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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.
  • October 06, 2023

    MVP: Gibson Dunn's Hillary H. Holmes

    Hillary Holmes of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped oil and gas producer Mesquite Energy Inc. complete a three-year journey out of bankruptcy with a roughly $700 million sale to Crescent Energy Co., and asset management giant Atlas Corp. in a $10.9 billion take-private deal, earning her a repeat spot as one of Law360's 2023 Energy MVPs.

  • October 06, 2023

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Mitch Eitel

    Mitch Eitel of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's banking practice helped recover more than $7.3 billion in assets from collapsed cryptocurrency trading firm FTX, assisted in negotiating the merger between UBS and Credit Suisse and advised major financial institutions amid the spring banking crisis, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Banking MVPs.

  • October 06, 2023

    MVP: Jones Day's John Vogt

    Jones Day partner John Vogt has helped Experian Data Corp. escape the San Diego city attorney's multimillion-dollar enforcement action over a data breach and obtained a novel ruling axing claims that engineering company HDR Inc. unlawfully monitored and collected communications from purportedly private Facebook groups, earning him a place among Law360's 2023 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • October 06, 2023

    MVP: Beveridge & Diamond's Eric Klein

    Beveridge & Diamond PC litigator Eric Klein has led the firm's clients to several significant legal victories over the last year, from key rulings in a sprawling California Superfund case to a big win in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's administrative law forum, earning him a spot among Law360's 2023 Environmental MVPs. 

  • October 06, 2023

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's James Bromley

    James Bromley of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's bankruptcy practice represented collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX and defunct Silicon Valley Bank in their bankruptcy proceedings, earning him a spot among Law360's 2023 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • October 06, 2023

    MVP: Williams & Connolly's Lisa S. Blatt

    Lisa S. Blatt of Williams & Connolly LLP's appellate practice has had a big year, arguing four cases in front of the Supreme Court and getting victories in cases involving Google and the Andy Warhol Foundation, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Appellate MVPs.

  • October 06, 2023

    MVP: Greenberg Traurig's Michael J. Thomas

    Michael J. Thomas, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig LLP's national construction law practice, guided three defendants in the 2021 fatal condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, to a $1.02 billion settlement, with no class members opting out of the deal. He also shepherded construction agreements on the $4 billion Miami Worldcenter mixed-use development, earning him a nod as one of Law360's Construction MVPs for 2023.

  • October 06, 2023

    MVP: Fried Frank's Becky Zelenka

    Becky Zelenka of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's asset management practice assisted Brookfield Asset Management in raising more than $17 billion in capital commitments and helped the asset manager launch its Canadian private real estate partnership, earning her a spot among Law360's 2023 Fund Formation MVPs.

  • October 06, 2023

    MVP: Goodwin Procter's Brett Schuman

    Last year, Goodwin Procter LLP's Brett Schuman drew national press when he co-led advising the entity housing Sean "Diddy" Combs' business assets on an acquisition deal involving Cresco Labs — which fell through — just a few months after successfully defending a cannabis concentrate brand in a federal trademark infringement case brought by the company behind RAW rolling papers, earning him a place among Law360's 2023 Cannabis MVPs.

  • October 06, 2023

    MVP: Duane Morris' Gerald L. Maatman Jr.

    Gerald L. Maatman Jr. of Duane Morris LLP has taken on mammoth employment law class action cases and successfully whittled down the suits that posed existential threats to the businesses he represents, earning him a spot among Law360's 2023 Employment MVPs.

  • October 06, 2023

    MVP: Cravath's David R. Marriott

    David R. Marriott of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP scored an important early win against a Federal Trade Commission merger challenge, successfully defending Illumina's purchase of Grail on agency complaint staff's own turf, earning him a place among Law360's 2023 Antitrust MVPs.

  • October 06, 2023

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Bob Downes

    Bob Downes, co-head of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's capital markets practice group, oversaw the creation of an innovative transaction structure that helped one of the firm's biotech clients through an acquisition by Pfizer while still maintaining value to a pipeline of new drug products it was developing. His spearheading of that transaction, as well as his dedication to leadership and mentorship in a post-pandemic legal world, earned him a spot among Law360's 2023 Capital Market MVPs.

