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 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.

  • December 05, 2019

    MVP: King & Spalding's Scott Greer

    Scott Greer of King & Spalding helped finalize the development of a $20 billion liquefied natural gas terminal this year, earning him a spot among Law360's 2019 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 04, 2019

    MVP: Kirkland's Roald Nashi

    Roald Nashi of Kirkland & Ellis LLP led the charge on KKR's $900 million investment in a portfolio of NextEra renewable energy projects, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 03, 2019

    MVP: Bracewell's Oliver Irwin

    Oliver Irwin, partner at Bracewell LLP, pioneered a cutting-edge financing concept in the upstream oil and gas sector — paying for mega-projects with hybrid project financing and reserve-base lending — to help get a $2.4 billion offshore development in the Falkland Islands off the ground, landing the London-based attorney a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 02, 2019

    MVP: O'Melveny & Myers' Elizabeth Dubeck

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP's Elizabeth Dubeck helped several companies secure financing to rebuild terminals at some of the country's largest airports, and assisted the Port of Oakland on part of its project financing, landing her a spot among Law360's 2019 Project Finance MVPs.

  • November 27, 2019

    MVP: Willkie Farr's Archie Fallon

    Archie Fallon of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's corporate and financial services practice has helped facilitate deals for a novel liquefied natural gas terminal that aims to fuel ships and worked on a significant energy storage project in Utah, landing him a spot among Law360's Project Finance 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: Bracewell's Ron I. Erlichman

    Ron I. Erlichman of Bracewell LLP helped close on the financing and equity arrangements for a $1.3 billion Ohio natural gas electric generation project this year, earning him a spot among Law360's 2018 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 14, 2018

    MVP: Kaplan Kirsch's Adam Giuliano

    Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP partner Adam Giuliano steered Colorado's transportation authority to the speedy closing of a $1.2 billion deal to revamp a Denver highway and is leading Chicago through a one-of-a-kind project funded by Elon Musk's company for ultra-modern airport transit, earning him a spot among Law360's 2018 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 13, 2018

    MVP: O'Melveny's Eric Richards

    Eric Richards, partner and co-chair of O'Melveny & Myers LLP's project finance and development group, tackled a string of high-profile deals in the last year, like the revitalization of the Los Angeles International Airport, adeptly raking in major deals from road and transit systems to seaports and earning a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 12, 2018

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Inosi Nyatta

    Inosi Nyatta of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has experience working on significant energy sector deals around the world, including refinancing part of a liquified natural gas project in Australia and advising on a major expansion of an LNG facility in Texas, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Project Finance MVPs.

  • 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.

  • 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 20, 2017

    MVP: Nossaman's Yukiko Kojima

    In the last year, Nossaman LLP’s Yukiko Kojima has guided multiple high-profile public-private partnership infrastructure projects worth more than a billion dollars each, landing her among Law360's 2017 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 19, 2017

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Sergio Galvis

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s Sergio Galvis spent the past year helping clients work through complex international matters, including facilitating a deal allowing a Colombian company to sell its 50 percent interest in the largest port operator in the country, landing him a spot among Law360's 2017 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 18, 2017

    MVP: Bracewell's Robin Miles

    Bracewell LLP’s Robin J. Miles secured $800 million in financing from a group of Chinese banks for a sprawling methanol plant in Louisiana this year and helmed a number of other complex and high-dollar financing arrangements, including a $360 million debt refinancing of a Michigan power facility, earning him a spot among Law360's 2017 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 15, 2017

    MVP: Shearman & Sterling's Anna Chung

    Shearman & Sterling LLP’s Anna Chung has advised clients around the world in numerous high-profile projects, including a $3.4 billion coal-fired power project in Dubai, landing her a spot among Law360's 2017 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 14, 2017

    MVP: Shearman & Sterling's Alfred Ng

    From Shearman & Sterling LLP's office in Singapore, counsel Alfred Ng of the firm's project development and finance practice group has found innovative ways to guide clients through a variety of major projects in Southeast Asia, South Asia and Hong Kong, landing him a selection as one of Law360’s 2017 Project Finance 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 13, 2016

    Project Finance MVP: Sidley Austin's Ayaz Shaikh

    Sidley Austin LLP partner Ayaz Shaikh had a blockbuster 2016, representing Mongolia Railways in a $7 billion rail project, advising Facebook and an Asian investor group on satellite procurement deals and working with Macquarie to secure a credit facility for multiple U.S. natural gas power projects, earning him a spot among Law360's 2016 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 08, 2016

    Project Finance MVP: Sullivan's Stewart M. Robertson

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s Stewart M. Robertson cemented his spot among Law360’s 2016 Project Finance MVPs by guiding Tengizchevroil LLP through its $16 billion project financing to back the $42.5 billion expansion and modification of upstream operations at a super giant oilfield in Kazakhstan — the second largest project financing ever.

  • December 07, 2016

    Project Finance MVP: Nossaman's Patrick Harder

    Heading Nossaman LLP’s infrastructure practice group, Patrick Harder has represented clients in the past year on projects across California and the United States totaling more than $5 billion, earning a spot among Law360’s Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 06, 2016

    Project Finance MVP: Mayer Brown's Christopher Erckert

    Putting together groundbreaking project finance deals that span Latin America, Mayer Brown LLP partner Christopher Erckert has once again landed among Law360’s 2016 Project Finance MVPs for his contributions to a cutting-edge solar project in Mexico and influential transmission projects in Chile.

  • December 05, 2016

    Project Finance MVP: Dentons' Jonathan Ballan

    Dentons US LLP's Jonathan Ballan hit a homerun this year ensuring bond financing on one of the country's most complicated public-private transportation projects, that, when coupled with work going to bat for the New York Yankees on stadium refinancing, makes him one of Law360's 2016 Project Finance MVPs.