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Rankings: Rising Stars
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September 23, 2019
Rising Star: Davis Polk's Brian Wolfe
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP partner Brian Wolfe pushed Comcast through its purchase of Sky PLC for £29.7 billion ($38.8 billion at the time), while helping it negotiate a particularly complex deal over Hulu's future, earning him a spot as a Law360 Rising Star for media and entertainment.
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September 23, 2019
Rising Star: Sidley Austin's Nilofer Umar
Sidley Austin LLP's Nilofer Umar has guided Walgreens through shareholder litigation against its officers for allegedly falling prey to fraud from Theranos and represented Keurig in a shareholder action seeking to halt its $13.9 billion merger, making her one of six securities attorneys under 40 selected as one of Law360's Rising Stars.
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September 23, 2019
Rising Star: Cravath's Omid Nasab
Omid Nasab of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP has been in the middle of several high-profile bankruptcy cases over his career, including leading a team investigating liabilities in Pacific Gas and Electric's Chapter 11 proceedings, earning him a spot as one of the bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 23, 2019
Rising Star: Covington's Andrew Soukup
Andrew Soukup of Covington & Burling LLP has seen big wins in his class action practice, and in one notable case secured a crucial court finding that mortgage servicers can charge borrowers for property inspections, landing the Washington, D.C.-based attorney a spot among the class action law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 23, 2019
Rising Star: Aldous/Walker's Brent Walker
Brent Walker of Aldous/Walker LLP helped obtain a $25 million wrongful death verdict against a nightclub that overserved alcohol to a pro football player that led to a teammate's death, and won a $37.6 million product liability case against Honda, earning him a spot as one of three personal injury and medical malpractice law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360.
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September 20, 2019
Rising Star: Skadden's Katja Butler
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP partner Katja Butler has helped guide big investors through major deals, including a consortium led by HgCapital that bought up a multibillion-dollar stake in Norwegian software company Visma, earning her a spot on this year's list of private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 20, 2019
Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Daniel Salinas-Serrano
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Daniel Salinas-Serrano has helped to secure an initial victory for U.S. casino investors suing Mexico for more than $100 million, and is representing mining investors suing Bolivia for more than $1 billion, helping to land him a spot among five international arbitration lawyers under 40 honored by Law360.
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September 20, 2019
Rising Star: Susman Godfrey's Rocco Magni
Susman Godfrey's Rocco Magni has amassed victories over his career including assisting in the largest verdict ever awarded in Bexar County, Texas, after a jury agreed that a Quicken Loans affiliate brazenly stole proprietary data recipes for home appraisals and comparisons from another company, earning a spot among the top trial lawyers under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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September 20, 2019
Rising Star: Jones Day's Courtney Lyons Snyder
Jones Day partner Courtney Lyons Snyder has been a key part of the firm’s representation of Wells Fargo in litigation over residential mortgage-backed securities and maintains a non-traditional practice working with state attorneys general and government investigations, earning her a spot among five banking attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 20, 2019
Rising Star: Orrick's Rohit Sachdev
Rohit Sachdev of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP led a team that helped secure a major development of battery-based energy storage projects in the United Kingdom for a U.K.-based energy provider, earning him a spot among the project finance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 20, 2019
Rising Star: Pomerantz's Michael Grunfeld
Pomerantz LLP's Michael Grunfeld has amassed numerous victories on behalf of his investor clients over his career, including paving the way for shareholders to bring class actions over data breaches, earning him a spot as one of six securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 19, 2019
Rising Star: Richards Layton's Travis Hunter
Richards Layton & Finger PA partner Travis Hunter played a key role on a multi-firm team that helped a Bristol-Myers Squibb unit defeat a potentially billion-dollar trade secrets claim at trial, landing him a spot as one of five trials attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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September 19, 2019
Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Marisa Sotomayor
While Marisa A. Sotomayor of Paul Hastings LLP says that any deal she works on, no matter the value, is of equal importance to her, she’s represented some big fish like Bank of America and Wells Fargo as arrangers in $5.1 billion credit facilities to support Bass Pro Shops’ purchase of Cabela’s, earning her a spot as one of five banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 19, 2019
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Naveed Anwar
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Naveed Anwar has assisted on a plethora of major private equity transactions, including last year's complicated tracking stock deal featuring Dell Technologies and Silver Lake Partners, earning him a spot as one of five private equity attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 19, 2019
Rising Star: Reed Smith's Ben Love
Reed Smith LLP counsel Ben Love has helped secure key wins for clients in challenging arbitration proceedings, including a $1.3 billion award for East Mediterranean Gas Co., earning him a place as one of five international arbitration attorneys under 40 named to Law360's list of Rising Stars.
