Rising Stars Awards EMEA 2021: winners announced

The Rising Stars Awards EMEA 2021 has announced its winners for the 2021 EMEA awards, celebrating over 150 rising stars from across 28 practice area specialisms throughout the region.

Also being recognised are emerging leaders from in-house teams.

The Rising Stars Awards aims to recognise the outstanding work being done by the region’s emerging leaders. These individuals are associates, of counsel, and recently promoted partners who have been rising to prominence within their chosen specialisms.  

It is our privilege to acknowledge the astounding work being accomplished by lawyers who may well be the next generation of leaders in their fields.

Sadly, as travel restrictions in the region have yet to be lifted and as our list of multinational winners are located across multiple continents, we are unable to host our all-inclusive gala dinner and ceremony this year.  

Instead, the Rising Stars team is delighted to be able to present to you the list of this year’s most distinguished up-and-coming talent. Please join us as we celebrate the achievements of the Rising Stars for 2021.

We hope to see you all in person in 2022, things being well. Until then, stay safe and keep up the incredible work.

If you have any questions about the awards, please contact our lead researcher John Harrison. 

We are keen to fulfil any promotions that firms would like to undertake on the back of their success, and request that you contact Nick Heath with any queries.

Without further ado, the winners are…

Alma Forgo – Airbus

Katharine Price – Airbus

Mustafa Kemal Balta – Corendon Airlines

Yvonne Moynihan – Vueling

Alexander Roesch – Rothschild & Co Bank

Mikko Haataja – OP Financial Group

Rita Santos – Banco Atlantico

Stefan Sveholm – Handelsbanken

Stephan Leissing – LGT

Susanna Puumala – Finnvera

Tamer Dürr – Zürcher Kantonalbank

Vesa Vuorio – Nordea

Philip Horber – Coca-Cola Company

Alexios Kirillov – Guinea Alumina Corporation

Ana Oliveira Rocha - Astronergy

Flavia Bieri Bürge – Axpo Group

Othman El Malih – Maurel & Prom

Paola Merati – Sonnedix

Teresa Arnoni – Alleans Renewables

Bérengère Murigneux – Heineken

Anna Jacobs – Amgen

Caroline Gutmann – Lilly Deutschland

Dider Pomeranc – F Hoffmann-La Roche

Isabel Burnham - Mundipharma

Jose Antonio Pontijas – After S.L

Julia Polly – Gilead

Katarzyna Kęska – Polpharma

Marion Bickmann – GlaxoSmithKline

Marta Tuzimek-Wisniewska – Roche

Ruth Franken – Kiadis

Shohta Ueno – Regeneron Phramaceuticals, Inc.

Zofia Ignatowicz – Adamed Pharma

Charlotte Suffys – Facebook

Caroline Hooper – Netflix

Maarten Goudsmit – Booking.com

Sylvie de Oliveira - L'Oréal

Anna-Liisa Asujamaa – OP Real Estate Asset Management Ltd

Julien Nataf – Gecina

Roos Bareman – Bareman Fiscaal Advies

Emma Keating – Liberty Global

Tiago Mota – The Walt Disney Company

Zacharie Gabail – Dassault Systèmes

Annabelle Wheeler – Norton Rose Fulbright

Dhruv Paul – Watson Farley & Williams

Stephen Gardiner – Matheson

Alon Peled – Gornitzky & Co

Amy Kennedy – Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Mariella Både-Landell – Castrén & Snellman

Andrew McCann – Clifford Chance

Inbar Eitan-Goldstein – Shibolet & Co

Peter Crossan – Allen & Overy

Anne-Marie Lacoste – Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

Emilie Gonin – Doughty Street Chambers

Sebastiano Nessi – Schellenberg Wittmer

Christon Shenolikar – Herbert Smith Freehills

Philipp Kirst – Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Samantha Sinden – Werksmans Attorneys

Anne-Caroline Payelle – Allen & Overy

Deirdre Ní Annracháin – Niederer Kraft Frey

Martyn Jones – Herbert Smith Freehills

João Marques Mendes – PLMJ

Nadine Amr – Vinson & Elkins

Valentina Canalini – Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici

Adam Hedley – Reed Smith

Iikka Väänänen – Castrén & Snellman

Madalena Bernardes Coelho – Abreu Advogados

Aurélie Garaudet – Hascoet & Associes

Ciara Jackson – Kennedys

Sam Tacey – Cooley

Eva Monard – Jones Day

Nicoleta Tuominen – Dentons

Victoria Mykuliak – Sayenko Kharenko

Hamish Annandale – Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Macky O'Sullivan – King & Spalding

Marie Préat – Clifford Chance

Matthias Köhler – Baker McKenzie

Nadège Owen – Orrick Rambaud Martel

Nick Wright – Herbert Smith Freehills

Joel Coles – Powell Gilbert

Matthias Schweiger – Hogan Lovells

Nicolas Carbonnelle – Bird & Bird

Carla Góis Coelho – PLMJ

Ciarán Ó Conluain – A&L Goodbody

Shail Patel – 4 New Square

Abdelaziz Khatab – August Debouzy

Beatrix Metelski – Hoyng Rokh Monegier

Sarah Naisby – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Hannah Crowther - Bristows

Jan Spittka – Clyde & Co

Olivia Santantonio – Lydian

Mary Cooney – William Fry

Olya Melnitchouk – DAC Beachcroft

Tobias Ackermann – Hogan Lovells

Adite Aloke – Afridi & Angell

Kilian de Cintré – Milbank

Tomer Ben Horin – Tadmor Levy & Co

Cléopha Thomann – Gide Loyrette Nouel

Hayden Cameron – Allen & Overy

Nir Lerer – Meitar Law Offices

Lindsay Hingston – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Marjolaine Jakob – CMS von Erlach Partners Ltd

Simon Le Wita – De Prdieu Brocas Maffei

Ida Dahlborg – Wistrand

Michael Ritter – HFW

Will Trustram – Clyde & Co

Claire Bridcut – Milbank

Inês Perez Sanchez – VdA

Ülkü Cibik – Meyerlustenberger Lachenal Avocats

Caroline Austin – Matheson

Marcin Czajkowski – Dentons

Serena Lee – Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Marília Frias – VdA

Marta Lahuerta Escolano – Jones Day

Sophie Goossens – Reed Smith

Karla Hughes – Allen & Overy

Mathis Breuer – Hoyng Rokh Monegier

Rachel Wilkinson-Duffy – Baker McKenzie

Alexis Bernard – CMS Francis Lefebvre

Hendrik Handte – Deloitte Germany

Olga Shambaleva – EY

Andrea Dorjee-Good – Schellenberg Wittmer

Katie Baxter – Ogier

Robert Gibson – Taylor Wessing

Marine Gourlet – Allen & Overy

Christina Hund – Norton Rose Fulbright

Katie Palms – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Eric Leikin – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Heidrun Halbartschlager – Konrad Partners

Nicolas Carbonnelle – Bird & Bird

Olivia Santantonio – Lydian

Hristina Dzhevlekova – Wolf Theiss

Daniel Read – Walkers

Katie Baxter – Ogier

Andrea Jarolímková – Bird & Bird

Milan Rakosnik – Clifford Chance

Martin Allan Christensen – Bech-Bruun

Mette Hygum Clausen – Plesner

Liina Käis – FORT Legal

Marika Oksaar – NOVE

Iikka Väänänen – Castrén & Snellman

Mariella Både-Landell – Castrén & Snellman

Abdelaziz Khatab – August Debouzy

Anne-Caroline Payelle – Allen & Overy

Beatrix Metelski – Hoyng Rokh Monegier

Hendrik Handte – Deloitte Germany

Alexandros Tsagkalidis – ANAGNOSTOPOULOS

Dimitris Kalyvas – Koutalidis Law Firm

András Peisch – Dentons Réczicza Law Firm

Eszter Takacsi-Nagy – Kinstellar

Caroline Austin – Matheson

Ciarán Ó Conluain – A&L Goodbody

Inbar Eitan-Goldstein – Shibolet & Co

Nir Lerer – Meitar Law Offices

Ermelinda Spinelli – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Valentina Canalini – Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici

Simona Liuimiene – Ellex

Benjamin Tempelaere – Arendt & Medernach

Julie Carbiener – Simmons & Simmons

Lorraine Poole – Ganado Advocates

Matthew Xerri – Ganado Advocates

Menno Baks – Linklaters

Olga Shambaleva – EY

Sunniva Kinsella – Simonsen Vogt Wiig

Yngve Øyehaug Opsvik – GjessingReimers

Agnieszka Majka – NGL Legal

Marcin Czajkowski – Dentons

João Marques Mendes – PLMJ

Madalena Bernardes Coelho – Abreu Advogados

Roxana Ionescu – RTPR

Ştefan Diaconescu – Mușat & Asociații

Olga Ponomarenko – Latham & Watkins

Sergey Blinov – Allen & Overy

Petra Štrbová – Dentons

Tomáš Melišek – Kinstellar

Fiorella Noriega del Valle – Herbert Smith Freehills

Samantha Sinden – Werksmans Attorneys

Jesús Andrés Sedano – Uría Menéndez

Luis Cuesta Cuesta – Gómez-Acebo & Pombo

Amanda Granqvist – Sandart & Partners

Ida Dahlborg – Wistrand

Deirdre Ní Annracháin – Niederer Kraft Frey

Sebastiano Nessi – Schellenberg Wittmer

Dicle Doğan – Gün + Partners

Hasan H Yasar – Pekin & Pekin

Amy Kennedy – Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Peter Crossan – Allen & Overy

Krystyna Khripkova - Integrites

Victoria Mykuliak – Sayenko Kharenko

Dhruv Paul – Watson Farley & Williams

Macky O'Sullivan – King & Spalding