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Rankings: Rising Stars
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April 01, 2015
Rising Star: Davis Polk's Michelle McGreal
The first taste of debtor-side restructuring work for Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's Michelle McGreal put her at the center of two prominent coal industry bankruptcies that tested the firm's creativity and tenacity and landed her among Law360's top bankruptcy lawyers under 40.
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April 01, 2015
Rising Star: Shearman & Sterling's Beau Buffier
Shearman & Sterling LLP partner Beau Buffier represented Zillow Inc. in its recently approved $2.5 billion acquisition of online real estate rival Trulia Inc. among other high-profile deals, earning him a spot among Law360's top competition attorneys under 40.
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April 01, 2015
Rising Star: Latham & Watkins' Natasha Gianvecchio
Latham & Watkins LLP’s Natasha Gianvecchio, who represents some of the country’s biggest energy companies in billions of dollars’ worth of transactions and in precedent-setting Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proceedings, is one of seven attorneys in the energy world honored on Law360's Rising Stars list.
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April 01, 2015
Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Werner Ahlers
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner Werner Ahlers' deft hand with cross-border transactions has helped AT&T land three market-shifting deals in Mexico that reshaped the North American telecom industry, earning him a spot on Law360's roster of top mergers and acquisitions attorneys under 40.
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April 01, 2015
Rising Star: Cooley's Divakar Gupta
Cooley LLP's capital markets partner Divakar Gupta has crafted a reputation for delivering on complicated deals in the life sciences and technology sectors with recent work such as advising underwriters in cross-border initial public offerings for Ascendis Pharma A/S and DBV Technologies, making him one of eight attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as a rising legal star in capital markets.
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April 01, 2015
Rising Star: Jones Day's Emily Baker
Jones Day partner Emily C. Baker has climbed the firm's ranks by demonstrating her expertise as a trial attorney, particularly by representing R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in a slew of Engle progeny suits, and ranks among Law360's top product liability attorneys under 40.
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April 01, 2015
Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Chris Houpt
While many litigators shy away from math, Mayer Brown LLP partner Chris Houpt uses his aptitude for the subject to help sway judges in support of his clients, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp. on several occasions, helping land him on Law360's list of top banking attorneys under 40.
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April 01, 2015
Rising Star: McDermott Will & Emery's James Kim
Though he thrives in the relatively fast-paced environment of government contracts law, McDermott Will & Emery LLP's James W. Kim knew the first thing he had to do was slow things down when he took on the high-profile case of a federal contractor's fall from grace.
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April 01, 2015
Rising Star: King & Spalding's Joseph Wetzel
King & Spalding LLP partner Joseph R. Wetzel keeps his ear to the ground with the music industry's latest services, which has strengthened his role representing Pandora Media Inc. in royalty disputes and landed him a spot among Law360's list of top media and entertainment attorneys under 40.
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March 31, 2015
Rising Star: Greenberg Traurig's Daniel Smulian
Greenberg Traurig LLP's Daniel Smulian ascended the ranks at his firm representing medical device defendants in large-scale multidistrict litigation — most recently as a co-manager of C.R. Bard Inc.'s epically large pelvic mesh MDL involving some 13,000 cases — landing him among Law360's top product liability attorneys under 40.
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March 31, 2015
Rising Star: Kirkland & Ellis' Anthony Speier
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Anthony Speier represented both KKR & Co. LP in a deal with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. to develop land in Texas' Eaglebine Shale and buyers of $1.2 billion in drilling rights from Royal Dutch Shell PLC subsidiaries, earning him a place among Law360's Energy Rising Stars.
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March 31, 2015
Rising Star: Covington's Jeffrey Davidson
Covington & Burling LLP partner Jeffrey Davidson helped craft the strategy Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and other liquid crystal display panel makers used to escape most of Motorola Mobility Inc.'s $3.5 billion price-fixing claim, landing him a spot on Law360's list of top competition attorneys under the age of 40.
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March 31, 2015
Rising Star: Jenner & Block's Luke Platzer
Handling the first jury trial to test the copyright infringement theory of "willful blindness," Jenner & Block LLP partner Luke Platzer secured a multimillion-dollar jury award for record label EMI in its long-running case against music storage service MP3Tunes, earning him a spot on Law360's list of top media and entertainment attorneys under 40.
