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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 01, 2016

    Tax MVP: McDermott Will & Emery's Todd Welty

    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.

  • November 30, 2016

    Tax MVP: Latham & Watkins' David Raab

    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.

  • November 29, 2016

    Tax MVP: Baker & McKenzie's Thomas Linguanti

    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.

  • November 28, 2016

    Tax MVP: Dakessian Law's Marty Dakessian

    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.

  • November 23, 2016

    Tax MVP: Davis Polk's Neil Barr

    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.

  • 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.

  • November 25, 2015

    The MVPs Of Tax Law

    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.

  • November 18, 2015

    Tax MVP: Weil's Jared Rusman

    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.

  • November 17, 2015

    Tax MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Davis J. Wang

    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.

  • November 16, 2015

    Tax MVP: Kirkland & Ellis' Dean Shulman

    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.

  • November 13, 2015

    Tax MVP: Debevoise & Plimpton's Peter A. Furci

    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.

  • November 12, 2015

    Tax MVP: Cleary Gottlieb's Jason Factor

    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.

  • November 10, 2015

    Tax MVP: Baker & McKenzie's Duane Webber

    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.

  • 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 04, 2014

    Tax MVP: Dentons' Todd Welty

    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.

  • December 03, 2014

    Tax MVP: Latham & Watkins' Laurence Stein

    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.

  • December 02, 2014

    Tax MVP: Honigman's Richard S. Soble

    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.

  • December 01, 2014

    Tax MVP: Weil's Marc Silberberg

    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.

  • November 26, 2014

    Tax MVP: Paul Weiss' Jeffrey Samuels

    Several of this year's mega-mergers, from Burger King Worldwide Inc.'s tie-up with Tim Hortons Inc. to Time Warner Cable Inc.'s headline-busting merger with Comcast Corp., have a common link in Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP tax partner Jeffrey Samuels, whose lengthy list of deal making landed him on Law360's list of tax MVPs.

  • November 25, 2014

    Tax MVP: Skadden's David Polster

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's David Polster found himself at the forefront of the year's cutting-edge real estate investment trust spinoff arrangements, resolving the tax prongs of multi-billion-dollar deals in sectors ranging from telecommunications to gaming and landing among Law360's Tax MVPs.

  • November 24, 2014

    Tax MVP: Davis Polk's Michael Mollerus

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP partner Michael Mollerus’ involvement in one of the most headline-grabbing and controversial deals in memory, Shire PLC’s ultimately canceled $55 billion bid to merge with British rival Abbvie Inc., was just part of a successful year that earned him a spot on Law 360’s list of Tax MVPs.

  • November 21, 2014

    Tax MVP: Proskauer's Leslie Loffman

    Proskauer Rose LLP partner Leslie Loffman was the tax expert that American Realty Capital Properties Inc. turned to when it sealed its storied $11.2 billion acquisition of Cole Real Estate Investments, but multi-billion-dollar real estate investment trust deals are nothing new for Loffman, whose expertise landed him on Law 360's Tax MVP list.

  • November 20, 2014

    Tax MVPs: Sutherland's Jeffrey Friedman and Carley Roberts

    When California tax authorities insisted Comcast Corp. had a unitary relationship with its then-independent subsidiary QVC, the company turned to Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP’s Jeffrey Friedman and Carley Roberts, who scored a win for Comcast in a historic ruling and sealed their place on Law360’s list of tax MVPs.

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