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 18, 2019

    MVP: Cleary Gottlieb's Jeffrey Rosenthal

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton's Jeff Rosenthal helped secure a $2 billion arbitral award for the Brazilian mining company Vale SA in a long-running dispute over a Guinean mining project, earning him a spot among Law360's 2019 International Arbitration MVPs.

  • December 17, 2019

    MVP: Fried Frank's Kenneth I. Rosh

    Kenneth I. Rosh of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP advised Brookfield Asset Management on the formation of a $15 billion real estate fund and Bain Capital on the formation of a $4.65 billion pan-Asian buyout fund, winning him a place among Law360's 2019 Fund Formation MVPs.

  • December 17, 2019

    MVP: Winston & Strawn's Jeffrey Kessler

    Winston & Strawn LLP's Jeffrey L. Kessler spent the past year locked in a legal arm-wrestling match with U.S. Soccer over its alleged refusal to pay female players the same as male players, and aggressively pursuing an appeal that could kill the NCAA's cherished amateurism model, securing his spot as one of Law360's 2019 Sports & Betting MVPs.

  • December 17, 2019

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Malcolm Tuesley

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Mick Tuesley helped sell national security regulators on Sprint's $59 billion megamerger with T-Mobile and asset manager Oaktree Capital Group's union with Canadian Brookfield Management, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 International Trade MVPs.

  • December 17, 2019

    MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Isabelle Michou

    Isabelle Michou of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP gained recognition for leading a team that won an arbitral award for two French companies against Hungary in a decision challenging a game-changing European Court of Justice ruling, earning her a spot among Law360's 2019 International Arbitration MVPs.

  • December 17, 2019

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Rebecca J. Simmons

    As co-chair of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's fintech practice, Rebecca Simmons advised Baton Systems on the implementation of a new high-speed payment system for HSBC and helped negotiate a partnership between First Horizon Bank and a fintech startup, making her one of Law360's 2019 Fintech MVPs.

  • December 16, 2019

    MVP: Skadden's David Herlihy

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's David Herlihy helped secure a €292 million ($324.7 million) arbitral award for NextEra Energy units and successfully defended Cyprus from a €1.05 billion claim, earning him a place among Law360's 2019 International Arbitration MVPs.

  • December 16, 2019

    MVP: Wiley Rein's Laura El-Sabaawi

    Laura El-Sabaawi of Wiley Rein LLP is representing a group of over 30 wooden cabinet and vanity manufacturers in countervailing and anti-dumping investigations against China over $4 billion worth of annual imports, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2019 International Trade MVPs.

  • December 16, 2019

    MVP: Debevoise's Andrew M. Ahern

    Andrew Ahern of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP led an $8 billion fund for venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, steered Providence Equity Partners through a complicated secondaries transaction and spearheaded an oversubscribed fund for new client Oak, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Fund Formation MVPs.

  • December 16, 2019

    MVP: Covington's Brent Little

    Brent Little of Covington & Burling LLP helped Precourt Sports Ventures establish a new Major League Soccer team in Austin, Texas, and finance its $225 million stadium, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Sports & Betting MVPs.

  • December 16, 2019

    MVP: Baker Marquart's Brian Klein

    Baker Marquart LLP's Brian Klein helped blockchain developer Block.one reach a $24 million federal settlement over allegations that it sold roughly $4 billion worth of cryptocurrency in an unregistered initial coin offering, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Fintech MVPs.

  • December 13, 2019

    MVP: Freshfields' Caroline Richard

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP partner Caroline Richard helped to secure the first known treaty award against Colombia in an arbitration that resulted in a $19.1 million ruling in favor of her client Glencore, earning her a spot among Law360's 2019 International Arbitration MVPs.

