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August 01, 2025
Last year, London-based Chrishan Raja of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP steered several companies through complicated changes in U.K. regulatory policy, advising on landmark deals that totaled more than €8 billion ($9.23 billion at the current exchange rate), including the listing of Canal+ on the London Stock Exchange as an independent company, earning him a spot among the capital markets attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 01, 2025
Timothy Chen Saulsbury of Morrison Foerster LLP helped defeat a $900 million trade secrets suit over wearable medical device technologies and won a favorable jury verdict for Epic Games on a patent infringement claim, earning him a spot among the intellectual property lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 01, 2025
Justin Martin of Jones Day has represented McDonald's and Google in high-profile litigation before the National Labor Relations Board in unfair labor practice cases that alleged the companies jointly employed workers with franchisees and contractors, earning him a spot among the employment practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 01, 2025
George Bauer of Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP helped a pension fund win a landmark settlement that returned more than $734 million to Tesla following allegations its directors awarded themselves excessive compensation, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 01, 2025
Lindsey Henrikson of Paul Hastings LLP advised Colombian refinery Reficar in a high-stakes global restructuring that preserved a $1.3 billion arbitration award and secured equity in McDermott International, earning her a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 31, 2025
Proskauer Rose's Rachel Fischer has successfully defended high-profile clients such as Fox News in a former producer's sexual harassment and assault suit and the MLB in an umpire's race discrimination suit, earning her a spot among the employment practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 31, 2025
Kerry Donovan of Winston & Strawn LLP was a key member of a team representing Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. and former executives at the U.S. Supreme Court that ultimately secured a 9-0 victory in a stock-drop class action, earning her a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 31, 2025
Chelsea Anderson of Fenwick & West LLP counseled project management software company Smartsheet Inc. on its $8.4 billion acquisition by a private equity consortium and advised real estate tech company Redfin on its $1.75 billion acquisition by Rocket Companies, earning Anderson a spot among the capital markets law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 31, 2025
Stuart Lombardi of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has worked for bankruptcy clients including families seeking defamation payouts in Alex Jones' insolvency and the representative of as-yet-unknown asbestos claimants in a talc producer's Chapter 11, earning him a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 31, 2025
WilmerHale's Steven Horn has been a strategic leader on the firm's work defending Intel Corp. from the sprawling, big-dollar patent infringement litigation brought by VLSI Technology LLC, earning him a spot among the intellectual property attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 31, 2025
Vinson & Elkins LLP's Stephanie Noble has scored high-stakes trial wins for oil and gas companies, including Antero Resources Corp. and Aera Energy LLC, earning her a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 30, 2025
Eric Meer of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP guided RXR Realty through major recapitalizations and loan modifications on New York City office properties amid a tight rate environment as the Manhattan office market continued to take a beating, earning him a spot among the real estate practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 30, 2025
Mark Liang of O'Melveny & Myers LLP successfully represented Google and LG Electronics in disputes where they faced tens of millions of dollars in potential liabilities for alleged patent infringement, earning him a spot among the intellectual property attorneys under the age of 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 30, 2025
Garrett Gibson of Jones Day has notched several wins in notable construction cases, including a high-stakes dispute between a major contractor for the oil and gas sector and a petrochemical manufacturer in Texas, earning him a spot among construction law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 30, 2025
Jake Bissell-Linsk of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP has litigated on behalf of Boeing shareholders following safety failures involving 737 Max planes, resulting in several major victories, earning him a spot among the securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 30, 2025
Christine Brozynski of Norton Rose Fulbright represented the lenders in a $6 billion project to deliver clean and renewable hydropower from Quebec to New York City, earning her a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 30, 2025
Leo Li of Seyfarth Shaw LLP has championed clients facing wage-and-hour class actions and California Private Attorneys General Act claims, including by securing a win on appeal for a Southern California Pizza Hut franchisee after a decade of litigation involving thousands of delivery drivers, earning him a spot among employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 30, 2025
Tristan Axelrod of Brown Rudnick LLP steered bankrupt cryptocurrency platform BlockFi through an $874 million settlement with FTX and a Chapter 11 reorganization that paid creditors in full, earning him a spot among the bankruptcy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 30, 2025
Latham & Watkins LLP partner Salvatore Vanchieri has steered a gamut of groundbreaking deals, from electric-truck startup Rivian's blockbuster $11.9 billion initial public offering to private equity giant Sixth Street's investment in baseball's San Francisco Giants, landing him a spot among capital markets attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 30, 2025
Catherine "Kate" Mullaley of Kirkland & Ellis LLP helped Johnson & Johnson win personal injury trials over its baby powder and vaginal mesh products while at a prior firm, and she is trial counsel for Snap Inc. in a suit claiming its social media platform is defective, earning her a spot among the product liability law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 29, 2025
Robins Kaplan LLP's Jessica Gutierrez helped an artificial Christmas tree company win a $42 million patent infringement verdict and secured a $13 million judgment in a software company's copyright litigation against the U.S. government, earning her a spot among the intellectual property attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 29, 2025
Karen Bruni of Steptoe LLP secured approvals from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to help complete multimillion-dollar energy transactions such as the sale of one company's shares in wind projects for nearly a total $1 billion, earning a spot among the energy law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 29, 2025
Covington & Burling LLP's Alicia Zhang has helped steer a slew of high-profile capital-raising efforts, including advising J.P. Morgan on Kyverna Therapeutics' $367 million initial public offering and guiding BioNTech's $200 million investment in Autolus Therapeutics, earning her a spot among the capital markets law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 29, 2025
Wilkinson Stekloff LLP partner Cali Arat helped secure Monsanto's first jury trial win that changed the tide in high-stakes litigation alleging that the company's Roundup herbicide caused cancer, earning her a spot among the product liability law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 29, 2025
Kaitlin D. Shapiro of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP successfully defended Armistice Capital Master Fund Ltd. from a suit demanding it return $11 million in short-swing profits, and helped another client beat a Delaware Chancery Court action over Genomic Health Inc.'s $2.8 billion sale to Exact Sciences Corp., earning her a spot among securities law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.