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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.
  • March 27, 2012

    Rising Star: Latham & Watkins' Stephen McWilliams

    Stephen McWilliams is one of the youngest office managing partners in BigLaw and has grown Latham & Watkins LLP's Singapore branch from an island outpost advising mostly on domestic power plants to a regional infrastructure heavyweight with a $100 billion deal pipeline and some of Australasia's most innovative financings to its name, earning him a spot among Law360's top project attorneys under 40.

  • March 26, 2012

    Rising Star: Morgan Lewis' J. Clayton Everett

    J. Clayton Everett Jr. is a trusted resource for Pfizer Inc., Hitachi Ltd. and other heavyweights in need of counsel from a Morgan Lewis LLP partner who has landed one of five spots for antitrust attorneys on Law360's list of rising stars under 40.

  • March 26, 2012

    Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Robert Goldberg

    From gearing international financing toward an Israeli toll road to leveraged lease financing for wind farms, Robert S. Goldberg of Mayer Brown LLP has earned a spot among Law360's top five project finance attorneys under 40 for his work on some of the most innovative project finance deals.

  • March 26, 2012

    Rising Star: Wiley Rein's Gary Seligman

    Gary Seligman of Wiley Rein LLP is known within the insurance industry as a skillful lawyer whose handle on complicated law and deft brief writing have saved clients like Federal Insurance Co. millions of dollars, earning him a spot on Law360's list of insurance law's rising stars.

  • March 26, 2012

    Rising Star: Baker Hostetler's Mark DeLaquil

    Texas, Asarco LLC, industry groups and academics have all counted on Baker Hostetler partner Mark DeLaquil during high-profile battles over global warming and attempts to regulate greenhouse gas and other emissions, making the 32-year-old one of Law360's top five environmental attorneys under 40.

  • March 26, 2012

    Rising Star: O'Melveny & Myers' Nancy Bruington

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP's Nancy Bruington has helped Hollywood studios secure fleeting financing and negotiated complex deals, including advising on the two-picture adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," earning her a place among Law360's five rising media and entertainment law stars under 40.

  • March 23, 2012

    Rising Star: Reed Smith's Tom Ara

    Reed Smith LLP's Tom Ara has represented several Chinese investors financing Hollywood films and worked on Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s $2.3 billion purchase of a media company, nabbing him a spot among Law360's rising media and entertainment stars under 40.

  • March 23, 2012

    Rising Star: Shearman's Etienne Gelencser

    Shearman & Sterling LLP partner Etienne Gelencser has represented several Asian banking heavyweights in cross-border power project deals and has helped corporate giants like Mitsubishi Corp dip into the renewable energy sector, nabbing him a spot among Law360's list of four attorneys under 40 that are rising legal stars in project finance.

  • March 23, 2012

    Rising Star: White & Case's Noah Brumfield

    Whether securing the green light for Grupo Bimbo SAB's multimillion-dollar Sara Lee Corp. bakery unit buy or developing solutions to novel questions at the intersection of intellectual property and antitrust law, White & Case LLP's Noah A. Brumfield's creativity and business savvy have earned him a spot on Law360's list of five competition attorneys under 40 to watch.

  • March 23, 2012

    Rising Star: Hunton & Williams' Karma Brown

    Hunton & Williams LLP's Karma Brown has won victories for the American Farm Bureau Federation and other major trade groups in high-profile Clean Water Act fights against the federal government, earning her a place among Law360's five rising environmental law stars under 40.

  • March 23, 2012

    Rising Star: ACE Bermuda's Joshua Schwartz

    ACE Bermuda Insurance Ltd. associate general counsel Joshua Schwartz began serving as the insurer's regional compliance officer in 2011, ensuring the company complies with Bermuda and U.S. regulations, and also found time to mediate a high-profile bankruptcy settlement, work that won him a spot among Law 360's top five insurance attorneys under 40.

  • March 22, 2012

    Rising Star: Hausfeld's Brian Ratner

    Fighting for vitamin buyers victimized by global price fixing and brokering a groundbreaking private settlement with marine hose cartelist Parker ITR are just some accomplishments of Hausfeld LLP partner Brian Ratner, one of five attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as a rising legal star in the class action arena.

