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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.
  • April 18, 2016

    Rising Star: BakerHostetler's Seanna R. Brown

    BakerHostetler partner Seanna R. Brown has cemented herself as a key member of the team representing the liquidation trustee for Bernie Madoff's collapsed investment firm, helping to amass more than $10 billion for victims of the convicted Ponzi schemer and meriting a spot as one of seven securities attorneys among Law360's 2016 Rising Stars.

  • April 18, 2016

    Rising Star: Latham & Watkins' Shaun Hartley

    Shaun Hartley has secured the trust of Latham & Watkins' powerhouse clients, combining youthful energy and veteran savvy to steer mammoth deals like The Carlyle Group's $2.1 billion sale of Landmark Aviation to BBA Aviation, earning him a spot on Law360's list of top private equity attorneys under age 40.

  • April 18, 2016

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Joseph Paunovich

    Quinn Emanuel intellectual property partner Joseph Paunovich played a key role in defending Pfizer Inc. in a retrial of a high-stakes case alleging the drug giant stole trade secrets from a research group and helped clear the company of nearly all of the claims against it, landing him a spot among Law360's top IP attorneys under 40.

  • April 18, 2016

    Rising Star: Shearman's Jonathan DeSantis

    Shearman & Sterling LLP's Jonathan DeSantis has a combination of legal smarts and banking experience that has made him a go-to attorney for firms looking to nail down vital financing, including several multibillion-dollar deals last year, placing him on the list of Law360's top banking attorneys under 40.

  • April 18, 2016

    Rising Star: O'Melveny & Myers' Stephen Sullivan

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP partner Stephen M. Sullivan has become a go-to attorney for Medicare Advantage plans that are increasingly being targeted in False Claims Act investigations, placing him among Law360's top health lawyers under age 40.

  • April 15, 2016

    Rising Star: Kramer Levin's Stephen Zide

    Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP partner Stephen D. Zide has played a key role in some of the largest bankruptcies in recent years, from guiding creditors of telecommunications firm NII Holdings Inc. through a tough restructuring process to negotiating a quick turnaround for Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd., earning him a spot on Law360’s list of top bankruptcy attorneys under 40.

  • April 15, 2016

    Rising Star: Perkins Coie's Adam Marchuk

    Perkins Coie LLP partner Adam Marchuk secured a major victory for Ameritox Ltd. by winning a rare post-Alice victory against a bid to invalidate the company's diagnostic patent, earning him a spot on Law360's list of top intellectual property attorneys under the age of 40.

  • April 15, 2016

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Jonathan Phillips

    Gibson Dunn’s Jonathan Phillips has leveraged his experience from litigating health care cases at the Justice Department to his private practice, building on his litigation record by successfully representing private clients in False Claims Act cases that has landed him a spot among Law360’s top health care lawyers under the age of 40.

  • April 15, 2016

    Rising Star: Blank Rome's Jared Zola

    Blank Rome LLP partner Jared Zola combines a deep command of insurance law with a trial lawyer's intuition, winning over jurors in a H.J. Heinz Co. insurance row and taking on a groundbreaking case for a professional football player, earning him a place among Law360's top insurance attorneys under the age of 40.

  • April 15, 2016

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Jeremy Andersen

    A lawyer who actually knows his way around a spreadsheet, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s Jeremy Andersen has used his background in accounting to help his firm successfully bring groundbreaking cases against Wall Street giants over their role in the financial crisis and the rigging of benchmark rates, making him one of Law360’s Rising Star attorneys.

  • April 15, 2016

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Rahim Moloo

    Gibson Dunn's Rahim Moloo has represented some of the world's largest multinational corporations in arbitrations that often seek hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation and is working to enforce a $1.4 billion award issued to a mining company in a dispute with Venezuela, earning him a place among the top international arbitration attorneys under 40 honored by Law360.

  • April 15, 2016

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Clare Gaskell

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Clare Gaskell brings unique U.K. capital markets expertise to her work steering complex private equity transactions, like Blackstone Group LP's $450 million cross-border play for London-listed Japanese Residential Investment Co., landing her among Law360's top private equity attorneys under 40.

