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December 19, 2017
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s Ronald E. Creamer Jr., who leads the firm’s tax group as well as the tax group's mergers and acquisitions practice, played a key role in Enbridge Inc.’s merger with Spectra Energy Corp. in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $28 billion, helping land him a spot as one of Law360’s 2017 Tax MVPs.
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December 18, 2017
Dakessian Law Ltd. founding partner Mardiros “Marty” Dakessian makes his fourth appearance on the Law360 MVP list this year, thanks to a 15-year personal income tax fight that saved a local entrepreneur $3 million, as well as a $15 million win that cut a Fortune 500 food company's tax bill in half.
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December 15, 2017
Jeremy Spector, whose tax practice at Covington & Burling LLP singularly and uniquely focuses on representing the sports industry, landed a spot among the five Law360 Tax MVPs of 2017 after he won a precedent-setting case for the Boston Bruins, advised the Mexican Football Federation in its joint bid with U.S. and Canadian soccer federations to host the World Cup, and emerged victorious in a string of IRS audits.
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December 08, 2017
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.
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December 08, 2017
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.
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December 01, 2016
McDermott Will & Emery LLP’s Todd Welty landed a major victory for a German auto parts supplier in a high-stakes privilege dispute with the IRS and scored a rare win against the agency over another company’s multimillion-dollar tax liability, earning him a spot among Law360’s 2016 tax MVPs.
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November 30, 2016
Latham & Watkins LLP partner David S. Raab spent his year structuring tens of billions of dollars’ worth of mergers and acquisitions in deals that spanned semiconductors, aviation services, telecommunications and shampoo in the most tax-friendly way possible, netting him a spot among Law360's 2016 Tax MVPs.
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November 29, 2016
Baker & McKenzie’s Thomas Linguanti landed on Law360’s 2016 list of Tax MVPs after his research, litigation and leadership skills ushered Medtronic Inc. to a much-hyped victory in a $1.36 billion tax deficiency row, while also setting the discourse among practitioners on how to handle such cases.
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November 28, 2016
Dakessian Law Ltd.'s Marty Dakessian has saved his clients millions of dollars in disputes with the California Franchise Tax Board since he broke off from BigLaw to form his own niche practice at the beginning of 2016, earning himself a spot once more among Law360's Tax MVPs.
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November 23, 2016
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s Neil Barr spent most of this year guiding clients like Lockheed Martin Corp., ConAgra Foods Inc. and McKesson Corp. in billions of dollars of complex transactions to maximize tax efficiency, earning him a spot among Law360’s 2016 tax MVPs.
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November 22, 2016
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.
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November 25, 2015
The successes of these elite attorneys in high-stakes deals and complex litigation earned them a spot in the Tax Law category of Law360's 2015 MVP Awards.
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November 18, 2015
With a string of work helping successfully sort out the tax implications of several massive, complex transactions over the past year, including Kinder Morgan Inc.'s $70 billion megamerger, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP partner Jared Rusman has earned a spot on Law360's 2015 list of tax MVPs.
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November 17, 2015
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner Davis J. Wang led the firm’s tax team on several high-profile deals in the past year, including Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.’s $40.5 billion acquisition of the generic-drug business of Allergan PLC, winning him a spot among Law360's 2015 Tax MVPs.
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November 16, 2015
In less than a year and half after joining the firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Dean Shulman has quickly carved out an impressive body of work tackling complex tax issues for high-profile clients such as Burger King, Baxter International and KKR, earning him a spot among Law360's 2015 Tax MVPs.
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November 13, 2015
In the past year, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP partner Peter A. Furci has massaged the tax aspects of big-name deals and private equity plays representing a total value of nearly $70 billion, earning him a spot among Law360's 2015 Tax MVPs.
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November 12, 2015
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP partner Jason Factor juggled the tax and financing prongs of some of last year's most lucrative deals, including the $66 billion acquisition of Allergan Inc. by Actavis PLC and Medtronic Inc.'s nearly $50 billion Covidien PLC buy, earning him a spot among Law360's 2015 Tax MVPs.
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November 10, 2015
A bold move to challenge the historically accepted position that the U.S. Department of the Treasury is not bound by the same legal standards applied to other federal agencies in promulgating regulations is what landed Baker & McKenzie’s Duane Webber on Law360's 2015 list of Tax MVPs.
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November 06, 2015
Five exceptional attorneys stand out from the pack by being selected for the Law360 MVP distinction for five straight years.
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November 06, 2015
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.
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November 06, 2015
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.
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December 04, 2014
Securing Southgate Master Fund LLC a rare 97 percent concession from the IRS of nearly $300 million and first-chairing the Schaeffler Group’s high-profile tax litigation were just two of many accomplishments that earned Dentons’ Todd Welty a spot among Law360’s 2014 Tax MVPs.
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December 03, 2014
Latham & Watkins LLP partner Laurence Stein's efforts to marshal the tax prongs of billion-dollar transactions for pharmaceutical titans Actavis PLC and Allergan Inc. accounted for just a fraction of an impressive year that earned him a spot among Law360's list of Tax MVPs.
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December 02, 2014
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP’s Richard S. Soble’s taxpayer-favorable victory in Aragona Trust v. Commissioner, a case with far-reaching implications that blazed a new trail in trust and partnership taxation, earned him a spot on Law360’s list of Tax MVPs.
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December 01, 2014
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP partner Marc Silberberg’s involvement in the $70 billion Kinder Morgan Inc. megamerger and advisement of DirecTV on its pending $67.1 billion sale to AT&T were just two highlights in a successful year that earned his place on Law 360’s list of Tax MVPs.