  • December 13, 2019

    MVP: Steptoe & Johnson's Alan Cohn

    Steptoe & Johnson LLP partner Alan Cohn has effectively steered clients through the choppy waters of federal regulations around digital currency and blockchain, including representing SimplyVital Health in its successful remediation of SEC violations that concluded with no assessed penalty, making him one of Law360's 2019 Fintech MVPs.

  • December 13, 2019

    MVP: Latham's Andrea J. Schwartzman

    Latham & Watkins LLP's Andrea J. Schwartzman has helped private equity firms rake in capital, closing a $2.5 billion fund for Great Hill Partners that was oversubscribed and steering a $350 million telecommunications-focused fund for M/C Partners, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Fund Formation MVPs.

  • December 13, 2019

    MVP: Stroock's Chris Griner

    Chris Griner of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP represented a Japanese client before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States in relation to an acquisition that created one of the world's largest drug companies, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 International Trade MVPs.

  • December 12, 2019

    MVP: Cleary Gottlieb's Steve Wilner

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's Steve Wilner steered Qatar Investment Authority in picking up a portfolio of Manhattan's iconic Fifth Avenue properties, and was a key player in the financing of Brookfield Asset Management's $11.4 billion purchase of Forest City Realty, landing him among Law360's 2019 Real Estate MVPs.

  • December 12, 2019

    MVP: McKool Smith's Robin Cohen

    Robin Cohen of McKool Smith PC's insurance practice was lead counsel for Verizon Communications Inc. this year as the company beat back its insurers' motion to toss a suit seeking coverage for a $95 million underlying settlement, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Insurance MVPs.

  • December 12, 2019

    MVP: Kaplan Hecker's Sean Hecker

    Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP's Sean Hecker earned a rare acquittal of market manipulation allegations against a Barclays trader, and he's helped build a robust white collar practice at his emerging boutique firm, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 White Collar MVPs.

  • December 12, 2019

    MVP: King & Spalding's Ursula Henninger

    A string of victories defending RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. against allegations that the company's cigarettes caused lung disease and cancer helped earn King & Spalding LLP's Ursula Henninger a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 11, 2019

    MVP: Schiff Hardin's Maggie Hickey

    Schiff Hardin LLP's Maggie Hickey was chosen to oversee court-ordered reforms at the Chicago Police Department and investigated sexual misconduct in the city's public schools and the Illinois statehouse this year, earning her a spot among Law360's 2019 White Collar MVPs.

  • December 11, 2019

    MVP: MoFo's Mark Edelstein

    Mark Edelstein of Morrison & Foerster LLP has helped clients with several loans north of the $1 billion mark for properties in Manhattan, and thanks to his work on those and other matters he's been named one of Law360's 2019 Real Estate MVPs.

  • December 11, 2019

    MVP: Hunton Andrews Kurth's Shannon S. Broome

    Shannon S. Broome of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP represented a manufacturing industry group as it successfully urged the D.C. Circuit against reviewing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rescinding of a decades-old "once in, always in" policy regarding the classification of major polluters, placing her among Law360's 2019 Environmental MVPs.

  • December 11, 2019

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Robert J. Giuffra Jr.

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Robert J. Giuffra Jr. worked to represent Volkswagen AG in suits brought by U.S. states and counties over the auto giant's 2015 emissions cheating scandal, earning him a spot among Law360's 2019 Product Liability MVPs.

  • December 11, 2019

    MVP: Wargo French's Raymond J. Tittmann

    Wargo French LLP's Raymond J. Tittmann helped a subsidiary of The Home Depot negotiate a global settlement of thousands of claims brought by homeowners and their insurers over damage caused by allegedly defective toilet products, landing him on the list of Law360's 2019 Insurance MVPs.

  • December 10, 2019

    MVP: Covington's Christine Haskett

    Christine Haskett of Covington & Burling LLP's San Francisco office won a $35.5 million jury verdict for an aluminum company and unlocked insurance proceeds for the former owners of a talc mining company caught in a high-stakes bankruptcy, earning her a spot among Law360's 2019 Insurance MVPs.

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