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July 13, 2020
Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Diana Watral has helped lead clients to success in bet-the-company trials in recent years, particularly in the health and life sciences space, making her one of Law360's trials Rising Stars.
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July 13, 2020
Ran Ben-Tzur of Fenwick & West LLP has worked on both sides of the table in high-profile initial public offerings, advising Peloton in its $1.2 billion IPO and the underwriters for Cloudflare's $600 million debut, earning him a spot among the capital markets law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 13, 2020
Covington & Burling LLP partner Dustin Cho has been instrumental in helping the NFL reach settlements with several of its insurers over coverage for former players' concussion claims, landing him a spot among the insurance practitioners under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 10, 2020
Rachel Reisberg of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz has provided tax expertise for headline-grabbing deals, including United Technologies' $166 billion merger with Raytheon — a tax-free, all-stock union of aerospace and defense giants — earning her a spot among tax practitioners under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 10, 2020
Amanda Fenster of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is advising risk management company Willis Towers Watson PLC in its $80 billion merger with insurance giant Aon PLC, one of several multibillion-dollar transactions involving big names she's advised on over the last year, earning her a spot among the mergers and acquisitions practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 10, 2020
Covington & Burling LLP's Ashley Simonsen has defended financial services firms like Celtic Bank, Navient and Chase against borrower litigation with often millions of dollars on the line, securing a spot as one of the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 10, 2020
Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP's Russell Kornblith represents a group of female attorneys who charge white shoe firm Jones Day with pay discrimination, forcing Big Law to reckon with its own gender inequality in the "black box" compensation model and earning him a spot among the five employment law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 10, 2020
Tamir Packin of Desmarais LLP stepped onto center stage with a smash this year, winning a $400 million patent trial for Cisco in his debut as first chair and earning him a spot as one of four attorneys under 40 honored as Law360's trials Rising Stars.
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July 10, 2020
Recently minted Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP partner Rebecca Boon has had her hands in some of the highest-profile investor fraud actions of the last few years, including two unprecedented cases centered around allegations of sexual harassment at Fox News and Signet Jewelers, earning her a spot as one of six securities attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 10, 2020
With a deft hand at shareholder class actions, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP's Edward Timlin has guided litigation challenging national gas companies' $11 billion union and advised an insider trading case targeting a billionaire activist investor, earning him a spot as one of five class action attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 10, 2020
With wins under his belt representing the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in an asbestos coverage suit against AIG and obtaining Superfund site coverage for Siltronic Corp., Anderson Kill PC's Raymond Mascia has been named one of the insurance attorneys among Law360's 2020 Rising Stars.
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July 10, 2020
Brittany Amadi of WilmerHale successfully represented Intel Corp. in a $2 billion patent dispute over circuit technology, along with other major victories, landing her a spot among the intellectual property attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 10, 2020
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP partner Michael Mariani has guided several watershed deals in his career, including steering IBM's massive $20 billion bond to fund its acquisition of Red Hat and JPMorgan on a landmark SOFR-linked notes deal, earning him a spot among the capital markets law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 10, 2020
Yetter Coleman LLP partner April L. Farris helped IBM avoid paying an extra $26 million in damages in a contract dispute by persuading the Sixth Circuit to accept her interpretation of a confusing set of jury notes, earning her a spot among five appellate attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 09, 2020
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Saee Muzumdar has led a number of the biggest transactions of the past year, including Pepsi's $3.85 billion acquisition of Rockstar Energy and Merck's $6.5 billion asset spinoff, earning her a spot among the M&A attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 09, 2020
Eric M. Fraser of Osborn Maledon PA took a lead role representing the city of Phoenix as it defended an anti-discrimination law in a highly publicized Arizona Supreme Court case over LGBTQ rights and religious freedom, earning him a spot among the appellate law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 09, 2020
Paul Hastings' Ryan Derry has demonstrated a solid track record of securing trial victories in thorny labor cases for major clients, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 09, 2020
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP counsel James Pak has brought home multimillion-dollar jury verdicts for ZeniMax Media and Aspen Technology in intellectual property litigation, earning him a spot among the IP attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 09, 2020
Brian Krause of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has worked as the lead tax counsel on a number of multibillion-dollar deals, including Worldpay Inc.'s merger with FIS in the largest payments industry deal ever, worth $43 billion, earning him a spot as one of five tax law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 08, 2020
Daniel E. Jones of Mayer Brown LLP has had a prominent role in writing key briefs in several high-profile U.S. Supreme Court and circuit court cases, including the high court's landmark 2016 Spokeo decision, earning him a place as one of the appellate practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 08, 2020
Timothy Shuman of McDermott Will & Emery LLP has advised global consumer brands company JAB Holding Co. on its $21 billion acquisition of Dr Pepper Snapple Group and on its acquisition of veterinary hospitals, earning him a spot among the tax lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 08, 2020
Lee Hochbaum of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has advised on several multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions, including financial services provider Charles Schwab's pending $26 billion purchase of investing service TD Ameritrade Holding Corp., earning him a spot among the mergers and acquisitions law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 08, 2020
Deepa Acharya, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, has notched important victories against Silicon Valley giants, including a recent $1.1 billion jury verdict against Apple Inc., landing her a spot among the intellectual property attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 08, 2020
John Richards of Greenberg Traurig LLP has guided Abercrombie & Fitch and Stanley Steemer through high-stakes class actions and has established himself as a go-to lawyer for helping global retail brands navigate a maze of workplace compliance challenges, earning him a spot as one of Law360's employment law Rising Stars.
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July 07, 2020
Allison Wein of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP has helped steer several blockbuster deals, including Disney's $85 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox and Occidental's $57 billion Anadarko buy, earning her a spot among the mergers and acquisitions practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.