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August 24, 2026
Jo-Ann Sagar of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader represented Danco Laboratories in the high court's abortion medication case, and helped secure a win for incarcerated people with mental illness, earning her a spot among the appellate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 24, 2026
Madison Ott of Fox Rothschild LLP led Thrivent Federal Credit Union's board of directors through a complex, four-year merger with Thrivent Bank in the first such conversion since 2006, earning her a spot among the banking attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 24, 2026
Latham & Watkins LLP partner Devin M. O'Connor has worked on the teams that successfully secured multiple court victories within the past year that allowed multibillion-dollar offshore wind and energy projects to resume construction, earning her a spot among the environmental attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 21, 2026
Rachael Wallace of Stokes Lawrence PS has spent her career navigating the tricky waters of maritime law, including winning a defense verdict for commercial fishery Fishermen's Finest and defeating a motion to dismiss for a plaintiff client in a missing-cargo suit, earning her a spot among the transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 21, 2026
John Zelenbaba of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP played a key role in two of the most talked-about crypto transactions of the past year — Gemini Space Station's headline-grabbing $425 million initial public offering and Kraken's landmark $800 million fundraise — earning him a spot among the fintech law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 21, 2026
Andrew Robb of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped secure the setting aside of an $847 million patent infringement verdict on behalf of his client Verizon, eliminating one of the largest patent verdicts in recent years, earning him a spot among the intellectual property law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 21, 2026
Lee Blum of Kirkland & Ellis LLP advised the buying group on the $55 billion take-private of video game developer Electronic Arts Inc., which the firm calls the largest take-private investment in history, earning him a spot among the private equity practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 21, 2026
Sheri Pan of ZwillGen PLLC secured a precedential Third Circuit victory for GameStop in a closely watched privacy class action claiming the company's use of website tracking technologies violated wiretapping laws, earning her a spot among the cybersecurity and privacy practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 21, 2026
Ryan Chabot of WilmerHale successfully defended Walt Disney World from a proposed class action filed by annual pass holders over its ticketing policy, earning him a spot among the class action law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 21, 2026
Mayer Brown LLP's Glenn Kunkes represented Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Citi in establishing Affirm's first-ever master trust and served as lead counsel to Bank of America in a $10 billion financing for KKR and Carlyle, earning him a spot among the banking practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 20, 2026
Chauncey Mayfield II of Honigman LLP has shepherded supply, purchasing and healthcare deals for major companies like Rivian Automotive Inc. and General Motors Co., earning him a spot among the transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 20, 2026
Ciara McHale of Tyz Law Group PC helped Moonbug Entertainment Ltd. win a $17.7 million copyright verdict, plus high praise from the judge, and secured a complete defense victory for Fandom in a case involving Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests — earning her a spot among the intellectual property attorneys under the age of 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 20, 2026
In recent years, Sidley Austin LLP partner Mark Castiglia has co-led teams advising Clearlake Capital Group LP's take-private acquisition of data and analytics company Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Inc., Clearlake's take-private acquisition of data analytics platform Alteryx Inc. and Clearlake's majority growth investment in medical practice software as a service provider ModMed, earning him a spot among the private equity practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 20, 2026
Itak Moradi of Saveri Law Firm LLP has guided plaintiffs through a wide range of high-profile disputes involving allegations of fraud and deceitful business practices, including the sprawling antitrust cases against Sam Bankman-Fried and the UFC, earning her a spot among the class action practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 20, 2026
Gloria Medina of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP played an integral role in securing a landmark jury verdict finding Meta Platforms Inc. liable for illegally gathering sensitive health information that users entered into the period tracking app Flo, earning her a place among the cybersecurity and privacy attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 20, 2026
McDermott Will & Schulte's Greer Griffith helped cryptocurrency clients navigate first-of-their-kind bankruptcy matters, including securing confirmation of a Chapter 11 plan for the first crypto trust company to file for bankruptcy and representing creditors in a crypto mining Chapter 11 case, earning her a spot among the fintech law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 20, 2026
Emily McGowan of Alston & Bird LLP has advised UnitedHealth Group's subsidiaries on several cases, including representing UnitedHealthcare in a complaint alleging that it violated the False Claims Act and representing OptumRx in opioid-related litigation, earning her a spot among the healthcare law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 20, 2026
Nicholas Poli of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has successfully represented UBS, financial institutions and other lenders in significant litigation, co-leading a bench trial where a judge ultimately turned nine-figure claims against his clients into a nine-figure victory, earning him a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 19, 2026
Edd Hampson of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP advised Blackstone Group on a series of refinancings for its iQ student housing platform, including a £2.6 billion refinancing in August 2024 involving an 11‑bank syndicate, earning him a spot among the real estate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 19, 2026
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Stephan Rauch advised Schaeffler AG in a transformative multistep merger with Vitesco Technologies Group AG, earning him a spot among transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 19, 2026
Allison G. Geewax of Smith Currie Oles LLP represented a small business that successfully protested the federal government excluding it from the award pool for a contract she said was estimated to be worth up to $8 billion, and helped a human services organization develop complex construction agreements for a $10 million project to house homeless people — earning her a spot among the real estate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 19, 2026
Jon McMichael of Fenwick & West LLP helped Lashify secure a $34 million patent verdict and a Federal Circuit decision that overturned decades-long International Trade Commission precedent, and won a landmark ruling that reshaped where patent lawsuits may be filed, earning him a spot among the intellectual property attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 19, 2026
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner Austin Pollet co-led the team advising General Atlantic and Chess.com on a CVC Capital Partners IX investment and co-led the team advising General Atlantic on an investment in Vuori, earning him a spot among the private equity lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 19, 2026
Georgina McLeod of Dechert LLP advised Israeli financial technology firm Pagaya on a $300 million, first-of-its-kind securitization of "buy now, pay later" assets with Klarna and WebBank, earning her a spot among the fintech attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 19, 2026
BakerHostetler partner Sean Killeen helped retailer Janie & Jack avoid more than 2,400 individual arbitration demands over its alleged website tracking activity and aided another law firm in beating a proposed class action over a criminal cyberattack, earning him a place among the cybersecurity and privacy attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.