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Rankings: MVPs of the Year

Law360’s MVPs of the Year recognizes the five attorneys who had extraordinary wins and contributed most to their practice area in the past year. The series showcases standout attorneys across the practice areas and industries covered by Law360.
  • November 24, 2025

    MVP: Irell's Jason Sheasby And Lisa Glasser

    Lisa Glasser and Jason Sheasby of Irell & Manella LLP have built up a winning track record advocating for clients in intellectual property trials together, including for cases over the past year against Samsung and Anker, earning them recognition as the 2025 Law360 Trials MVPs.

  • November 24, 2025

    MVP: Weil's Paul Wessel

    Paul Wessel of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP advised large employers on the benefits and executive compensation aspects of mergers, acquisitions and other financial restructurings over the past year, including Home Depot and Kroger, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Benefits MVPs.

  • November 24, 2025

    MVP: Cooley's Charity Williams

    Charity Williams, a partner in Cooley LLP's life sciences corporate partnering and licensing practice, guided transformative pharmaceutical deals in 2025, including Capstan Therapeutics' $2.1 billion sale to AbbVie, Esobiotec's $1 billion sale to AstraZeneca and Advanced Instruments' $2.2 billion acquisition of Nova Biomedical, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • November 24, 2025

    MVP: Morrison Foerster's Daralyn Durie

    Morrison Foerster LLP partner Daralyn Durie helped a Roche unit and Sony escape patent litigation and took home a trial victory for Epic Games, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • November 24, 2025

    MVP: Cooley's Tiana Demas

    Cooley LLP partner Tiana Demas helped Google-owned YouTube stave off a proposed class action over its content moderation practices and steered Marsh McLennan and Ethos Technologies through high-stakes legal challenges following data breaches, earning her a place among the 2025 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • November 24, 2025

    MVP: Latham's Matthew Brill

    Matthew Brill, global chair of the connectivity, privacy and information practice at Latham & Watkins LLP, helped steer this year's $34.5 billion Charter and Cox tie-up and joined with other firms to defeat net neutrality rules, making him one of the 2025 Law360 Telecommunications MVPs.

  • November 24, 2025

    MVP: Covington's Andrew Nightingale

    Andrew Nightingale of Covington & Burling LLP's sports practice helped steer the NFL's development and approval of private equity investment in team ownership for the first time, assisted in private equity investment in three NFL franchises and represented the buyer in a long-term plan to take controlling ownership in the MLB's Chicago White Sox, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.

  • November 24, 2025

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Kim Branscome

    Kim Branscome of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP helped Monsanto win a verdict against 11 plaintiffs in a mass torts trial over PCBs and is defending Johnson & Johnson in trials over allegations its baby powder causes cancer, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 24, 2025

    MVP: Davis Polk's Michael Kaplan

    Michael Kaplan, head of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's corporate department, advised Uniti Group Inc. in a landmark $589 million fiber securitization notes offering and underwriters in Boeing's $24.25 billion combined offering, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Capital Market MVPs.

  • November 21, 2025

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Mark Myott

    Mark Myott, a partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's mergers and acquisition practice, guided private equity clients through some of the most high-profile deals this past year, including Silver Lake's $13 billion take-private acquisition of the global sports and entertainment company Endeavor, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.

  • November 21, 2025

    MVP: Bradley Arant's Aron Beezley

    Aron C. Beezley, co-leader of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP's government contracts practice group, successfully challenged a $3.6 billion U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract and a $947 million National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency contract at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.

  • November 21, 2025

    MVP: Wachtell's Michael J. Schobel

    Michael J. Schobel of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz helped Charter Communications undertake compensation and benefits negotiations after the company reached a $34.5 billion merger deal with Cox Communications, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Benefits MVPs.

  • November 21, 2025

    MVP: McGuireWoods' Lucy Wheatley

    McGuireWoods LLP partner Lucy Jewett Wheatley helped propel Pennsylvania State University to a victory in a closely watched trademark dispute involving the sale of unlicensed merchandise and obtained an injunction stopping the sale of "Wavy Baby" sneakers that imitated Vans' designs, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • November 20, 2025

    MVP: Waymaker's Brian Klein

    Brian Klein of Waymaker LLP won key victories defending clients in novel white collar crypto matters, overturning a conviction of an unusual trading scheme and deadlocking a jury in the highly publicized prosecution over the Tornado Cash mixing service, to earn him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fintech MVPs.

  • November 20, 2025

    MVP: Morgan Lewis' Melissa Hill

    Melissa Hill of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP helped Elon Musk defeat a proposed class action over severance benefits related to his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter and prevented class certification in a lawsuit accusing U.S. Bank of miscalculating workers' early retirement benefits, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Benefits MVPs.

  • November 20, 2025

    MVP: Ropes & Gray's Chau Le

    Chau Le of Ropes & Gray LLP's private equity practice has worked on a range of lucrative deals and investments, often for long-standing clients, that has included simultaneously advising on a $10 billion debt exchange merger and a $7.6 billion acquisition that stemmed from an alternative asset management firm's previous purchase of a 30% stake in DirecTV, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.

  • November 20, 2025

    MVP: Latham's Mike Morin

    Mike Morin of Latham & Watkins LLP guided Sarepta Therapeutics to winning a $115 million judgment in a patent dispute with Nippon Shinyaku Co. Ltd., and led an Abbott Laboratories unit to a victory in a patent suit against Dexcom Inc., earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • November 20, 2025

    MVP: Seyfarth's Adam Lasky

    Adam Lasky, co-chair of Seyfarth Shaw LLP's government contracts practice, led bid protests involving more than $130 billion in federal contracts in the past year alone, including three separate high-stakes protests that risked getting nixed in one fell swoop, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVPs: Kirkland's Adam Alper And Michael De Vries

    Adam Alper and Michael De Vries of Kirkland & Ellis LLP won a $25 million verdict in patent litigation over a promising fecal transplant technology and are representing Motorola in a blockbuster intellectual property case, earning them a spot among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVP: Latham's Rachel S.K. Bates

    Rachel Bates of Latham & Watkins LLP was the lead real estate counsel guiding Hyatt Hotels Corp. through multiple multibillion-dollar transactions and also worked on one of the year's biggest deals as Bridge Investment Group sold to Apollo Global Management for $1.5 billion, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Real Estate MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVP: Milbank's Joshua Sterling

    Josh Sterling of Milbank LLP helped secure the reversal of a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission order barring political event contracts on a derivatives exchange and has represented exchange platform Kalshi in disputes with state regulators in New Jersey and Nevada, earning himself a spot among the 2025 Law360 Fintech MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVP: Pillsbury's David Dixon

    David Dixon of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP helped companies mount successful protests that secured coveted awards for major, multiple-award U.S. government contracts for information technology support services, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Mike Ringler

    Sullivan & Cromwell's technology group co-head Mike Ringler guided social media giant X to several financial agreements, including merging with xAI in a $113 billion transaction, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Technology MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVP: Proskauer's Michael Suppappola

    Michael Suppappola steered the Proskauer Rose LLP team that represented the lead investor in Silver Lake's $13 billion purchase of Endeavor Group Holdings, in what the firm calls the largest private equity sponsor take-private deal in 10 years and the biggest ever in the media and entertainment sector, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.

  • November 19, 2025

    MVP: Mayer Brown's Brantley Webb

    Brantley Webb, co-chair of Mayer Brown LLP's Employee Retirement Income Security Act litigation group, helped Nordstrom defeat a proposed class action claiming the company cost workers over $36 million in retirement savings by allowing excessive account fees and misusing forfeited funds, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Benefits MVPs.