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December 22, 2014
Covington & Burling LLP litigator Robert Wick helped Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. escape $3.5 billion in antitrust claims over liquid-crystal display panels and guided JPMorgan Chase & Co. to dismissal of a slew of class actions over aluminum price-fixing, landing him among Law360's Competition MVPs.
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December 19, 2014
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC's Kit Pierson hammered out a $400 million settlement for consumers with Apple Inc. in the e-books price-fixing case and helped get a $1 billion judgment against Dow Chemical Corp. in an antitrust class action, landing him a spot on Law360's list of Competition MVPs.
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December 18, 2014
From helping college athletes triumph over the National Collegiate Athletic Association to securing victory for Apple Inc. in a $351 million trial regarding an iTunes software update, William Isaacson of Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP has had a banner year, landing him a spot on Law360’s list of Competition MVPs.
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December 17, 2014
Hausfeld LLP Chairman Michael Hausfeld scored a game-changing victory against the National Collegiate Athletic Association in an antitrust case, forcing the league to let universities pay student athletes and earning him a spot on Law360's list of Competition MVPs.
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December 16, 2014
In nearly 40 years in competition law on the regulatory and private practice side, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP partner George S. Cary has become a go-to attorney for high-profile competition litigation and for prominent mergers, such as Medtronic Inc.’s $43 billion acquisition of Covidien PLC, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Competition MVPs.
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November 18, 2014
Beginning this week, Law360 will profile 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 18, 2013
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP’s January acquisition of Copano Energy LLC was the $5 billion prelude to a gangbusters year for Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP’s antitrust practice and its head Steven Newborn, whose shrewd stewardship earned him a spot among Law360’s 2013 Competition MVPs.
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December 17, 2013
The antitrust and competition practice at Kirkland & Ellis LLP had a hand in nearly 12 percent of all the transactions reported to federal antitrust agencies in the past year, and as a senior member, partner Mark Kovner was involved in several of the year's most prominent cases, earning him a spot among Law360's 2013 Competition MVPs.
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December 16, 2013
White & Case LLP's J. Mark Gidley employed aggressive litigation strategies to clear Toshiba Corp. from a potential $2.3 billion penalty for alleged price-fixing on liquid crystal display panels, accounting for just one of the numerous high-profile wins that landed him on Law360's 2013 list of Competition MVPs.
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December 13, 2013
The turbulent $17 billion megamerger of US Airways Group Inc. and American Airlines Inc. parent AMR Corp. was just one of the deals that overcame challenges from antitrust regulators during the past year with the help of Dechert LLP's Paul Denis, landing him among Law360's 2013 Competition MVPs.
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December 12, 2013
Fighting against claims that Toshiba Corp. took part in a liquid crystal display cartel, White & Case LLP partner Christopher Curran helped exonerate the company in a case brought by Best Buy Co., just one of the recent successes that helped land him among Law360's Competition MVPs.
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December 11, 2013
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's Arthur J. Burke helped Bank of America Corp. fight off a substantial chunk of the claims in multidistrict litigation over an alleged conspiracy to rig the London Interbank Offered Rate and advised Comcast Corp. on a $3.6 billion deal with Verizon Communications Inc., landing a spot on Law360's list of Competition MVPs.
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November 08, 2013
Beginning this week, Law360 will profile the elite law firm partners whose exemplary work on critical litigation, mammoth deals and first-of-their-kind global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.
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December 18, 2012
As co-lead counsel for a class of about 7 million merchants, Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi LLP's K. Craig Wildfang negotiated a proposed $7.25 billion settlement to resolve litigation over Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc.'s alleged collusion on interchange fees, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Competition MVPs.
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December 17, 2012
Baker & McKenzie LLP's Lee Van Voorhis convinced the Eleventh Circuit to allow Georgia hospital Phoebe Putney Health System Inc. to merge with its only nearby rival despite a challenge from the Federal Trade Commission, earning him a spot on Law360’s list of Competition MVPs.
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December 14, 2012
In one year Munger Tolles & Olson LLP's Glenn Pomerantz went from helping the federal government block AT&T Inc. from merging with T-Mobile USA Inc. to convincing regulators to clear Universal Music Group's tie-up with EMI Group, landing him on Law360’s list of Competition MVPs.
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December 13, 2012
O'Melveny & Myers LLP litigator Kenneth Nissly landed a jury verdict in favor of semiconductor manufacturer SK Hynix Inc., saving it from a potential $12 billion damages award in a conspiracy case brought by a rival and earning him a spot on Law360’s Competition MVPs.
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December 12, 2012
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's Stephen Neuwirth has been on the front line of high-stakes antitrust litigation, recently securing class certification in multidistrict litigation against several railroad companies accused of price-fixing, landing him on Law360's list of Competition MVPs.
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December 11, 2012
For seven years, White & Case LLP's Eric Grannon has been in the vanguard of so-called pay-for-delay litigation with federal regulators, persuading the Eleventh Circuit in April to uphold settlements with generic-drug makers that protect Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s testosterone-replacement drug AndroGel, earning him a place on Law360's list of Competition MVPs.
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December 10, 2012
Paul Denis of Dechert LLP had a banner year in 2012, when he helped Medco Health Solutions Inc. secure clearance from antitrust regulators in its hotly contested $29 billion merger with Express Scripts Inc., the largest transaction of the year, making Denis one of Law360's Competition MVPs.
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December 07, 2012
From defending Express Scripts Inc.'s blockbuster acquisition of a rival pharmacy benefits company to representing HarperCollins Publishers LLC as it faced government price-fixing allegations, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP partner Cliff Aronson has had a standout year that has earned him a spot among Law360's Competition MVPs.
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November 30, 2012
Over the next several weeks, Law360 will profile the winners of this year's MVP awards honoring attorneys whose achievements in major litigation or transactions have set a new standard for accomplishment in corporate law.
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December 07, 2011
Challenging AT&T Inc.'s $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc. and defending Southwest Airlines Co.'s $1.4 billion purchase of AirTran Holdings Inc. are just two of the many accomplishments that make Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's Steven Sunshine one of Law360's Antitrust MVPs.
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December 06, 2011
With the statutory language stacked against him and the possibility of defeat looming for his client Asiana Airlines Inc. in an appeal of price-fixing multidistrict litigation, Ian Simmons of O'Melveny & Myers LLP first got creative and then got state claims tossed from the putative class action, guaranteeing him a spot on Law360's list of Antitrust MVPs.
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December 05, 2011
Joel Sanders of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has helped Micron Technology Inc. dramatically reduce its potential exposure in a price-fixing case and secured the dismissal of a complex case against shipper Matson Navigation Co., earning him a spot on Law360's list of Antitrust MVPs.