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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.
  • December 09, 2015

    M&A MVP: Davis Polk's George Bason

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s George R. Bason Jr. has helped corporate titans navigate the increasingly complex antitrust waters of mergers and acquisitions, tackling myriad complex and high-profile deals and earning himself a spot among Law360’s M&A MVPs of 2015.

  • December 08, 2015

    Bankruptcy MVP: Jones Day's Gregory M. Gordon

    Over the past year, Jones Day’s Gregory M. Gordon steered two of the most difficult Chapter 11 cases in the Delaware bankruptcy court, RadioShack and Specialty Products Holding Corp., to successful plan confirmations and merited a spot among Law360’s 2015 bankruptcy MVPs.

  • December 08, 2015

    Employment MVP: Proskauer Rose's Elise Bloom

    Proskauer Rose LLP's Elise Bloom helped Fox Searchlight Pictures escape an employment class action from unpaid interns who worked on the movie "Black Swan," scoring a landmark Second Circuit victory and earning her a spot among Law360's Employment MVPs of 2015 in the process.

  • December 08, 2015

    Project Finance MVP: Norton Rose Fulbright's Michael Pikiel

    Heading Norton Rose Fulbright's infrastructure, mining and commodities practice, Michael E. Pikiel Jr. has represented clients this past year in an $850 million Dallas toll road project and other groundbreaking undertakings, earning himself a spot among Law360's Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 08, 2015

    M&A MVP: Cravath's Scott Barshay

    In the last year, Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's Scott A. Barshay has been entrusted with more than $250 billion worth of deals, including Anhueser Busch Inbev's recent $104 billion play for SABMiller, landing the New York partner on Law360's M&A MVPs for 2015.

  • December 08, 2015

    M&A MVP: Weil Gotshal's Frederick Green

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's Frederick Green combined creativity with efficiency to help companies finalize some the biggest headline-grabbing deals of 2015, including DirecTV's $67 billion sale to AT&T, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Mergers and Acquisitions MVPs.

  • December 08, 2015

    Privacy MVP: Debevoise & Plimpton's Jeremy Feigelson

    Jeremy Feigelson, head of Debevoise & Plimpton’s cybersecurity and data privacy practice, may have saved the viability of the Internet by landing a victory for Viacom in a proposed class action alleging it illegally shared data associated with children’s online video watching activity, securing his place on Law360’s list of Privacy MVPs for 2015.

  • December 07, 2015

    Privacy MVP: Cooley's Michael Rhodes

    Cooley LLP partner Michael Rhodes has helped major online companies navigate the murky terrain of who bears liability for data breaches, scoring a big win for eBay when he persuaded a federal court to dismiss a proposed class action over millions of users' exposed personal information and landing on Law360’s list of Privacy MVPs for 2015.

  • December 07, 2015

    M&A MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Joseph Frumkin

    Sullivan & Cromwell partner Joseph B. Frumkin has guided deals together valued at over $140 billion in the past year, shepherding one of the most complex transactions of his career in Teva Pharmaceutical Industries' pending acquisition of the generic drug business of Allergan PLC and landing him on Law360's list of M&A MVPs.

  • December 07, 2015

    Project Finance MVP: Cleary Gottlieb's Chantal Kordula

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP partner Chantal Kordula secured more than $5 billion in financing to advance an international airport and a gas pipeline in the past year, earning her a place among Law360’s Project Finance MVPs for 2015.

  • December 07, 2015

    Bankruptcy MVP: Jenner & Block's Catherine Steege

    Jenner & Block LLP attorney Catherine Steege delivered the winning argument for client Wellness International in one of the most important bankruptcy cases the U.S. Supreme Court heard this year, resolving a question over bankruptcy court jurisdiction and earning her a spot on Law360's 2015 list of Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • December 07, 2015

    Private Equity MVP: Weil Gotshal's Douglas Warner

    Douglas Warner of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP used his private equity expertise and his broader transactional know-how to guide 10-figure deals for clients including Irish airline lessor Avolon Holdings Ltd. this year, landing him a place among Law360’s private equity MVPs for 2015.

