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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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October 08, 2020
MVP: Pomerantz's Austin Van
Pomerantz LLP's Austin Van is spearheading investor suits against pharmaceutical giant Mylan and the French oil and gas company TechnipFMC that each achieved class certification this year, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Securities MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
MVP: Seyfarth Shaw's Gerald L. Maatman
Gerald Maatman led a Seyfarth Shaw LLP team that negotiated an unpaid wages class action settlement that took a novel approach to distributing payouts by sending gift cards to franchisee pizza restaurant employees, earning him a spot among Law360's 2020 Employment MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
MVP: Wachtell's Jodi J. Schwartz
Jodi J. Schwartz led Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz's tax team in advising Analog Devices in its $68 billion acquisition of Maxim Integrated Products and Taubman Centers' $9.8 billion merger with Simon Properties, landing her among Law360's 2020 Tax MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Sanford I. Weisburst
Sanford I. Weisburst of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's energy practice helped Total E&P USA Inc. successfully avoid liability for alleged abandonment of offshore oil and gas assets, saving the company from a $17 million damages judgment and earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Energy MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
MVP: Steptoe's Sarah Gordon
Victories in insurance coverage suits, such as the first substantive ruling denying coverage for COVID-19-related losses in Social Life Magazine v. Sentinel Insurance, as well as representing AIG in a dispute with Merck & Co. over coverage of a cyberattack, have earned Steptoe & Johnson LLP's Sarah Gordon a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Insurance MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Mitchell S. Eitel
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Mitchell Eitel shepherded some of the biggest bank mergers of the past year, including guiding SunTrust in its landmark $66 billion tie-up with BB&T and advising First Horizon on its $3.9 billion merger with IberiaBank, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Banking MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
MVP: Fried Frank's James J. McCullough & Michael J. Anstett
James McCullough and Michael Anstett of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's government contracts practice successfully defended IT giant Leidos against bid protests on three deals with a combined value of $19.2 billion, earning them spots among Law360's 2020 Government Contracts MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
MVP: Skadden's Steven C. Sunshine
Steven C. Sunshine of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP led the firm's antitrust practice through back-to-back merger trial wins, first for Sprint on its $59 billion tie-up with T-Mobile and then for Sabre on its planned purchase of FareLogix, earning him a spot among Law360's 2020 Competition MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
MVP: Hogan Lovells' Eve Howard
Eve Howard of Hogan Lovells steered pivotal bond sales including Parks Hotels & Resorts' $650 million offering amid the coronavirus pandemic and led a team that guided software company Adobe's $3.15 billion offering, earning a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Capital Markets MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
MVP: Latham's Melanie Blunschi
Melanie Blunschi of Latham & Watkins LLP helped Facebook avert $6 billion in identity theft claims, steered Apple to preliminary victory against a class action regarding device security updates, and laid to rest allegations that "zombie" cookies were lurking on Verizon mobile devices, making her one of Law360's 2020 Class Action MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
MVP: O'Melveny's Jeffrey Fisher
Jeffrey Fisher of O'Melveny & Myers LLP helped scrub a persistent vestige of the Jim Crow era from the books by convincing the U.S. Supreme Court that split-jury convictions are unconstitutional, earning him a spot among Law360's 2020 Appellate MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
MVP: Simpson Thacher's Katie Sudol
Kathryn "Katie" Sudol of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP steered BorgWarner's multibillion-dollar acquisition deal with Delphi Technologies while fighting off a case of COVID-19 and is guiding KKR's blockbuster acquisition of Global Atlantic, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.
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October 07, 2020
MVP: Skadden's Todd Freed
Todd Freed of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP had a hand in multiple major deals in the insurance space this past year, including advising the British multinational brokerage Willis Towers Watson on an $80 billion acquisition by Aon PLC, earning him a spot among Law360's 2020 Insurance MVPs.
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October 07, 2020
MVP: Dechert's Shari Ross Lahlou
Shari Ross Lahlou of Dechert LLP's antitrust practice halted the Federal Trade Commission's efforts to block a merger between PeroxyChem and Evonik Industries AG in a high-profile trial, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Competition MVPs.
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October 07, 2020
MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Matthew Hurd
Matt Hurd of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's life sciences practice guided several multibillion-dollar deals in the past year, including Bayer's sale of its animal health business and Novartis' merger with biopharmaceutical firm The Medicines Co., earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Life Sciences MVPs.
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October 07, 2020
MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's S. Eric Wang
S. Eric Wang of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP guided a BP subsidiary's issuance of perpetual bonds that raised $10 billion and advised Goldman Sachs' $6 billion deal on the sale of its iQ Student Accommodation interest, the U.K.'s largest ever private property deal, cementing his spot as one of Law360's 2020 Tax MVPs.
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October 07, 2020
MVP: Crowell & Moring's Daniel Forman
Crowell & Moring LLP's Daniel Forman helped lead Amazon Web Services' successful defense against high-profile ethics claims concerning the $10 billion JEDI deal and secure for Perspecta Enterprise Solutions LLC's corrective action in a $7.6 billion cloud contract, making him one of Law360's 2020 Government Contracts MVPs.
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October 07, 2020
MVP: Simpson Thacher's Jennifer Hobbs
Jennifer Hobbs of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP helped global technology investment firm Silver Lake Partners raise $3.95 billion of new capital for Expedia and worked on debt financing for the private equity firm's $1.3 billion acquisition of Sidney-based TEG, a live entertainment and ticketing company, earning her a spot among Law360's 2020 Banking MVPs.
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October 07, 2020
MVP: McGuireWoods' Joanne Katsantonis
Joanne Katsantonis of McGuireWoods LLP's energy practice guided her client Dominion Energy through big deals over the past year, including its decision to sell its gas transmission and storage business to an affiliate of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in a $9.7 billion deal, earning her a spot as a Law360 2020 Energy MVP.
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October 07, 2020
MVP: Morrison & Foerster's Tritia Murata
Morrison & Foerster LLP partner Tritia Murata helped Ralphs Grocery score a trial victory in a case over California's suitable seating requirements, the first such trial of its kind following a landmark Golden State high court ruling, landing her a spot among Law360's 2020 Employment MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
MVP: Weil Gotshal's Derek Walter
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's Derek Walter has spent the past year helping Bio-Rad Laboratories defend patents before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and in federal court — including helping the company win a Federal Circuit decision against 10X Genomics — earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Life Sciences MVPs.
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October 07, 2020
MVP: Jenner & Block's Martin C. Glass
In just the last year, Martin Glass of Jenner & Block LLP has represented nearly all the biggest and best-known cannabis companies, from Green Thumb Industries to Cresco Labs, in major acquisitions and other transactions, earning him a spot among Law360's 2020 Cannabis MVPs.
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October 07, 2020
MVP: Irell & Manella's Morgan Chu
Irell & Manella LLP partner Morgan Chu won one of the biggest patent verdicts of the decade for Sloan Kettering and Juno Therapeutics Inc., days after getting a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court win over patent fees, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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October 07, 2020
MVP: Hogan Lovells' Michael Kidney
Michael Kidney of Hogan Lovells' class action practice successfully defended Ford and Hyundai in consumer class actions over alleged tire and brake defects, earning him a spot as a Law360 2020 Class Action MVP.
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October 07, 2020
MVP: Kirkland's Sandra C. Goldstein
Sandra C. Goldstein of Kirkland & Ellis LLP secured a discovery stay for shipping technology giant Pitney Bowes and garnered dismissal of shareholder claims against former officers and directors of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., including three members of the Murdoch family, earning her a spot among Law360's 2020 Securities MVPs.