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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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September 13, 2022
MVP: Latham's Serrin Turner
Serrin Turner of Latham & Watkins LLP secured a groundbreaking decision in April dismissing a class action against the online game developer Zynga with a novel application of U.S. Supreme Court precedent that could extend to other data breach cases, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.
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September 13, 2022
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Deborah Stein
Deborah Stein of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP successfully defended Mutual of Enumclaw in a closely watched COVID-19 coverage dispute before the Washington Supreme Court while also litigating numerous other important insurance disputes, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Insurance MVPs.
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September 13, 2022
MVP: Kirkland's Christine Okike
Christine Okike of Kirkland & Ellis LLP helped manage a more than $1 billion restructuring for Katerra Inc. and a major Chapter 11 case for Bouchard Transportation Co., and also eliminated more than $1 billion in debt for a leading information technology company, landing her a spot among Law360's 2022 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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September 13, 2022
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Adam Wolfson
Adam B. Wolfson of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP helped win three bellwether trials on behalf of injured veterans in the largest mass tort in the nation's history and got class certification for consumers and ATM owners in an antitrust action against Visa and Mastercard over access fee rules, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Class Action MVPs.
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September 13, 2022
MVP: Latham's Marc Jaffe
Marc Jaffe of Latham & Watkins LLP's capital markets practice led electric vehicle maker Rivian through its IPO less than two months after it finished producing its first cars, resulting in the biggest IPO of 2021 with a valuation of $11.9 billion, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Capital Markets MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Wiley's Robert E. DeFrancesco III
Robert E. DeFrancesco III of Wiley Rein LLP's international trade practice scored major relief for domestic industries, including putting triple-digit duties on shipping container chassis and continuing levies worth $1.5 billion on wind tower imports, securing his spot among Law360's 2022 International Trade MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Skadden's Sonia K. Nijjar
Sonia K. Nijjar of Skadden Slate Arps Meagher & Flom LLP led the team representing video game giant Activision Blizzard when it was purchased by Microsoft for $68.7 billion, the largest all-cash deal in U.S. history, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Hogan Lovells' Cybil Roehrenbeck
Cybil Roehrenbeck of Hogan Lovells LLP helped a consortium of artificial intelligence health care companies become eligible for Medicare reimbursement payments for artificial intelligence services, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Health Care MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Latham's Melissa Arbus Sherry
Melissa Arbus Sherry of Latham & Watkins LLP led teams that scored a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court victory over a narrowly missed Tax Court deadline and an important ruling on the enforcement of federal forum-selection clauses, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Appellate MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: McGuireWoods' Lucy Jewett Wheatley
Lucy Jewett Wheatley led a McGuireWoods team that helped longtime client Lexington Home Brands prevail in a trademark infringement suit against a Swedish home textiles company on all of its claims, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Kirkland's Rob Eberhardt
As part of a $2.3 billion debt financing project, Rob Eberhardt of Kirkland & Ellis LLP led a team that shepherded Vineyard Wind through the process of creating the first U.S. commercial-scale offshore wind farm, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Project Finance MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Davis Polk's Marshall Huebner
Marshall Huebner led the Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP team that guided Purdue Pharma to the confirmation of its Chapter 11 plan to settle $40 trillion in mass tort litigation, and also represented a major LATAM Airlines shareholder in the Chilean air carrier's bankruptcy and a major creditor in car rental giant Hertz's bankruptcy, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Labaton Sucharow's Carol C. Villegas
Labaton Sucharow LLP's Carol Villegas helped seal a $39 million deal for investors accusing World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. of covering up its fraying relationship with Saudi Arabia and secured a $73 million settlement for people claiming that a data firm undersold a privacy law's effects on its business, earning her a spot among Law360's 2022 Class Action MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: DiCello Levitt's David A. Straite
David Straite of DiCello Levitt Gutzler LLC helped reach a novel settlement with Facebook in which the tech company will pay $90 million and delete browsing history that users said was harvested illegally, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Cybersecurity & Data Privacy MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: V&E's Kaam Sahely
Kaam Sahely of Vinson & Elkins LLP's energy practice helped Goldman Sachs Renewable Power split off from Goldman Sachs Asset Management under the new name MN8 Energy and guided Woodside Petroleum Ltd. in the largest energy merger of the year, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Energy MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: DeRubertis Law Firm's David DeRubertis
David deRubertis of The deRubertis Law Firm APC led a team that won a record $440 million in punitive damages for two workers who brought a retaliation suit against a California utility, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Employment MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Robert Giuffra Jr.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP co-chair Robert Giuffra Jr. over the past year guided Allianz to a $6 billion deal over the collapse of its "Structured Alpha" investment funds, scored Goldman Sachs another appellate review in a long-running class certification battle, and helped UBS Group AG beat a high-stakes derivatives suit, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Securities MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Covington's Anna Engh
Anna P. Engh of Covington & Burling LLP led a team that successfully defended pharma giant Merck & Co. in insurance coverage litigation of its $1.4 billion loss from a 2017 cyberattack, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Insurance MVPs.
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September 12, 2022
MVP: Kirkland's Christian O. Nagler
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Christian O. Nagler tackled a number of major special-purpose acquisition company transactions, including advising a Volvo unit on its $890 million combination with SPAC Gores Guggenheim — one of the biggest SPAC transactions ever — landing him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Capital Markets MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Covington's Agnieszka Klich
Agnieszka Klich of Covington & Burling LLP worked on the $12 billion Jazan power plant project and $1.5 billion Red Sea gigacity utilities infrastructure project in Saudi Arabia, and the Redstone Concentrated Solar Power project in South Africa, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Project Finance MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Simpson Thacher's Anthony Vernace
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Anthony Vernace has helped close major acquisitions this year while working in the firm's corporate team, bringing home deals like Microsoft's $68 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard and its $19 billion purchase of Nuance Communications last April, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: White & Case's Farhad Jalinous
Farhad Jalinous of White & Case LLP led multiple foreign direct investment reviews of billion-dollar international deals, such as automotive equipment supplier Faurecia SE's $8 billion acquisition of German automotive supplier Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., as well as transactions by Brazilian telecommunications provider Oi SA worth $3.7 billion in total, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 International Trade MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Geoffrey Sigler
Geoffrey Sigler of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has assisted UnitedHealth Group-related entities in various lawsuits over the past year, including helping its behavioral health unit unravel a pair of major California federal court orders in a case over substance abuse and mental health treatments, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Health Care MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Irell & Manella's Jason Sheasby
Irell & Manella LLP partner Jason G. Sheasby won a $218 million patent infringement verdict for the United Services Automobile Association and notched a $300 million victory for PanOptis, earning him a place as one of Law360's 2022 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Haynes And Boone's Daniel L. Geyser
Daniel Geyser of Haynes and Boone LLP's Supreme Court practice created seismic changes in the areas of arbitration law and bankruptcy law this year when he argued and won two major U.S. Supreme Court cases, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 Appellate MVPs.