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Rankings: Rising Stars

Law360’s Rising Stars profiles the top legal talent under 40. The winners are comprised of top litigators and dealmakers practicing at a level usually seen from veteran attorneys. Submissions highlight the winner’s age and reasons why his or her record deserves attention.
  • August 21, 2025

    Rising Star: Clifford Chance's Neil Barlow

    Clifford Chance LLP partner Neil Barlow has helped lead the growth of the firm's U.S. private equity practice while advising on high-profile cross-border deals, including KKR and Carlyle's $10.1 billion acquisition of a student loan portfolio and the sale of global fund administrator Alter Domus, earning him a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 20, 2025

    Rising Star: Dechert's Nitya Kumar Goyal

    Dechert LLP's finance and real estate partner Nitya K. Goyal worked on major loan deals last year, such as representing Bank of America and Deutsche Bank in a $1.58 billion mortgage loan origination that used nine luxury hotels as collateral, earning her a spot among the real estate practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 20, 2025

    Rising Star: Latham's Mike Waldman

    Michael H. Waldman of Latham & Watkins LLP helped guide a landmark $2 billion private credit loan to Dropbox last year and has advised on multiple billion-dollar cross-border financing deals, earning a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 20, 2025

    Rising Star: Latham's Daniel Williams

    Latham & Watkins LLP partner Daniel Williams has steered several multibillion-dollar deals, including SRS' $18.25 billion acquisition by Home Depot and Cogentrix Energy's $3 billion sale to Quantum Capital Group, earning him a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 19, 2025

    Rising Star: Davis Polk's Nikolaus Caro

    Nikolaus Caro of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is advising Sycamore Partners in its take-private acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance, earning him a spot among the private equity practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 19, 2025

    Rising Star: Davis Polk's David Kennedy

    David Kennedy, a partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's finance practice group, advised one of the largest-ever private credit deals in the U.S., with the refinancing of Finastra Group's existing first-lien and second-lien credit facilities, earning him a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 18, 2025

    Rising Star: Orrick's Jennifer Lee

    Jennifer Lee of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP helped Nationstar Mortgage LLC defeat a slew of claims tied to the sale of nearly $2 billion in delinquent loans and represented Credit Suisse in a two-week trial in New York state court involving nine-figure litigation, earning her a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 18, 2025

    Rising Star: Freshfields Eva Mak

    Eva Mak of Freshfields LLP has several multibillion-dollar deals under her belt, including a $16.5 billion take-private acquisition of cloud computing company Citrix Systems Inc., earning her a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 15, 2025

    Rising Star: Kellogg Hansen's Thomas Schultz

    Last year, Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC partner Thomas Schultz helped sports streaming service FuboTV prevail in a bet-the-company antitrust case against entertainment heavyweights like ESPN and Disney, and played an instrumental role in a massive opioid crisis trial in Florida, earning him a spot as one of the trials attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 15, 2025

    Rising Star: Weil's Timothy Burns

    Timothy Burns of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP led the team representing Glencore, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and British Columbia Investment Management Corp. on their exit from Viterra through its $18 billion sale to Bunge, earning him a spot among the private equity practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 15, 2025

    Rising Star: Skadden's Parker Rider-Longmaid

    Parker Rider-Longmaid of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP helped the Innocence Project persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to extend the statute of limitations on appealing DNA test orders for a man who has been on death row for over 25 years, earning him a spot among appellate attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 15, 2025

    Rising Star: Wiley's Theodore Brackemyre

    Ted Brackemyre of Wiley Rein LLP served as the lead associate helping the U.S.'s largest steel producer keep highly contested antidumping and countervailing duty orders on 19 countries, earning him a spot among the international trade lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 15, 2025

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Meredith Karp

    Meredith Karp of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has represented Paramount in multiple actions related to its $8 billion merger with Skydance and counseled TD Bank in litigation arising from the second-largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 15, 2025

    Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Ana M. González Pérez

    Ana M. González Pérez of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped steer Credit Suisse through its merger and integration with UBS and co-negotiated investment terms that pulled a struggling New York Community Bancorp back from the brink, earning her a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 15, 2025

    Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's R. Courtland Morrice

    New York-based R. Courtland Morrice of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP counsels companies, investment firms and other financial players on such subjects as liability management, private debt, structured finance and capital markets — including advising Neiman Marcus Group on its nearly $3 billion acquisition in 2024 by Hudson's Bay Co. — earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Wesley Sze

    Wesley Sze of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has been representing a slew of major tech companies and helped them secure multimillion-dollar settlements, including a $310 million deal on behalf of Apple in multidistrict litigation claiming that software updates lowered older phones' battery life, earning him a spot among the class action practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: Goldman Ismail's Emma Ross

    Emma Ross of Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP has taken key roles in trials for Bayer over the pesticide Roundup and for Merck defending the safety of the Gardasil vaccine, earning her a spot among the trials attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: King & Spalding's Margaret Nettesheim

    Margaret Nettesheim of King & Spalding LLP is overseeing the development of the third-party risk management process at an international infrastructure company in the Middle East as it builds a megaproject, earning her a spot among the compliance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: Hogan Lovells' Katie Wellington

    Hogan Lovells' Katie Wellington was one of the chief architects of an argument that resulted in a win for a voting rights group in a dispute over the so-called independent state legislature theory before the U.S. Supreme Court, preventing state legislatures from changing election rules and maps without being subject to judicial review, earning her a spot among the appellate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: Cahill Gordon's Javier Ortiz

    Javier Ortiz of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP advised financing banks on an unusual and complex cross-border asset-based loan for Apollo Global Management's $6 billion acquisition of auto parts-maker Tenneco Inc., earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: Troutman's Elizabeth Phillips Corey

    Elizabeth Phillips Corey's scientific aptitude, legal chops and client relations have made her an asset at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, where she's helped save an oil field that was in danger of being shut down and worked with a company hoping to usher in new nanotechnology, earning her a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 14, 2025

    Rising Star: Latham's Ruchi Gill

    Latham & Watkins LLP's Ruchi Gill was key in guiding a court-ordered national security agreement in a major transaction for her client, earning her a spot among international trade lawyers named as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Skadden's Katie Clarke

    For advising major acquisitions, including sovereign wealth funds, before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and, more recently, guiding a major mobile games company in its acquisition of the makers of Pokémon Go, Katie Clarke of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP earned a spot among international trade practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Beveridge & Diamond's Andrew Silton

    Andrew Silton of Beveridge & Diamond PC led a landmark Clean Water Act victory before the U.S. Supreme Court that reshaped how environmental permits are written nationwide, and he's helping cities, developers and tech firms navigate the next wave of environmental law enforcement — earning him a spot among the environmental law attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 13, 2025

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Sara Clark

    Sara Clark of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP was a key member of the team that secured a midtrial dismissal of a manslaughter charge against actor Alec Baldwin in connection with a fatal shooting during the filming of the movie "Rust," earning her a spot among the trial attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.