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September 19, 2019
Rising Star: Latham's Chirag Dedania
Chirag Dedania of Latham & Watkins LLP worked on the Calcasieu Pass LNG facility, which involved a $1.3 billion equity investment and $5.8 billion in construction financing, for his client Venture Global, earning him a spot as one of five project finance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 19, 2019
Rising Star: Latham's Sarah A. Tomkowiak
During a rare securities class action trial earlier this year, Latham & Watkins LLP’s Sarah Tomkowiak helped convince a jury to award minimal damages to investors who had accused Puma Biotechnology Inc. of misrepresenting the results of a clinical trial involving a breast cancer treatment, earning her a spot as one of six securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 18, 2019
Rising Star: Fried Frank's Adam Summers
Fried Frank partner Adam Summers counseled Goldman Sachs Lending Partners on its nine-figure funding of a blank-check company’s tie-up with Ranpak Corp. and helped guide Bank of America and Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith in a $1.15 billion financing for Alliance Laundry Systems, earning a spot among the five banking attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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September 18, 2019
Rising Star: Pillsbury's Stephen Amdur
From advising U.S. e-cigarette giant Juul Labs on a $12.8 billion investment to steering WestJet's $3.7 billion acquisition by funds affiliated with Onex Corp., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's Stephen Amdur has distinguished himself as one of the go-to private equity advisers, earning him a spot as one of five private equity attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 18, 2019
Rising Star: Freshfields' Maria Julia Milesi
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP's Maria Julia Milesi played a leading role in some of her firm's most complex client matters this past year, including 10 investor-state disputes collectively worth more than $3 billion, earning her a spot as one of five international arbitration law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360.
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September 18, 2019
Rising Star: Proskauer's Susan Gutierrez
Proskauer Rose LLP partner Susan Gutierrez has helped secure several trial victories for Johnson & Johnson over consumer claims about its talc products, landing her among the trials practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as a Rising Star.
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September 18, 2019
Rising Star: Kirkland's Kelann Stirling
Kelann Stirling of Kirkland & Ellis LLP has advised clients on numerous complex project financings over her career, including on a $1 billion project that is expected to be the largest natural gas-fired electric power plant in the United States, earning her a spot as one of five project finance attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 18, 2019
Rising Star: Jones Day's Marjorie P. Duffy
Jones Day partner Marjorie P. Duffy successfully argued a motion to transfer on only two hours' notice for energy industry supplier Fairmount Santrol in a case relating to a securities class action and reached a settlement after six years of litigation for law and garden supply company Scotts in a $100 million class action over its Morning Song Bird Food, earning her a place among the six securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 17, 2019
Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Laura Kathryn O'Boyle
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Laura Kathryn O’Boyle successfully defended Susquehanna Growth Equity against fraud charges related to its sale of an e-commerce payment processing business, helped Merck & Co. beat a shareholder suit, and is representing Marriott International Inc. in a multidistrict litigation related to its November data breach, making her one of five securities attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 17, 2019
Rising Star: Latham's J. Cory Tull
Latham & Watkins LLP's J. Cory Tull guided The Carlyle Group through its multibillion-dollar buyout of StandardAero and inked a deal that put the St. Louis Blues under full local ownership within a week of the hockey team's historic Stanley Cup win, making him one of five private equity attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.