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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 12, 2019

    MVP: Cleary Gottlieb's Steve Wilner

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's Steve Wilner steered Qatar Investment Authority in picking up a portfolio of Manhattan's iconic Fifth Avenue properties, and was a key player in the financing of Brookfield Asset Management's $11.4 billion purchase of Forest City Realty, landing him among Law360's 2019 Real Estate MVPs.

  • December 12, 2019

    MVP: McKool Smith's Robin Cohen

    Robin Cohen of McKool Smith PC's insurance practice was lead counsel for Verizon Communications Inc. this year as the company beat back its insurers' motion to toss a suit seeking coverage for a $95 million underlying settlement, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Insurance MVPs.

  • December 12, 2019

    MVP: Kaplan Hecker's Sean Hecker

    Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP's Sean Hecker earned a rare acquittal of market manipulation allegations against a Barclays trader, and he's helped build a robust white collar practice at his emerging boutique firm, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 White Collar MVPs.

  • December 12, 2019

    MVP: King & Spalding's Ursula Henninger

    A string of victories defending RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. against allegations that the company's cigarettes caused lung disease and cancer helped earn King & Spalding LLP's Ursula Henninger a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 11, 2019

    MVP: Schiff Hardin's Maggie Hickey

    Schiff Hardin LLP's Maggie Hickey was chosen to oversee court-ordered reforms at the Chicago Police Department and investigated sexual misconduct in the city's public schools and the Illinois statehouse this year, earning her a spot among Law360's 2019 White Collar MVPs.

  • December 11, 2019

    MVP: MoFo's Mark Edelstein

    Mark Edelstein of Morrison & Foerster LLP has helped clients with several loans north of the $1 billion mark for properties in Manhattan, and thanks to his work on those and other matters he's been named one of Law360's 2019 Real Estate MVPs.

  • December 11, 2019

    MVP: Hunton Andrews Kurth's Shannon S. Broome

    Shannon S. Broome of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP represented a manufacturing industry group as it successfully urged the D.C. Circuit against reviewing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rescinding of a decades-old "once in, always in" policy regarding the classification of major polluters, placing her among Law360's 2019 Environmental MVPs.

  • December 11, 2019

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Robert J. Giuffra Jr.

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Robert J. Giuffra Jr. worked to represent Volkswagen AG in suits brought by U.S. states and counties over the auto giant's 2015 emissions cheating scandal, earning him a spot among Law360's 2019 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 11, 2019

    MVP: Wargo French's Raymond J. Tittmann

    Wargo French LLP's Raymond J. Tittmann helped a subsidiary of The Home Depot negotiate a global settlement of thousands of claims brought by homeowners and their insurers over damage caused by allegedly defective toilet products, landing him on the list of Law360's 2019 Insurance MVPs.

  • December 10, 2019

    MVP: Covington's Christine Haskett

    Christine Haskett of Covington & Burling LLP's San Francisco office won a $35.5 million jury verdict for an aluminum company and unlocked insurance proceeds for the former owners of a talc mining company caught in a high-stakes bankruptcy, earning her a spot among Law360's 2019 Insurance MVPs.

  • December 10, 2019

    MVP: Kirkland's Paul Tanaka

    Paul Tanaka of Kirkland & Ellis LLP led a team of attorneys managing the Rowan Co. PLC's $12 billion combination with Ensco PLC, a deal that created one of the largest and most geographically diverse offshore drillers in the world, along with several other multibillion-dollar deals, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Environmental MVPs.

  • December 10, 2019

    MVP: Wachtell's Ronald Chen

    Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz's Ronald Chen worked to facilitate several notable transactions involving technology companies, including helping close reportedly the largest private medical device deal ever, landing him a spot among Law360's 2019 Technology MVPs.

