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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.
  • July 18, 2023

    Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Adam Weiss

    Paul Hastings LLP's Adam Weiss was on a global counsel team that secured an arbitral award valued at roughly a billion dollars for Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. in a drug royalty dispute with Novartis, earning him a spot among the international arbitration law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 18, 2023

    Rising Star: Hogan Thompson's Christopher Hogan

    Hogan Thompson LLP co-founder and partner Christopher Hogan obtained major wins for energy companies in oil and gas litigation in Texas and beyond — including a multimillion-dollar jury verdict for an oil company over its trespass claims stemming from another energy company's "acid gas" injections — earning him a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 18, 2023

    Rising Star: O'Melveny's Heather Welles

    Heather Welles of O'Melveny & Myers LLP is a member of a founding group of attorneys for the law firm's formal water practice and worked extensively in landmark litigation involving groundwater use in California, placing her among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 17, 2023

    Rising Star: DLA Piper's Daniel Cook

    DLA Piper's Danny Cook worked across a range of high-profile contract negotiations and emergent planning issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, earning him a spot among the government contracts attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 17, 2023

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Erland Modesto

    Erland Modesto, a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, finalized a billion-dollar spinoff of gas pipeline giant DT Midstream from its parent company, secured hundreds of millions of dollars in lending to renewable energy company SunPower, and represented JPMorgan Chase and other high-profile financial institutions in their energy investments, earning him a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 17, 2023

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Deborah Gruen

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Deborah Gruen's work advising leading global investment firms such Stonepeak, The Carlyle Group and KKR on the creation of multibillion-dollar funds, often exceeding fundraising targets, has earned her a spot among the fund formation attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 17, 2023

    Rising Star: Diab Chambers' Ed Diab

    Ed Diab of Diab Chambers LLP has secured more than $1.5 billion in settlements tied to wildfire damage on behalf of his California public entity clients over the past five years, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 14, 2023

    Rising Star: Clark Hill's Chirag Patel

    Chirag Patel of Clark Hill PLC has leveraged his deep technological expertise to secure a novel ruling that Studco Building Systems was owed compensation from the credit union that a scammer used to steal more than $500,000 from the company, and to successfully defend Gorilla Group in a $10 million software implementation arbitration dispute, earning him a place among the cybersecurity and privacy practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 14, 2023

    Rising Star: Cooley's Jimmy Matteucci

    Jimmy Matteucci of Cooley LLP has counseled Founders Fund on over $8 billion worth of funds in the last three years, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 14, 2023

    Rising Star: Skadden's Mana Ghaemmaghami

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's Mana Ghaemmaghami has counseled a variety of clients, including crypto native companies, crypto exchanges, banks, entertainment conglomerates and sports leagues, on legal and regulatory issues related to digital assets, earning her a spot among the fintech law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 14, 2023

    Rising Star: Locke Lord's Rachel Fitzgerald

    Locke Lord LLP partner Rachel Fitzgerald is building a reputation as one of its go-to corporate attorneys in the energy sector, leading or co-leading deals ranging from $1 million to more than $3 billion and earning her a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 recognized by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 14, 2023

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Ty'Meka Reeves-Sobers

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Ty'Meka Reeves-Sobers has used her environmental, regulatory, corporate and securities background to advise clients on hundreds of transactions, including multibillion-dollar deals, earning her a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 13, 2023

    Rising Star: Debevoise's Sally Bergmann

    In just the past couple of years, Sally Bergmann of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has steered private equity and venture capital firms through several cutting-edge, multibillion-dollar transactions, including a $3 billion Breakthrough Properties fund and Paradigm's record-breaking $2.5 billion closed-end crypto fund, earning her a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 13, 2023

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Rachel Levick

    Rachel Levick, a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, cut a huge deal to resolve diesel emissions violations by Mercedes-Benz, helped win total victory for an oil company facing a remediation lawsuit in Indonesia, and regularly advises major automobile companies on emerging compliance issues, earning her a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 13, 2023

    Rising Star: Pillsbury's Anne Leidich

    Anne Leidich of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has become a go-to lawyer for the nuclear energy industry, earning her a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 13, 2023

    Rising Star: Paul Hastings' Molly Swartz

    Paul Hastings LLP's Molly Swartz has shepherded new financial services into successful launches and helped a lending platform's credit underwriting model move forward without fears of regulatory scrutiny, earning her a spot among the fintech law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 13, 2023

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Ashley Rogers

    Ashley Rogers of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has built a prominent practice in the emerging legal field of data privacy with her representation of technology companies including Meta Platforms Inc., earning her a spot among the cybersecurity and privacy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 12, 2023

    Rising Star: Greenberg Traurig's April Kim

    April Kim of Greenberg Traurig LLP has made a name for herself by  representing Korean companies seeking to get their foot in U.S.-based energy projects, in addition to representing major U.S. companies like U.S. Bank in financing domestic green energy projects, earning her a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 12, 2023

    Rising Star: McDermott's Joseph Evans

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP's Joe Evans secured a landmark compensation plan for creditors of the defunct cryptocurrency broker Voyager Digital Holdings Inc. and led a novel lawsuit against a decentralized autonomous organization, earning him a spot among the fintech law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 12, 2023

    Rising Star: Paul Weiss' Conrad Van Loggerenberg

    Thanks to a variety of work for General Atlantic, including helping with a nearly $8 billion fundraising and a separate first-ever climate-focused fund, Conrad van Loggerenberg of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has earned a spot among fund formation attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 12, 2023

    Rising Star: Arnold & Porter's Lauren Daniel

    Arnold & Porter partner Lauren Daniel saw her first trial work in Deepwater Horizon litigation and now is lead managing counsel for Honeywell International Inc. in a series of suits over its uranium conversion facility in Illinois, earning her a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 10, 2023

    Rising Star: Covington's Thomas Brugato

    Thomas Brugato's talent for deals, enforcement issues and regulatory processes have made him an asset at Covington & Burling LLP, where he's helped facilitate nuclear power business mergers, settle cleanup disputes and work with an electric car giant on fuel economy rules, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 10, 2023

    Rising Star: Akin's Jonathan Ross

    Jonathan Ross of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has shepherded in hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of fund formation deals in his career — including a multibillion-dollar fund for one of the firm's founding clients — earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 10, 2023

    Rising Star: Morgan & Morgan's Ryan McGee

    Morgan & Morgan's Ryan McGee has gone toe to toe with the world's biggest tech giants in suits filed over Google's alleged secret surveillance and Facebook's failure to stop a hack, earning him a spot among the cybersecurity and privacy lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 10, 2023

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Nathan Goralnik

    Nathan Goralnik of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has spearheaded a number of legal firsts in the past three years, including securing the first ever judicial decision interpreting the ISDA North American Gas Annex, earning him a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.