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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.
  • November 01, 2024

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Staci Yablon

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's Staci Yablon provided ace counsel to Goldman Sachs that helped it beat back class certification in a sprawling interest-rate swaps antitrust case, deal a major blow to a New Mexico case involving credit default swaps and clinch a win against U.S. government bond-rigging claims, landing her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.

  • October 31, 2024

    MVP: Paul Hastings' Morgan Bale

    Morgan Bale of Paul Hastings LLP's global finance practice leads investment and commercial banks — including Bank of America, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo — in acquisition finance and other complex multibillion-dollar lending transactions, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.

  • October 30, 2024

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Mitch Eitel

    Mitch Eitel has had a busy year with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's financial services practice group — from advising UBS Group AG in a $3.2 billion takeover of Credit Suisse that was one of the most significant bank deals since the 2008 financial crisis, to advising Fulton Bank on its acquisition of failed Republic First Bank — earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.

  • October 29, 2024

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Jonathan Youngwood

    Jonathan Youngwood of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's banking practice helped secure a New York state court reversal nullifying certain due diligence requirements for underwriters involved in offerings from Paramount Global, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.

  • October 28, 2024

    MVP: Williams & Connolly's Enu Mainigi And Ryan Scarborough

    Williams & Connolly LLP's Enu Mainigi and Ryan Scarborough helped Fifth Third Bank steer a billion-dollar Consumer Financial Protection Bureau enforcement lawsuit to a $15 million resolution, parried class actions against Bank of America and halted a new community lending rule for banks, earning them a place among the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.

  • October 18, 2024

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attys From 74 Firms

    The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2024 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • 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 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 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 03, 2023

    MVP: Davis Polk's Margaret Tahyar

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's Margaret E. Tahyar was the trusted hand that the banking industry repeatedly turned to for counsel this spring amid a string of some of the biggest bank failures in U.S. history, earning her a place among Law360's 2023 Banking MVPs.

  • October 02, 2023

    MVP: Covington & Burling's Ashley Simonsen

    Over the last year, Ashley Simonsen of Covington & Burling LLP secured dismissal of proposed class actions against financial services giant Capital One and fintech companies PayPal and Afterpay, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Banking MVPs.

  • October 01, 2023

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To 171 Attys At 76 Firms

    The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2023 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • September 28, 2022

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Mitch Eitel

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Mitch Eitel is coming off a banner stretch of transactions in which he has been steering the biggest banking deals to be announced both last year and this year, securing him a spot among Law360's 2022 Banking MVPs.

  • September 27, 2022

    MVP: Shearman's Adam Hakki

    Adam Hakki of Shearman & Sterling LLP secured dismissal of racketeering and fraud claims against Citigroup in a suit alleging it conspired with a Mexican oil services company, and persuaded a magistrate judge to recommend dismissal of claims against financial services firm Jefferies Group LLC in a special-purpose acquisition company merger case, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Banking MVPs.

  • September 26, 2022

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Susanna Buergel

    Susanna Buergel of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP helped notch a $60 million settlement for Morgan Stanley in a consumer data privacy class action, and helped secure the dismissal of another class action alleging various banks manipulated the market for U.S. Treasury Department securities, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Banking MVPs.

  • September 23, 2022

    MVP: Cadwalader's Lary Stromfeld

    Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP's Lary Stromfeld has provided tireless counsel to banks on their preparations for the move away from Libor and was a key architect of legislative solutions to head off the financial industry's potentially trillion-dollar "tough legacy" transition woes, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Banking MVPs.

  • September 02, 2022

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To 188 Attys From 78 Firms

    The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2022 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • September 16, 2021

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Robert Loigman

    Robert S. Loigman of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is representing 10 investment managers against Citibank NA's attempts to claw back hundreds of millions of dollars it mistakenly wired to Revlon Inc. lenders last summer, earning him a spot among Law360's 2021 Banking MVPs.

  • September 15, 2021

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Patrick J. Ryan

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Patrick Ryan advised major banks that helped finance multibillion-dollar deals aimed at creating the nation's second-biggest media company, the continent's first U.S.-Canada-Mexico rail network and the world's biggest aircraft lessor, earning him a spot among Law360's 2021 Banking MVPs.

  • September 14, 2021

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Mitchell Eitel

    Mitchell Eitel of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP served as lead counsel in one of the largest U.S. banking acquisitions since 2008, Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria's sale of its U.S. subsidiary to PNC for $11.5 billion, earning him a spot among Law360's 2021 Banking MVPs.

  • September 13, 2021

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Brad S. Karp

    Brad S. Karp of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP led an extensive internal investigation for the board of Credit Suisse following the collapse of hedge fund Archegos Capital, which cost Wall Street banks more than $10 billion, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Banking MVPs.

  • September 10, 2021

    MVP: Shearman's Adam Hakki

    Shearman & Sterling LLP's Adam Hakki defeated investors' spoofing claims for Bank of America, beat U.S. Treasury auction-rigging claims for BNP Paribas and solidified a victory for JPMorgan and other banks over a suit tied to the 2018 "Volpocalypse," landing him among Law360's 2021 Banking MVPs.

  • August 30, 2021

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To 182 Attys From 77 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2021 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • October 09, 2020

    MVP: Wachtell's Richard K. Kim

    Richard K. Kim led a Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz team that advised multiple banks on mergers and other programs amid the coronavirus pandemic and represented BB&T in its merger with SunTrust Bank, the largest of its kind in over a decade, making him one of Law360's 2020 Banking MVPs.

  • October 08, 2020

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Mitchell S. Eitel

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Mitchell Eitel shepherded some of the biggest bank mergers of the past year, including guiding SunTrust in its landmark $66 billion tie-up with BB&T and advising First Horizon on its $3.9 billion merger with IberiaBank, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Banking MVPs.

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