  • October 05, 2023

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Chris Michel

    Chris Michel of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP helped secure a win at the Supreme Court when justices found that Alabama's congressional map broke the Voting Rights Act and then, just one week later, tagged another victory in the same court when it upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act against a number of constitutional tests, earning him a place among Law360's 2023 Appellate MVPs.

  • October 05, 2023

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Ravi Purushotham

    Ravi Purushotham of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's mergers and acquisitions practice has led major banks, private equity firms, private and public companies, and others through complex, multibillion-dollar transactions in the past year alone, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Banking MVPs.

  • October 05, 2023

    MVP: Weil's David Singh

    David Singh of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's complex commercial litigation practice often finds himself working to defend clients against large consumer classes. In April, Singh was co-lead counsel for Scripps Network as the network fielded a consumer class action alleging it violated the Video Privacy Protection Act, earning him a spot as one of Law360's Class Action MVPs.

  • October 05, 2023

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Alice Eaton

    Alice Eaton of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's bankruptcy practice helped secure approval of cosmetic giant Revlon's reorganization plan and arrange restructuring support agreements in the Chapter 11 cases of pharmaceutical companies Mallinckrodt and Endo International, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • October 05, 2023

    MVP: Skadden's Michelle Gasaway

    Michelle Gasaway of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's capital markets practice has worked with large clients on various deals and transactions, such as leading the representation of Intel Corp.'s self-driving unit Mobileye Global Inc. in its initial public offering, earning her a spot among Law360's 2023 Capital Markets MVPs.

  • October 05, 2023

    MVP: Dentons' Eric Berlin

    Eric Berlin of Dentons US LLP led the way in helping cannabis company Bright Green secure authorization from the Drug Enforcement Administration to grow federally approved cannabis for research purposes and get it a listing on Nasdaq, earning him a spot among Law360's 2023 Cannabis MVPs.

  • October 04, 2023

    MVP: Morgan Lewis' Jeremy Blumenfeld

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius' Jeremy Blumenfeld secured a win before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in a ruling that outlined the standards for how workers need to plead violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act if they're challenging investment offerings or fees in a defined contribution plan in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Hughes v. Northwestern, landing him a spot as one of Law360's MVPs in benefits law. 

  • October 04, 2023

    MVP: Mayer Brown's Mark G. Hanchet

    Mark G. Hanchet of Mayer Brown LLP's banking practice shepherded in two high-profile victories for clients in the D.C. Circuit and the Second Circuit that curb liability under the Anti-Terrorism Act for the entire financial industry, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Banking MVPs.

  • October 04, 2023

    MVP: Jones Day's Yaakov Roth

    Yaakov Roth of Jones Day represented North American Coal Corp. in a U.S. Supreme Court case with a huge impact on administrative law as justices swept away the Obama administration's signature clean energy plan, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Appellate MVPs.

  • October 04, 2023

    MVP: Stueve Siegel's Norman Siegel

    Norm Siegel of Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP has helped thousands of people take on major companies in high-stakes class actions, including one against State Farm that his firm identified as the largest settlement reached in cost of insurance litigation, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Class Action MVPs.

  • October 04, 2023

    MVP: Kirkland & Ellis' Sophia Hudson

    Over the past year, Sophia Hudson of Kirkland & Ellis LLP spearheaded transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars for major companies such as Bed Bath & Beyond, Norwegian Cruise Line and WeWork, earning her a spot among Law360's 2023 Capital Markets MVPs.

  • October 04, 2023

    MVP: Kramer Levin's Rachael Ringer

    Rachael Ringer of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP's bankruptcy practice represented creditors in such major bankruptcies as LATAM Airlines, Purdue Pharma, Endo International and the Boy Scouts of America, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • October 03, 2023

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Crystal Nix-Hines

    Crystal Nix-Hines of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP founded the firm's education practice group about six months before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Since then, she and her team have obtained a string of victories in class actions filed against universities following the transition to remote education, earning Nix-Hines a spot among Law360's 2023 Class Action MVPs.