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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 05, 2016

    Rising Star: Williams & Connolly's Paul Boehm

    Williams & Connolly partner Paul Boehm's ability to master complicated scientific information and craft it into a compelling narrative to present to a jury, representing clients such as Merck & Co. Inc., has earned him a spot on Law360's list of top trial attorneys under the age of 40.

  • April 05, 2016

    Rising Star: Shearman's Jeremy Kutner

    Jeremy Kutner's knack for sealing cross-border deals made waves around the globe in 2015, guiding blockbuster combinations like British telecom Liberty Global's $5.3 billion acquisition of Pan-American focused Cable & Wireless Communications PLC, earning him a spot on Law360's list of top mergers and acquisitions attorneys under the age of 40.

  • April 05, 2016

    Rising Star: Fried Frank's Rebecca Zelenka

    For about a decade, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's Rebecca Neuschatz Zelenka has called upon her training as an engineer to help the likes of Goldman Sachs and Highbridge Principal Strategies launch groundbreaking, global investment funds, earning her a spot among Law360's top asset management attorneys under the age of 40.

  • April 05, 2016

    Rising Star: Baron & Budd's Mark Pifko

    Baron & Budd PC's Mark Pifko may have spent the first leg of his decadelong career defending large companies facing class actions, but it was his switch to the plaintiff's side of the courtroom that helped land him on Law360's list of top class action attorneys under the age of 40.

  • April 05, 2016

    Rising Star: Skadden's Nathan W. Giesselman

    In the year since 33-year old Nathan Giesselman became one of the youngest attorneys to make partner at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, he's handled some of the year's most talked about multibillion-dollar deals, landing him on this year's list of Law360's Rising Stars.

  • April 05, 2016

    Rising Star: White & Case's Alison Weal

    White & Case LLP partner Alison Weal's astute handling of complex leasing and financing arrangements for shipping and other transportation clients, including United Arab Shipping Co. and Alpha Trains, has landed her a spot among Law360's top transportation attorneys under the age of 40.

  • April 05, 2016

    Rising Star: Kaye Scholer's Aaron Gardner

    Kaye Scholer LLP's Aaron Gardner has spent his career helping life sciences companies navigate innovative and high-priced business deals, with his leadership on a $360 million Pfizer acquisition being just one reason Law360 deemed the recently made partner a Rising Star.

  • April 05, 2016

    Rising Star: Kirkland & Ellis' Chris Hartmann

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Chris Hartmann has orchestrated a number of complex commercial real estate transactions over the past year, including a client's $900 million acquisition of airport logistics assets, earning him a spot among Law360's top real estate attorneys under age 40.

  • April 04, 2016

    Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Stephanie Wagner

    A budding interest in the intersection of private interests and public policy has grown into a tool for Mayer Brown LLP’s Stephanie Wagner, whose work on public private partnerships, including the first privately funded rail service since Amtrak, has landed her a spot among Law360's Rising Stars.

  • April 04, 2016

    Rising Star: Dechert's Tony Chan

    Dechert LLP partner Tony Chan's confidence navigating the complex life sciences industry has helped him negotiate partnerships between biotechnology and drug companies that could fundamentally change the way doctors treat diseases like cancer, earning him a spot among Law360's 2016 Rising Stars.

  • April 04, 2016

    Rising Star: Debevoise's Shannon Rose Selden

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's Shannon Rose Selden has made a name for herself as a go-to litigator for hedge fund and private equity clients, exemplified by her representation of Standard General LP last year in the fund's successful bid for RadioShack as part of the retailer's Chapter 11 case, earning her a spot on Law360's top four asset management attorneys under 40.

  • April 04, 2016

    Rising Star: Norton Rose's Shafeeqa Watkins Giarratani

    Norton Rose Fulbright partner Shafeeqa Watkins Giarratani has climbed her firm's ranks from receptionist all the way to decorated trial and appellate attorney, earning her a spot on Law360's list of top labor and employment attorneys under the age of 40.

