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Rankings: MVPs of the Year

Law360’s MVPs of the Year recognizes the five attorneys who had extraordinary wins and contributed most to their practice area in the past year. The series showcases standout attorneys across the practice areas and industries covered by Law360.
  • December 01, 2016

    White Collar MVP: Bracewell's Paul Shechtman

    Bracewell LLP partner Paul Shechtman landed a spot among Law360's 2016 White Collar MVPs by securing a deferred prosecution deal for former Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP client relations manager Zachary Warren just weeks before a scheduled trial on charges connected to the firm's collapse.

  • November 30, 2016

    White Collar MVPs: King & Spalding's Richter And Pauzé

    King & Spalding's John Richter and Michael Pauzé cemented their spot among Law360's White Collar MVPs by working together on a masterful trial defense of Vascular Solutions Inc. and separately scoring high-profile wins for AT&T and PricewaterhouseCoopers' Brazilian subsidiary.

  • November 29, 2016

    White Collar MVP: Dechert's Andrew Levander

    Dechert partner Andrew Levander remained a white collar heavy hitter this year by brokering a landmark settlement in Takata air bag defect litigation and representing high-profile clients like GM’s former General Counsel Michael Millikin, landing him one of five spots on Law360’s list of White Collar MVPs.

  • November 28, 2016

    White Collar MVP: Quinn Emanuel's William Burck

    Former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell’s corruption conviction was reversed under the counsel of William Burck, a Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner who has represented multiple high-profile clients — including FIFA — in cross-border criminal investigations, earning him a spot among Law360's 2016 White Collar MVPs.

  • November 23, 2016

    White Collar MVP: Morvillo Abramowitz's Elkan Abramowitz

    Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC name partner Elkan Abramowitz undermined prosecutors' case against Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Chairman Steven Davis during a marathon trial last year involving a mountain of evidence, and did it without calling a single witness, landing him among Law360's White Collar MVPs.

  • November 22, 2016

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 76 Firms

    The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360’s 2016 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals. Here is a list of this year's Law360 MVPs.

  • November 30, 2015

    White Collar MVP: Steptoe & Johnson's Reid Weingarten

    Steptoe & Johnson LLP partner Reid H. Weingarten's streak of high-profile courtroom victories continued this year when he helped convinced a New Orleans jury to exonerate the highest-ranking BP PLC executive criminally charged over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, a win that made him one of Law360's White Collar MVPs of 2015.

  • November 25, 2015

    White Collar MVP: Sidley Austin's Mark Hopson

    Mark D. Hopson’s work on behalf Bayer this year helped vanquish a suit brought by the Federal Trade Commission accusing the chemical and pharmaceutical company of making false claims about its line of probiotics, earning the Sidley Austin LLP partner a spot on Law360’s White Collar MVPs for 2015.

  • November 24, 2015

    White Collar MVP: Shearman & Sterling's Stephen Fishbein

    With victories that include securing the Second Circuit reversal of Todd Newman’s insider trading conviction that sent a shock through the industry, recently cemented when the U.S. Supreme Court wouldn’t hear a challenge, Shearman & Sterling LLP’s Stephen Fishbein has carved a berth among Law360’s 2015 White Collar MVPs.

  • November 23, 2015

    White Collar MVP: Quinn Emanuel's William Burck

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner William Burck dismantled the government's prosecution of former Petro Tiger Ltd. Chief Executive Joseph Sigelman in a high-profile foreign bribery case and is also lead U.S. counsel for FIFA in a global bribery investigation at the world soccer governing body, earning him recognition on Law360's 2015 list of white collar MVPs.

  • November 20, 2015

    White Collar MVP: Jones Walker's Michael Magner

    Jones Walker LLP's Michael Magner helped to exonerate the highest-ranking BP PLC executive criminally charged over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, calling multiple character witnesses in a risky trial gambit, earning him a spot on Law360's list of White Collar MVPs.

  • November 19, 2015

    White Collar MVP: Dechert's Andrew Levander

    Dechert LLP's Andrew Levander had a busy 2015, guiding Takata Corp. through its litigation and regulatory quagmire and reaching a remarkable settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a former Fanny Mae executive, earning him a spot on Law360's 2015 list of white collar MVPs.