  • April 15, 2016

    Rising Star: Latham & Watkins' Harjaskaran Rai

    Latham & Watkins LLP's Harj Rai was the lead partner behind the largest public debut in Middle Eastern history, helping Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank rake in $6 billion in its 2014 initial public offering and landing himself among five project finance attorneys under 40 named Law360 Rising Stars.

  • April 14, 2016

    Rising Star: McDermott Will & Emery's Bryan Webster

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP's 37-year-old Bryan Webster's successful track record in leading large teams of lawyers and coordinating large defense groups for health insurers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield in high-stakes litigation has helped land him a spot among Law360's top four insurance attorneys under 40.

  • April 14, 2016

    Rising Star: Dentons' Oscar Pinkas

    Dentons partner Oscar Pinkas has developed expertise advising clients involved in complex cross-border transactions and helped represent STEP Energy Services in its acquisition of GasFrac's waterless fracking assets, earning him recognition on Law360's list of top bankruptcy attorneys under the age of 40.

  • April 14, 2016

    Rising Star: King & Spalding's Dan Hettich

    Dan Hettich's efforts to secure a positive outcome in a Medicare bad debt reimbursement case that some had written off as effectively impossible to win, among other important Medicare reimbursement work, has earned the King & Spalding LLP partner a place among Law360's top health attorneys under 40.

  • April 14, 2016

    Rising Star: Allen & Overy's Sami Asad Mir

    Allen & Overy LLP's Sami Mir has helped finance a new airport in Ecuador's capital and one-of-a-kind, $4.5 billion petrochemical project in Mexico, becoming a go-to guy for lenders looking to invest in Latin America and one of five project finance attorneys under 40 named Law360 Rising Stars.

  • April 14, 2016

    Rising Star: White & Case's Brody Greenwald

    White & Case LLP's Brody K. Greenwald has done invaluable work on some of the most recent important international arbitration cases, including a landmark dispute between the Republic of Uzbekistan and an Israeli metal company, earning him a place among the top international arbitration attorneys under 40 honored by Law360.

  • April 14, 2016

    Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Jeffrey B. Wall

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP special counsel Jeffrey B. Wall recently argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court that the Federal Circuit has too stringent a standard for awarding enhanced damages in patent cases, earning him one of six spots on Law360's 2016 list of top appellate attorneys under 40.

  • April 14, 2016

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Ted Frankel

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Ted Frankel has been at the helm of billions of dollars' worth of deals for some of the private equity world's largest players, including Bain Capital LP and Arsenal Capital Partners, making him one of five private equity attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as rising legal stars.

  • April 14, 2016

    Rising Star: Durie Tangri's Sonali Maitra

    Durie Tangri LLP partner Sonali Maitra not only defeated a patent suit against her client Zynga Inc. but got a judge to order the plaintiff and its law firm to pay $1.2 million in fees for filing a "totally unreasonable" suit, earning her a spot among Law360's top IP attorneys under 40.

  • April 13, 2016

    Rising Star: DLA Piper's Erin Gibson

    A former journalist who’s now bringing her communication skills to the courtroom, trial attorney Erin Gibson of DLA Piper has already racked up an impressive number of intellectual property wins, including helping to secure a verdict for Apple in a $500 million trial, landing her a spot on Law360’s list of IP Rising Stars.

  • April 13, 2016

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Elizabeth Hess

    Whether it's helping Abbot Laboratories beat a $219 million False Claims Act suit or piloting companies through high-stakes government probes, Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Elizabeth Hess occupies a crucial seat in the corner of some of health care's biggest names, putting her among Law360's top health attorneys under 40.

  • April 13, 2016

    Rising Star: WilmerHale's Thomas Saunders

    Securing victories that encompass both complex technological issues and novel legal issues, including defying expectations to win a case when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a long-standing patent royalty rule, has made WilmerHale partner Thomas Saunders one of Law360's top appellate lawyers under age 40.

  • April 13, 2016

    Rising Star: Freshfields' Elliot Friedman

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP's Elliot Friedman is representing ConocoPhillips Co. in its multibillion-dollar arbitration against Venezuela over the country's expropriation of oil projects, helping him to his place as one of 10 international arbitration lawyers under 40 honored by Law360.