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July 31, 2026
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2026, our list of more than 160 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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August 20, 2025
Michael H. Waldman of Latham & Watkins LLP helped guide a landmark $2 billion private credit loan to Dropbox last year and has advised on multiple billion-dollar cross-border financing deals, earning a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 19, 2025
David Kennedy, a partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's finance practice group, advised one of the largest-ever private credit deals in the U.S., with the refinancing of Finastra Group's existing first-lien and second-lien credit facilities, earning him a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 18, 2025
Jennifer Lee of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP helped Nationstar Mortgage LLC defeat a slew of claims tied to the sale of nearly $2 billion in delinquent loans and represented Credit Suisse in a two-week trial in New York state court involving nine-figure litigation, earning her a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 15, 2025
Ana M. González Pérez of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped steer Credit Suisse through its merger and integration with UBS and co-negotiated investment terms that pulled a struggling New York Community Bancorp back from the brink, earning her a spot among the banking law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 18, 2025
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2025, our list of more than 150 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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July 17, 2024
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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.