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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.
  • September 12, 2022

    MVP: DiCello Levitt's David A. Straite

    David Straite of DiCello Levitt Gutzler LLC helped reach a novel settlement with Facebook in which the tech company will pay $90 million and delete browsing history that users said was harvested illegally, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Cybersecurity & Data Privacy MVPs.

  • September 12, 2022

    MVP: DeRubertis Law Firm's David DeRubertis

    David deRubertis of The deRubertis Law Firm APC led a team that won a record $440 million in punitive damages for two workers who brought a retaliation suit against a California utility, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.

  • September 12, 2022

    MVP: V&E's Kaam Sahely

    Kaam Sahely of Vinson & Elkins LLP's energy practice helped Goldman Sachs Renewable Power split off from Goldman Sachs Asset Management under the new name MN8 Energy and guided Woodside Petroleum Ltd. in the largest energy merger of the year, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Energy MVPs.

  • September 12, 2022

    MVP: Kirkland's Christian O. Nagler

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Christian O. Nagler tackled a number of major special-purpose acquisition company transactions, including advising a Volvo unit on its $890 million combination with SPAC Gores Guggenheim — one of the biggest SPAC transactions ever — landing him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Capital Markets MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Covington's Agnieszka Klich

    Agnieszka Klich of Covington & Burling LLP worked on the $12 billion Jazan power plant project and $1.5 billion Red Sea gigacity utilities infrastructure project in Saudi Arabia, and the Redstone Concentrated Solar Power project in South Africa, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Project Finance MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Anthony Vernace

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Anthony Vernace has helped close major acquisitions this year while working in the firm's corporate team, bringing home deals like Microsoft's $68 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard and its $19 billion purchase of Nuance Communications last April, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: White & Case's Farhad Jalinous

    Farhad Jalinous of White & Case LLP led multiple foreign direct investment reviews of billion-dollar international deals, such as automotive equipment supplier Faurecia SE's $8 billion acquisition of German automotive supplier Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., as well as transactions by Brazilian telecommunications provider Oi SA worth $3.7 billion in total, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 International Trade MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Gibson Dunn's Geoffrey Sigler

    Geoffrey Sigler of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has assisted UnitedHealth Group-related entities in various lawsuits over the past year, including helping its behavioral health unit unravel a pair of major California federal court orders in a case over substance abuse and mental health treatments, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Health Care MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Irell & Manella's Jason Sheasby

    Irell & Manella LLP partner Jason G. Sheasby won a $218 million patent infringement verdict for the United Services Automobile Association and notched a $300 million victory for PanOptis, earning him a place as one of Law360's 2022 Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Haynes And Boone's Daniel L. Geyser

    Daniel Geyser of Haynes and Boone LLP's Supreme Court practice created seismic changes in the areas of arbitration law and bankruptcy law this year when he argued and won two major U.S. Supreme Court cases, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Appellate MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Morrison Foerster's Mark S. Edelstein

    Mark S. Edelstein led a Morrison Foerster real estate and bankruptcy team that represented JPMorgan Chase in recovering in excess of $75 million in loans after its borrowers' sponsor posthumously was discovered to be a Ponzi schemer and represented Societe Generale in negotiating a $2.1 billion loan for the financing of a 155-property portfolio during one of the firm's busiest years, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Real Estate MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Akin Gump's Arik Preis

    Arik Preis of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has spent the last few years litigating on behalf of personal injury claimants in opioid and sexual abuse mass tort bankruptcies and has secured both monetary and moral victories for his constituents, landing him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Thomas Werlen

    Thomas Werlen of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's white collar practice won the first criminal trial against a Swiss bank and helped FIFA recover $201 million in losses stemming from an international corruption scandal, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 White Collar MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Covington & Burling's Henry Liu

    Covington & Burling LLP's Henry Liu helped secure the dismissal of Congolese families' child labor claims against Apple Inc. and the tossing of allegations that JPMorgan Chase & Co. conspired with other big banks to manipulate the $14 trillion U.S. Treasury market, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Class Action MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Liza Velazquez

    Over the past year, Liza Velazquez of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP successfully defended several big clients, including the New York State Unified Court System, from an onslaught of legal challenges to their COVID-19 vaccine policies, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Latham's Justin T. Stolte

    Justin T. Stolte of Latham & Watkins LLP's energy and infrastructure practice guided Quanta Services through its $2.7 billion purchase of renewable energy infrastructure provider Blattner Energy and led Chevron in its $1.2 billion joint venture with agribusiness company Bunge, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Energy MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Dechert's Brenda Sharton

    Dechert LLP partner Brenda Sharton helped Flo Health navigate the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, which ramped up pressure on period and fertility tracking apps to protect health and location data from law enforcement access, earning her a place among Law360's 2022 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.  

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Cohen Ziffer's Adam Ziffer

    Adam Ziffer of Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP secured a win for Towers Watson in an $80 million coverage dispute under a directors and officers policy, one of the many big-money decisions Ziffer's burgeoning firm has notched for its corporate clients, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Insurance MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Fenwick's Ran Ben-Tzur

    Fenwick & West LLP partner Ran Ben-Tzur steered several landmark public listings over the past year, from cybersecurity firm SentinelOne Inc.'s $1.2 billion initial public offering to social networking service NextDoor Holding Inc.'s go-public merger, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Capital Markets MVPs.

  • September 09, 2022

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Audra Soloway

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner Audra Soloway won a number of key dismissals over the past year in investor lawsuits brought against clients like Teladoc Health and the Bank of New York Mellon and participated in a case that netted an important U.S. Supreme Court ruling, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Securities MVPs.

  • September 08, 2022

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Krishna Veeraraghavan

    Krishna Veeraraghavan of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's corporate practice has overseen billion-dollar deals in the tech, biotech and life sciences sectors as well as the consumer, media, real estate sectors and more, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.

  • September 08, 2022

    MVP: Hogan Lovells' Jonathan Stoel

    Jonathan Stoel of Hogan Lovells has led the government of Canada and the Canadian solar industry into an agreement with the U.S. government to end safeguards on solar imports, and he represented the Canadian solar industry in a landmark state-to-state dispute settlement in which a panel ruled in Canada's favor, earning him his second spot among Law360's International Trade MVPs.

  • September 08, 2022

    MVP: Hogan Lovells' Stacey McEvoy

    Stacey McEvoy of Hogan Lovells LLP co-led Duke Realty, the largest domestic-only industrial property real estate investment trust, in its approximately $26 billion merger with Prologis Inc., earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Real Estate MVPs.

  • September 08, 2022

    MVP: Motley Rice's Gregg S. Levin

    Gregg Levin of Motley Rice LLC's securities practice led the firm's efforts to secure an $809.5 million settlement for Twitter shareholders last year, representing one of the 20 largest securities class action settlements in U.S. history and earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Securities MVPs.

  • September 08, 2022

    MVP: Erise's Eric Buresh

    Eric Buresh of Erise IP has helped secure numerous victories over the past year, including a complete defense verdict for Sony in a patent infringement lawsuit over its PlayStation consoles, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Intellectual Property MVPs.