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December 04, 2025
Rony Rothken, a partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's New York City office, was on the team leading British private equity shop ICG in raising its fifth general partner-led secondaries fund, securing $11 billion of capital commitments, and also advised private equity giant Blackstone on its $10.8 billion European real estate fund, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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December 03, 2025
Chip Parsons of Proskauer Rose LLP worked with alternative investment management giant Ares Management Corp. in closing a $34 billion direct lending fund, helped software investment firm Thoma Bravo expand its credit business and advised private credit solutions manager Antares Capital on its first continuation vehicle, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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December 02, 2025
Matthew Goldstein of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP helped top asset management firm Apollo Global Management raise billions of dollars in capital and close out several of the group's investment funds in a complicated economic climate, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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December 01, 2025
Andrew M. Ahern of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP co-led a $6 billion fund for PSG Equity LLC, a $2.2 billion buyout fund for J.F. Lehman & Co. and multiple funds totaling $2 billion for Lightspeed Venture Partners amid a move to his new firm, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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November 21, 2025
Mark Myott, a partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's mergers and acquisition practice, guided private equity clients through some of the most high-profile deals this past year, including Silver Lake's $13 billion take-private acquisition of the global sports and entertainment company Endeavor, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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November 20, 2025
Chau Le of Ropes & Gray LLP's private equity practice has worked on a range of lucrative deals and investments, often for long-standing clients, that has included simultaneously advising on a $10 billion debt exchange merger and a $7.6 billion acquisition that stemmed from an alternative asset management firm's previous purchase of a 30% stake in DirecTV, earning her a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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November 19, 2025
Michael Suppappola steered the Proskauer Rose LLP team that represented the lead investor in Silver Lake's $13 billion purchase of Endeavor Group Holdings, in what the firm calls the largest private equity sponsor take-private deal in 10 years and the biggest ever in the media and entertainment sector, earning him a spot among the 2025 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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November 18, 2025
Angelo Bonvino of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP worked on a string of multibillion-dollar deals this year, including guiding PCI Pharma and its lead investor Kohlberg & Co. through a $10 billion investment, on top of guiding growth in Paul Weiss' historically small London office, earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 private equity MVPs.
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November 17, 2025
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.
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November 10, 2025
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2025 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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November 18, 2024
Naveed Anwar of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has represented KKR & Co. Inc. in multiple multibillion-dollar acquisitions and was instrumental in advising on Hellman & Friedman LLC's partial sale of Hub International Ltd. to minority investors, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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November 15, 2024
Stephanie E. Srulowitz of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's U.S. private funds practice led real estate investment firm Crow Holdings Capital Partners in raising a $3.1 billion Fund X, guided Lee Equity Partners to close an oversubscribed $1.3 billion Fund IV and shepherded Graycliff Partners in a $600 million fundraise push, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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November 15, 2024
Mehdi Khodadad of Sidley Austin LLP's private equity practice advised Clearlake Capital Group LP and its partners through more than $18 billion worth of transactions in a year marked by high interest rates, including the $4.4 billion take-private deal for artificial intelligence company Alteryx Inc., earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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November 14, 2024
Matt Abbott of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's private equity practice group advised Canadian real estate firm Tricon Residential in its $3.5 billion buyout by American firm Blackstone Real Estate, guided private equity firm General Atlantic through its acquisition of energy infrastructure firm Actis and helped private equity giant TPG with its investment in human resources and technology services platform G&A Partners, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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November 14, 2024
Robert Blaustein of Kirkland & Ellis LLP's investment funds practice group currently counsels 10 funds seeking more than $50 billion of capital, and has led sponsors in raising more than $100 billion in aggregate capital, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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November 13, 2024
Over the past year, Marco Masotti of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's investment funds group helped Apollo Global Management close its $20 billion Apollo Fund X and guided Oak Hill Capital through several major private equity transactions, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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November 13, 2024
David Perkins of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP advised Amentum in its all-stock, reverse Morris trust merger with Jacobs' government services businesses that created a combined company with $13 billion in revenue, and also led Brookfield Renewable Partners in its $8 billion acquisition of Westinghouse, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
Christopher Robinson, a partner with Proskauer Rose LLP, specializes in handling complex secondary transactions, such as advising Blackstone Strategic Partners as a lead investor in the purchase of $5 billion in fund interests from Kaiser Permanente, and was recently named co-head of Proskauer's secondary transactions and liquidity solutions practice — earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.
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November 12, 2024
Barrie Covit of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's fund formation practice helped Lexington Partners break the record for the largest secondaries fund ever raised, at $22.7 billion, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
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October 18, 2024
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2024 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 27, 2023
Marni Lerner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's private equity practice shepherded KKR in its $975 million acquisition of S&P Global Inc.'s engineering solutions business and its $4 billion acquisition of security and data protection company Barracuda Networks, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Private Equity MVPs.
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October 26, 2023
Taurie Zeitzer of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP advised funds managed by private equity giant Apollo Global Management in its $8.1 billion leveraged buyout of specialty chemical and ingredient distributor Univar Solutions Inc., as well as its $5.2 billion take-private acquisition of industrial parts manufacturer Arconic Corp., earning her a place among Law360's 2023 Private Equity MVPs.
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October 25, 2023
Spencer Gilbert of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP played a critical role in a handful of multibillion-dollar private equity deals over the past year, including co-leading the team that advised TPG in its joint $2.1 billion acquisition of OneOncology, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Private Equity MVPs.
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October 25, 2023
Seeger Weiss LLP co-founder Chris Seeger's work on the historically large multidistrict litigation over allegedly defective 3M combat earplugs, which recently culminated in a $6 billion settlement, landed him a spot on Law360's 2023 Product Liability MVPs.
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October 23, 2023
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP partner Marc Williams steered several mammoth private-equity-related deals despite turbulent financial markets over the past year, including Emerson Electric Co.'s $14 billion sale of its climate technologies business to buyout firm Blackstone Inc., earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 private equity MVPs.