  • December 07, 2015

    Employment MVP: Orrick's Lynne Hermle

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner Lynne Hermle led the all-woman trial team that brought Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLP to victory in Ellen Pao's closely watched sex bias trial this year, earning her a spot among Law360's Employment MVPs of 2015.

  • December 04, 2015

    Privacy MVP: BakerHostetler's Paul Karlsgodt

    BakerHostetler partner Paul Karlsgodt leveraged his consumer class action savvy in 2015 to help Advocate Health and Hospitals escape claims over a breach of 4 million patients' data and GameStop shake allegations of sharing customer data with Facebook, earning him a place among Law360's Privacy MVPs.

  • December 04, 2015

    Banking MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Robert Giuffra Jr.

    Last August, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner Robert Giuffra Jr. won a crucial victory for the New York State Banker's Association that will help banks nationwide, getting New York's Responsible Banking Act declared unconstitutional and earning a spot on Law360's list of Banking MVPs.

  • December 04, 2015

    M&A MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Frank Aquila

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner Frank Aquila astutely steered Kraft Foods Group Inc.'s $55 billion merger with H.J. Heinz Co., tying up one of the largest M&A transactions of 2015 in record time and earning a spot among Law360's M&A MVPs.

  • December 04, 2015

    Bankruptcy MVP: Hughes Hubbard's James Giddens

    Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP's James Giddens has helped former customers of defunct Lehman Brothers and MF Global recoup their money and secured billions for other creditors of the collapsed brokerage firms, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • December 04, 2015

    Employment MVP: Gibson Dunn's Eugene Scalia

    Helping Ford score an en banc victory in the Sixth Circuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Americans with Disabilities Act claims and representing UBS Financial in an important win in a high-stakes case over arbitration agreements earned Gibson Dunn's Eugene Scalia a spot on Law360's list of Employment MVPs for 2015.

  • December 04, 2015

    Project Finance MVP: Chadbourne & Parke's Rohit Chaudhry

    After leading a team that helped arrange nearly $8 billion in financing for the Freeport natural gas liquefaction facility — what he called the most complex deal of his career — and helping execute transactions for numerous energy projects, Chadbourne & Parke LLP’s Rohit Chaudhry earned a spot among Law360’s Project Finance MVPs for 2015.

  • December 04, 2015

    Private Equity MVP: Paul Weiss' Taurie M. Zeitzer

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner Taurie M. Zeitzer lived up to her rainmaker reputation in the fields of large-cap private equity and mergers and acquisitions this year, working on deals valued at more than $5 billion and earning a spot Law360's 2015 list of private equity MVPs.

  • December 03, 2015

    M&A MVP: Skadden's Stephen Arcano

    The work by Stephen Arcano of Skadden Arps Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on more than $100 billion worth of deals spanning from pharmaceuticals to the real estate industry so far this year has earned him a spot among Law360’s Mergers and Acquisitions MVPs for 2015.

  • December 03, 2015

    Bankruptcy MVP: BakerHostetler's David Sheehan

    After Bernie Madoff destroyed billions of dollars' worth of invested wealth, BakerHostetler's David Sheehan was the lawyer tapped to help Irving Picard pick up the pieces. Years after he began, the Law360 Bankruptcy MVP isn't slowing down — in fact, he's gearing up to fight some of his biggest targets.

  • December 03, 2015

    Product Liability MVP: Shook Hardy's William Geraghty

    William Geraghty, a managing partner at Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, has been the firm's tobacco trial ace in Florida, successfully defending Philip Morris USA Inc. in four back-to-back Engle progeny trials in the space of a year and earning a spot on Law360's 2015 list of product liability MVPs.

  • December 03, 2015

    Project Finance MVP: Andrews Kurth's Giji John

    With a reputation for handling groundbreaking energy project finance matters, Andrews Kurth LLP partner Giji John continued to help his clients navigate a variety of major deals last year, securing himself a spot among Law360's Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 03, 2015

    Life Sciences MVP: White & Case's Jack Pace

    White & Case LLP partner Jack Pace notched victories over the past year in the hottest areas of pharmaceutical antitrust litigation, including a win for Warner Chilcott in a major “product-hopping” suit brought by Mylan, placing him among Law360’s Life Sciences MVPs for 2015.