The best rising stars lawyers from across the continent congregated at The Pierre Hotel last night to celebrate Euromoney Legal Media Group’s second annual Americas Rising Star awards.
An audience of in-house and private practice lawyers gathered to celebrate the achievements of those firms setting the standard in terms of attracting, developing, retaining and promoting talent and rising star lawyers leading the field in the legal sector across the Americas.
In the firm categories, Weil Gotshal & Manges was named the best international firm for talent management and Osler Hoskin & Harcourt took home the national prize. The best mentoring trophies were taken home by Fenwick & West and Sullivan & Cromwell. In the practice area awards, Cravath Swaine & Moore, White & Case, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Sidley Austin all won three categories. Weil Gotshal & Manges won three categories.
A full list of winners is detailed below. For more information, please contact Rebecca Synnott rebecca.synnott@euromoneyny.com or call +1 212-224-3337.
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Individual rising stars
Best in antitrust/competition
Rory Leraris
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Best in aviation
Mark Ditto
Vedder Price
Best in banking & finance (incl project finance)
M Janine Jjingo
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Best in bankruptcy litigation
Shane Ramsey
Nelson & Mullins Riley & Scarborough
Best in capital markets
Byron Rooney
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Best in commercial arbitration
Ari Mackinnon
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Best in copyright and trademark
Anna Naydonov
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner
Best in energy, natural resources & mining
Clark Wohlferd
White & Case
Best in environment
Stacie Fletcher
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Best in financial regulation
Ryne Miller
Sullivan & Cromwell
Best in insolvency & restructuring
Oscar Pinkas
Dentons
Best in insurance & reinsurance
Michael Carolan
Troutman Sanders
Best in investment funds
Stephanie Capistron
Dechert
Best in labor & employment
Katherine Smith
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Best in life sciences
Adriana Tibbitts
Hogan Lovells
Best in litigation: Appellate
Adam Banks
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Best in litigation: General commercial
Blair Kaminsky
Holwell Shuster & Goldberg
Best in litigation: Securities
K Mallory Brennan
Shearman & Sterling
Best in litigation: Trial lawyer
Patrick Arenz
Robins Kaplan
Best in media & entertainment
Jessica Stebbins Bina
Latham & Watkins
Best in mergers & acquisitions
Aaron Gruber
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Best in patent
Anish Desai
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Best in private equity (including venture capital)
Garrett Charon
Ropes & Gray
Best in product liability
Michelle Ramirez
Sidley Austin
Best in real estate
Whitney Salinas
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Best in structured finance (incl securitisation & derivatives)
Shawn Kodes
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Best in tax and tax disputes
Ora Grinberg
Fenwick & West
Best in transfer pricing
Nicholas Wilkins
White & Case
Best in white collar crime
Michael Mann
Sidley Austin
Latin America awards
Best in Latin America: Banking & finance
Diana Bogotá
Gómez-Pinzón Abogados
Best in Latin America: Corporate
Diana Henne
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Best in Latin America: Energy
Rafael Baptista Baleroni
Cescon Barrieu Flesch & Barreto Advogados
Best in Latin America: Intellectual property
Darliss Marcela Gordon Arana
Consortium Legal
Best in Latin America: Litigation
Jorge Sepúlveda
CorreaGubbins
Best in Latin America: Tax
Jorge Correa
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez
Firm awards
Best national mentoring programme
Fenwick & West
Best international mentoring programme
Sullivan & Cromwell
Best national firm for talent management
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Best international firm for talent management
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Country awards
Best firm in Brazil
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Best firm in Canada
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Best firm in the Caribbean
OMG
Best firm in Central America
Consortium Legal
Best firm in Chile
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Best firm in Colombia
Gómez-Pinzón Abogados
Best firm in Mexico
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez
Best firm in Peru
Estudio Echecopar
Best firm in Uruguay
Cervieri Monsuarez & Associates
Best firm in Venezuela
InterJuris Abogados
Cases / matters / deals of the year
Case of the year
Ohio v American Express
Rory Leraris
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Matter of the year
DOJ antitrust approval for Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox’s assets
Ken Reinker
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Deal of the year
Financing of ESL’s $5.2 billion acquisition of Sears Holdings
Katherine Reaves
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Deal of the year
Lightspeed IPO
Ryan Dzierniejko
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Deal of the year
StoneCo Ltd’s $1.4 billion IPO, Nasdaq listing and private placement
Byron Rooney
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Deal of the year
Lantern Entertainment’s $289 million acquisition of The Weinstein Company’s assets
Meredith Lahaie
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Deal of the year
Formation of ExodusPoint
Dave Form
Sidley Austin
Deal of the year
Formation of Carlyle Partners VII
David Greene
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Deal of the year
GSK’s $5.1 billion acquisition of TESARO
Adriana Tibbitts
Hogan Lovells
Case of the year
US Bank v DLJ Mortgage Capital
Lena Konanova
Selendy & Gay
Matter of the year
Wilmington Trust litigation
Katherine Sinderson
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman
Deal of the year
Shire’s $62 billion acquisition by Takeda
Daniel Brass
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Deal of the year
Linde’s $70 billion merger with Praxair
Aaron Gruber
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Case of the year
ATI v Iancu
Aaron Fahrenkrog
Robins Kaplan
Deal of the year
Blackstone Group’s $7.6 billion acquisition of Gramercy Property Trust
Whitney Salinas
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Deal of the year
Tax aspects of Coca-Cola’s $5.1 billion acquisition of Costa
B Chase Wink
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Case of the year
City of Almaty, Kazakhstan et al v Mukhtar Ablyazov et al
John Curley
Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney
