The Rising Stars Awards has announced its winners for the 2022 Americas awards, celebrating rising stars from across practice areas 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 counsels, and recently made 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.
Please join with us as we celebrate the achievements of the Rising Stars 2022.
Without further ado the winners are…
In-House Awards
Agriculture
Roberto Acauan – SLC Agrícola
Stefani Navarro – Corteva Agriscience
Automotive
Patricia Brennan – Bosch
Aviation
Ana María Sánchez – Easyfly
Carolina Fajardo – Avianca
Maria Camila Jimenez Zapata – Viva Air
Banking & Financial Services
Bianca Thomas – BMO Financial
Bruno Duque – Banco BTG Pactual
Cláudia Maciel Polonio – Banco GM SA
Felipe Andreu – BTG
Juliana Strohl – TruePay
Litza Sester – Genial Investmentos
Luciano Prado – Jive Investments
Construction
Oscar Villanueva – Aenza
Pedro Olaechea Cadenillas – Novonor
Consumer Goods and Services
Laura Stevens – Cengage Group
Michal Rosenn – Noom
Rodolfo Araujo – iFood
Entertainment
Vinicius Ribeiro - Sky
Food and Beverage
Ella Silva - AmBev
Healthcare
Erik Cordova – Kimberly Clark
Industrials and Manufacturing
Ana Paula Clement - UNIPAR
Insurance & Reinsurance
Adriana Vaduva – Allstate Insurance
Investment Management and Funds
Frances Welbergen – British Columbia Investment Management Corporation
Media
Andressa Genovesi – Lions Source
Nathaniel Boyer - Hearst
Natural Resources
Buillermo Pizarro – Asesorías e Inversiones Benjamín SA
Gustavo Farran – Natura & Co
Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences
Antonio Donatlan – Abbott
Bruno Becker – Abbott
David Van Buskirk – Elanco
Kang Lee – JAMP Pharma Group
Renato Batista de Oliveira - AstraZeneca
Power
Alice Azevedo – Canadian Solar
Felipe Artigas – Engie
Laura Streit – Apex
Laura Zuñiga – Luz del Sur
Roberto Koshiyama – Nebras Power
Roberto Zillo – Canadian Solar
Verónica Arbulu – Statkraft
Real Estate
Jacques Ghosn - WeWork
Technology & Telecommunications
Jacques Horn – TIM SA
Joshua Dingott – Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Kimiya Shams – Devialet
Marcelo Meijas – TIM SA
Tatiana Cavancanti – TIM SA
Veronica Belchior – Sinqia
Victor Díaz Infante – Uber
Transport
Charles Hoang – Air Transat
Jean-Emmanuel Beaubrun – Air Transat
Paul Gagnon – Taiga Motors
Practice Area Awards
Antitrust & Competition
Alessandro Pezzolo Giacaglia – Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Caeli Higney – Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Juan Carlos Burgos – Galicia Abogados
Michael Caldecott – McCarthy Tétrault
Preston Miller – Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Aviation
Adrianna Jenson – Daughtery Fowler Pergrin Haught & Jenson
Eduardo Penna – Costa Albino & Lasalvia Advogados
Nicholas Milburn – Milbank
Philip Weissman – Clyde & Co
Rachel Welford – Cozen O’Connor
Banking & finance
Andrés Mosqueira – White & Case
Angelina Liang - Dechert
Dan Dedic – Goodmans
Laure Fouin – Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Magnus Wieslander – Shearman & Sterling
Commercial arbitration
Amy Endicott – Arnold & Porter
Estefanía Ponce Durán – Posse Herrera Ruiz
Eva Chan – Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Lindsey Schmidt – Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Orlando Palominos – Lembeye
Copyright
Carla do Couto Hellu Battilana – TozziniFreire Advogados
Guillaume Lavoie Ste-Marie – Smart & Biggar
Joshua Simmons – Kirkland & Ellis
Shaelyn Dawson – Morrison & Foerster
Ximena Aramburu – Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Abogados
Corporate Governance
Caroline Kim – Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Julia Lapitskaya – Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Michael Arnold – Cravath Swaine & Moore
Willian Dias Cunha – StoccheForbes Lawyers
Debt Capital Markets
John Ablan – Mayer Brown