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March 31, 2015
Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Krishna Veeraraghavan
An appetite for blockbuster transactional work and a longtime familiarity with the medical profession helped Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Krishna Veeraraghavan complete several multibillion-dollar deals in 2014, earning him a spot on Law360's list of eight top mergers and acquisitions lawyers under 40.
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March 31, 2015
Rising Star: Dickstein Shapiro's David Yang
David Yang's recent work assisting clients to secure a share of several multibillion-dollar government contracts, as well as a much-scrutinized deal to help right the ship at the HealthCare.gov Web portal, has earned the Dickstein Shapiro LLP partner a spot among Law360's 2015 Government Contracts Rising Stars.
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March 31, 2015
Rising Star: Thompson Hine's Richard Freshwater
By successfully representing major financial institutions in consumer class actions and becoming a go-to source for consumer financial law expertise in the post-financial crisis era, Thompson Hine LLP partner Richard Freshwater has earned a spot on Law360's list of top banking attorneys under the age of 40.
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March 31, 2015
Rising Star: Brown Rudnick's Sunni Beville
Brown Rudnick LLP partner Sunni Beville used her self-described "even-handed" negotiating style to achieve favorable sales and reorganizations of alternative energy companies that defaulted on U.S. government loans, earning her a spot among Law360's 2015 Bankruptcy Rising Stars.
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March 31, 2015
Rising Star: Cleary Gottlieb's Pamela Marcogliese
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP partner Pamela Marcogliese's passion for fast-paced debt and equity transactions has landed her at the forefront of complex offerings, such as Medtronic's $17 billion offering to finance a cross-border mega-merger, earning her a spot among Law360's list of top capital markets attorneys under 40.
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March 30, 2015
Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Amir Tayrani
Gibson Dunn partner Amir Tayrani has played a vital role in shaping product liability case law through his defense of disputes ranging from dozens of tobacco defect cases against Philip Morris USA to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling over medical device preemption, earning him a spot among Law360's top five product liability attorneys under 40.
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March 30, 2015
Rising Star: Akin Gump's Arik Preis
Combining tenacity and creativity, Arik Preis has helped constituencies across the restructuring spectrum navigate though large and complex cases, earning the Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP partner a place as one of Law360's 2015 Rising Stars for bankruptcy attorneys.
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March 30, 2015
Rising Star: Freshfield's Elliot Friedman
At 35, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP's Elliot Friedman has already helped win a $185 million oil and gas dispute for BG Group PLC before the U.S. Supreme Court, the first ever bilateral investment treaty arbitration addressed by the high court, earning him a spot among Law360's 2015 Rising Stars for energy attorneys.
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March 30, 2015
Rising Star: Hunton & Williams' Steven Haas
Just a decade out of law school, Steven M. Haas of Hunton & Williams LLP has handled a series of mergers and acquisitions while also establishing himself as a thought leader through dozens of published articles and as a co-author of a corporate governance treatise, earning him a spot among this year’s Law360 M&A Rising Stars.
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March 30, 2015
Rising Star: Boies Schiller's Karen Dunn
After making a name for herself as an assistant U.S. attorney and debate adviser to high-profile politicians like President Barack Obama, Karen Dunn helped Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP defend Apple Inc. in $351 million trial, making her one of five attorneys chosen for Law360's list of Competition Rising Stars.
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March 30, 2015
Rising Star: Baker Botts' Hillary Holmes
Thanks to her work on myriad energy-related capital markets matters — including representing Royal Dutch Shell PLC's Shell Midstream Partners on its enormous master limited partnership initial public offering late last year — Baker Botts LLP's Hillary H. Holmes has been named one of Law360's Capital Markets Rising Stars of 2015.
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March 30, 2015
Rising Star: Irell & Manella's Sam Kozhaya
Irell & Manella LLP's Sam Kozhaya has helped broker some of entertainment's most innovative deals, including the representation of Miramax films as it securitized its film library and issued $250 million in notes backed by those assets, earning him a spot among Law360's 2015 Rising Stars of media and entertainment.