  • November 18, 2015

    White Collar MVP: Covington's Nancy Kestenbaum

    When the U.S. Department of Justice opened a foreign bribery probe into how Hyperdynamics Corp. won leave to search for oil off Africa's west coast, the Houston-based company turned to Covington & Burling LLP's Nancy Kestenbaum, whose work in persuading prosecutors to call off the dogs earned her a spot on Law360's 2015 list of white collar MVPs.

  • November 17, 2015

    White Collar MVP: Cleary Gottlieb's Lev Dassin

    Former Southern District of New York bigwig Lev Dassin of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has been hard at work for Citigroup this year, helping the megabank emerge relatively unscathed so far from prosecutors’ Libor and foreign exchange enforcement campaigns and earning himself a spot among Law360’s White Collar MVPs.

  • November 06, 2015

    Law360's Super MVPs In A Class Of Their Own

    Five exceptional attorneys stand out from the pack by being selected for the Law360 MVP distinction for five straight years.

  • November 06, 2015

    5 Firms Lead The Pack With MVP Wins

    Five elite law firms have racked up more than 20 Law360 MVP wins each over the past five years, outshining their competitors with their accomplishments in complex litigation and transactions.

  • November 06, 2015

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Legal Aces From 86 Firms

    This week, Law360 will begin profiling those elite attorneys whose successes in high-stakes litigation, record-breaking deals and complex global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.

  • December 08, 2014

    White Collar MVP: Paul Hastings' Thomas Zaccaro

    Paul Hasting LLP’s Thomas Zaccaro made headlines this year representing a wide range of defendants in government investigations and defeating the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission in the second of its back to-back insider trading trial losses, earning him a spot among this year's Law360’s White Collar MVPs.

  • December 05, 2014

    White Collar MVP: Bracewell & Giuliani's Marc Mukasey

    In leading an all-hands-on-deck defense of Halliburton Co. amid the massive government investigation of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Marc Mukasey of Bracewell & Giuliani LLP achieved a deal sparing the oil field giant of any major penalties, just one of several recent accomplishments that earned him a spot among Law360’s 2014 White Collar MVPs.

  • December 04, 2014

    White Collar MVP: Dentons' Stephen L. Hill Jr.

    Dentons partner Stephen L. Hill Jr. led the trial team that exonerated an NIC Inc. executive in a civil fraud case and prepared a high-profile report into official misconduct allegations against the ex-chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota, meriting the attorney a spot among Law360's 2014 White Collar MVPs.

  • December 03, 2014

    White Collar MVP: O'Melveny's Howard Heiss

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP partner Howard E. Heiss convinced the Second Circuit to reverse a criminal conviction against an ex-General Electric Co. executive by arguing that the government's conspiracy case overstepped statute of limitations boundaries, earning him a spot among Law360’s White Collar MVPs.

  • December 02, 2014

    White Collar MVP: Gibson Dunn's Joel Cohen

    Gibson Dunn’s Joel Cohen convinced a jury to reject the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s insider trading suit against hedge fund manager Nelson Obus following a 14-year legal battle, handing the agency a stinging loss and earning himself a spot on Law360’s list of White Collar MVPs.

  • December 01, 2014

    White Collar MVP: Morris Manning's Ross Albert

    Ross A. Albert's successful defense of insider trading suspect Larry Schvacho — who was pursued aggressively by the SEC in federal court despite a lack of compelling evidence — triggered a significant rebuke from a veteran federal judge, helped generate a round of soul-searching by the agency and landed the Morris Manning & Martin LLP litigator a spot on Law360's list of white collar MVPs.

  • November 18, 2014

    Law360 MVP Awards Go To Legal Aces From 78 Firms

    Beginning this week, Law360 will profile those elite attorneys whose successes in high-stakes litigation, record-breaking deals and complex global matters earned them a spot on this year's list of MVP award winners.

  • November 22, 2013

    White Collar MVP: Bracewell & Giuliani's Marc Mukasey

    Former federal prosecutor Marc Mukasey has had a great year leading Bracewell & Giuliani LLP's white collar practice, scoring victories for Halliburton Co., an SAC Capital Advisors LP informant and a former Countrywide Home Loans Inc. executive, earning him a spot on Law360's list of 2013 White Collar MVPs.

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