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Rankings: Rising Stars
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July 17, 2024
Rising Star: Covington's Charlotte May
Charlotte May co-chairs Covington & Burling LLP's fintech initiative and assists a wide range of corporate clients in mergers and acquisitions, including representing CFBanc Corp. in its merger with Broadway Financial Corp. to create one the largest Black-led minority depository institutions in the nation, earning her a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 16, 2024
Rising Star: King & Spalding's Jenny Pelaez
King & Spalding LLP's Jenny Pelaez has put in powerhouse litigation efforts that have helped NatWest and TD Bank beat financial benchmark-rigging claims, landing her a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 15, 2024
Rising Star: Davis Polk's Sanders Witkow
Sanders Witkow of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is getting used to steering highly complicated banking transactions, including as lead counsel for a group of banks that put up $13.2 billion in financing for Elon Musk's $44 billion hostile takeover of Twitter, earning him a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 12, 2024
Rising Star: Cahill Gordon's John MacGregor
John MacGregor of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has successfully defended Credit Suisse in litigation over a complex financial product alleging more than $2 billion in losses, and secured dismissal in a claim alleging losses of $1 billion over its financial adviser work. These matters and others have earned him a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 12, 2024
Law360 Names 2024's Top Attorneys Under 40
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2024, our list of 158 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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July 03, 2023
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Spencer Sloan
Spencer Sloan of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has advised a host of top financial institutions on multibillion-dollar acquisitions, including an $8 billion deal in which U.S. Bancorp scooped up MUFG Union Bank, earning him a spot among the banking law practitioners under ago 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 30, 2023
Rising Star: Skadden's Timothy J. Gaffney
Timothy Gaffney is a core member of the banking team at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP with a list of longtime clients that he has guided through significant transactions, including Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo and DMG Bancshares, earning him a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 29, 2023
Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Ken Li
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Ken Li was in the trenches helping a struggling Credit Suisse sell off its securitized products unit and line up this spring's unprecedented fire-sale takeover by UBS, earning him a place among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 28, 2023
Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's William Sears
William Sears has been a key part of several teams at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP that have secured high-dollar settlements for clients, including a $1 billion cash settlement in a shareholder suit challenging Dell Technology Inc.'s 2018 redemption of its DVMT stock, earning him a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 27, 2023
Rising Star: Schulte Roth's Jessica Romano
Jessica Romano of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP steered Visa's acquisition of payments infrastructure company Currencycloud and advises fintech companies on compliance amid major changes affecting the sector. These achievements and others have earned her a place among the banking law practitioners under age 40 recognized as Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 26, 2023
Rising Star: Cahill Gordon's Sesi Garimella
Sesi Garimella of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has represented Deutsche Bank in litigation involving the $155 million Biscayne Capital Ponzi scheme and underwriters facing investor ire after a Chinese fintech company's U.S. markets debut, earning her a place among the banking law practitioners under age 40 recognized as Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 17, 2023
Law360 Names 2023's Top Attorneys Under 40
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2023, our list of 183 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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June 23, 2022
Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Michelle Chen
Michelle Chen of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP shepherded M&T Bank's $8.3 billion acquisition that vaulted it to "superregional" status, steered MUFG's $8 billion exit from the U.S. retail banking market and advised on Fiserv's mammoth $22 billion buy of First Data, landing a spot among the banking law attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 22, 2022
Rising Star: Steptoe & Johnson's Elizabeth Cassady
Elizabeth Cassady of Steptoe & Johnson LLP started her career litigating high-profile residential mortgage-backed securities cases in the wake of the financial crisis and recently represented JPMorgan in litigation contending a billion-dollar syndicated loan was a security, earning her a spot among the banking attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 21, 2022
Rising Star: Latham's Nicole Fanjul
Nicole Fanjul of Latham & Watkins LLP co-led a team that represented JPMorgan in a nearly $5 billion term loan and revolving credit facility for pharmaceutical company Organon, earning her a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 17, 2022
Rising Star: Davis Polk's Vanessa Jackson
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's Vanessa Jackson advised Mexico's largest airline in landing critical financing for its recently completed reorganization and represented Philip Morris on a $17 billion bridge facility to fund a planned Swedish acquisition, just two of the achievements that scored her a place among the banking law attorneys under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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May 30, 2022
Law360 Names 2022's Top Attorneys Under 40
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2022, our list of 176 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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June 10, 2021
Rising Star: Jones Day's Vinay Kurien
Vinay Kurien of Jones Day led a $650 million, sustainability-linked loan facility for Louis Dreyfus Co., the first sustainability-linked financing for the company and a bulwark deal for sustainable financing in Asia, earning him a spot among the banking lawyers under age 40 honored as a Law360 Rising Star.
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June 09, 2021
Rising Star: Latham's Nicola Higgs
Latham & Watkins LLP's Nicola Higgs was part of a legal team that advised on the drafting of Egypt's landmark new banking law and played a lead role in counseling banks on Aston Martin's £1.3 billion refinancing last year, earning her a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 08, 2021
Rising Star: Bracewell's Jeris Diana Brunette
Jeris Diana Brunette of Bracewell LLP has served as lead counsel to Credit Agricole in connection with billions of dollars in complex financing it provided for energy industry giant McDermott International Inc. over the past few years. She's also a leader in Bracewell's New York office, where she mentors and trains early-career finance attorneys and runs the firm's quarterly sustainability bulletin. These accomplishments and others have earned her a spot among the top banking attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 07, 2021
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Daniel Kay
Daniel Kay of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has advised JPMorgan Chase on various acquisition financings throughout the pandemic, including a $2.1 billion bridge financing that paved the way for one of 2021's largest medical technology acquisitions yet, earning him a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 04, 2021
Rising Star: Kirkland's Bob Allen
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Bob Allen represented Goldman Sachs in its blockbuster $2.9 billion foreign bribery settlement and JPMorgan in its nearly $1 billion settlement of a criminal spoofing-related investigation, two landmark resolutions that helped him land a place among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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May 28, 2021
Law360 Names 2021's Top Attorneys Under 40
We're pleased to announce Law360's Rising Stars for 2021, our list of 180 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments transcend their age.
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July 16, 2020
Rising Star: Weil's Justin D. Lee
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's Justin Lee has advised the arrangers on Fox's proposed acquisition of Sky Broadcasting, guided Goldman Sachs on a multibillion-dollar acquisition financing deal during market turmoil in the early days of the pandemic and carved out a niche working with European borrowers accessing U.S. markets, earning a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 15, 2020
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Julia Kohen
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Julia Kohen has supplied valuable financing counsel on a blockbuster €9.8 billion ($10.7 billion) European real estate fund for Blackstone and dozens of other funds with values totaling more than $20 billion, landing a spot as one of the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.