  • March 22, 2012

    Rising Star: Cleary Gottlieb's Michael Preston

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's Michael Preston helped negotiate a pair of breakthrough deals in 2011 that will bring new power infrastructure to Tanzania and Sierra Leone, accomplishments that earned him a spot among Law360's top five under-40 energy attorneys.

  • March 22, 2012

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Jason Schwartz

    Jason Schwartz of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has tapped into his fascination with workplace dynamics and passion for learning on numerous cases, including his recent work to protect Dow Corning Corp.'s trade secrets, which has earned him a spot among Law360's top five under-40 employment partners.

  • March 21, 2012

    Rising Star: Skadden's Peter Morrison

    After three years as a partner at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Peter Morrison has already earned a reputation for staving off high-stakes shareholder derivative litigation with an eye toward client needs, earning him a spot among Law360's top five under-40 class action partners for the second year in a row.

  • March 21, 2012

    Rising Star: Seyfarth's Steven Pearlman

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner Steven Pearlman, who specializes in Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistleblower cases, helped to create a national team at the firm dedicated to that issue, earning him a spot on Law360's list of five employment lawyers under 40 to watch.

  • March 21, 2012

    Rising Star: Paul Weiss' Jacqui Rubin

    Whether she is defending pharmaceutical company executives to a grand jury or representing medical device manufacturers in antitrust battles, health care litigator Jacqui Rubin of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP knows how to get at the core issues underlying every dispute, earning her one of four spots on Law360's list of rising stars under 40 in the health industry.

  • March 21, 2012

    Rising Star: Latham's Craig Kornreich

    Since joining Latham & Watkins LLP in 2010 to help expand its new Houston office, partner Craig Kornreich has built an energy-focused finance team that has already cinched more than 35 deals worth roughly $25 billion, according to the firm. That leadership success, coupled with his complex finance prowess, makes him one of Law360's five rising stars under 40 in the energy arena.

  • March 21, 2012

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Erik Quarfordt

    For his proactive approach to complicated real estate transactions involving major private equity players, including The Blackstone Group and The Carlyle Group, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Erik Quarfordt has earned a spot among Law360's top four real estate partners under 40 to watch.

  • March 20, 2012

    Rising Star: Orrick's Jessica Perry

    With a record of beating back several high-profile moves for class certification in recent years, while successfully defending such heavy hitters as Morgan Stanley and Gap Inc., Jessica Perry of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has earned a place among Law360's top five under-40 employment partners.

  • March 20, 2012

    Rising Star: O'Melveny's Elizabeth McKeen

    Making partner at just 33, Elizabeth McKeen's next step in O'Melveny & Myers LLP's financial services litigation group got started just as the foreclosure crisis began haunting her clients in the form of major class actions. Her ability to help clients navigate these troubled waters makes her one of Law360's five class action attorneys under 40 to watch.

  • March 20, 2012

    Rising Star: King & Spalding's Marian Lee

    When Marian Lee started at King & Spalding LLP, she stood out even among the highly qualified group of summer associates, and her superior work on complex medical device and pharmaceutical cases since then has earned her a spot as one of Law360's four health industry rising stars under 40.

  • March 20, 2012

    Rising Star: Fried Frank's Brian Lichter

    A "go-to partner" for some of the biggest players in the New York real estate market, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's Brian Lichter arranged some of the city's largest commercial real estate deals in 2011 and earned himself a spot as one of four attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as a rising legal star in the real estate industry.

  • March 20, 2012

    Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Pablo Ferrante

    Mayer Brown LLP partner Pablo Ferrante intended to return to his native Argentina after getting a few months of experience at a U.S. law firm, but eight years later, his hard work and bicultural fluency has helped his firm establish a strong foothold in the Latin American energy market, earning him a spot as one of five attorneys under 40 to be honored by Law360 as a rising legal star in the energy practice area.

  • March 19, 2012

    Rising Star: Jones Day's Brian Jorgensen

    With an eye for innovative strategies that has helped him successfully defend Verizon Wireless in a wage-and-hour dispute and argue for U.S. Steel Corp. in a potential landmark Fair Labor Standards Act suit, Jones Day's Brian Jorgensen has earned a spot among Law360's top five young employment partners.