RISING STARS KRISHNA VEERARAGHAVAN
SULLIVAN CROMWELL, LLP New York City, NY
KRISHNA VEERARAGHAVAN HANDLES HIGH- PROFILE and high- dollar cases, to the tune of $50 billion worth of headline-making M&A transactions. Veeraraghavan is
a partner at Sullivan Cromwell LLP in the
firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions group. He focuses on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity matters. Veeraraghavan’s portfolio of work includes helping
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Anheuser-Busch InBev acquire the remaining stake in Grupo Modelo that it does not already own—a transac- tion worth more than $20 billion. He is also advising the biotechnology company Amgen’s $315 million
acquisition of KAI pharmaceuticals. Veeraraghavan says a good M&A lawyer is a good
negotiator, knows and understands business law, and the U.S. securities laws that affect corporate transactions. Despite his impressive resume and the recogni-
tion he’s already received for being a great lawyer, Veeraraghavan won’t take full credit for his success. “I work at a firm that is full of lots of talented people
and they all work hard for our clients,” he says. Veeraraghavan will admit that he loves negotiations
and finding solutions to problems, which motivates him to work very hard at his job. In addition to working very hard for large corporate
clients, Veeraraghavan donates his skills and his time to the nonprofit group South Asian Youth Association, which is committed to furthering the educational and career development of south Asian children from under- served and immigrant communities. “I love my work,” Veeraraghavan says, “but it’s
important to focus on things that are much bigger than just the legal world.”
BRYAN WAHL
BRYAN WAHL IS A PRACTICING medical doctor and lawyer, a remark- able combination of achievements, with each requiring a great deal of hard work and dedica- tion on their own. A medical doctor
before going to law school, Wahl made partner at Knobbe Martens in just five years. Wahl specializes in intellectual property protection, infringement studies, financings, and strategic transactions. “[Because of my] interest in the many biomedical
devices and technologies I was around, I decided to go to law school after my internal medicine residency to explore the intellectual property aspects of the healing profession,” Wahl says. He says he owes his work ethic to his parents who instilled the importance of hard work, humility,
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and embracing challenges. Wahl, a third-generation descendant of immigrants from southern China, says his grandparents’ struggle inspired him to accomplish so much. “I am very grateful for my grandparents’ many
sacrifices in coming to America virtually destitute, in search of a better life for themselves and their families. I try and incorporate that immigrant spirit of self-reliance, perseverance, giving back, and not taking anything for granted into my law and medical practices and also daily life,” Wahl explains. In managing his busy schedule, the doctor and
lawyer finds opportunities to mentor other young associates by delegating tasks to them that they can learn from—the same way he was mentored when he first became a lawyer.
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