Three Covington Lawyers Named Among Law360's "Rising Stars"

Three Covington Lawyers Named Among Law360's "Rising Stars"

August 17, 2018

WASHINGTON— Law360 named Covington lawyers Alexander Berengaut, Michael Nonaka, and Ursula Owczarkowski to its list of “2018 Rising Stars.” This annual recognition honors top attorneys under 40 “whose legal accomplishments transcend their age.”

Alex Berengaut represents clients in civil litigation, international arbitrations, and government enforcement proceedings that often involve cross-border issues. He represents clients in the technology, defense, energy, and financial services sectors and is currently handling several litigation and compliance matters relating to electronic surveillance, cybersecurity, and data privacy for leading technology companies.

Mr. Berengaut’s Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy profile can be found here.

Michael Nonaka is co-chair of the Financial Services Group and advises banks, financial services providers, and non-bank companies on a broad range of compliance, enforcement, transactional, and legislative matters. He also represents banks, lending companies, money transmitters, payments firms, technology companies, and service providers on innovative technologies such as blockchain, bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies, big data, cloud computing, same day payments, and online lending.

Mr. Nonaka’s Law360 Banking Rising Star profile can be found here.

Ursula Owczarkowski is vice chair of the International Project Development and Finance Practice Group. She has represented various energy clients, government and parastatal entities, and lenders in the development, acquisition, financing and restructuring of projects with a particular emphasis on projects in Africa.

Ms. Owczarkowski’s Law360 Project Finance profile can be found here.