key respects, joining Law360's Rising Stars list of four top insurance attorneys under 40.
-
April 12, 2016
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Anthony Vernace
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Anthony Vernace’s work on high-profile mergers and acquisitions early in his career has won him a spot among Law360’s Rising Stars, and his role in complex global M&A deals is also what helped him become a partner at the firm when he was just 32.
-
April 12, 2016
Rising Star: O'Melveny & Myers' Jennifer Taylor
Playing key roles in the successful reorganization of iconic gunsmith Colt, as well as the ongoing Chapter 11 cases for Hancock Fabrics Inc. and Verso Corp., O'Melveny & Myers LLP's Jennifer Taylor has earned herself a berth among Law360's top bankruptcy attorneys under 40.
-
April 12, 2016
Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Patrick Curran
Patrick D. Curran of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has spearheaded some of the country's largest intellectual property disputes in high-stakes situations over the past five years, with numerous victories for Google under his belt, earning him a spot on Law360's list of top IP attorneys under 40.
-
April 12, 2016
Rising Star: Williams & Connolly's Ashley W. Hardin
The stakes were enormous in two False Claims Act cases that threatened to expose clients of Williams & Connolly to billions of dollars in damages and penalties — and Ashley W. Hardin played a pivotal role in winning summary judgments tossing both suits. The partner's achievements helped her earn a place on Law360's Rising Stars list as one of the top six health care attorneys under age 40.