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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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November 13, 2024
MVP: Paul Weiss' Marco Masotti
Over the past year, Marco Masotti of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's investment funds group helped Apollo Global Management close its $20 billion Apollo Fund X and guided Oak Hill Capital through several major private equity transactions, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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November 13, 2024
MVP: Fried Frank's Matthew D. Parrott
Matthew Parrott of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP secured a major victory for a big hotel property lender in Manhattan and Los Angeles in a foreclosure suit and clinched a win in a notable case over an eminent domain petition in Texas, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Real Estate MVPs.
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November 13, 2024
MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall, who heads Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Supreme Court and appellate practice, won a unanimous high court ruling that insurers can enforce choice-of-law provisions in maritime policies, triumphed over a Delaware Supreme Court case for Bayer AG involving liability for billions of dollars in consumers' talc claims, and preserved the MLB's antitrust exemption, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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November 13, 2024
MVP: Cravath's David J. Perkins
David Perkins of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP advised Amentum in its all-stock, reverse Morris trust merger with Jacobs' government services businesses that created a combined company with $13 billion in revenue, and also led Brookfield Renewable Partners in its $8 billion acquisition of Westinghouse, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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November 13, 2024
MVP: Duane Morris' Gerald L. Maatman Jr.
Gerald L. Maatman Jr. of Duane Morris LLP has helped his clients fend off potentially catastrophic exposures, including a suit alleging Geico misclassified thousands of insurance agents, by utilizing defense strategies to gut the claims before courts were able to assess the merits of the case, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
MVP: Holland & Knight's Antonia Tzinova
Antonia Tzinova of Holland & Knight LLP successfully challenged U.S. Customs and Border Protection's refusal to share certain evidence used in a tariff evasion determination — spurring the agency to implement a new transparent Administrative Protective Order system, and earning Tzinova a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Trade MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
MVP: Latham's Benjamin Naftalis And Douglas Yatter
Benjamin Naftalis and Douglas Yatter of Latham & Watkins LLP served as lead counsel for Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao in a high–profile anti-money laundering investigation and represented Andreessen Horowitz in a proposed class action, earning them a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fintech MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Allyson Ho
Allyson N. Ho of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's appellate practice won a high-profile and unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling reversing decades of bankruptcy precedent, and another unanimous win at the Third Circuit safeguarding crime victims' rights, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
MVP: Orrick's Teresa Hill
Teresa Hill of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP guided Microsoft Corp. through several major deals aimed at making the computing giant's operations more environmentally friendly, earning her a spot among the Law360 2024 Energy MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
MVP: Proskauer's Christopher Robinson
Christopher Robinson, a partner with Proskauer Rose LLP, specializes in handling complex secondary transactions, such as advising Blackstone Strategic Partners as a lead investor in the purchase of $5 billion in fund interests from Kaiser Permanente, and was recently named co-head of Proskauer's secondary transactions and liquidity solutions practice — earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
MVP: O'Melveny's Benjamin Singer
Benjamin D. Singer of O'Melveny & Myers LLP helped stave off a criminal prosecution against HealthSun Health Plans Inc. and successfully defended other clients in notable False Claims Act litigation, earning him a spot as a 2024 Law360 Healthcare MVP.
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November 12, 2024
MVP: Simpson Thacher's Barrie Covit
Barrie Covit of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's fund formation practice helped Lexington Partners break the record for the largest secondaries fund ever raised, at $22.7 billion, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
MVP: deRubertis Law's David M. deRubertis
Worker-side lawyer David deRubertis, who runs his own firm, says he has helped workers win $526 million in damages from their employers in the past two years alone, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Employment MVPs.
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November 08, 2024
MVP: Winston & Strawn's Thomas Melsheimer
After completing six jury trials and pulling out a win for an app developer suing Google for patent infringement, and a victory for U.S. Well Services over three patents owned by Halliburton, Tom Melsheimer is one of the 2024 Law360 Trial MVPs.
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November 08, 2024
MVP: Skadden's Timothy G. Nelson
Timothy G. Nelson of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has achieved exceptional successes, securing a rare annulment of an award that had dismissed his client Agility's $664 million claim against Iraq and defending a key court win for NextEra Energy against Spain, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.
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November 08, 2024
MVP: Latham's Michele D. Johnson
Michele D. Johnson of Latham & Watkins LLP successfully defended big names like X, formerly known as Twitter, Apple and Peloton from consumer class actions this year, earning herself a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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November 08, 2024
MVP: Paul Weiss' Brad Karp
Brad Karp, chair of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, led the legal team defending the National Football League in high-profile suits filed by two former head coaches and a former league network reporter, and defended Major League Baseball against a proposed class action over its merchandise licensing agreements, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.
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November 08, 2024
MVP: Sidley's Tara Higgins
Tara Higgins, co-leader of Sidley Austin LLP's global energy practice, represented Invenergy as part of the equity financing needed for the $1.5 billion acquisition of a renewables portfolio from American Electric Power, including 14 projects in 11 states, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Energy MVPs.
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November 07, 2024
MVP: Wilkinson Stekloff's Rakesh Kilaru
Wilkinson Stekloff LLP partner Rakesh Kilaru negotiated a landmark settlement resolving a collection of antitrust class actions over benefits and compensation for NCAA athletes and led post-trial briefing to overturn a $4.7 billion jury verdict in a lawsuit over the NFL Sunday Ticket television service, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.
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November 07, 2024
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Matthew Hoffman
Matthew Hoffman of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's insurance and reinsurance practice group helped secure wins for AIG insurers in major areas of coverage litigation involving opioid, COVID-19 and sexual abuse claims, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Insurance MVPs.
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November 07, 2024
MVP: King & Spalding's Thomas Sprange KC
King & Spalding LLP partner Thomas Sprange KC acted as lead counsel for Colombia's state-owned oil company in a dispute with global engineering giant McDermott International Ltd. that ended in a $900 million settlement favoring his client, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.
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November 07, 2024
MVP: Jenner & Block's Matthew E. Price
Matthew E. Price of Jenner & Block LLP's energy practice helped persuade a Pennsylvania federal court to overturn a state commission's denial of a transmission line project that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said would reduce regional congestion, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Energy MVPs.
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November 07, 2024
MVP: Weil's Drew Tulumello
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's Drew Tulumello helped PepsiCo Inc. and subsidiary Frito-Lay Inc. fend off multiple proposed class actions under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, and got a $228 million damages award against BNSF Railway Co. in BIPA litigation wiped out, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.
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November 07, 2024
Trials MVP: Gibson Dunn's Michele Maryott
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Michele Maryott led a trial team that defended ride-sharing giant Uber Technologies Inc. in a case brought by the Massachusetts attorney general, achieving a favorable settlement against employee misclassification claims and earning herself a spot among the 2024 Law360 Trials MVPs.
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November 07, 2024
MVP: Keller Rohrback's Ryan McDevitt
Keller Rohrback LLP's Ryan McDevitt secured a $150 million settlement for drivers suing General Motors over allegedly faulty batteries in Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles that could catch fire, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law36 Transportation MVPs.