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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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December 03, 2018
MVP: BakerHostetler's Elliot Feldman
Elliot Feldman of BakerHostetler helped the American newspaper industry avert a price hike on the cost of paper earlier this year by convincing the U.S. International Trade Commission to scrap proposed tariffs on Canadian imports of newsprint, earning him a place among Law360's 2018 International Trade MVPs.
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December 03, 2018
MVP: Weil's Ronit Berkovich
Ronit Berkovich of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP played a key role this year in orchestrating Takata Corp.'s $1.6 billion sale after the Japanese auto parts maker filed for Chapter 11 on the heels of a massive airbag recall, making her one of Law360's 2018 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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December 03, 2018
MVP: Skadden's Howard Ellin
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP partner Howard Ellin has steered some of the world's largest companies through transformational deals, like 21st Century Fox's $71.3 billion acquisition by the Walt Disney Co. and Cigna's $67 billion acquisition of pharmacy benefit management services company Express Scripts, earning him a spot among Law360's 2018 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.
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December 03, 2018
MVP: Gibbs Law Group's Eric Gibbs
Gibbs Law Group LLP's Eric Gibbs launched his own firm after taking leadership posts and shaping the law in dozens of complex class actions, recently winning the largest data breach settlement in history at $115 million against health insurer Anthem Inc., landing him among Law360's 2018 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.
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December 03, 2018
MVP: Orrick's Lynne Hermle
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner Lynne Hermle helped tech giant Microsoft and social media outfit Twitter beat back gender discrimination class actions in the past year, landing her a spot among Law360's Employment MVPs for the fourth time.
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November 30, 2018
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Susheel Kirpalani
Susheel Kirpalani, partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, has advised the largest group of bondholders in Puerto Rico's restructuring as they maneuver a bankruptcy law he had a role in creating, making him one of Law360's 2018 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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November 30, 2018
MVP: Latham & Watkins' Joseph Serino
It's been a busy first year at Latham & Watkins LLP for Joseph Serino, who scored major wins for his clients, including zeroing out a multibillion-dollar JAMS arbitration action against Credit Suisse and defeating a class certification in a case alleging foreign exchange rate-rigging by Deutsche Bank, landing him among the five attorneys named as Law360's 2018 Banking MVPs.
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November 30, 2018
MVP: Jenner & Block's Amanda Amert
Jenner & Block LLP partner Amanda Amert's banner year saw her amassing victories on behalf of Northwestern University, The Northern Trust Co., Aon Hewitt Financial Advisors LLC and Morningstar Inc. in Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action suits, making her one of Law360's 2018 Benefits MVPs.
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November 30, 2018
MVP: Simpson Thacher's Sasan Mehrara
Sasan Mehrara of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has been involved in a number of high-profile private equity deals this year, including Blackstone's blockbuster $7.6 billion acquisition of Gramercy Property Trust, landing him among Law360's 2018 Real Estate MVPs.
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November 30, 2018
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Thomas H. Dupree Jr.
Thomas H. Dupree Jr. of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP beat the Internal Revenue Service in a battle over the taxability of railroad employee stock options and struck down a Surface Transportation Board railroad performance rule, upending the regulatory regime for railroads and landing him among Law360's 2018 Transportation MVPs.
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November 30, 2018
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Charles K. Verhoeven
Charles K. Verhoeven, the co-chair of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's national intellectual property litigation practice, headed the team representing Google's Waymo in a high-profile case against Uber over self-driving car technology, landing him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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November 30, 2018
MVP: Kirkland's Richard Godfrey
Richard Godfrey of Kirkland & Ellis LLP has long represented clients in high-profile and high-stakes matters — including representing BP in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and General Motors Co. in the ignition switch litigation — boosting him to the list of Law360's 2018 Product Liability MVPs.
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November 30, 2018
MVP: McDermott's Lisa O'Neill
Lisa O'Neill, a partner in McDermott Will & Emery LLP's corporate practice, represented Praxair in the divestments it needed to make to get approval of its merger with Linde, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.
