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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.
  • November 17, 2025

    MVP: Mayer Brown's John R. Prairie

    John R. Prairie, a government contracts partner with Mayer Brown LLP, successfully challenged a $254 million other transaction agreement award issued by the Space Development Agency and represented an incumbent contractor in getting the U.S. Army to let it compete for a more than $10 billion contract, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.

  • November 17, 2025

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Isaac Wheeler

    Isaac Wheeler of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's tax practice advised RedBird Capital Partners on the Skydance and Paramount deal, helped xAI and X on a $113 billion transaction related to their merger and guided Tishman Speyer on its $3.5 billion refinancing of Rockefeller Center, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Tax MVPs.

  • November 17, 2025

    MVP: Willkie's Brett H. Miller

    Brett Miller of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP represented the unsecured creditors' committees of leading Scandinavian airline SAS AB, Chilean telecom WOM SA, Brazilian airline Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes SA and oil refiner Vertex Energy Inc., earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • November 17, 2025

    MVP: Mayer Brown's Amanda Baker

    Mayer Brown LLP's Amanda Baker advised DailyPay as it completed a $200 million asset-backed securitization of a system that allows employers to provide access to pay outside the traditional two-week cycle, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments MVPs.

  • November 17, 2025

    MVP: Cahill Gordon's Joel Kurtzberg

    Joel Kurtzberg of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP secured significant victories on behalf of companies like X Corp. and Grubhub in cases challenging state measures that address online speech, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Technology MVPs.

  • November 17, 2025

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Audra Soloway

    Audra Soloway, a co-chair of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's securities litigation and enforcement group, secured several major class action dismissals for clients over the past year, including for Amazon and several of its executives in a suit over the pace of growth in the company's distribution network, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Securities MVPs.

  • November 17, 2025

    MVP: Latham's David Allinson

    David Allinson of Latham & Watkins LLP's private equity practice shepherded Blackstone's $7 billion sale of Hotwire Communications to Brookfield and represented CPP Investments in a $15 billion joint venture to expand hyperscale data centers in the U.S., earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.

  • November 17, 2025

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Philippe Pinsolle

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's Philippe Pinsolle helped to secure a €14 billion ($16.2 billion) arbitral award for German energy company Uniper after Russian government-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom cut off gas deliveries in mid-2022, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.

  • November 17, 2025

    MVP: Coinbase's Ryan VanGrack

    As Coinbase's global head of litigation, Ryan VanGrack has advanced the crypto exchange's "fight for crypto" on multiple fronts — including getting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and state regulators to drop enforcement actions and lodging suits demanding transparency on regulators' past treatment of crypto — earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fintech MVPs.

  • November 17, 2025

    MVP: Desmarais' John Desmarais

    Desmarais LLP partner John Desmarais helped Apple beat a $360 million damages case and protected more than $400 million in damages for Ravgen Inc. in two of his eight trials last year, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • November 17, 2025

    MVP: Ropes & Gray's Adrianne Ortega

    Ropes & Gray LLP's Adrianne Ortega represented Walgreens Boots Alliance in a take-private action valued at up to $23.7 billion, and her work this year leading several healthcare clients through transformative transactions and helping them understand related complex regulatory issues has earned her a spot among the 2025 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.

  • November 14, 2025

    MVP: Latham's Jeff Hammel

    Jeff Hammel of Latham & Watkins LLP's securities litigation practice won three cases in one day in March, notching a distinctive career milestone and earning a place among the 2025 Law360 Securities MVPs.

  • November 14, 2025

    MVP: Latham's Charles Claypoole

    Charles Claypoole, an international arbitration partner at Latham & Watkins LLP whose successful representation of German bank UniCredit Bank GmbH set a new precedent for the jurisdiction of English courts over international disputes, has earned a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.

  • November 14, 2025

    MVP: Reese Marketos' Andrew Wirmani

    Andrew Wirmani of Reese Marketos LLP's healthcare practice helped shepherd a record False Claims Act win against Janssen Products and secured a $100 million settlement with nursing home pharmacy services provider PharMerica, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.

  • November 14, 2025

    MVP: Latham's Pardis Zomorodi

    Pardis Zomorodi, partner at Latham & Watkins LLP's transactional tax practice in Los Angeles, has guided companies through the tax aspects of major complex transactions, including 2024's largest IPO and the high-profile merger between Skydance Media and Paramount Global, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Tax MVPs.

  • November 14, 2025

    MVP: Gibson Dunn's Jason Schwartz

    Jason C. Schwartz, co-chair of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's labor and employment practice, convinced Maryland's Supreme Court to create new case law in favor of his client Amazon clarifying the state's wage and hour statutes, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.

  • November 14, 2025

    MVP: HSF Kramer's Gilbert K.S. Liu

    Gilbert K.S. Liu, who helped plan Kramer Levin's merger with Herbert Smith Freehills, led a $498.5 million securitization of Tesla solar retail installment contracts and a $228.2 million securitization of Puerto Rico solar and energy storage loans, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments MVPs.

  • November 14, 2025

    MVP: Weil's Ronit Berkovich

    Ronit Berkovich of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's bankruptcy practice ascended to co-chair of her team and helped guide Avon Products through a roughly $1.3 billion Chapter 11 case to plan confirmation, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • November 13, 2025

    MVP: Dechert's John Timperio

    Dechert LLP's John Timperio set a new record for the biggest collateralized loan obligation transaction ever with Golub Capital Partners' $2.3 billion CLO, and he guided Paris-based Rivage as it established its first U.S. operation, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments MVPs.

  • November 13, 2025

    MVP: Kirkland's Adam Kool

    Adam Kool, a tax partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, spent the past year advising on high-profile, industry-transforming transactions. Kool's work on AbbVie's $63 billion acquisition of the pharmaceutical giant Allergan, GTCR's pending $24.25 billion sale of global payment processing company Worldpay and other billion-dollar transactions has earned him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Tax MVPs.

  • November 13, 2025

    MVP: Duane Morris' Jennifer A. Riley

    Jennifer A. Riley of Duane Morris LLP helped Geico defeat conditional certification in a nationwide collective action, defended an industrial staffing company from California state law claims and helped several companies negotiate favorable settlements of wage and hour claims, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Employment MVPs.

  • November 13, 2025

    MVP: Labaton Keller's Alfred L. Fatale III

    Alfred L. Fatale III of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP's led the team that secured a $200 million settlement against Uber Technologies Inc. for investors who had accused the ride-sharing giant of a misleading initial public offering, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Securities MVPs.

  • November 13, 2025

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's James Bromley

    James Bromley, a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, has handled some of the country's largest and most complex bankruptcy cases in the past year — including FTX Trading Ltd., SVB Financial Group and Diamond Sports, representing Major League Baseball — earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • November 13, 2025

    MVP: Freshfields' Noiana Marigo

    Noiana Marigo of Freshfields US LLP's international arbitration group acted as lead partner when her team secured the complete dismissal of Venezuela's application to annul a $2.8 billion award issued in favor of a Spanish agribusiness, earning her a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.

  • November 13, 2025

    MVP: Foley & Lardner's Jason Mehta

    Jason Mehta, co-chair of Foley & Lardner LLP's healthcare litigation team, helped secure a bombshell ruling declaring parts of the False Claims Act unconstitutional and successfully defended COVID-19 test kit providers facing government investigations, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.