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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 04, 2025

    Rising Star: Keker's Bailey Heaps

    Bailey Heaps of Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP helped two chemistry professors defeat a lawsuit centering on the commercialization of a scientific breakthrough and won an $80 million verdict in a dispute over a milestone payment, earning him a spot among the life sciences law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 04, 2025

    Rising Star: Covington's Amanda Tuninetti

    Amanda Tuninetti of Covington & Burling LLP was instrumental in convincing courts in Washington, D.C., to deny Venezuela's bid to defeat enforcement of an arbitral award now worth some $670 million to Spanish affiliates of Mexican tortilla manufacturer Gruma SAB de CV, earning her a spot among the international arbitration practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 04, 2025

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Michael J. Kahn

    Michael Kahn of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP planted the seed of a question that made its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court and won his client Slack Technologies Inc. reprieve from a shareholder class action, earning him a spot among the securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 04, 2025

    Rising Star: Seyfarth's Erica Bakies

    Erica Bakies of Seyfarth Shaw LLP guided a foreign investor in securing regulatory approval to purchase a U.S. government contractor and litigated two bid protests before the Government Accountability Office that resulted in regulatory changes, earning her a spot among the government contracts law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 04, 2025

    Rising Star: Latham's Aaron Chiu

    Aaron Chiu of Latham & Watkins LLP was on the legal team representing U.S. Soccer in its February antitrust jury verdict victory over an upstart pro league, and on the team representing the Atlantic Coast Conference in its $2.78 billion name, image and likeness settlement between the NCAA, the major conferences and college athletes, earning him a spot among the sports and betting law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 04, 2025

    Rising Star: Hogan Lovells' Jalpit Amin

    Hogan Lovells LLP partner Jalpit Amin has successfully steered several multibillion-dollar deals in the technology sector, including Oracle's $28 billion purchase of Cerner Corp. and Marvell Technology Group's $10 billion acquisition of Inphi Corp., earning him a spot among the technology attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 04, 2025

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Jordan Cross

    Jordan Cross, a partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's funds formation practice group, has quickly made a name for himself by advising on significant transactions for some of the biggest players in the private equity world, including advising Blackstone and Silver Lake on their recent fund raises, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 04, 2025

    Rising Star: Sidley's Sue Wang

    Sue Wang of Sidley Austin LLP has amassed numerous wins for name brand biologics companies and drugmakers — including representing Amgen in multidistrict litigation and notching a multimillion-dollar verdict for Bayer — earning her a spot among the intellectual property practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 04, 2025

    Rising Star: Cleary's Blair Matthews

    Blair West Matthews of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP helped Tempur Sealy International Inc. beat a high-profile government merger challenge, earning her a spot among the antitrust law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 01, 2025

    Rising Star: Wilson Sonsini's Elina Coss

    Elina Coss of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC led a team that closed a massive $1.4 billion deal for two battery storage projects and was lead counsel to a clean energy provider in a record-setting $977.5 million securitization of solar leases and power purchase agreements, earning her a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 01, 2025

    Rising Star: Cleary's Chrishan Raja

    Last year, London-based Chrishan Raja of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP steered several companies through complicated changes in U.K. regulatory policy, advising on landmark deals that totaled more than €8 billion ($9.23 billion at the current exchange rate), including the listing of Canal+ on the London Stock Exchange as an independent company, earning him a spot among the capital markets attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 01, 2025

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Justin Martin

    Justin Martin of Jones Day has represented McDonald's and Google in high-profile litigation before the National Labor Relations Board in unfair labor practice cases that alleged the companies jointly employed workers with franchisees and contractors, earning him a spot among the employment practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 01, 2025

    Rising Star: Bleichmar Fonti's George N. Bauer

    George Bauer of Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP helped a pension fund win a landmark settlement that returned more than $734 million to Tesla following allegations its directors awarded themselves excessive compensation, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 01, 2025

    Rising Star: Morrison Foerster's Timothy Chen Saulsbury

    Timothy Chen Saulsbury of Morrison Foerster LLP helped defeat a $900 million trade secrets suit over wearable medical device technologies and won a favorable jury verdict for Epic Games on a patent infringement claim, earning him a spot among the intellectual property lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 01, 2025

    Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Lindsey Henrikson

    Lindsey Henrikson of Paul Hastings LLP advised Colombian refinery Reficar in a high-stakes global restructuring that preserved a $1.3 billion arbitration award and secured equity in McDermott International, earning her a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 31, 2025

    Rising Star: Proskauer's Rachel Fischer

    Proskauer Rose's Rachel Fischer has successfully defended high-profile clients such as Fox News in a former producer's sexual harassment and assault suit and the MLB in an umpire's race discrimination suit, earning her a spot among the employment practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 31, 2025

    Rising Star: Winston & Strawn's Kerry Donovan

    Kerry Donovan of Winston & Strawn LLP was a key member of a team representing Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. and former executives at the U.S. Supreme Court that ultimately secured a 9-0 victory in a stock-drop class action, earning her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 31, 2025

    Rising Star: Willkie's Stuart Lombardi

    Stuart Lombardi of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has worked for bankruptcy clients including families seeking defamation payouts in Alex Jones' insolvency and the representative of as-yet-unknown asbestos claimants in a talc producer's Chapter 11, earning him a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 31, 2025

    Rising Star: WilmerHale's Steven Horn

    WilmerHale's Steven Horn has been a strategic leader on the firm's work defending Intel Corp. from the sprawling, big-dollar patent infringement litigation brought by VLSI Technology LLC, earning him a spot among the intellectual property attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 31, 2025

    Rising Star: Fenwick's Chelsea Anderson

    Chelsea Anderson of Fenwick & West LLP counseled project management software company Smartsheet Inc. on its $8.4 billion acquisition by a private equity consortium and advised real estate tech company Redfin on its $1.75 billion acquisition by Rocket Companies, earning Anderson a spot among the capital markets law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 31, 2025

    Rising Star: V&E's Stephanie Noble

    Vinson & Elkins LLP's Stephanie Noble has scored high-stakes trial wins for oil and gas companies, including Antero Resources Corp. and Aera Energy LLC, earning her a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 30, 2025

    Rising Star: O'Melveny's Mark Liang

    Mark Liang of O'Melveny & Myers LLP successfully represented Google and LG Electronics in disputes where they faced tens of millions of dollars in potential liabilities for alleged patent infringement, earning him a spot among the intellectual property attorneys under the age of 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 30, 2025

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Garrett Gibson

    Garrett Gibson of Jones Day has notched several wins in notable construction cases, including a high-stakes dispute between a major contractor for the oil and gas sector and a petrochemical manufacturer in Texas, earning him a spot among construction law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 30, 2025

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Eric Meer

    Eric Meer of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP guided RXR Realty through major recapitalizations and loan modifications on New York City office properties amid a tight rate environment as the Manhattan office market continued to take a beating, earning him a spot among the real estate practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 30, 2025

    Rising Star: Norton Rose's Christine Brozynski

    Christine Brozynski of Norton Rose Fulbright represented the lenders in a $6 billion project to deliver clean and renewable hydropower from Quebec to New York City, earning her a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.