  • December 10, 2019

    MVP: Dechert's Mark Cheffo

    Mark Cheffo, Dechert LLP's product liability and mass torts co-chair, guided Purdue in its move to settle thousands of claims in nationwide opioid litigation brought over the drugmaker's Oxycontin painkiller, earning him a spot among Law360's 2019 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 10, 2019

    MVP: Fried Frank's Jonathan L. Mechanic

    Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's Jonathan Mechanic led some of New York City's biggest real estate deals of the past year, including Maefield Development's $1.5 billion purchase of 20 Times Square, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Real Estate MVPs.

  • December 10, 2019

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Lorin L. Reisner

    Lorin Reisner of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's white collar practice successfully navigated federal criminal and regulatory investigations for a real estate investment trust executive and The Blackstone Group Inc., leading them away from criminal charges and toward favorable settlements and earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 White Collar MVPs.

  • December 09, 2019

    MVP: Ropes & Gray's Joan McPhee

    As a founder of Ropes & Gray LLP's government enforcement practice, Joan McPhee has been spearheading white collar defense and government investigation matters for nearly 30 years. Her work on a 10-month investigation into decades of sexual abuses by former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar recently earned her honors from the Women's White Collar Defense Association, along with a spot among Law360's 2019 White Collar MVPs.

  • December 09, 2019

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Harris Freidus

    Harris Freidus, a partner at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, advised sprawling urban real estate fund manager CIM Group on almost every aspect of buying, developing and financing, as well as dirt work and infrastructure for developments in high-density neighborhoods, making him one of Law360's 2019 Real Estate MVPs.

  • December 09, 2019

    MVP: Best Best & Krieger's Eric Garner

    Eric Garner of Best Best & Krieger LLP wrote the book on California water law and has used his decades of experience in the sector to help clients navigate long-running and complex water rights disputes in the state, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Environmental MVPs.

  • December 09, 2019

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Andrew T. Frankel

    Andrew T. Frankel of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP helped defeat asbestos claims against Travelers Property Casualty Co., and he represents it in coverage disputes stemming from lawsuits over Johnson & Johnson's baby powder, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Insurance MVPs.

  • December 09, 2019

    MVP: Fenwick & West's Douglas N. Cogen

    Douglas N. Cogen of Fenwick & West LLP helped guide Symantec through the $10.7 billion sale of its enterprise security business this summer, landing him on the list of Law360's 2019 Technology MVPs.

  • December 09, 2019

    MVP: Skadden's John H. Beisner

    Victories while defending against allegations that Johnson & Johnson's talc products cause cancer and that roofing company Tamko Building Products LLC made defective materials are among the accomplishments that earned John H. Beisner of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 06, 2019

    MVP: Goodwin's Anthony McCusker

    Over the past year, Goodwin Procter LLP's Anthony McCusker steered Qualtrics to the doorstep of its anticipated IPO before rapidly switching gears and negotiating the software provider's eleventh-hour, $8 billion sale to SAP, making him one of Law360's 2019 Technology MVPs.

  • December 06, 2019

    MVP: Sidley's Amanda Todd

    Sidley Austin LLP's Amanda Todd recently helped Lincoln Financial Group in its transfer of $7.7 billion in annuity risks to a reinsurer and has steered other insurance companies and financial institutions in a wide variety of complex transactions, making her one of Law360's 2019 Insurance MVPs.

  • December 06, 2019

    MVP: Motley Rice's Fidelma Fitzpatrick

    Motley Rice LLP's Fidelma Fitzpatrick won a $6 million verdict on behalf of three Wisconsin men who were exposed to lead paint as children, and is leading the massive litigation against Bayer over its Essure birth control device, earning her a spot among Law360's 2019 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 06, 2019

    MVP: Cahill Gordon's Bradley J. Bondi

    Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's Bradley J. Bondi represented Tesla in a fast-moving enforcement matter over an errant Elon Musk tweet, and helped Bausch Health avoid a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission penalty altogether, making him one of Law360's 2019 White Collar MVPs.