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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 12, 2024

    Rising Star: Weil's Brian Parness

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP partner Brian Parness has earned the trust of private equity firms that required advice on huge transactions — as shown by TPG Inc.'s acquisition of Angelo Gordon, as well as TPG's own initial public offering — landing him a spot among private equity attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 09, 2024

    Rising Star: Davis Polk's Jack Orford

    Jack Orford of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP regularly acts as finance counsel to various private equity firms, including Brookfield Business Partners on its $13.2 billion acquisition of Johnson Controls' power solutions business, earning him a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 08, 2024

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Keri Schick Norton

    Keri Schick Norton of Kirkland & Ellis LLP regularly acts as lead counsel to some of the top private equity firms in the industry, such as Blackstone and Warburg Pincus, in their deal transactions, including helping Warburg Pincus in its $1.86 billion sale of Procare Solutions, earning her a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 07, 2024

    Rising Star: Debevoise & Plimpton's Ryan T. Rafferty

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP partner Ryan T. Rafferty navigated $9 billion in debt financing for a private equity firm in the acquisition of Truist Insurance, and he steered Evergreen Coast Capital through a $16.5 billion take-private deal of a cloud computing company, earning him a spot among the private equity law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 06, 2024

    Rising Star: Skadden's George Gray

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP partner George Gray has used his expertise to navigate Markerstudy Group's $1.6 billion merger with an insurance brokering giant and to help private equity firm HgCapital LLP exit its investment in Argus Media, earning him a spot among private equity practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 05, 2024

    Rising Star: Dechert's Sam Whittaker

    Sam Whittaker of Dechert's work helping Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte. Ltd. coinvest in deals like the $17 billion acquisition of Athenahealth and the more than $15 billion take-private of media data giant Nielsen has kept a "cornerstone client" happy and made him one of the Law360 Rising Stars in private equity under age 40.

  • July 25, 2024

    Rising Star: Cooley's Matt Smith

    Matt Smith of Cooley LLP advised Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as it raised $7.2 billion across five funds with differering strategies, including one focusing on companies supporting "American dynamism," earning him a spot among the fund formation attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 24, 2024

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Mark Boyagi

    Mark Boyagi is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis LLP's investment funds practice group and is a leader in the firm's liquidity solutions team, where he has advised on several transactions in global secondaries market volume, including advising Alpine Investors last year on a $3.4 billion single-asset continuation fund transaction, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 23, 2024

    Rising Star: Davis Polk's Sijia Cai

    Sijia Cai led the Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP team that advised investment firm Rubicon Founders LLC on its roughly $1.2 billion second flagship private equity fund and was on the team that advised on a $2.5 billion Morgan Stanley secondaries fund, earning her a spot among the fund formation practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 22, 2024

    Rising Star: Goodwin's Lynette Elam

    Lynette Elam of Goodwin Procter LLP guided the $16.5 billion fundraise for private equity firm TA Associates on its TA XV fund, which the firm has identified as one of 2023's biggest private equity funds, in the latest chapter of her work with the longtime client. This accomplishment and others have arned her a place among the fund formation attorneys honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 19, 2024

    Rising Star: Latham's Oliver Prakash-Jenkins

    Oliver Prakash-Jenkins of Latham & Watkins LLP advised infrastructure investment manager American Triple I on its fundraise for the $4.2 billion development of a new terminal at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, and in just the past month has seen two projects that both involved investments of over $1 billion close, earning him a place among the fund formation law practitioners under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 12, 2024

    Law360 Names 2024's Top Attorneys Under 40

    Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2024, our list of 158 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.

  • August 01, 2023

    Rising Star: Morrison Foerster's Maureen Ho

    Maureen Ho of Morrison Foerster LLP has headed multibillion-dollar deals between a myriad of companies, including Alibaba's acquisition of a stake in Ant Financial, earning her a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 31, 2023

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Michael Chao

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Michael Chao has honed a reputation as a trusted counselor steering massive private-equity deals — as evidenced by the more-than-$30 billion acquisition of health care supplier Medline — earning him a spot among private equity attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 28, 2023

    Rising Star: Davis Polk's Darren Schweiger

    Darren Schweiger co-led a Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP corporate team that helped advise TPG Capital's $1 billion initial public offering and has participated in other multimillion-dollar deals, earning him a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 27, 2023

    Rising Star: Debevoise's Emily Huang

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's Emily Huang spearheaded Kelso & Co.'s $610 million acquisition of two iconic General Mills brands for its food portfolio company, earning her a spot among the private equity lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 26, 2023

    Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Kristen Poole

    Kristen Poole of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has worked on high-stakes deals in the private equity space, including a recent one that carried an enterprise value of $16 billion, earning her a spot among the fund private equity practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 17, 2023

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Deborah Gruen

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Deborah Gruen's work advising leading global investment firms such Stonepeak, The Carlyle Group and KKR on the creation of multibillion-dollar funds, often exceeding fundraising targets, has earned her a spot among the fund formation attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 14, 2023

    Rising Star: Cooley's Jimmy Matteucci

    Jimmy Matteucci of Cooley LLP has counseled Founders Fund on over $8 billion worth of funds in the last three years, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 13, 2023

    Rising Star: Debevoise's Sally Bergmann

    In just the past couple of years, Sally Bergmann of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has steered private equity and venture capital firms through several cutting-edge, multibillion-dollar transactions, including a $3 billion Breakthrough Properties fund and Paradigm's record-breaking $2.5 billion closed-end crypto fund, earning her a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 12, 2023

    Rising Star: Paul Weiss' Conrad Van Loggerenberg

    Thanks to a variety of work for General Atlantic, including helping with a nearly $8 billion fundraising and a separate first-ever climate-focused fund, Conrad van Loggerenberg of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has earned a spot among fund formation attorneys under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.

  • July 10, 2023

    Rising Star: Akin's Jonathan Ross

    Jonathan Ross of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has shepherded in hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of fund formation deals in his career — including a multibillion-dollar fund for one of the firm's founding clients — earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 17, 2023

    Law360 Names 2023's Top Attorneys Under 40

    Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2023, our list of 183 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.

  • June 16, 2022

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Linda Tieh

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Linda Tieh's work advising on multibillion-dollar funds for companies like Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Centerbridge Partners has earned her a spot among the fund formation attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • June 15, 2022

    Rising Star: Sidley's Joseph Schwartz

    Joseph Schwartz of Sidley Austin LLP co-led the largest hedge fund launch globally in 2021 while also juggling multiple ongoing billion-dollar funds for Azimut Alternative Capital Partners and i80 Group, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.