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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 02, 2025

    MVP: Paul Hastings' Jennifer St. John Yount

    Jennifer St. John Yount of Paul Hastings LLP worked with several major banks and credit lenders over the past year in complex, "jumbo" transactions, including advising a syndicate of private credit lenders in providing financing for Clearlake Capital's $5.3 billion majority growth investment in an AI-powered healthcare platform, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Banking MVPs.

  • December 02, 2025

    MVP: Hueston Hennigan's Moez Kaba

    Moez Kaba, a co-founder of Hueston Hennigan LLP and one of the firm's top trial lawyers, led a unit of The Walt Disney Co. to a decisive win in a copyright suit over "Moana," secured an appellate victory for McDonald's Corp. in a challenge to its diversity statements and helped Amazon's Twitch unit defeat lawsuits over a gunman's 2022 livestreamed mass shooting in New York, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.

  • December 02, 2025

    MVP: Williams & Connolly's David M. Krinsky

    David M. Krinsky of Williams & Connolly LLP's life sciences practice represented Pfizer in patent infringement litigation filed by companies like Moderna and Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc., and won a victory for Merck before the Federal Circuit, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 02, 2025

    MVP: Skadden's Michael Hong

    Michael Hong, a capital markets partner at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, helped guide underwriters in a $1.75 billion initial public offering of Venture Global Inc., and represented Acrisure in a $2.1 billion capital raise, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Capital Markets MVPs.

  • December 02, 2025

    MVP: Winston & Strawn's Thomas Melsheimer

    Tom Melsheimer of Winston & Strawn LLP helped a real estate developer previously convicted of corruption win an acquittal in his retrial, making him one of the 2025 Law360 Trials MVPs.

  • December 01, 2025

    MVP: Bernstein Litowitz's Jeroen van Kwawegen

    Jeroen van Kwawegen of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has helped to secure hundreds of millions in settlements of shareholder suits against Banco Santander, Walmart, WarnerMedia and others, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Class Action MVPs.

  • December 01, 2025

    MVP: A&O Shearman's Adam Hakki

    A&O Shearman's Adam Hakki beat back investor derivative claims against Bank of America, helped douse securities litigation against Norfolk Southern's underwriters and freed PayPal from a high-dollar stock fraud suit, earning a place as one of the 2025 Law360 Banking MVPs.

  • December 01, 2025

    MVP: Crowell & Moring's David Chung

    Crowell & Moring LLP partner David Chung spent the last year racking up various accomplishments, including successfully arguing federal appeals cases 12 days apart on opposite coasts and supporting the winning side of a U.S. Supreme Court case, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Environmental MVPs.

  • December 01, 2025

    MVP: Sidley's Sally Wagner Partin

    Sally Wagner Partin of Sidley Austin LLP represented Stryker Corp. in its $4.9 billion acquisition of the maker of medical technology used to remove blood clots without the need for clot-dissolving drugs, earning her a spot as one the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 01, 2025

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Hui Lin

    Hui Lin of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's capital markets practice helped private equity firm Silver Lake complete its $13 billion deal to take sports and entertainment company Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. private, and represented Mars Inc. in its $26 billion senior notes offering, earning her a spot as one of 2025 Law360 Capital Markets MVPs.

  • December 01, 2025

    MVP: Davis Polk's Andrew M. Ahern

    Andrew M. Ahern of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP co-led a $6 billion fund for PSG Equity LLC, a $2.2 billion buyout fund for J.F. Lehman & Co. and multiple funds totaling $2 billion for Lightspeed Venture Partners amid a move to his new firm, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.

  • December 01, 2025

    MVP: Kreindler & Kreindler's Daniel O. Rose

    Kreindler & Kreindler LLP partner Daniel O. Rose is spearheading personal injury and wrongful death litigation over the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge and the midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Transportation MVPs.

  • December 01, 2025

    MVP: Davis Wright's Katherine Bolger

    Katherine Bolger of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP won the dismissal of actor Justin Baldoni's libel lawsuit against The New York Times, successfully defended CNN in defamation claims brought by high-profile officials and defeated a New York Philharmonic musician's lawsuit against Vox Media over its investigative reporting, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.

