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September 09, 2021
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's Mark I. Greene helped guide Mylan NV in its $50 billion combination with Pfizer's Upjohn to form Viatris Inc., which is now one of the largest generic pharmaceuticals companies in the world, earning him a spot among Law360's 2021 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.
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September 09, 2021
John Pitts of Kirkland & Ellis LLP guided energy deals totaling more than $15.5 billion in the past year, including advising Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners through a $750 million joint venture and guiding Alta Resources through its $2.9 billion sale to EQT, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Energy MVPs.
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September 09, 2021
Kannon K. Shanmugam of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP notched three U.S. Supreme Court wins and a handful of circuit court victories last year, including favorable rulings in a landmark climate change case and a $13 billion securities class action against Goldman Sachs, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Appellate MVPs.
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September 08, 2021
Bert Reiser and David Callahan of Latham & Watkins LLP led a team of global attorneys that successfully secured a $1.8 billion settlement — the largest ever in a trade secrets case — for LG Energy Solution Ltd. in a bitter dispute with its South Korean rival SK Innovation, earning them a spot among Law360's 2021 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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September 08, 2021
Gerald L. Maatman Jr. of the Seyfarth Shaw LLP employment law practice group secured a settlement that paid workers in gift cards to end a sprawling class action against Jimmy John's that threatened its franchise business model, securing him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Employment MVPs.
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September 08, 2021
Pamela Lawrence Endreny led a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP tax team representing Merck in a pair of colossal deals, a $2.75 billion acquisition of VelosBio and $9.2 billion sale of Organon & Co., earning her a spot among Law360's 2021 Tax MVPs.
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September 08, 2021
Frank Bayouth of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's energy practice led a team that helped secure a merger of equals between Devon Energy and WPX Energy, creating a company with an enterprise value of about $12 billion and helping earn him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Energy MVPs.
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September 08, 2021
Isaac Nesser helped lead a team of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP litigators in resolving approximately 100 mortgage contract indemnity suits, recouping more than $1.4 billion for the ResCap Liquidating Trust — previously the Residential Funding Co. LLC — and earning him a spot among Law360's 2021 Securities MVPs.
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September 08, 2021
Gary A. Bornstein of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP helped Qualcomm get reversed a Federal Trade Commission trial win that could have fundamentally rewritten the chipmaker's business model, making him one of Law360's 2021 Competition MVPs.
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September 08, 2021
Derek L. Shaffer of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP successfully challenged a California donor disclosure law before the U.S. Supreme Court, and got Delaware's highest court to reverse an adverse $82 million jury verdict in a suit alleging Express Scripts Inc. committed fraud to close a multimillion-dollar acquisition, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Appellate MVPs.
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September 08, 2021
Kimberly Petillo-Décossard of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP helped represent 1-800-Flowers for a contested acquisition early in the pandemic and advised pharmaceutical services company ICON for its largest-ever deal, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.
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September 07, 2021
Latham & Watkins LLP's Grace Lee has guided a variety of clients through major transactions over the past year, including advising TurboTax company Intuit on the tax aspects of its deal to acquire Credit Karma, earning her a spot as one of Law360's Tax MVPs.
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September 07, 2021
Erin Connell of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's employment law and litigation practice helped computer technology giant Oracle defeat a sweeping $400 million administrative pay bias suit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, earning her a spot among Law360's 2021 Employment MVPs.
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September 07, 2021
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP partner Damian Schaible's work guiding creditor groups through a fresh wave of energy company bankruptcies, including the case of natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy Corp., has earned him a spot on Law360's 2021 list of Energy MVPs.
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September 07, 2021
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner David M.J. Rein took a securities suit he's defended Goldman Sachs against for more than a decade up to the U.S. Supreme Court, secured dismissals and favorable settlements for his clients and guided his firm's litigation group through the tribulations of the pandemic, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Securities MVPs.
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September 07, 2021
Jenner & Block LLP partner Alex Hadjis helped Roku beat infringement claims in the first patent jury trial overseen by U.S. District Judge Alan Albright, earning the Washington, D.C.-based attorney a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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September 07, 2021
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz partner Andy Nussbaum has counseled clients through numerous complex matters over the past 12 months, from a uniquely structured $43 billion spinoff involving AT&T, WarnerMedia and Discovery to the $27.7 billion acquisition of workplace messaging company Slack by Salesforce, landing him among Law360's 2021 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.
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September 07, 2021
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Daniel G. Swanson helped lead Apple's trial defense in the high-profile monopolization case over its App Store brought by Epic Games and got a verdict reversed in an antitrust case against tobacco company Swisher International, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Competition MVPs.
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September 07, 2021
Beth Brinkmann of Covington & Burling LLP won two injunctions against regulatory actions by the Trump administration and defended one on appeal, earning her a title as one of Law360's 2021 Appellate MVPs.
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August 30, 2021
The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2021 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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October 30, 2020
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's Jordan Yarett has made a name for himself getting assets securitized and, in the past year, he's led several restaurant franchise deals, helping serve up $875 million for Sonic Corp. and guiding Arby's in mortgaging almost all of its assets, making him one of Law360's 2020 Structured Finance MVPs.
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October 30, 2020
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Marni J. Lerner led Gardner Denver Holdings in its blockbuster $15 billion merger with a unit of Ingersoll-Rand PLC and is in the midst of steering KKR's transformative proposed acquisition of Global Atlantic Financial Group Ltd., earning her a spot among Law360's 2020 Private Equity MVPs.
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October 30, 2020
Mona Dajani of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's project finance practice helped close a $230 million hotel loan deal in a month during the COVID-19 pandemic and helped CMS Enterprises purchase a majority stake in the Aviator Wind project, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Project Finance MVPs.
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October 30, 2020
Daniel Weiner, a partner at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, represented the executors of Jeffrey Epstein's U.S. Virgin Islands estate in negotiating a major compensation program for Epstein's accusers, landing him a spot among Law360's 2020 International Arbitration MVPs.
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October 30, 2020
Thomas Henry of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP had a hand in multiple major real estate deals this past year, including a $5.9 billion sale for international investment firm Colony Capital and a $722 million acquisition by Paramount Group, earning him a spot among Law360's 2020 Real Estate MVPs.