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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 07, 2020

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Matthew Hurd

    Matt Hurd of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's life sciences practice guided several multibillion-dollar deals in the past year, including Bayer's sale of its animal health business and Novartis' merger with biopharmaceutical firm The Medicines Co., earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • October 08, 2020

    MVP: Weil Gotshal's Derek Walter

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's Derek Walter has spent the past year helping Bio-Rad Laboratories defend patents before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and in federal court — including helping the company win a Federal Circuit decision against 10X Genomics — earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • October 06, 2020

    MVPs: Latham's Daniel Brown And Ken Schuler

    Latham & Watkins LLP's Daniel Brown and Ken Schuler represented specialty drug company Eagle Pharmaceuticals in several big wins and led Par Pharmaceutical to victory in an infringement suit over its Adrenalin patent, placing them among Law360's 2020 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • October 05, 2020

    MVP: Covington & Burling's Jennifer Plitsch

    Covington & Burling LLP's Jennifer Plitsch has spent much of the past year advising companies like Moderna on how to help deal with the COVID-19 crisis, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • October 04, 2020

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 76 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2020 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • November 18, 2019

    MVP: Cohen Milstein's Sharon K. Robertson

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC's Sharon K. Robertson has helped plaintiffs score big wins in antitrust cases accusing pharmaceutical companies of not playing by the rules, including a nearly $104.8 million settlement for Lidoderm end-payors in a suit alleging a pay-for-delay scheme, landing her among Law360's 2019 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • November 15, 2019

    MVP: Steptoe & Johnson's John Molenda

    Steptoe & Johnson LLP partner John Molenda won a long-fought patent victory on behalf of Sanofi and Regeneron, while separately preparing to take Apotex to trial against both Pfizer and Celgene, earning him a spot among Law360's 2019 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • November 14, 2019

    MVP: Gibson Dunn's Jane M. Love

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Jane Love was able to convince the Federal Circuit to affirm a lower court's decision that upheld a patent on her client Novartis AG's multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya, a ruling that will prevent regulatory approval of a generic version, earning her a spot among Law360's 2019 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • November 13, 2019

    MVP: Weil Gotshal's Edward Reines

    Edward R. Reines, of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's life sciences practice, helped a major biotech company block its competitor from continuing to infringe a DNA manipulation method over the past year, earning him a place among Law360's 2019 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • November 12, 2019

    MVP: Venable's Christopher P. Borello

    Christopher P. Borello of Venable LLP's life sciences practice worked against GlaxoSmithKline to secure an $89.7 million inhaler patent infringement verdict for U.K.-based Vectura Ltd. and helped Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals uphold a weight loss medication patent, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • November 08, 2019

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 76 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2019 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • December 17, 2018

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Matt Hurd

    Matt Hurd of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's life sciences practice shepherded Bayer through its record-breaking acquisition of Monsanto, worked on a merger that created a $1.75 billion generics pharmaceutical company and advised Amgen Inc. on a $10 billion stock offering, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 14, 2018

    MVP: Kirkland's Jay Lefkowitz

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Jay Lefkowitz convinced the Fourth Circuit that a Maryland drug pricing law violates the dormant commerce clause and is therefore unconstitutional, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 13, 2018

    MVP: Hogan Lovells' Adam Golden

    Adam Golden of Hogan Lovells has been involved in several high-profile life science deals over the last year — including the $9 billion acquisition of Juno Therapeutics by Celgene, one of the largest biotech companies in the country, and Novartis' $8.7 billion acquisition of AveXis Inc. — landing him a spot among Law360's 2018 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 12, 2018

    MVP: Greenberg Traurig's Lori Cohen

    Lori Cohen, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's global litigation practice and chair of the firm's trial practice group, spearheaded big wins for life sciences clients in the past year, including the Seventh Circuit's rejection of state lawsuits in national litigation over eye drop doses, earning her a spot among Law360's 2018 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • 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.

  • November 21, 2018

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 71 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2018 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • December 19, 2017

    MVP: Fish & Richardson's Dorothy Whelan

    Fish & Richardson PC’s Dorothy Whelan notched a number of inter partes review victories earlier this year that invalidated key patents on AbbVie’s blockbuster autoimmune disease drug Humira, earning her a spot among Law360’s 2017 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Gibson Dunn's Jane Love

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Jane Love found herself dealing with Japanese law in a U.S. court this year, but that didn't stop her and her team from successfully defending a Novartis multiple sclerosis treatment from a multi-front attack by challengers seeking to invalidate the company's patent, earning her a spot among Law360's 2017 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 15, 2017

    MVP: Goodwin's Stuart Cable

    Goodwin Procter LLP’s Stuart Cable was involved in several life sciences transactions over the last year, including guiding contract research organization Parexel International through a competitive and aggressive $5 billion acquisition process, earning him a spot as one of Law360’s 2017 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 14, 2017

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Matthew Hurd

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's longtime partner Matthew Hurd led the Netherlands-based health technology giant Royal Philips in its $2.2 billion acquisition of U.S. medical device company The Spectranetics Corp. over the past year and is currently guiding Bayer AG in its planned $66 billion takeover of Monsanto Co., earning him a spot on Law360’s list of 2017 Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 08, 2017

    The Law Firms Of The 2017 MVPs

    Law360's MVP award goes to attorneys who have distinguished themselves from their peers in litigation, deals and other complex matters. Find the MVPs at your firm here.

  • December 08, 2017

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 78 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2017 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

  • December 15, 2016

    Life Sciences MVP: Sullivan's Krishna Veeraraghavan

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner Krishna Veeraraghavan regularly guides pharmaceutical companies through billion-dollar transactions, including representing cancer drug maker Stemcentrx as AbbVie Inc. purchased it for a record-breaking $9.8 billion, landing him a spot as one of Law360’s Life Sciences MVPs for 2016.

  • December 14, 2016

    Life Sciences MVP: Paul Weiss' Catherine Nyarady

    In 2016 Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner Catherine Nyarady litigated groundbreaking cases in the biotechnology and medical space, earning her a place among Law360's Life Sciences MVPs.

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