  • April 04, 2016

    Rising Star: Greenberg Traurig's Danielle Gonzalez

    Greenberg Traurig LLP shareholder Danielle Gonzalez's cross-country work has made her an invaluable partner in structuring, financing and navigating real estate deals, including $4 billion in transactions for one client last year, making her one of eight real estate attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • April 04, 2016

    Rising Star: Kirkland's David Feirstein

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's David Feirstein has been at the helm of some of the most complex and high-profile public transactions, including Nexstar's unsolicited takeover campaign for Media General, making him one of Law360's 2016 top M&A attorneys under 40.

  • April 04, 2016

    Rising Star: Locke Lord's Martin Jaszczuk

    Martin Jaszczuk's deep knowledge of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act helped him win a decisive ruling this year rejecting class certification in a suit accusing AmerisourceBergen units of violating the statute by sending unsolicited faxes, landing the Locke Lord LLP partner on Law360's list of the top three privacy attorneys under 40.

  • April 04, 2016

    Rising Star: O'Melveny & Myers' Molly Lens

    Molly Lens helped media giant Fox beat a trademark infringement suit targeting its hit TV series "Empire," earning the O'Melveny & Myers LLP partner a spot on Law360's list of the top five media and entertainment attorneys under age 40 for the second year in a row.

  • April 04, 2016

    Rising Star: Labaton Sucharow's Serena Hallowell

    Labaton Sucharow LLP's Serena Hallowell's ability to adapt and work quickly — at times rapidly crisscrossing the U.S. and flying to London for depositions — to meet deadlines and secure victories for securities litigation plaintiffs in "rocket docket" cases has earned her a spot among Law360's class action attorneys under 40.

  • April 04, 2016

    Rising Star: Arnstein & Lehr's Adam Fayne

    Arnstein & Lehr LLP partner Adam S. Fayne's handling of high-stakes tax matters for individuals and corporations, including a successful case before the U.S. Supreme Court, has landed him a spot among the top tax attorneys under 40 honored by Law360.

  • April 01, 2016

    Rising Star: Crowell & Moring's Gerry Murphy

    A broad breadth of aviation regulatory expertise and experience, demonstrated by his work for clients such as United Airlines Inc. and recognized by his firm with selection as an aviation group co-chair, has earned Crowell & Moring LLP's Gerry Murphy a position among Law360's top transportation attorneys under 40.

  • April 01, 2016

    Rising Star: Ogletree Deakins' Elizabeth Falcone

    Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC’s Elizabeth Falcone worked on the contentious discovery and class certification faces in a landmark California Supreme Court decision on meal breaks and notched appellate wins for clients such as Home Depot, making her one of Law360’s 2016 top employment attorneys under 40.

  • April 01, 2016

    Rising Star: Cowan DeBaets' Eleanor Lackman

    Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLP's Eleanor Lackman represents high-profile clients like Cards Against Humanity, sports teams and film producers, including in a high-profile Second Circuit case that found movie directors can't hold separate rights to a project, earning her a spot among Law360 Media and Entertainment Rising Stars.

  • April 01, 2016

    Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Andrew Chalson

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's Andrew S. Chalson has helped Celgene and other brand-name drugmakers safeguard their main sources of income by besting generic rivals in high-stakes patent fights, placing him among Law360's top life sciences lawyers under 40.

  • April 01, 2016

    Rising Star: Paul Weiss' Salvatore Gogliormella

    Driven to law by a desire to help with affordable housing issues, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner Salvatore Gogliormella has worked hard to be at the cutting edge of the property market's top deals, earning himself a spot among Law360's top real estate attorneys under 40.

  • April 01, 2016

    Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Nikolay Mizulin

    Mayer Brown LLP's Nikolay Mizulin seized the chance provided by Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization to take a role in several early cases representing the country's government and industries, propelling the Russian native to his place as one of two international trade lawyers under 40 honored by Law360.

  • April 01, 2016

    Rising Star: BakerHostetler's David Carney

    BakerHostetler's David Carney has shaped privacy law on novel questions through arguments that, for instance, led to a Seventh Circuit decision that spared Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp. from its patients' claims related to a 2013 data breach, landing him among Law360's list of top three privacy attorneys under 40.