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November 30, 2018
MVP: Cohen Milstein's Andrew N. Friedman
Andrew N. Friedman, co-chair of the consumer protection practice group at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, helped earn final approval of a $115 million settlement that ended litigation over health care giant Anthem Inc.'s 2015 data breach and represented consumers in other headline-grabbing breaches, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.
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November 30, 2018
MVP: Morrison & Foerster's Karen Kubin
Karen Kubin of Morrison & Foerster LLP helped employers fend off potentially costly suits seeking pay overtime for classes of workers over the past year, earning the longtime employment litigator a spot among Law360's 2018 Employment MVPs.
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November 30, 2018
MVP: Pomerantz's Emma Gilmore
Pomerantz LLP partner Emma Gilmore helped secure $3 billion for a class of investors who alleged securities of Brazil's state-run oil giant Petrobras were negatively impacted by a massive corruption scandal, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Securities MVPs.
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November 30, 2018
MVP: Williams & Connolly's Kannon Shanmugam
Kannon Shanmugam of Williams & Connolly LLP earned two big wins in the U.S. Supreme Court in the last year — narrowing the scope of the term "whistleblower" in Digital Realty Trust Inc. v. Somers and strengthening arbitration clauses in contracts in Ernst & Young LLP v. Morris — earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Appellate MVPs.
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November 29, 2018
MVP: Mayer Brown's Paul Hughes
Paul Hughes, a Mayer Brown LLP partner in the firm's Supreme Court and appellate practice, has scored a number of intellectual property victories at the Federal Circuit, including one that clarified the standard of divided infringement, landing him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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November 29, 2018
MVP: Latham & Watkins' Robert Buday
Robert Buday of Latham & Watkins LLP is the king of billion-dollar real estate deals, guiding Phillips Edison & Co. on two key acquisitions that transformed the company, as well as major deals involving Bass Pro Shops and Hyatt Hotels Corp. to earn a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Real Estate MVPs.
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November 29, 2018
MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Patrick S. Brown
Patrick S. Brown, a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's general practice group, helped Zions Bancorp. become the first bank to ever check out of Dodd-Frank's "Hotel California," and he has guided several other West Coast bank transactions over the past year, earning him a place among Law360's 2018 Banking MVPs.
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November 29, 2018
MVP: Faegre's Andrea Roberts Pierson
Andrea Roberts Pierson of Faegre Baker Daniels scored major defense victories this year for makers of implanted blood filters and knee replacements targeted in large-scale, multidistrict litigation, earning herself a place among Law360's 2018 Product Liability MVPs.
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November 29, 2018
MVP: Morgan Lewis' Grace E. Speights
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP partner Grace E. Speights, who is defending PBS against Tavis Smiley's claim he was wrongfully fired after facing sexual harassment allegations, has emerged as a go-to legal adviser for high-profile employers looking to evaluate their workplaces and navigate issues related to the #MeToo movement, earning her a spot among Law360's Employment MVPs.
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November 29, 2018
MVP: Akin Gump's Ira Dizengoff
Bankruptcy deal-maker Ira Dizengoff of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP reorganized tens of billions of dollars this year, including an arrangement that fended off unemployment for 4,500 people working at bankrupt power plants, efforts that landed him among Law360's 2018 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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November 29, 2018
MVP: Labaton Sucharow's Jordan Thomas
Labaton Sucharow LLP partner Jordan Thomas made history this year when he led Merrill Lynch whistleblowers to win damages of over $83 million — the largest ever award since the beginning of the SEC's Whistleblower program in 2011 — in a landmark enforcement action, landing him a spot among Law360's 2018 Securities MVPs.
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November 29, 2018
MVP: Paul Hastings' Yar Chaikovsky
Yar Chaikovsky, the global co-chair of Paul Hastings LLP's intellectual property practice, scored a patent victory at the Federal Circuit last December for Yahoo and Twitter after a long-running multidistrict litigation battle with an Acacia Research Corp. subsidy, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Appellate MVPs.