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Rankings: Rising Stars
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July 18, 2017
Rising Star: King & Spalding's Joe Wetzel
King & Spalding LLP's Joe Wetzel has amassed numerous victories on copyright and music-licensing issues for household brands, including music streaming giant Pandora Media Inc. in a licensing fight with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, earning him a spot as one of four media and entertainment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 18, 2017
Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Rahim Moloo
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s Rahim Moloo represents clients in some of the world’s most complex and high-profile cross-border disputes, including when he recently helped WalAm Energy Inc. defeat Kenya’s jurisdictional objections in an arbitration with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, earning him a spot as one of three international arbitration practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: King & Spalding's Meredith Redwine
From the inception of her career at King & Spalding LLP, Meredith Redwine has played an integral part in a team representing GlaxoSmithKline in scores of cases alleging the company's Paxil antidepressant has caused birth defects and other injuries, landing her a spot among the five product liability practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Jonathan Goldstein
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP’s Jonathan Goldstein has helped guide tens of billions of dollars’ worth of mergers, acquisitions and private investment fund formations, including Microsoft's $26.2 billion purchase of LinkedIn, earning him a spot as one of five tax law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Andy Corkhill
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s Andy Corkhill has worked on some of the largest cases that came out of the 2008 financial crisis, including Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s $2 billion trial against Citibank NA, earning him a spot as one of five banking practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Jenner & Block's Angela Allen
Jenner & Block LLP’s Angela M. Allen has 10 years of complex bankruptcy litigation under her belt, including representing the examiner in the DACCO Transmission case and serving as lead restructuring attorney for Caesars Entertainment Corp., earning her a spot as one of five bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Barnes & Thornburg's David Pryzbylski
Barnes & Thornburg LLP partner David Pryzbylski recently helped a New York company escape a potentially seven-figure collective action with hardly a scratch and got an arbitrator to side with his client in a union spat over contract language, securing him a spot as one of five labor and employment attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Goodwin Procter's Blake Liggio
Goodwin Procter LLP’s Blake Liggio has steered several multibillion-dollar tie-ups in his young career, including guiding real estate investment trust Monogram Residential Trust Inc. in an newly announced $3 billion sale to a Greystar Real Estate Partners-led fund, earning him a spot as one of five mergers and acquisitions attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Cowan DeBaets' Eleanor M. Lackman
Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLP’s Eleanor M. Lackman secured a copyright win for Jay Z and served as lead counsel in a Second Circuit case that established that directors may not hold separate rights to projects, earning her a spot for the second year among media and entertainment attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 17, 2017
Rising Star: Kirkland's Atif Khawaja
Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s Atif Khawaja has racked up a number of victories in high-stakes intellectual property disputes while representing companies like Hotels.com and Honeywell International, earning him a spot as one of five IP law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Sanford Heisler's Alexandra Harwin
Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP’s Alexandra Harwin scored a favorable settlement for workers in a gender bias suit against Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG and is currently pursuing high-profile sex discrimination claims on behalf of female attorneys against BigLaw powerhouses Proskauer Rose LLP and Chadbourne & Parke LLP, making her one of five employment attorneys under 40 recognized by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Law360 Names Top Attorneys Under 40
The 156 attorneys selected as Law360's 2017 Rising Stars are lawyers whose accomplishments belie their age. This elite group of attorneys, all under 40, have distinguished themselves by handling bet-the-company litigation and brokering deals that make headlines.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Goldman Ismail's Jennifer Greenblatt
The work of Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP's Jennifer Greenblatt in securing wins on behalf of Merck in litigation over its osteoporosis drug Fosamax — including cases involving allegations of bone disease of the jaw and that the drug caused femoral fractures — landed her a spot as one of five product liability attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Adam Wolk
Mayer Brown LLP’s Adam Wolk has become one of the leading lawyers in finance and has helped companies like restaurant giant Yum Brands Inc. and private equity firm The Jordan Co. secure the financing they need to get their businesses moving forward, earning him a spot as one of five banking law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Cleary Gottlieb's Aaron Meyers
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP’s Aaron Meyers has cultivated an expertise in handling particularly tricky carve-out transactions and divestitures like Asahi Kasei's acquisition and simultaneous sale of half of Polypore, landing the M&A practitioner — who almost pursued an engineering career instead of law — a spot among attorneys under 40 being honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Cravath's Christopher K. Fargo
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's Christopher K. Fargo has designed and negotiated some of the most challenging multibillion-dollar transactions, including Anheuser-Busch InBev’s $123 billion acquisition of SABMiller, thereby earning him a spot as one of five tax attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Weil's Sunny Singh
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's Sunny Singh learned the ropes of his field as an associate working on Lehman Brothers' landmark Chapter 11 case, and his recent ascension to partner and notable roles in restructurings for J.Crew, grocer Fairway Market and others helped him earn a spot as one of five bankruptcy law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Jenner & Block's Alison Stein
Jenner & Block LLP's Alison Stein has helped preserve the intellectual property of prominent figures in the media and entertainment landscape, including the late wife of author John Steinbeck and the sister of an electrocuted street artist, earning her a spot as one of four media and entertainment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2017
Rising Star: Kramer Levin's James Hannah
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP’s James Hannah has notched two jury verdicts for Finjan Inc. totaling nearly $55 million and prevailed in 37 inter partes reviews for the company, earning him a spot as one of five intellectual property law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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May 06, 2016
Rising Star: Kilpatrick Townsend's Rob Roy Smith
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP's Rob Roy Smith has amassed numerous victories on behalf of his tribal clients over his career, including a win in a recent discrimination case involving the Quinault Indian Nation, earning him a spot as one of three Native American law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360.
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May 06, 2016
Rising Star: Latham & Watkins' Debbie Yee
For her work helping to shepherd two major infrastructure deals totaling some $56 billion for Energy Transfer Equity LP affiliates in the last year, Latham & Watkins LLP partner Debbie Yee has been named one of Law360's 2016 top energy sector attorneys under age 40.
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May 05, 2016
Rising Star: Foster Pepper's Lauren King
Foster Pepper PLLC partner Lauren J. King's work defending the interests of Native American tribes, including securing a major fishing rights victory for a Northwestern tribe, has earned her a place among Law360's top attorneys under 40 working in the area of Native American law.
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May 05, 2016
Rising Star: Sutherland's Ram C. Sunkara
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP partner Ram C. Sunkara’s efforts representing large energy consumers like Microsoft, Target, and Houston’s public transportation authority in their purchase and generation of renewable and traditional power has landed him a spot on Law360’s Rising Stars list of top energy attorneys under 40.
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May 04, 2016
Rising Star: Dentons' Matthew Adams
Dentons' Matthew Adams has achieved several wins on behalf of Native American tribes, including helping a California tribe fight off an environmental challenge to its casino project, winning him a spot as one of three Native American law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360.
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May 04, 2016
Rising Star: King & Spalding's Archie Fallon
King & Spalding partner Archie Fallon's work putting together large and complex energy transactions, including his role linking up partners for a $36 billion liquefied natural gas terminal joint venture facility on Canada's west coast, has landed him a spot on Law360's list of top energy attorneys under 40.