Law360 profiled Partner Irina Vasilchenko, recognizing her as a "Rising Star" in Securities Law and highlighting significant moments in her career.

Irina garnered a historic $192.5 million deal for investors in energy company SCANA Corp. over a failed nuclear reactor project and secured a $19 million preliminary settlement in a shareholders' suit against Daimler AG over its Mercedes Benz diesel emission scandal, earning a place on the 2020 list of the top securities attorneys under age 40.

Irina's path to the plaintiffs' bar was inspired by her early work protecting vulnerable populations from securities fraud.  "There was one big fraud case involving an investment scheme against Vietnamese immigrants that really resonated with me, because I have a background as an immigrant to the United States . . . [and I know] how vulnerable those kinds of communities can be," she recalls.