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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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December 12, 2018
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Matthew McGill
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Matthew McGill doesn't describe himself as a sports lawyer, but his part on the team that persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to make its historic decision to lift the bar for nationwide legalized sports gambling has nevertheless won him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Sports MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's William A. Burck
William A. Burck of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP found himself in the eye of the hurricane surrounding the production of documents in the contentious confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh this year, making him one of Law360's 2018 White Collar MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Steptoe & Johnson's Stephanie Sheridan
Stephanie Sheridan, the head of Steptoe & Johnson LLP's retail and e-commerce practice group, has scored major victories in pricing suits and other class actions for big-name clients such as L.L. Bean, FedEx and REI, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Retail & E-Commerce MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Irell & Manella's Jason Sheasby
Jason Sheasby of Irell & Manella LLP picked up superlative trial wins on both offense and defense this year, successfully shutting down a $2.5 billion verdict against Gilead Sciences Inc. just a few months before securing a $400 million verdict against Samsung, a record that earned him a spot among Law360's 2018 Trials MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Christopher Chorba
Christopher Chorba, the co-chair of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's class action practice group, defeated class certification for Aetna Inc. and Yahoo and secured the dismissal of suits against Express Scripts Inc. and Toyota this past year, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Class Action MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Paul Weiss' Brad Karp
Brad Karp of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP is the NFL's go-to attorney who helped the league avoid a lawsuit from Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and also conducted an internal investigation into a Twitter scandal for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, earning a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Sports MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: King & Spalding's Tracie Renfroe
Tracie Renfroe, partner at King & Spalding, steered a ConocoPhillips affiliate toward a $380 million win and Chevron away from billion-dollar losses in disputes over Ecuador's natural resources, making her one of Law360's 2018 Environmental MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Nader Mousavi
Nader Mousavi, co-head of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's intellectual property and technology group and head of its cybersecurity practice, led a team in helping a Google subsidiary launch independent companies from two of its successful technology projects and represented the analytics company Syntel Inc. in its acquisition for $3.57 billion, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Technology MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Proskauer's Jeff Horwitz
Proskauer Rose LLP's Jeff Horwitz has guided many deals for longtime client AccorHotels, including its $320 million investment this year in SBE Entertainment Group for a 50 percent stake and its $51 million acquisition of an 85 percent stake in 21c Museum Hotels, landing him among Law360's 2018 Hospitality MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Kirkland's Rohit Chaudhry
Over the past several months, Rohit Chaudhry of Kirkland & Ellis LLP has helped close various project finance deals, including doing the holding company financing on a $2.4 billion deal that closed in May, earning him a spot as one of Law360's Project Finance MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: DLA Piper's Nancy Victory
Nancy Victory, partner and co-chair of the global telecom practice at DLA Piper, has spent the better part of this year shepherding the megamerger of T-Mobile and Sprint, with a crucial advisory role on regulatory and strategic concerns for T-Mobile and its parent company Deutsche Telekom AG, landing her a spot among Law360's 2018 Telecommunications MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Anthony Sinclair
Anthony Sinclair of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP represented clients around the world in high profile arbitration proceedings, with wins for client DP World in its dispute with Djibouti and for AngloGold Ashanti in its challenge against Ghana, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 International Arbitration MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Fish & Richardson's Jonathan Singer
The head of Fish & Richardson PC's life sciences litigation practice, Jonathan Singer, persuaded a federal judge to overturn a $2.5 billion patent infringement verdict against Gilead Sciences Inc., earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Life Sciences MVPs.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: Debevoise's David A. O'Neil
David A. O'Neil of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP earned his place among Law360's 2018 White Collar MVPs by guiding Twitter through government investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and by brokering the first-ever Foreign Corrupt Practices Act resolution with an Asian country, among other major achievements this year.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: Vinson & Elkins' Stephen Gill
Stephen M. Gill, a partner in Vinson & Elkins LLP's mergers and acquisitions and capital markets practices, has wielded his vast experience in the energy space this year to keep intense competition at bay as lawyers from other big-name firms swoop into Houston and try to grab market share, making him one of Law360's 2018 Energy MVPs.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: King & Spalding's Ursula Henninger
Ursula Henninger of King & Spalding LLP pulled out trial wins for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in multiple suits this past year brought by former smokers who said the company intentionally hooked them and caused them injury, making her one of Law360's 2018 Trials MVPs.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: Sheppard Mullin's Craig Cardon
Craig Cardon of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has spent his year serving as Sonic Drive-In's lead counsel in multidistrict litigation over the fast food chain's 2017 data breach and working to bring a nearly decade-old data suit against Williams Sonoma to a close, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Retail & E-Commerce MVPs.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: Hagens Berman's Steve W. Berman
Steve W. Berman of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP has been involved in several high-profile class action cases, including a $25 million settlement with Samsung and Toshiba after the companies were accused of collectively raising prices of optical disk drives. These accomplishments landed him among Law360's 2018 Class Action MVPs.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: Boies Schiller's Karen Dunn
Karen Dunn of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP shepherded Uber through a high-profile trade secrets case against Google's Waymo over self-driving car technology, hailing a spot on the list of Law360's 2018 Technology MVPs.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: Bass Berry's Angela Humphreys
Bass Berry & Sims PLC's health care partner Angela Humphreys served an integral role in WellCare Health Plans Inc.'s $2.5 billion acquisition of Meridian Health Plans Inc., earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Health MVPs.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: Skadden's Richard Youle
Richard Youle of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP was a central figure in spearheading private equity firm HgCapital through a $5.3 billion consortium-led deal that bought up a stake in Norwegian software company Visma, making him one of Law360's 2018 Private Equity MVPs.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: Holland & Knight's Stacie Goeddel
Holland & Knight LLP partner Stacie Goeddel demonstrated her gift for helping clients with complicated mixed-use developments over the past year, earning a spot among Law360's 2018 Hospitality MVPs with achievements like aiding Marriott with the takeover of the Trump International Hotel & Tower Panama.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: Freshfields' Elliot Friedman
After years of arbitration and enforcement litigation Elliot Friedman of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP secured a $2 billion settlement from Venezuela's state-run oil company for an oil investor, ending collection efforts on island refineries in the Caribbean and landing him among Law360's 2018 International Arbitration MVPs.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Victoria Maroulis
Victoria Maroulis, the managing partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's Silicon Valley office, helped close the door on a seven-year smartphone IP case that culminated in a historic settlement, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Telecommunications MVPs.
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December 07, 2018
MVP: Cozen O'Connor's Andrew Kay
Andrew Kay's work with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans bore fruit over the past year for the life insurer and financial-products company with not one but two industry-affecting wins, making Kay one of Law360's 2018 Insurance MVPs.