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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Latham's Melissa Arbus Sherry
Melissa Arbus Sherry of Latham & Watkins LLP led teams that scored a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court victory over a narrowly missed Tax Court deadline and an important ruling on the enforcement of federal forum-selection clauses, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Appellate MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: McGuireWoods' Lucy Jewett Wheatley
Lucy Jewett Wheatley led a McGuireWoods team that helped longtime client Lexington Home Brands prevail in a trademark infringement suit against a Swedish home textiles company on all of its claims, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Davis Polk's Marshall Huebner
Marshall Huebner led the Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP team that guided Purdue Pharma to the confirmation of its Chapter 11 plan to settle $40 trillion in mass tort litigation, and also represented a major LATAM Airlines shareholder in the Chilean air carrier's bankruptcy and a major creditor in car rental giant Hertz's bankruptcy, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Kirkland's Rob Eberhardt
As part of a $2.3 billion debt financing project, Rob Eberhardt of Kirkland & Ellis LLP led a team that shepherded Vineyard Wind through the process of creating the first U.S. commercial-scale offshore wind farm, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Project Finance MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Labaton Sucharow's Carol C. Villegas
Labaton Sucharow LLP's Carol Villegas helped seal a $39 million deal for investors accusing World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. of covering up its fraying relationship with Saudi Arabia and secured a $73 million settlement for people claiming that a data firm undersold a privacy law's effects on its business, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Class Action MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: DiCello Levitt's David A. Straite
David Straite of DiCello Levitt Gutzler LLC helped reach a novel settlement with Facebook in which the tech company will pay $90 million and delete browsing history that users said was harvested illegally, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Cybersecurity & Data Privacy MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: V&E's Kaam Sahely
Kaam Sahely of Vinson & Elkins LLP's energy practice helped Goldman Sachs Renewable Power split off from Goldman Sachs Asset Management under the new name MN8 Energy and guided Woodside Petroleum Ltd. in the largest energy merger of the year, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Energy MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: DeRubertis Law Firm's David DeRubertis
David deRubertis of The deRubertis Law Firm APC led a team that won a record $440 million in punitive damages for two workers who brought a retaliation suit against a California utility, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Robert Giuffra Jr.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP co-chair Robert Giuffra Jr. over the past year guided Allianz to a $6 billion deal over the collapse of its "Structured Alpha" investment funds, scored Goldman Sachs another appellate review in a long-running class certification battle, and helped UBS Group AG beat a high-stakes derivatives suit, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Securities MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Covington's Anna Engh
Anna P. Engh of Covington & Burling LLP led a team that successfully defended pharma giant Merck & Co. in insurance coverage litigation of its $1.4 billion loss from a 2017 cyberattack, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Insurance MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Kirkland's Christian O. Nagler
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Christian O. Nagler tackled a number of major special-purpose acquisition company transactions, including advising a Volvo unit on its $890 million combination with SPAC Gores Guggenheim — one of the biggest SPAC transactions ever — landing him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Capital Markets MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Covington's Agnieszka Klich
Agnieszka Klich of Covington & Burling LLP worked on the $12 billion Jazan power plant project and $1.5 billion Red Sea gigacity utilities infrastructure project in Saudi Arabia, and the Redstone Concentrated Solar Power project in South Africa, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Project Finance MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Simpson Thacher's Anthony Vernace
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Anthony Vernace has helped close major acquisitions this year while working in the firm's corporate team, bringing home deals like Microsoft's $68 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard and its $19 billion purchase of Nuance Communications last April, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: White & Case's Farhad Jalinous
Farhad Jalinous of White & Case LLP led multiple foreign direct investment reviews of billion-dollar international deals, such as automotive equipment supplier Faurecia SE's $8 billion acquisition of German automotive supplier Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., as well as transactions by Brazilian telecommunications provider Oi SA worth $3.7 billion in total, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 International Trade MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Geoffrey Sigler
Geoffrey Sigler of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has assisted UnitedHealth Group-related entities in various lawsuits over the past year, including helping its behavioral health unit unravel a pair of major California federal court orders in a case over substance abuse and mental health treatments, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Health Care MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Irell & Manella's Jason Sheasby
Irell & Manella LLP partner Jason G. Sheasby won a $218 million patent infringement verdict for the United Services Automobile Association and notched a $300 million victory for PanOptis, earning him a place as one of Law360's 2022 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Haynes And Boone's Daniel L. Geyser
Daniel Geyser of Haynes and Boone LLP's Supreme Court practice created seismic changes in the areas of arbitration law and bankruptcy law this year when he argued and won two major U.S. Supreme Court cases, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Appellate MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Morrison Foerster's Mark S. Edelstein
Mark S. Edelstein led a Morrison Foerster real estate and bankruptcy team that represented JPMorgan Chase in recovering in excess of $75 million in loans after its borrowers' sponsor posthumously was discovered to be a Ponzi schemer and represented Societe Generale in negotiating a $2.1 billion loan for the financing of a 155-property portfolio during one of the firm's busiest years, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Real Estate MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Thomas Werlen
Thomas Werlen of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's white collar practice won the first criminal trial against a Swiss bank and helped FIFA recover $201 million in losses stemming from an international corruption scandal, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 White Collar MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Akin Gump's Arik Preis
Arik Preis of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has spent the last few years litigating on behalf of personal injury claimants in opioid and sexual abuse mass tort bankruptcies and has secured both monetary and moral victories for his constituents, landing him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Dechert's Brenda Sharton
Dechert LLP partner Brenda Sharton helped Flo Health navigate the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, which ramped up pressure on period and fertility tracking apps to protect health and location data from law enforcement access, earning her a place among Law360's 2022 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Cohen Ziffer's Adam Ziffer
Adam Ziffer of Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP secured a win for Towers Watson in an $80 million coverage dispute under a directors and officers policy, one of the many big-money decisions Ziffer's burgeoning firm has notched for its corporate clients, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Insurance MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Paul Weiss' Liza Velazquez
Over the past year, Liza Velazquez of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP successfully defended several big clients, including the New York State Unified Court System, from an onslaught of legal challenges to their COVID-19 vaccine policies, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Latham's Justin T. Stolte
Justin T. Stolte of Latham & Watkins LLP's energy and infrastructure practice guided Quanta Services through its $2.7 billion purchase of renewable energy infrastructure provider Blattner Energy and led Chevron in its $1.2 billion joint venture with agribusiness company Bunge, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Energy MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Covington & Burling's Henry Liu
Covington & Burling LLP's Henry Liu helped secure the dismissal of Congolese families' child labor claims against Apple Inc. and the tossing of allegations that JPMorgan Chase & Co. conspired with other big banks to manipulate the $14 trillion U.S. Treasury market, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Class Action MVPs.