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Not many people can say they have chemistry with activist investors. For Mark Gurevich, however, it’s in his background. Now a partner at the New York office of international law firm Ropes & Gray, Gurevich, 38, earned an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before heading to Harvard Law School with plans to specialize in patent law, although he found his true calling on the negotiation side of the business.

Changing his academic focus to corporate law, Gurevich got his start at Ropes as a summer associate in 2003. After graduating with his JD in 2004, he joined the firm full-time; over the past 12 years, he has carved out a niche as an in-house math whiz. When hedge fund and other private firms have questions about fee mechanisms, expense allocations or the numbers in a contract, they call on Gurevich to make sense of it all. His other roles include advising institutional investors and a seed fund platform on their allocations to third-party hedge fund managers. Gurevich can translate more than deals between the buy and sell sides: He grew up with multiple perspectives on life. At age 15 he had to learn to navigate public high school in suburban Chicago after emigrating from his native Moscow.

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Hedge Fund Rising Stars of 2016

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Jessye Ball Millennium Mgmt Sarah Berner Aristeia Capital Jenna Bussman-Wise AIG Investments Maureen Chang Point72 Asset Mgmt Dennis Chenfu Pershing

Charles Dufresne Jr. Sciens Capital Mgmt William Freda Graticule Asset Mgmt Asia Samantha Greenberg Margate Capital Mark Gurevich Ropes & Gray Tal Gurion Mariner Glen Oaks

Craig Huie University of California Yusef Kassim Blue Harbour Group Florian Kronawitter White Square Capital Vikram Kumar TT International Brandon Levin Jana Partners

Jonathan Levin George Weiss Associates Brett Minarik Aksia Ian Monroe Etho Capital Jason Morrow Utah Retirement Systems Pierre-Adrien Nicolas Squarepoint Capital

Jamie Pabst Green Owl Capital Mgmt Parag Pande Blackstone Group Agata Praczuk MetLife Max Saffian Fortress Investment Group Matt Satnick MSD Partners

Eric Singer Viex Capital Advisors Katina Stefanova Marto Capital Reginald Tucker New York State Common Retirement Fund Michael Wang Cypress Funds Sean Wygovsky Polar Asset Mgmt Partners