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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 17, 2025

    MVP: Covington's Cléa Liquard

    Cléa Liquard of Covington & Burling LLP's insurance practice won big for the National Football League, opening up $40 million in coverage for Sunday Ticket antitrust litigation and defeating its insurers' motions for summary judgment in connection with concussion lawsuits, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Insurance MVPs.

  • December 16, 2025

    MVP: Wachtell Lipton's Eric Feinstein

    Eric Feinstein of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz's corporate practice advised the investment group led by William Chisholm in its $6.1 billion acquisition of the NBA's Boston Celtics, led the team advising businessman Marc Lore and former baseball player Alex Rodriguez in their multiyear purchase of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, and aided the NFL's Miami Dolphins in their partnership with Ares Management and other investors, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.

  • December 16, 2025

    MVP: Cohen Ziffer's Robin Cohen

    Robin Cohen of Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP successfully narrowed AIG's trade secrets suit against a New Jersey-based insurance startup and quickly secured a settlement for the company, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Insurance MVPs.

  • December 15, 2025

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Jeffrey Wall

    Cases won by Jeff Wall of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP ushered in the end of net neutrality and allowed energy companies to sue over state environmental regulations. Changes to government policies and court precedent earned him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.

  • December 15, 2025

    MVP: Blank Rome's John Gibbons

    John Gibbons of Blank Rome LLP's insurance recovery practice beat an insurer's attempt to relitigate a yearslong coverage battle over underlying asbestos claims and defeated an insurer's bid to avoid covering defense costs over a company's sale of subsidiaries, landing him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Insurance MVPs.

  • December 12, 2025

    MVP: Susman Godfrey's Geoffrey Harrison

    Susman Godfrey LLP partner Geoffrey Harrison guided energy company Apache Corp. to its recovery of nearly $500 million in a dispute related to decommissioning offshore oil rigs and helped Equistar Chemicals beat a construction contractor's $175 million claim in a weekslong trial, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Energy MVPs.

  • December 12, 2025

    MVP: Winston & Strawn's Jeffrey Kessler

    Winston & Strawn LLP's Jeffrey Kessler helped student athletes reach a landmark multibillion-dollar settlement with the NCAA in long-running litigation over the use of name, image and likeness, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Competition MVPs.

  • December 12, 2025

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Nicolas Bourtin

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Nicolas Bourtin played a key role in the dismissal of all criminal charges in a foreign bribery case against the ex-general counsel for Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., and helped TD Bank reach a historic resolution in a criminal probe of its anti-money laundering program, securing him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 White Collar MVPs.

  • December 12, 2025

    MVP: Wachtell Lipton's Jake Kling

    Jake Kling of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz guided Global Payments' $24.25 billion acquisition of Worldpay and the PGA Tour's groundbreaking $3 billion investment from Strategic Sports Group, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.

  • December 12, 2025

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Kannon K. Shanmugam

    Last year, Paul Weiss' Kannon Shanmugam scored a win in the Fifth Circuit that sent shockwaves through the bankruptcy world, removed a crypto company from a government blacklist and torpedoed a $440 million judgment against a cruise company over Cuba sanctions, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.

  • December 11, 2025

    MVP: Wiley's Robert E. DeFrancesco III

    Wiley Rein LLP's Robert E. DeFrancesco III successfully argued on behalf of the U.S. golf cart industry that Chinese imports were harming the sector, leading the government to impose triple-digit duties on those Chinese vehicles, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 International Trade MVPs.

  • December 11, 2025

    MVP: Reese Marketos' Joel Reese

    Joel Reese of Reese Marketos LLP helped represent Cardinal Midstream II LLC in a dispute against Energy Transfer LP, a case in which he earned his client a nearly $52 million judgment and had to jump into action just four months before trial, with his work in that and other matters making him one of the 2025 Law360 Energy MVPs.

  • December 11, 2025

    MVP: Milbank's Iliana Ongun

    Milbank LLP partner Iliana Ongun spearheaded U.S. Steel's $15 billion sale to Japan's Nippon Steel Corp., along with H&E Rentals' $5.3 billion sale to Herc Holdings Inc., earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.

  • December 11, 2025

    MVP: Skadden's David Meister

    David Meister of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP led a defense team representing Ke "Eric" Tang, the founder of cryptocurrency company KuCoin, scoring a deferred prosecution agreement after federal prosecutors indicted Tang on claims he owned part of an unlicensed money transmitting business, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 White Collar MVPs.

  • December 11, 2025

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Sara Y. Razi

    Sara Y. Razi of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP played a key role in defeating a major Federal Trade Commission merger challenge, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Competition MVPs.

  • December 11, 2025

    MVP: Jenner & Block's Adam Unikowsky

    Adam Unikowsky of Jenner & Block LLP's appellate practice got a U.S. Supreme Court victory in February on behalf of unemployment claimants. He also obtained a Second Circuit panel majority win for Uber and Postmates in a proposed antitrust class action and a partial win at the First Circuit in a challenge to a Rhode Island toll on tractor trailers, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.

  • December 10, 2025

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Jeff Knox

    Jeff Knox, co-managing partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Washington, D.C., office and co-head of the government and internal investigations practice, defended an individual client from a yearslong financial investigation and litigation this year, and resolved matters for clients including Deutsche Bank and the Dutch energy-trading firm Vitol, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 White Collar MVPs.

  • December 10, 2025

    MVP: Seyfarth's Jason Smith

    Jason Smith of Seyfarth Shaw LLP's construction practice took over the appeal of a lawsuit after a bench trial had already been conducted by another law firm, but nevertheless obtained a reversal of every aspect of the lower court's decision challenged on appeal, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Construction MVPs.

  • December 10, 2025

    MVP: Gupta Wessler's Deepak Gupta

    Deepak Gupta of Gupta Wessler challenged the president's power to remove independent agency board members and rescued the class action device from two existential threats in the Supreme Court, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.

  • December 10, 2025

    MVP: Latham's Brad Faris

    Brad Faris of Latham & Watkins LLP helped guide Omnicom in its planned $13.5 billion acquisition of Interpublic, worked on a pending $34.5 billion deal as Cox Communications is acquired by Charter Communications Inc. and is leading an expected $5.75 billion deal as Lumen Technologies sells off its fiber optic network business to AT&T, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.

  • December 10, 2025

    MVP: Willkie's David Drewes

    David C. Drewes, co-chair of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's real estate department, has guided major transactions, such as Saks Global's $2.7 billion Neiman Marcus Group acquisition and Henry Crown & Company's $3.5 billion Rockefeller Center refinancing, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Real Estate MVPs.

  • December 10, 2025

    MVP: Milbank's Jenna McGrath

    Jenna McGrath of Milbank LLP took the regulatory lead in getting major transactions in the power sector to the finish line, earning her a spot among the 2025 Law360 Energy MVPs.

  • December 10, 2025

    MVP: Milbank's Fiona Schaeffer

    Fiona Schaeffer, an antitrust partner at Milbank LLP, represented U.S. Steel in its $14.9 billion merger with Nippon Steel Corp., among other matters, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Competition/Antitrust MVPs.

  • December 10, 2025

    MVP: Latham's Les Carnegie

    Latham & Watkins LLP partner Les Carnegie guided a healthcare business after it found trace amounts of a restricted material in one of its products and helped a biopharmaceutical corporation sell part of its operation to an Indian company, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 International Trade MVPs.

  • December 09, 2025

    MVP: Gibson Dunn's Allyson Ho

    Allyson Ho of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP convinced the Fifth Circuit to overturn a contempt order against Texas officials in charge of the state's foster care system that would have fined them $100,000 a day, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Appellate MVPs.