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.
  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Mayer Brown's John Nadolenco

    John Nadolenco of Mayer Brown LLP helped General Motors Co. beat a defective airbag proposed class action and make a graceful exit from another class action over battery fires in Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Transportation MVPs.

  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Weil's David Lender

    David Lender of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP won a trade secrets arbitration for GoodRx and a contract jury trial for ExxonMobil against BP over an oil spill in north Brooklyn — where he grew up — after just two hours of jury deliberations and having the opportunity to cross-examine former federal judge Shira Scheindlin, an expert witness in the case, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Trials MVPs.

  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Latham's Christopher Yates

    Chris Yates of Latham & Watkins LLP's antitrust and competition practice has guided prominent clients such as the U.S. Soccer Federation, Atlantic Coast Conference and UFC through some of the most closely watched antitrust litigation in the sports world, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.

  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Covington's Gretchen Hoff Varner

    Gretchen Hoff Varner of Covington & Burling LLP secured a $70 million judgment in favor of Brooklyn Union Gas Co., now owned by National Grid, establishing coverage for decades of environmental contamination along New York's Gowanus Canal, earning her a spot as a 2024 Law360 Insurance MVP.

  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Freshfields' Caroline Richard

    Caroline Richard served as lead partner when Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP recently achieved two back-to-back international arbitration wins for mining companies against Colombia in precedent-setting investor-state disputes — earning her a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.

  • November 05, 2024

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Audra Soloway

    Audra Soloway, co-chair of Paul Weiss' securities litigation and enforcement group, secured a favorable result for Goldman Sachs in a 13-year class action, obtained a dismissal in an investor suit against Snapchat and secured the first substantive ruling applying a 2021 Supreme Court ruling in the Second Circuit, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Proskauer's Bart Williams

    Proskauer Rose LLP partner Bart Williams led Gilead Sciences Inc. to a victory over a $3.6 billion antitrust lawsuit, and helped Netflix resolve claims that Ava DuVernay's show about the Central Park Five defamed the prosecutor of the later-exonerated men, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Trials MVPs.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Sidley's Amy Lally

    Amy Lally, global co-leader of Sidley Austin LLP's consumer class actions practice, is a creative litigator who has had unique success in getting internet privacy cases dismissed early in California courts for clients like The Container Store and biotechnology giant Amgen Inc., earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Class Action MVPs.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Holland & Knight's Gerald Morrissey

    Holland & Knight LLP's Gerald A. Morrissey III advised marine transportation services provider Centerline Logistics in its acquisition of JMB Shipping and a $425 million debt refinancing, and successfully defended rail giant CSX Transportation in a dispute over detention and demurrage charges, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Transportation MVPs.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Sidley's Chuck Baker

    Chuck Baker, co-chair of Sidley Austin LLP's entertainment, sports and media group, has handled some of the biggest deals in the sporting world, including the $6.5 billion purchase of the Washington Commanders and sale of the Angel City women's soccer club, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting MVPs.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Hogan Lovells' Amy Roma

    Amy Roma of Hogan Lovells has continued to work at the cutting edge of nuclear energy development over the past year, including on the licensing of advanced reactors, small-scale reactors and microreactors, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Energy MVPs — her second year in a row to make the list.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Arnold & Porter's Álvaro Nistal

    Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's Álvaro Nistal played a key role in helping Peru dodge a more than $154 million arbitration claim filed by a Miami-based gold trader over the alleged wrongful seizure of its gold shipments, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 International Arbitration MVPs.

  • November 04, 2024

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Andrew T. Frankel

    Andrew Frankel, the head of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's insurance and reinsurance practice, has represented insurers in complex coverage disputes over mass tort litigation, including a PFAS case, talc injury claims against Johnson & Johnson and thorny receivership issues in South Carolina asbestos litigation, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Insurance MVPs.

  • November 01, 2024

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Andy Dietderich

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Andy Dietderich led the legal team that represented FTX Trading Ltd. in its $16 billion Chapter 11 reorganization — from its precipitous bankruptcy filing to the recent successful confirmation hearing — and shepherded fire-suppression company Kidde-Fenwal Inc. through the first bankruptcy stemming from mass tort claims related to PFAS chemicals, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • November 01, 2024

    MVP: Paul Weiss' Staci Yablon

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's Staci Yablon provided ace counsel to Goldman Sachs that helped it beat back class certification in a sprawling interest-rate swaps antitrust case, deal a major blow to a New Mexico case involving credit default swaps and clinch a win against U.S. government bond-rigging claims, landing her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.

  • November 01, 2024

    MVP: Cooley's Travis LeBlanc

    Cooley LLP partner Travis LeBlanc secured the dismissal of groundbreaking litigation accusing Google of unlawfully eavesdropping on Verizon users' calls through a customer service product powered by generative artificial intelligence, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy MVPs.

  • November 01, 2024

    MVP: Gibson Dunn's Rose Ring

    Rose Ring, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's technology and cybersecurity co-chair, represented Meta in several high-profile cases, including the settlement of the U.S. Department of Justice's claims that the social media giant's use of artificial intelligence led to discrimination in housing advertisements, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Technology MVPs.

  • November 01, 2024

    MVP: Sidley's Samir A. Gandhi

    Sidley Austin LLP partner Samir A. Gandhi guided landmark capital raises despite jittery markets over the past year, from marketing automation startup Klaviyo's $576 million initial public offering to hospital operator Ardent Health's long-awaited listing, plus several sizable debt offerings, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets MVPs.

  • November 01, 2024

    MVP: Latham's Stacey VanBelleghem

    Latham & Watkins LLP's Stacey VanBelleghem has won several important battles for clients over the past year, including defending wind energy developer Orsted A/S from green groups' challenges and helping electric vehicle companies fight challenges to federal standards on greenhouse gas emissions, earning her a spot among the 2024 Law360 Environmental MVPs.

  • October 31, 2024

    MVP: Baron & Budd's Scott Summy

    Scott Summy, head of Baron & Budd PC's environmental litigation group, won what the firm says are the largest and second-largest drinking water contamination settlements in U.S. history — a $12.5 billion settlement with 3M and a $1.185 billion agreement with DuPont — as well as other major water settlements, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Environmental MVPs.

  • October 31, 2024

    MVP: Paul Hastings' Morgan Bale

    Morgan Bale of Paul Hastings LLP's global finance practice leads investment and commercial banks — including Bank of America, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo — in acquisition finance and other complex multibillion-dollar lending transactions, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Banking MVPs.

  • October 31, 2024

    MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Mehdi Ansari

    Mehdi Ansari of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has helped counsel some of the largest banks in the country to create entirely new financial exchange markets and has shepherded two technology companies through a deal that totaled more than $170 million, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Technology MVPs.

  • October 31, 2024

    MVP: Latham's Serrin Turner

    Serrin Turner of Latham & Watkins LLP led the team that recently succeeded in gutting a landmark U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission case against software developer SolarWinds Corp., earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity and Privacy MVPs.

  • October 31, 2024

    MVP: Fried Frank's Rachel C. Strickland

    Rachel C. Strickland, partner and global chair of the restructuring department at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, represented two Georgia election workers in a bankruptcy lawsuit against Rudolph W. Giuliani and advised NanoString Technologies Inc. on its asset sale, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • October 31, 2024

    MVP: MoFo's Justin Salon

    Justin Salon of Morrison Foerster LLP managed to secure a $5 billion initial public offering for client Arm Holdings PLC in late 2023 while aggressively expanding the capital markets practice that he chairs, earning him a spot among the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets MVPs.

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