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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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November 29, 2018
MVP: Davis Polk's Will Pearce
Will Pearce of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP steered billion-dollar international deals over the past year, including Comcast's £26 billion ($34 billion) cash offer for Sky PLC, which beat out a competing offer from stakeholder 21st Century Fox, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.
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November 28, 2018
MVP: Jones Day's Robert C. Lee
Robert C. Lee, co-chair of Jones Day's global real estate practice, helped guide the Greystar Real Estate Partners-led $4.4 billion transaction for a publicly traded real estate investment trust, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Real Estate MVPs.
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November 28, 2018
MVP: Paul Weiss' Susanna M. Buergel
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner Susanna M. Buergel helped lead a successful defense to conclusion this year for an unusual shareholder derivative suit against Citigroup officers that could have cost the bank billions of dollars in damages, making her one of Law360's 2018 Banking MVPs.
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November 28, 2018
MVP: Davis Polk's Neil Barr
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP partner Neil Barr scored victories in high-profile cases this year, acting as the lead tax counsel for Comcast as the company offered £25.9 billion for Sky PLC and advising Comcast and NBCUniversal on the sale of the Weather Group, the parent company of the Weather Channel, earning him a spot among Law360's 2018 Tax MVPs.
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November 28, 2018
MVP: Jenner & Block's Jessica Ring Amunson
Jessica Ring Amunson, co-chair of Jenner & Block LLP's appellate and Supreme Court practice and chair of the firm's election law and redistricting practice, successfully argued in the U.S. Supreme Court case Class v. U.S., persuading the justices to rule that criminal defendants can challenge the constitutionality of laws they already pled guilty to breaking if they didn't explicitly waive the right to do so, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Appellate MVPs.
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November 28, 2018
MVP: O'Melveny's John Rapisardi
O'Melveny & Myers LLP attorney John Rapisardi spent the last year guiding Puerto Rico's government through the island's mind-numbingly complex $120 billion restructuring, and in the process he clarified the Commonwealth's rights in regard to the federally appointed Oversight Board, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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November 28, 2018
MVP: Jones Day's Gregory Castanias
Jones Day's Gregory Castanias has ticked off major wins this year at the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit in cases tackling important issues in patent law, from America Invents Act reviews to privity, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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November 28, 2018
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Mark Perry
Mark Perry of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP achieved what he calls one of the hallmarks of his career this past year with the precedent-setting U.S. Supreme Court win in a case about how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission selects its administrative law judges, earning him a spot among Law360's 2018 Securities MVPs.
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November 28, 2018
MVP: Davis Polk's Oliver Smith
Oliver Smith, a corporate partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, recently led a team of attorneys advising Aetna Inc. in a $69 billion deal to be sold to CVS Health Corp., landing him a spot among Law360's 2018 Mergers and Acquisitions MVPs.
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November 28, 2018
MVP: Seyfarth's Jerry Maatman
Seyfarth Shaw LLP partner Jerry Maatman helped Jimmy John's escape massive wage-and-hour litigation by proving the company isn't responsible for its individual franchisees and separately got a 70,000-member class arbitration cut down to 250 people, earning him a spot among Law360's 2018 Employment MVPs.
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November 28, 2018
MVP: Covington's Paul Schmidt
Paul Schmidt of Covington & Burling LLP has had a big year, stamping out thousands of suits against Accutane maker Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. with a major win in the New Jersey Supreme Court and racking up multiple trial wins in other pharmaceutical cases, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Product Liability MVPs.
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November 27, 2018
MVP: Morrison & Foerster's Craig Fields
Craig Fields, co-chair of Morrison & Foerster LLP's tax department and chair of the firm's state and local tax group, has landed a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Tax MVPs, helping Agilent Technologies win a case in the Colorado Court of Appeals with a ruling that said the Colorado Department of Revenue cannot force a holding company that has no property or payroll activities in the U.S. to be included in its parent company's combined corporate income tax return.
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November 27, 2018
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Joanne Franzel
Joanne Franzel, a partner in Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s real estate practice group, counseled real estate investment and management firm Jamestown LP in its $2.4 billion sale of Manhattan’s Chelsea Market to Google earlier this year, a deal that helped her earn a spot among Law360’s 2018 Real Estate MVPs.