Lisa Collier – Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Lorena Kiehnle – Galicia Abogados
Paulo Fernando de Menezes Cardoso – Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Stephen Alicanti – DLA Piper
Energy, Natural Resources, & Mining
Andrew Ketner – King & Spalding
Diana Briones – Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Abogados
Filipe Morais Cunha – Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Peter Danner – Torys
Stephanie Coco – Vinson & Elkins
Environment
Camila Martinez Encina – Eelaw
Corrine Snow – Vinson & Elkins
Devin O'Connor – Latham & Watkins
Jennifer Cornejo – Kirkland & Ellis
Michael Manhas – Norton Rose Fulbright
Equity Capital Markets
C Daniel Haaren – Cravath Swaine & Moore
Jana Aaújo – Lefosse Advogados
Júlia Rosa Barbosa Alves Rodrigues – BMA Advogados
Megan McDermott – Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Robyn Enslen – Bennett Jones
Financial Services Regulation
Kyle Gerow – Goodmans
Insurance & reinsurance
Anna Milunas – Blank Rome
Avi Sharabi – Stieber Berlach
Gabriel Loli León – Osterling Abogados
Juan José López – BLP
Orrie Levy – Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna
International trade
Matthew Rabinowitz – Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Michel Zelaya – Santamarina + Steta
Peter Jeydel – Steptoe & Johnson
Robert Glasgow – McCarthy Tétrault
Sarah Shulman – Cassidy Levy Kent
Investment funds
Daniel Blumenthal – Schulte Roth & Zabel
Mariane Caroline Kondon – Moattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Sally Bergmann – Debevoise & Plimpton
Shawn Cymbalisty – Olser Hoskin & Harcourt
Stephanie Capistron - Dechert
Labour & Employment
Elizabeth England – Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Matias Nahuel Fuse – Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Matthew Bobby – Cravath Swaine & Moore
Roberto Lewin Vial – Barros Silva Varela & Vigil
Tiffany Phan – Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Life sciences
Abigail Smith – formerly of Smart & Biggar
Branden Berns – Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Cecilia Stahlhut Espinosa – Hogan Lovells
Michael Schubert – Leydig Voit & Mayer
Nicole Recchi Aun – Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Litigation
Adam Mintz – Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Benjamin Mundel – Sidley Austin
Jean-Sebastien Dupont – Smart & Biggar
Marc James Tacheji – Fasken Martineau DuMoulin
Thais Arza Monteiro – Mattos Filho Advogados
Media & Entertainment
Amy Stein – Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard
Ilissa Samplin – Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Joshua Greenberg – Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard
Michelle Gourley – Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Pooneh Aminian – Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard
Mergers & Acquisitions
Amelia Miao – Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Brittany Sakowitz – Kirkland & Ellis
Leslie Wong – Clark Wilson
Saee Muzumdar – Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Thiago José da Silva – Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Patent
Cook Alciati – Gardella Grace
Cristián Barros – Sargent & Krahn
Patrick Laycock – Parlee McLaws
Peng Lin – Fish & Richardson
Sharonmoyee Goswami – Cravath Swaine & Moore
Privacy & Data Protection
Amy Pimentel – McDermott Will & Emery
Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter – Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Eduardo Magrani – Demarest
Ellie Marshall – Blake Cassels & Graydon
Eva Pulliam – Arent Fox
Private Equity (including Venture Capital)
Héctor Zegarra – Garrigues
Luiza Ozores Igel – Stocche Forbes Advogados
Neeta Sahadev – White & Case
Quinton Farrar – Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Product liability
Ashley Paterson – Bennett Jones
Emily Ullman – Covington & Burling
Nicole Henderson – Blake Cassels & Graydon
