Law360 Honors Three Dechert Partners as 2025 Rising Stars

Three Dechert partners have been selected as Rising Stars for 2025 by Law360. Each year, the publication names those it judges to be the world’s top legal talent under the age of 40 across a range of legal disciplines.

Those honored as Law360 Rising Stars for 2025 are:

Nitya Kumar Goyal (Real Estate). A Philadelphia-based global finance partner, Ms. Kumar Goyal represents banks, insurance companies, institutional lenders and private equity investors in mortgage and mezzanine loan origination secured by a wide variety of commercial real estate properties, including office buildings, industrial, multifamily, hotels and retail properties, as well as loan participations, syndications and other co-lender arrangements. Recognized by The Legal 500 US as a next generation lawyer in real estate finance and currently ranked by Chambers USA for real estate finance in Pennsylvania, Ms. Kumar Goyal was recently named among The CRE Finance Council’s 20 Under 40 Class of 2025.

Benjamin Sadun (Cybersecurity & Privacy). A Los Angeles-based litigation privacy and cybersecurity partner, Mr. Sadun is nationally recognized for his expertise in artificial intelligence, health care technology and class actions, with a reputation for successful courtroom advocacy for health and technology giants and emerging companies. Beyond the courtroom, he also has extensive experience representing clients before, and leading negotiations with, the Federal Trade Commission, State Attorney General offices, U.S. Attorney offices, and Congressional Committees. Mr. Sadun was recently recognized in Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Litigators in America list for 2025 and honored as one of America’s Top 26 Privacy Litigators and Top 17 Cybersecurity Litigators.

Melissa Wollis (Complex Financial Instruments). A New York-based partner in Dechert’s global finance practice, Ms. Wollis represents financial institutions in their capacity as issuers, arrangers and investment managers in connection with securitization and structured finance transactions. Focusing her practice primarily on collateralized loan obligation (CLO) transactions, she routinely negotiates related warehouse financing arrangements and refinancing and “reset” transactions and also represents financial institutions and investment banks as underwriters in CLO transactions and other loan financing deals. A key member of Dechert’s market-leading CLO team, she has been recognized by Chambers USA as “Up and Coming” in Capital Markets, Securitization and CLOs.

Profiles of this year’s Rising Stars will be published by Law360 in the coming weeks.

About Dechert 

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