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November 27, 2018
MVP: Mayer Brown's Mark Hanchet
Mark Hanchet of Mayer Brown LLP scored several big victories over the past year representing HSBC Bank in actions brought under the Anti-Terrorism Act, shaking off two suits for jurisdictional reasons and landing one dismissal that will define the relatively young statute for decades to come, earning him a spot among Law360's 2018 Banking MVPs.
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November 27, 2018
MVP: Arnold & Porter's Pamela J. Yates
Pamela J. Yates of Arnold & Porter was the first lead trial attorney to prevail over multidistrict claims that a testosterone replacement causes heart attacks, and she directed the winning science strategy behind several recent defense verdicts for Bayer, landing her among Law360's 2018 Product Liability MVPs.
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November 27, 2018
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Eugene Scalia
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Eugene Scalia beat the U.S. Department of Labor this year, scoring a high-profile victory that vacated the agency's controversial Obama-era fiduciary rule for retirement account advisers, earning him a spot among Law360's 2018 Appellate MVPs.
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November 27, 2018
MVP: Irell & Manella's Morgan Chu
Morgan Chu of Irell & Manella LLP convinced the full Federal Circuit this year to reject the U.S. Patent Trademark Office's controversial stance that applicants who appeal to a district court must pay the agency's legal bills regardless of whether it wins or loses, earning a place among Law360's 2018 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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November 27, 2018
MVP: Kirkland's Christopher Marcus
Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner Christopher Marcus has spent the last year wrapping up the bankruptcy of cancer treatment chain 21st Century Oncology and helping shepherd fashion retailer Nine West Holdings and radio giant iHeart Media through complex and contentious Chapter 11 proceedings, earning him a spot among Law360's 2018 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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November 27, 2018
MVP: Sanford Heisler's David Sanford
David Sanford of Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP helped a former Columbia University professor, who said she was denied tenure after complaining a colleague sexually harassed her, win a $1.25 million damages award this year, and also represented female attorneys accusing large law firms of gender bias, earning him a place as one of Law360's 2018 Employment MVPs.
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November 27, 2018
MVP: Cravath's Robert Townsend
Robert I. Townsend III of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP navigated a complex legal landscape to strike deals for Cincinnati Bell, while helping Brunswick Corp. refocus its business strategy and guiding Pinnacle Foods Inc. to a multibillion-dollar sale, earning him a spot as one of Law360's Mergers and Acquisitions MVPs.
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November 27, 2018
MVP: Cravath's Richard Clary
While he was trained as a generalist, Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP partner Richard Clary has been handling litigation for Credit Suisse for more than a decade and scored a big victory this year in fending off claims from New York's attorney general, narrowing the scope of the controversial Martin Act and landing him a spot among Law360's 2018 Securities MVPs.
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November 26, 2018
MVP: Jenner & Block's Geoffrey M. Davis
Geoffrey M. Davis of Jenner & Block LLP served as tax counsel in a high-profile tax felony U.S. Supreme Court case, assisted with an amicus brief in the blockbuster South Dakota v. Wayfair case and has advised clients on multibillion-dollar deals, landing him among Law360's 2018 Tax MVPs.
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November 26, 2018
MVP: Hogan Lovells' Allison J. Schoenthal
Allison J. Schoenthal, head of Hogan Lovells' consumer finance litigation practice, has helped financial services clients weather changes at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and notched victories in mortgage litigation for CIT Bank and other financial institutions, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Banking MVPs.
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November 26, 2018
MVP: Lanier Law Firm's Mark Lanier
Plaintiffs lawyer Mark Lanier of the Lanier Law Firm scored a nearly $4.69 billion jury verdict this summer when a St. Louis jury decided that Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder contained asbestos and caused cancer in 22 women, placing him among Law360's 2018 Product Liability MVPs.
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November 26, 2018
MVP: Desmarais' John Desmarais
Desmarais LLP's founding partner, John Desmarais, successfully shepherded IBM through its first jury trial as a plaintiff in a patent infringement case this summer, securing an $82.5 million verdict for the technology giant over Groupon and earning a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Intellectual Property MVPs.