  • December 01, 2025

    MVP: WilmerHale's Felicia Ellsworth

    WilmerHale partner Felicia Ellsworth handled a breadth of matters in the last year, from successfully defending The New York Times at trial from defamation charges brought by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to litigating a local land dispute in Martha's Vineyard, earning her a spot among the 2025 Law360 Trials MVPs.

  • December 01, 2025

    MVP: Morgan & Morgan's John Yanchunis

    John Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan PA helped Google account holders secure a $425 million jury verdict over the tech giant's allegedly secret tracking of their app activity and notched several multimillion-dollar settlements for consumers affected by data breaches at companies such as MGM Resorts and insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher, earning him a place among the 2025 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • December 01, 2025

    MVP: Wachtell's Steven A. Cohen And Steven R. Green

    Steven A. Cohen and Steven R. Green of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz advised Charter Communications on its $34.5 billion combination with Cox Communications Inc. and on its $15 billion acquisition of Liberty Broadband Corp., earning them a spot among the 2025 Law360 Telecommunications MVPs.

  • November 26, 2025

    MVP: Ropes & Gray's Abigail Gregor

    Abigail Gregor of Ropes & Gray LLP advised Bain Capital on the formation of a new biopharmaceutical company focused on autoimmune disease treatments and AbbVie on its acquisition of a cell therapy developer in a potentially $2.1 billion deal, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • November 26, 2025

    MVP: Steptoe's Pantelis Michalopoulos

    Pantelis Michalopoulos of Steptoe LLP fought the Federal Communications Commission's decision to consider revisiting an extension given to Dish Network parent company EchoStar that jeopardized its spectrum licenses and helped resolve a carriage dispute between Comcast and a local New York sports network, making him one of the 2025 Law360 Telecommunications MVPs.

  • November 26, 2025

    MVP: Singleton Schreiber's Brett Schreiber

    Brett Schreiber of Singleton Schreiber LLP won a $329 million verdict in a headline-grabbing suit against Tesla over a fatal crash in the Florida Keys, the first case to find Tesla's autopilot system defective, a win that secured him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 26, 2025

    MVP: Proskauer's Bradley Ruskin

    Proskauer Rose LLP partner Bradley Ruskin successfully defeated antitrust allegations against Major League Soccer and the U.S. Soccer Federation, and guided the NBA and NFL in rebuffing a request for sensitive information from racing teams suing NASCAR over an alleged monopoly, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.

  • November 26, 2025

    MVP: Latham's Lewis Kneib

    Lewis Kneib of Latham & Watkins LLP helped space exploration firm Voyager achieve liftoff with a $440 million initial public offering, led self-storage operator SmartStop's $810 million IPO and worked on warehouse giant Lineage's $4.4 billion IPO, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Capital Markets MVPs.

  • November 26, 2025

    MVP: Reese Marketos' Pete Marketos And Josh Russ

    Pete Marketos and Josh Russ of Reese Marketos LLP won a $1.64 billion award in a False Claims Act case against Janssen Products — thought to be the largest judgment ever in a qui tam case that went to trial — earning them spots as two of the 2025 Law360 Trial MVPs.

  • November 26, 2025

    MVP: Holland & Knight's Paul Bond

    Paul Bond of Holland & Knight LLP's data strategy, security and privacy team has handled sprawling data privacy litigation in a rapidly evolving legal landscape, even ushering in a change to state law that curbed what he calls a "cottage industry" created by plaintiffs' attorneys, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Cybersecurity and Privacy MVPs.

  • November 25, 2025

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Whitney Salinas

    Whitney Salinas of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP advised real estate investment behemoth Blackstone on myriad multibillion-dollar deals in the past year, including its $16.2 billion acquisition of AirTrunk, one of Asia Pacific's largest data center businesses, scoring her a place among the 2025 Law360 Real Estate MVPs.

  • November 25, 2025

    MVP: Hogan Lovells' Matt Eisler

    Matt Eisler of Hogan Lovells helped the PGA Tour garner $3 billion in investments from a consortium of sports owners, among many other deals, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.