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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.
  • August 10, 2020

    Rising Star: Covington's Kayleigh Scalzo

    Kayleigh Scalzo of Covington & Burling LLP has successfully defended companies against bid protests over contracts worth billions of dollars, landing her a place among the government contract attorneys under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 10, 2020

    Rising Star: Holland & Knight's Jameson Rice

    Holland & Knight LLP's Jameson Rice has emerged as an expert in transportation blockchain technology, most recently negotiating a deal between railroad giant CSX Transportation Inc. and IBM and Maersk's massive supply chain platform TradeLens, earning him a spot among the transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 10, 2020

    Rising Star: Goodwin's Cammy Contizano

    Cammy Contizano of Goodwin Procter LLP has advised on several multimillion-dollar deals including investment firm DST Global's contribution to Checkout.com's record-breaking $230 million financing round, earning her a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 07, 2020

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Sarah A. Geers

    Jones Day's Sarah A. Geers was part of a team that helped Juno Therapeutics and Sloan Kettering win a more than $1.1 billion final award in a case over a patent for cancer immunotherapy, earning her a spot among the life sciences law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 07, 2020

    Rising Star: Blank Rome's Luke W. Meier

    Luke W. Meier of Blank Rome LLP has twice helped Global Linguist Solutions convince the U.S. Army to reconsider lucrative translation contracts awarded to the company's rivals, earning him a spot among the government contracts practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 07, 2020

    Rising Star: Covington's Jennifer Saperstein

    Jennifer Saperstein, a partner at Covington & Burling LLP and vice chair of the firm's anti-corruption practice group, advises clients on complex compliance issues and has worked with big names including Anheuser Busch, Atlas Air, Hillrom and the NFL, landing her a spot among the compliance practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 07, 2020

    Rising Star: Bracewell's Tom Swarbrick

    Tom Swarbrick of Bracewell LLP has trotted the globe in his youthful career to iron out the intricate legal aspects of some of the world's key up-and-coming energy projects, in sectors ranging from oil and natural gas to solar, earning him a spot among the construction practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 07, 2020

    Rising Star: Debevoise's Uri Herzberg

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's Uri Herzberg has assisted on numerous significant private equity deals since joining the firm in 2007, including multiple recent multibillion-dollar transactions for major private equity clients like Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, earning him a spot as one of five PE attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 07, 2020

    Rising Star: Hogan Lovells' Hannah Graae

    Hogan Lovells' Hannah Graae has steered automotive clients such as Ford Motor Co. through environmental regulatory hurdles, as well as new rules governing emerging mobility technology and autonomous vehicles, earning her a spot among transportation attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 07, 2020

    Rising Star: Baker McKenzie's Lawrence Lee

    Baker McKenzie partner Lawrence Lee helps buy and sell startups, and in the past year he's worked on the Blackstone Group's buy of dating apps Badoo and Bumble and Curbside's sale to Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, earning him a spot among the practitioners in the technology world under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 06, 2020

    Rising Star: Williams & Connolly's Katherine Trefz

    Williams & Connolly partner Katherine (Katie) Trefz was part of the team that represented former Jefferies & Co. bond trader Jesse Litvak on retrial, helping win his acquittal on nine of 10 securities fraud charges and landing a spot as one of five white collar lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 06, 2020

    Rising Star: Skadden's Aryan Moniri

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's Aryan Moniri represented SunEdison in connection with $4 billion in financing over the course of six years and spearheaded multimillion-dollar restructuring and financing projects for Talen Energy, earning him a spot as one of five project finance lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 06, 2020

    Rising Star: Stoel Rives' Kirk Maag

    Kirk Maag of Stoel Rives LLP leverages his first-hand knowledge of the effects policy and law can have on his natural resource industry clients to advocate for their livelihood both in and out of court, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 06, 2020

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Steven Klar

    Steven Klar of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has co-led Blackstone on the fund aspects of multiple high-profile acquisitions, as well as on the establishment of the largest ever U.S. private equity fund, which earned him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 05, 2020

    Rising Star: Steptoe & Johnson's Georgios Leris

    Steptoe & Johnson LLP's recently departed associate Georgios Leris coordinated key details of advocates' challenge to the rollback of net neutrality rules last year and helped Dish Network facilitate the blockbuster T-Mobile/Sprint merger, earning him a spot among the telecommunications law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 05, 2020

    Rising Stars: Sullivan & Cromwell's Beth Newton

    Beth Newton of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has represented one of the world's largest oil companies in foreign bribery investigations and helped MUFG Bank out of a thorny regulatory quandary, putting her among the white collar practitioners named Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 05, 2020

    Rising Star: Wiley's Derick G. Holt

    Derick Holt of Wiley Rein LLP has successfully represented U.S. steel manufacturers in countervailing duty and anti-dumping investigations to secure trade remedies against foreign competitors and protect American jobs, earning him a place among the international trade attorneys under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 05, 2020

    Rising Star: Sidley Austin's David Form

    David Form of Sidley Austin LLP has advised hedge fund startup ExodusPoint Capital Management from its 2018 launch that took in $8 billion to its second capital raise this year, anticipated to be worth $3 billion, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 05, 2020

    Rising Star: Morgan & Morgan's Rene Rocha

    Rene Rocha of Morgan & Morgan has helped plaintiffs score major settlements in high-stakes environmental litigation, including helping soybean farmers secure a $400 million settlement over Monsanto's dicamba pesticide, earning him a spot among the environmental law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 05, 2020

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Rustin Brown

    Acting as financing counsel on a series of high-value energy industry transactions, including the acquisition of a $2 billion stake in a gas liquefaction plant by Brookfield and a $1.6 billion purchase of a gas business by Goldman Sachs, has secured Rustin Brown of Kirkland & Ellis LLP a spot as one of five project finance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 04, 2020

    Rising Stars: Steptoe & Johnson's Shawn Davisson

    Shawn Davisson of Steptoe & Johnson LLP has represented a longtime BP executive in a probe of his handling of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Volkswagen AG in connection with its diesel emissions controversy, earning a spot among the white collar law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • August 04, 2020

    Rising Star: Holland & Knight's Lara Rios

    Holland & Knight's Lara Rios helped secure one of the first sustainability-linked loans in Latin American history and was instrumental in connecting five liberal arts colleges to a solar energy farm in New England, earning her a spot as one of five project finance practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 04, 2020

    Rising Star: Robins Kaplan's Lauren J. Coppola

    Lauren Coppola of Robins Kaplan LLP took critical steps on behalf of telecom clients at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to push for changes in Federal Communications Commission rules ensuring that conference calls remained affordable, helping her land a spot among telecommunications practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 04, 2020

    Rising Star: King & Spalding's Mercedes C. Morno

    King & Spalding LLP's Mercedes Morno helped mount a successful defense of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers' authority to collect preliminary tariffs and was a member of the U.S. delegation to the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation, making her the youngest international trade lawyer to be honored as a Law360 Rising Star.

  • August 04, 2020

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Nicole Washington

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Nicole Washington has steered flagship funds like Clearlake Capital's $7 billion vehicle while corralling investors from across the globe, earning her a spot on this year's list of fund formation practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.