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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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November 25, 2024
MVP: Cooley's Lila Hope
Lila Hope of Cooley LLP shepherded SystImmune Inc.'s $8.4 billion collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb Co. and advised Foreseen Biotechnology on its $1 billion licensing agreement with Ipsen, earning her a spot among the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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November 22, 2024
MVP: Covington's Robert Newman
Robert Newman of Covington & Burling LLP's employee benefits and executive compensation practice group convinced the Second Circuit to affirm an arbitral award in favor of a New York nurses' pension plan and represented Verizon in a $5.9 billion transfer of pension plan liabilities, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Benefits MVPs.
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November 22, 2024
MVP: Skadden's Graham Robinson
Graham Robinson of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP represented Iveric Bio in its $5.9 billion sale to global pharmaceutical company Astellas Pharma Inc., earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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November 21, 2024
MVP: Fenwick's Douglas Cogen
Douglas Cogen of Fenwick & West LLP's life sciences practice guided cardiovascular device company Shockwave Medical through a record-breaking acquisition by Johnson & Johnson, while he simultaneously shepherded multiple biopharma companies through multibillion-dollar deals, earning him recognition as a 2024 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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November 21, 2024
MVP: Hogan Lovells' Stacy Hadeka
Stacy Hadeka's work in the last year bringing two successful challenges to the award of a roughly $900 million contract from the Office of Refugee Resettlement to transport unaccompanied migrant children has earned the Hogan Lovells LLP partner a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.
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November 21, 2024
MVP: Cohen Milstein's Michelle C. Yau
Michelle Yau of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC helped to secure multiple multimillion-dollar settlement deals as lead counsel on class actions from workers alleging retirement plan mismanagement, including deals with New York Life Insurance Co. and Citgo Petroleum Corp., earning her a spot among the 2024 Law360 Benefits MVPs.
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November 20, 2024
MVP: Wiley's Scott M. McCaleb
Wiley Rein LLP's Scott McCaleb led a military shipbuilder's successful defense against workers' antitrust claims and advanced The Boeing Co.'s $1 million fight against a Defense Contract Management Agency contract costs adjustment, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.
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November 20, 2024
MVP: Cahill Gordon's Stuart Downing
Stuart Downing of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's banking and finance practice shepherded major leveraged refinancing transactions over the last year, including advising banks in a $2 billion leveraged finance deal with Creative Arts Agency and guiding a $1.89 billion credit facility for Radiology Partners in an out-of-court restructuring, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments MVPs.
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November 20, 2024
MVP: Zuckerman Spaeder's D. Brian Hufford
D. Brian Hufford of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP secured key wins for his clients over the past year in cases challenging thousands of healthcare coverage denials, including a victory at the Ninth Circuit where he was able to change the court's mind on the third try, earning him a spot as a 2024 Law360 Benefits MVP.
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November 20, 2024
MVP: Cravath's Wes Earnhardt
Wes Earnhardt of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's litigation department has represented high-powered media companies such as Walt Disney and Starz Entertainment and successfully argued before the Supreme Court for extended copyright damages, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.
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November 20, 2024
MVP: Latham's Michelle Kelban
Michelle Kelban, co-chair of Latham & Watkins LLP's real estate group, helmed a $2 billion construction financing for Cain International and guided Ares Management's blockbuster purchase of GCP International, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Real Estate MVPs.
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November 20, 2024
MVP: Williams & Connolly's David I. Berl
David I. Berl of Williams & Connolly LLP's patent litigation practice helped win a first-of-its-kind trial victory on behalf of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals by employing a novel legal strategy that allowed the biotech giant to quickly adjudicate its patent rights to an eye care medicine, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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November 19, 2024
MVP: Blank Rome's Luke Meier
Luke Meier of Blank Rome LLP helped government contractor Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure hang onto a $45 billion nuclear cleanup contract, one of the largest services contracts ever, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.
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November 19, 2024
MVP: Mayer Brown's Brantley Webb
Brantley Webb of Mayer Brown LLP's U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice group guided Yale University and Wood Group PLC to trial victories in Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuits and convinced the D.C. Circuit to uphold the dismissal of a challenge to Georgetown University's retirement plans, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Benefits MVPs.
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November 19, 2024
MVP: Dentons' Natalie Spears
Dentons partner Natalie Spears recently led legal teams that defeated a defamation suit brought by a securities lawyer against Dow Jones & Co. and one of its longtime reporters, successfully defended Netflix and one of its directors in a defamation suit involving the acclaimed series "When They See Us," and helped NBCUniversal and its MSNBC anchors beat a defamation case over a Jan. 6-related news story, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Media & Entertainment MVPs.
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November 19, 2024
MVP: Jones Day's Melissa Mitchum
Melissa Mitchum led Jones Day's structured finance team in negotiating several meaningful transactions over the past year, including TotalEnergies' equity investment in the Rio Grande LNG project and Guidehouse's launch of the first-ever multi-seller Small Business Administration unguaranteed securitization, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Complex Financial Instrument MVPs.
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November 19, 2024
MVP: Covington's Catherine Dargan
Catherine Dargan of Covington & Burling LLP represented Bristol Myers Squibb Co. in its $14 billion acquisition of the company that developed Cobenfy — the first new drug in 35 years to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating schizophrenia — earning her a spot among the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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November 19, 2024
MVP: Latham's Roman Martinez
Latham & Watkins LLP's Roman Martinez outdid himself this year, helping to tear down the Chevron deference doctrine in a landmark Supreme Court case and upending existing precedent in another win on behalf of a $70 billion retirement fund, making him one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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November 21, 2024
MVP: McKool Smith's Courtney Statfeld
Courtney Statfeld of McKool Smith's commercial litigation practice led residential mortgage-backed securities investors in winning recent landmark cases entitling them to millions of dollars in compensation, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments MVPs.
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November 18, 2024
MVP: Simpson Thacher's Naveed Anwar
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 18, 2024
MVP: Paul Weiss' Kannon K. Shanmugam
Kannon Shanmugam, chair of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice, won a precedent-setting Second Circuit decision in a $13 billion Goldman Sachs shareholder class action, got a criminal conviction thrown out for former U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, and persuaded the Nevada Supreme Court that a former Las Vegas Raiders head coach must arbitrate his leaked-email claims against the NFL, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate MVPs.
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November 18, 2024
MVP: Davis Wright's Rachel Strom
Rachel Strom of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has been busy this past year making sure a documentary about Wendy Williams would air and successfully representing ABC in a copyright challenge against its popular show "Abbott Elementary," earning her a spot among Law360's 2024 Media & Entertainment MVPs.
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November 18, 2024
MVP: Ropes & Gray's Amanda Austin
Amanda Austin of Ropes & Gray's life sciences practice guided Pfizer through its $7 billion deal with Flagship Pioneering, advised Fulcrum Therapeutics in its blockbuster collaboration with Sanofi, and was lead counsel to Ginkgo Bioworks, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences MVPs.
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November 18, 2024
MVP: Seyfarth's Amy Hoang
Amy Hoang of Seyfarth Shaw LLP has successfully challenged the Small Business Administration's interpretation of its own regulations and protested and defended a $170 million contract award, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Government Contracts MVPs.
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November 18, 2024
MVP: McDermott's Allison Wilkerson
McDermott Will & Emery LLP's Allison Wilkerson led the firm's employee stock ownership plan practice group through numerous high-profile deals this year, including accounting firm BDO's $1.3 billion transaction to create its ESOP and multiple acquisitions of ESOP-owned companies, landing her a spot among the 2024 Law360 Benefits MVPs.