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.
  • December 15, 2017

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Stephen Neuwirth

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s Stephen Neuwirth scored major victories for clients in both class and nonclass antitrust matters over the last year, including another settlement for egg purchasers and a win for the Washington Nationals in a dispute with the Baltimore Orioles, landing him a spot among Law360's 2017 Competition MVPs.

  • December 14, 2017

    MVP: Arnold & Porter's Saul P. Morgenstern

    Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP’s Saul P. Morgenstern has spent the past year defending a trove of industry giants, from Penguin Group to Norfolk Southern, against individual and class action antitrust claims while helping others nip claims in the bud, landing him among Law360’s 2017 Competition MVPs.

  • December 13, 2017

    MVP: Susman Godfrey's Marc Seltzer

    Susman Godfrey LLP's Marc Seltzer secured hundreds of millions of dollars in antitrust settlements over the past year for auto parts buyers in the massive price-fixing litigation and animators fighting the likes of Disney and Pixar over alleged “no poach” deals, landing him among Law360's 2017 Competition MVPs.

  • December 12, 2017

    MVP: White & Case's Christopher Curran

    White & Case LLP’s Christopher M. Curran continued his work for Toshiba Corp. this year, defending against a series of alleged cartel cases involving electronic components, and he also scored a big win for Nestle Purina Petcare Co. in a suit over the pricing of prescription pet food, landing him a spot among Law360's 2017 Competition MVPs.

  • December 11, 2017

    MVP: Latham's Alfred Pfeiffer

    Latham & Watkins LLP's Alfred Pfeiffer helped Cox Communications Inc. defeat a tying antitrust suit over set-top box sales that threatened an industrywide business model, earning him a place among Law360's 2017 Competition 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

    Competition MVP: Robins Kaplan's Hollis Salzman

    Robins Kaplan LLP’s Hollis Salzman has recovered significant sums for plaintiffs as co-lead counsel in a number of antitrust multidistrict litigations, including a total of $1.2 billion in settlements for businesses that accused airlines of fixing cargo prices, earning her a place on Law360’s 2016 list of Competition MVPs.

  • December 14, 2016

    Competition MVP: Cohen Milstein's Richard Koffman

    For his work reaching momentous settlements on behalf of clients in antitrust cases, including an $835 million agreement with Dow Chemical in a suit over urethane price fixing, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC’s Richard A. Koffman has earned a place among Law360’s 2016 competition MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    Competition MVP: Wilson Sonsini's Jonathan Jacobson

    After most of the vitamin C makers who claimed China forced them to fix prices settled out of a U.S. antitrust case, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC's Jonathan Jacboson helped his client fight a $147 million judgment all the way to a landmark international comity ruling at the Second Circuit, putting him on Law360's list of Competition MVPs for 2016.

  • December 12, 2016

    Competition MVP: Cravath's Evan Chesler

    For his work obtaining a seminal Second Circuit reversal for American Express in a suit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice over the company’s contract provisions barring merchants from steering customers toward other credit card brands, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP's Evan R. Chesler has earned a place among Law360’s Competition MVPs.

  • December 09, 2016

    Competition MVP: White & Case's Peter Carney

    White & Case LLP's Peter Carney helped Warner Chilcott knock out so-called product-hopping claims that it stifled competition for acne medication Doryx in a Third Circuit battle, earning him a spot on Law360's 2016 MVP list.

  • November 22, 2016

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 76 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360’s 2016 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals. Here is a list of this year's Law360 MVPs.

  • December 02, 2015

    Competition MVP: Venable's J. Douglas Baldridge

    Venable LLP's J. Douglas Baldridge helped generic-drug maker Ranbaxy prevail in the first pay-for-delay case to go to trial after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling allowing pharmaceutical patent settlements to face antitrust scrutiny, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Competition MVPs for 2015.

  • December 01, 2015

    Competition MVP: Skadden's Steven Sunshine

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP partner Steven C. Sunshine handled multibillion-dollar mergers for Nokia and others, as well as complex antitrust litigation against Allergan, landing him a spot on Law360’s Competition MVPs for 2015.

  • November 30, 2015

    Competition MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Dan Brockett

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's Dan Brockett negotiated one of the largest antitrust class action settlements in history, in which many major banks agreed to pay $1.86 billion to settle claims that they rigged the credit default swaps market, earning him a spot on Law360’s 2015 list of Competition MVPs.

  • November 25, 2015

    Competition MVP: Perkins Coie's David Burman

    David Burman of Perkins Coie LLP has been a strong defender of Costco in its battles against international pricing conspiracies, most recently winning $75 million from global LCD manufacturers that a jury deemed were involved in a pervasive price-fixing scheme, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Competition MVPs for 2015.

  • November 24, 2015

    Competition MVP: Gibson Dunn's M. Sean Royall

    Powerhouse antitrust attorney M. Sean Royall of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP had a busy year securing a dismissal for Sanofi-Aventis SA in a novel False Claims Act case over the drug Lovenox, and defending AT&T Inc.'s $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV, earning him a spot on Law360's 2015 list of competition MVPs.

  • November 23, 2015

    Competition MVP: Davis Polk's Christopher Hockett

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP partner Christopher Hockett helped to defeat allegations that client T-Mobile and others fixed prices on pay-per-use text messages in a massive class action of more than 100 million U.S. customers seeking nearly $3 billion in damages, earning him a spot on Law360’s list of Competition MVPs.

  • November 20, 2015

    Competition MVP: Cravath's Christine Varney

    Christine Varney’s previous roles as FTC commissioner and high-ranking DOJ antitrust official have served her well this year in advising companies on big ticket deals, such as Heinz in its $60 billion merger with Kraft and Integrys Energy Group in a $9.1 billion sale, landing the Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP partner among Law360’s Competition MVPs for 2015.

  • November 19, 2015

    Competition MVP: Boies Schiller's William Isaacson

    Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP’s William Isaacson helped hammer out more than $430 million in settlements with foam makers in a national price-fixing case and cemented a landmark victory for college athletes over the NCAA, landing him a spot on Law360's list of Competition MVPs for 2015.

  • November 06, 2015

    Law360's Super MVPs In A Class Of Their Own

    Five exceptional attorneys stand out from the pack by being selected for the Law360 MVP distinction for five straight years.

  • November 06, 2015

    5 Firms Lead The Pack With MVP Wins

    Five elite law firms have racked up more than 20 Law360 MVP wins each over the past five years, outshining their competitors with their accomplishments in complex litigation and transactions.

  • November 06, 2015

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Legal Aces From 86 Firms

    This week, Law360 will begin profiling those elite attorneys whose successes in high-stakes litigation, record-breaking deals and complex global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.

  • December 23, 2014

    Competition MVP: Latham & Watkins' Margaret Zwisler

    Latham & Watkins LLP's Margaret Zwisler convinced a judge that the London Metal Exchange had foreign sovereign immunity from an antitrust class action over aluminum warehousing rates even though the unit is privately owned, earning her a spot on Law360’s list of Competition MVPs.