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August 25, 2026
Warren Kessler of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader guided satellite giant SES' $3.1 billion deal to buy Intelsat SA through federal regulatory approval, making him one of the telecommunications law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 25, 2026
Steptoe partner Nicholas Silverman used a novel legal argument to secure dismissal of charges against casino magnate Steve Wynn of acting as a foreign agent without registration and also won an eventual dismissal, after overturning a guilty verdict, of a case against Ali Sadr on charges of circumventing Iranian sanctions, earning him a spot among the white collar lawyers under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 25, 2026
Tyler Schneider of TorHoerman Law's work representing plaintiffs in cases accusing Abbott Laboratories of making infant formula that can cause serious gut conditions in preterm babies helped win a $495 million verdict against the company, earning him a place among the product liability practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 25, 2026
Thomas A. Pettit of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP successfully defended his clients' $20 billion moving-services contract with the U.S. Transportation Command and $316 million IT services contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, earning him a spot among the government contracts law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 25, 2026
Kathryn Kayali of Williams & Connolly LLP has helped secure major wins in high-profile pharmaceutical patent litigation over COVID-19 vaccines and played a role in landing the first injunctions under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act, earning her a spot among life sciences lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 25, 2026
Evan Zuckerman of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has worked on major initial public offerings including guiding Mediterranean restaurant chain Cava through its IPO and handling other large deals, earning him a spot among the capital markets law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 25, 2026
Chad Richards of Mayer Brown LLP is helping guide the regulatory approvals for Manulife Investment Management's $1.9 billion utility acquisition in the Pacific Northwest after coming off one of the largest infrastructure deals in recent years, BlackRock's $12.5 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners, earning a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 25, 2026
Shoshana Silverstein, a criminal law and investigations litigation associate at Dilworth Paxson LLP, has built an accomplished post-conviction appellate practice and worked on cases that helped end an over four-decade-long period of incarceration for a wrongly convicted man, earning her a spot among the criminal law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 25, 2026
Charles Fowler, the head of Texas trial firm McKool Smith PC's appellate practice, has successfully protected a multimillion-dollar jury award in a contract dispute with Santander and steered Aramark through the appellate process in an ERISA dispute, earning him a spot among the appellate practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 25, 2026
Brittany Bolen of Sidley Austin LLP helped save a manufacturer from shuttering U.S. facilities due to a chemical regulation and helped push the federal government to change its enforcement policy on certain aftermarket automotive devices, earning her a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 24, 2026
Kenneth E. Notter III of MoloLamken LLP helped secure a rare dismissal with prejudice on double jeopardy grounds after a mistrial in a high-profile federal fraud prosecution and helped win a complete acquittal in a campaign finance case stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, earning him a place among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 24, 2026
At Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, Maria Fleming's work on leadership committees in the massive litigation over the opioid epidemic on behalf of Ohio counties hard-hit by addiction helped secure millions of dollars in settlements to abate the crisis and won her a place among the product liability attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 24, 2026
Steven R. Green of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz co-led the team advising Charter Communications on its pending $34.5 billion combination with Cox Communications and negotiated balanced corporate governance arrangements for Cox's 23% post-closing stake in Charter, earning him a spot among the telecommunications lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 24, 2026
Brittany L. Sukiennik of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP has guided Xcel Energy, Colorado's largest utility company, in a roughly $640 million agreement to settle claims against it over the devastating 2021 Marshall Fire and helped lead Pacific Gas and Electric Co. through Chapter 11 bankruptcy after it faced mass tort suits over the California wildfires in 2017 and 2018, earning her a spot among practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 24, 2026
Emily Spence of PilieroMazza PLLC helped a shipbuilder secure a $3.5 billion contract with the U.S. Coast Guard and successfully argued that the U.S. Navy failed to follow competition requirements for small business procurements, earning her a spot among the government contracts attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 24, 2026
Benjamin Goodchild of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP developed an innovative deal structure while guiding obesity drug developer Metsera Inc. through a tumultuous bidding war that resulted in its acquisition by Pfizer Inc., earning him a spot among the life sciences law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 24, 2026
Jeffrey Then of Hecker Fink LLP helped secure the dismissal of human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in one of the country's most closely watched criminal cases and prevailed in his first federal appellate argument on behalf of an incarcerated man's religious freedom claims, earning him a spot among the criminal law attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 24, 2026
Ferrell M. Keel, a Jones Day partner, served as an expert witness last year before a congressional committee, providing testimony on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations relating to shareholder proposals, activism and corporate governance, earning her a spot among the capital markets law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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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.