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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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October 11, 2023
MVP: Ropes & Gray's Debra Lussier
Debra Lussier of Ropes & Gray LLP's fund management practice closed multiple billion-dollar deals above their expectation, from advising TSG Partners in closing a fund with $6 billion in capital commitments to Parthenon Fund VII's $4.5 billion fund closing, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Fund Formation MVPs.
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October 11, 2023
MVP: Lieff Cabraser's Kelly Dermody and Anne Shaver
Kelly Dermody and Anne Shaver of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP's employment practice served as co-lead counsel in a years-long gender discrimination class action against Goldman Sachs that ended in a record $215 million settlement and helped secure a $118 million settlement for thousands of female Google employees in another class action, earning them a spot among Law360's 2023 Employment MVPs.
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October 11, 2023
MVP: Latham's Kyle Jefcoat
Kyle Jefcoat of Latham & Watkins LLP has made the most of his transition to the government contracts field from serving in the Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps, helping secure big results for clients like a $5 billion Navy construction deal protest win for SLS Federal Services LLC and Carlyle's $4.2 billion buy of ManTech, earning him a spot among Law360's 2023 Government Contracts MVPs.
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October 10, 2023
MVP: Hogan Lovells' Amy Roma
Amy Roma of Hogan Lovells' global energy practice made history this past year in working with Helion Energy to forge the first-ever fusion power plant purchase agreement and counseling X-Energy through the financing of a first-of-its-kind advanced reactor in the United States, earning her a spot among Law360's 2023 Energy MVPs.
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October 10, 2023
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Katherine Lemire
Katherine Lemire of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP drew on her multiple practice areas, including blockchain and digital assets, securities litigation and government enforcement, to investigate and advise players in this year's headline-grabbing crypto bankruptcies of Voyager Digital LLC and the FTX businesses, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Fintech MVPs.
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October 10, 2023
MVP: DiCello Levitt's Greg Asciolla
Greg Asciolla of DiCello Levitt LLP's antitrust and competition litigation practice has sustained widespread actions against huge companies like Raytheon over their alleged collusion over non-poaching agreements and kept alive a dispute against large financial companies suppressing the prices of platinum and palladium, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Competition and Antitrust MVPs.
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October 10, 2023
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Theane Evangelis
Theane Evangelis of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's employment practice defended large companies operating in the gig economy and argued the first and only successful constitutional challenge to California's assembly bill governing employee classification, earning her a spot among Law360's 2023 Employment MVPs.
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October 10, 2023
MVP: Covington's Jay Carey
Covington & Burling LLP's Jay Carey helped steer the protest that shook up the U.S. Air Force's $3.3 billion missile support contract and led the successful defense of the U.S. Army's $8 billion award for next-generation attack helicopters, notching him a spot on Law360's Government Contracts MVPs of 2023.
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October 10, 2023
MVP: Paul Weiss' Matthew Goldstein
Forging relationships across a diverse range of investors helped Matthew Goldstein of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP create funds in two new asset classes for Apollo Global Management, earning him a spot in Law360's 2023 Fund Formation MVPs.
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October 10, 2023
MVP: King & Spalding's Mike Stenglein
Mike Stenglein of King & Spalding LLP at one point felt the weight of Colombia's economy on his shoulders as he represented oil refinery Reficar in a high-profile international construction dispute, but it was that case — one that yielded a multibillion-dollar award — that earned Stenglein a spot among Law360's 2023 Construction MVPs.
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October 10, 2023
MVP: Bracewell's Timothy A. Wilkins
Timothy L. Wilkins of Bracewell LLP steered clients in coincidental petroleum refinery sales, helped shine a federal spotlight on historic pollution in Houston neighborhoods and headed off federal penalties for the owners of major industrial facilities, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Environment MVPs.
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October 10, 2023
MVP: Latham's Michael Rubin
Michael Rubin of Latham & Watkins LLP's privacy and cybersecurity practice has worked on many notable cases throughout the year, such as guiding Apple through a dismissal of a punitive class action after the iPhone maker installed security updates that slowed down the processing speed of its devices, and obtaining a dismissal with prejudice from the bench in a class action over tracking software installed by car data services platform Otonomo Inc., earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Cybersecurity MVPs.