Richard Tabura – Greenberg Traurig
Taryn Harper – Greenberg Traurig
Project Finance
Adrian Leal – White & Case
Ana Irma Amado Córdova – Creel Garcia-Cuéllar Aiza & Enriquez
Laercio Munechika – Stocche Forbes Advogados
Miguel Duran – Milbank
Pedro Antonio Morales – Miranda & Amado
Real estate
Daniel Shlomi – Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Danielle Jackson – Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Justin Vilinsky – Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Karin Muñoz – CMS Carey & Allende
Mehdi Eddebbarh – Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Restructuring & insolvency
Alice Byowitz – Kramer Levin
Jason Zachary Goldstein – Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Matthew Brod – Milbank
Sophia Rolle-Kapousouzoglou – Lennox Paton
Thiago Dias Costa – Felsberg Advogados
Securities Litigation
Lauren Rosenberg – Cravath Swaine & Moore
Sheila Ramesh – Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Shipping & Maritime
Ellen McGlynn – Collier Walsh Nakazawa
Han Deng – Reed Smith
Kaitlin Smiley – Norton Rose Fulbright
Maria Carollina de França – Costa Albino & Lasalvia Advogados
Natalie Radabaugh – Blank Rome
Structured Finance & Securitisation
Camila Mari Ohno – Pinheiro Guimarães
Danielle Butler – Blake Cassels & Graydon
Mark DiFiore – Davis Polk & Wardwell
Shawn Kodes – Weil Gotshal & Manges
Tracy Feng – Allen & Overy
Tax
Casey Richardson-Scott – Blake Cassels & Graydon
Eduardo Brandt – Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez
Julia Ushakova-Stein – Fenwick & West
Lina Dimachkieh – Vinson & Elkins
Luciana Simões de Souza – Mattos Filho Advogados
Tax Dispute Resolution
Alejandro Madero – Galicia Abogados
Amanda Heale – Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Brandon King – Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Carla Peirano – Estudio Echecopar
Julia Ushakova-Stein – Fenwick & West
Technology
Erin Rubin – Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Miaa Rendar – Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
Trademark
Andrea Chunga – BARLAW
Ashley Edmonds – Kilpatrick Townsend
Graham Hood – Smart & Biggar
Jeremy Boczko – Hunton Andrews Kurth
R Nelson Godfrey – Gowlling WLG
Transfer pricing
José Manuel Zárate López – Basham Ringe y Correa
Luis Tuesta – TPC Group
Matthew De Felice – Valentiam Group
Peter Kurjanowicz – Grant Thornton
Sirathorn BJ Dechsakulthorn – DLA Piper
Wealth Management
Caljionah Smith – Appleby
Elizabeth Faist – Djuric Spratt
Esmond Brown – Appleby
Heather Benjamin – Cravath Swaine & Moore
Sean Imfeld – Milbank
White Collar Crime
Darcy Harris – Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Gabriel Querry – McCarthy Tétrault
Karla Lini Maeji – TozziniFreire Advogados
Katherine Stoller – Shearman & Sterling
Liam Kelley – Blake Cassels & Graydon
Jurisdiction Awards
Argentina
Camila Corvalán – Beccar Varela
Matias Nahuel Fuse – Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Bahamas
Sophia Rolle-Kapousouzoglou – Lennox Paton
Brazil
Carla do Couto Hellu Battilana – TozziniFreire Advogados
Thiago José da Silva – Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Canada
Amelia Miao – Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Jean-Sebastien Dupont – Smart & Biggar
Caribbean
Esmond Brown – Appleby
Chile
Karin Muñoz – CMS Carey & Allende
Orlando Palominos – Lembeye
Colombia
Estefanía Ponce Durán – Posse Herrera Ruiz
Sebastian Quintero – Baker McKenzie
Costa Rica
Juan José López - BLP
Ecuador
David Toscano – TADIR Dispute Resolution
Mexico
Eduardo Brandt – Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza y Enríquez
Lorena Kiehnle – Galicia Abogados
Panama
Allen Candanedo – Morgan & Morgan
Joelis Araúz Ospino – Alfaro Ferrer & Ramirez
Peru
Diana Briones – Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Abogados
Luis Tuesta – TPC Group
US
Benjamin Mundel – Sidley Austin
Julia Ushakova-Stein – Fenwick
