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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.
  • December 15, 2017

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Scott Barshay

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP’s Scott A. Barshay, leader of the firm's global mergers and acquisitions practice, has helped negotiate more than $200 billion in deals in the past year, and a $143 billion merger for the Kraft Heinz Co. anchored his mega-deal workload, landing him among Law360's 2017 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.

  • December 14, 2017

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Eric Krautheimer

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Eric Krautheimer shepherded clients through three of the biggest transactions in the past year, including the $108.7 billion AT&T merger with Time Warner, Bayer's $66 billion acquisition of Monsanto and Amazon's $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods, making him one of Law360's 2017 Mergers & Acquisitions 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 01, 2016

    M&A MVP: MoFo's Robert Townsend

    Morrison & Foerster LLP global M&A practice co-chair Robert Townsend has built a career steering complex transactions, a feat that landed him a role in two record technology plays unveiled over the last year and earned him a spot among Law360's 2016 merger and acquisition MVPs.

  • November 30, 2016

    M&A MVP: Paul Weiss' Robert Schumer

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP’s Robert Schumer helped guide a multitude of major transactions over the past year, including the megamerger of Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications and a tie-up of two Canadian agricultural giants, placing him among Law360’s Mergers and Acquisitions MVPs.

  • November 29, 2016

    M&A MVP: Simpson Thacher's Alan Klein

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's mergers and acquisitions co-head Alan Klein helmed a series of transformative megadeals in the last year, including ChemChina’s record $43 billion acquisition of Swiss seeds and pesticides maker Syngenta, earning him a spot among Law360’s 2016 MVPs.

  • November 28, 2016

    M&A MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Frank Aquila

    More than three decades into his career, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP attorney Francis J. Aquila is as busy as ever, and his work this past year on blockbuster deals for clients including Diebold and AB InBev places him among Law360’s Mergers and Acquisitions MVPs.

  • November 23, 2016

    M&A MVP: Weil's Michael Aiello

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP corporate head Michael Aiello's M&A expertise landed him at the helm of more than $250 billion worth of deals in the past year, including negotiating three complex multibillion-dollar deals at once, earning him a spot on Law360's list of M&A MVPs.

  • 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 15, 2015

    M&A MVP: White & Case's Morton Pierce

    With work over the past year on major transactions across a variety of industries, from Zimmer Holdings Inc.’s $13.35 billion acquisition of Biomet Inc., to Global Infrastructure Partners’ $2.7 billion Bakken Shale joint venture with Hess Corp., White & Case LLP’s Morton Pierce has earned a spot on Law360’s 2015 list of Mergers and Acquisitions MVPs.

  • December 14, 2015

    M&A MVP: Sidley Austin's Brian Fahrney

    Sidley Austin LLP’s Brian Fahrney guided GE Capital Corp. in its $12 billion sale of its sponsored finance business to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a deal that accelerated General Electric's planned sell-offs as part of its strategy to reduce its financial services offerings and refocus on its core industrial business, helping land him among Law360’s M&A MVPs for 2015.

  • December 11, 2015

    M&A MVP: Paul Weiss' Ariel Deckelbaum

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP corporate partner Ariel Deckelbaum is often at the helm of game-changing transactions, including leading Time Warner Cable through the tumultuous road that ended in a $78.7 billion combination with Charter Communications, landing him among Law360's list of M&A MVPs for 2015.

  • December 10, 2015

    M&A MVP: Fried Frank's Philip Richter

    Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's Philip Richter spent the past year helping guide a number of high-profile deals, including Aetna Inc.'s $37 billion acquisition of fellow health insurance giant Humana Inc. and Terex Corp.'s $2.5 billion cross-border merger with Finnish crane company Konecranes PLC, landing him on Law360's list of M&A MVPs.

  • December 09, 2015

    M&A MVP: Davis Polk's George Bason

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s George R. Bason Jr. has helped corporate titans navigate the increasingly complex antitrust waters of mergers and acquisitions, tackling myriad complex and high-profile deals and earning himself a spot among Law360’s M&A MVPs of 2015.

  • December 08, 2015

    M&A MVP: Cravath's Scott Barshay

    In the last year, Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's Scott A. Barshay has been entrusted with more than $250 billion worth of deals, including Anhueser Busch Inbev's recent $104 billion play for SABMiller, landing the New York partner on Law360's M&A MVPs for 2015.

  • December 08, 2015

    M&A MVP: Weil Gotshal's Frederick Green

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's Frederick Green combined creativity with efficiency to help companies finalize some the biggest headline-grabbing deals of 2015, including DirecTV's $67 billion sale to AT&T, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Mergers and Acquisitions MVPs.

  • December 07, 2015

    M&A MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Joseph Frumkin

    Sullivan & Cromwell partner Joseph B. Frumkin has guided deals together valued at over $140 billion in the past year, shepherding one of the most complex transactions of his career in Teva Pharmaceutical Industries' pending acquisition of the generic drug business of Allergan PLC and landing him on Law360's list of M&A MVPs.

  • December 04, 2015

    M&A MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Frank Aquila

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner Frank Aquila astutely steered Kraft Foods Group Inc.'s $55 billion merger with H.J. Heinz Co., tying up one of the largest M&A transactions of 2015 in record time and earning a spot among Law360's M&A MVPs.

  • December 03, 2015

    M&A MVP: Skadden's Stephen Arcano

    The work by Stephen Arcano of Skadden Arps Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on more than $100 billion worth of deals spanning from pharmaceuticals to the real estate industry so far this year has earned him a spot among Law360’s Mergers and Acquisitions MVPs for 2015.

  • December 02, 2015

    M&A MVP: Simpson Thacher's Elizabeth Cooper

    A year of shepherding her team and her clients through tens of billions of dollars worth of successful mergers and acquisitions, with an emphasis on financial institutions like banks, has earned Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Elizabeth Cooper a spot on Law360's list of M&A MVPs.

  • 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 05, 2014

    M&A MVP: MoFo's Robert Townsend

    While Morrison & Foerster LLP’s Robert Townsend spent much of 2014 working on transactions for Japanese telecom giant SoftBank Corp., he still found time to make his mark on other notable deals for Intel Corp. and McKesson Corp., landing him on Law360's list of M&A MVPs.

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