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October 09, 2023
MVP: Greenspoon Marder's Irina Dashevsky
Irina Dashevsky, co-chair of the cannabis law group at Greenspoon Marder LLP, acted as regulatory counsel in a deal whereby music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs would have acquired cannabis assets in three states and represented companies launching their businesses in nascent adult-use markets in Illinois, New Jersey and Connecticut, earning her a spot among Law360's 2023 Cannabis MVPs.
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October 06, 2023
MVP: Paul Hastings' Chris Daniel
Chris Daniel of Paul Hastings LLP's global fintech and payments group is currently representing Voyager Digital LLC in its bankruptcy proceedings as well as the official committee of unsecured creditors of FTX as the failed crypto platform proceeds through one of the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings in history, earning him a spot as one of Law360's Fintech MVPs.
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October 06, 2023
MVP: Beveridge & Diamond's Eric Klein
Beveridge & Diamond PC litigator Eric Klein has led the firm's clients to several significant legal victories over the last year, from key rulings in a sprawling California Superfund case to a big win in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's administrative law forum, earning him a spot among Law360's 2023 Environmental MVPs.
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October 06, 2023
MVP: Jones Day's John Vogt
Jones Day partner John Vogt has helped Experian Data Corp. escape the San Diego city attorney's multimillion-dollar enforcement action over a data breach and obtained a novel ruling axing claims that engineering company HDR Inc. unlawfully monitored and collected communications from purportedly private Facebook groups, earning him a place among Law360's 2023 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.
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October 06, 2023
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Hillary H. Holmes
Hillary Holmes of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped oil and gas producer Mesquite Energy Inc. complete a three-year journey out of bankruptcy with a roughly $700 million sale to Crescent Energy Co., and asset management giant Atlas Corp. in a $10.9 billion take-private deal, earning her a repeat spot as one of Law360's 2023 Energy MVPs.
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October 06, 2023
MVP: BakerHostetler's Todd J. Canni
BakerHostetler's Todd J. Canni's efforts to help save multiple companies from the existential threat of debarment, including representing a family-owned defense contractor in a precedential case, have earned him a spot among Law360's 2023 Government Contracts MVPs.
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October 06, 2023
MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Mitch Eitel
Mitch Eitel of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's banking practice helped recover more than $7.3 billion in assets from collapsed cryptocurrency trading firm FTX, assisted in negotiating the merger between UBS and Credit Suisse and advised major financial institutions amid the spring banking crisis, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Banking MVPs.
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October 06, 2023
MVP: Goodwin Procter's Brett Schuman
Last year, Goodwin Procter LLP's Brett Schuman drew national press when he co-led advising the entity housing Sean "Diddy" Combs' business assets on an acquisition deal involving Cresco Labs — which fell through — just a few months after successfully defending a cannabis concentrate brand in a federal trademark infringement case brought by the company behind RAW rolling papers, earning him a place among Law360's 2023 Cannabis MVPs.
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October 06, 2023
MVP: Williams & Connolly's Lisa S. Blatt
Lisa S. Blatt of Williams & Connolly LLP's appellate practice has had a big year, arguing four cases in front of the Supreme Court and getting victories in cases involving Google and the Andy Warhol Foundation, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Appellate MVPs.
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October 06, 2023
MVP: Cravath's David R. Marriott
David R. Marriott of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP scored an important early win against a Federal Trade Commission merger challenge, successfully defending Illumina's purchase of Grail on agency complaint staff's own turf, earning him a place among Law360's 2023 Antitrust MVPs.
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October 06, 2023
MVP: Fried Frank's Becky Zelenka
Becky Zelenka of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's asset management practice assisted Brookfield Asset Management in raising more than $17 billion in capital commitments and helped the asset manager launch its Canadian private real estate partnership, earning her a spot among Law360's 2023 Fund Formation MVPs.
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October 06, 2023
MVP: Greenberg Traurig's Michael J. Thomas
Michael J. Thomas, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig LLP's national construction law practice, guided three defendants in the 2021 fatal condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, to a $1.02 billion settlement, with no class members opting out of the deal. He also shepherded construction agreements on the $4 billion Miami Worldcenter mixed-use development, earning him a nod as one of Law360's Construction MVPs for 2023.
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October 06, 2023
MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's James Bromley
James Bromley of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's bankruptcy practice represented collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX and defunct Silicon Valley Bank in their bankruptcy proceedings, earning him a spot among Law360's 2023 Bankruptcy MVPs.