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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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December 20, 2017
MVP: Kirkland's Sara Zablotney
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Sara Zablotney has advised on tax aspects of major deals this year, including notable spinoff transactions for Energy Future Holdings and Wyndham Worldwide, placing her on Law360's list of 2017 Tax MVPs.
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December 20, 2017
MVP: Blank Rome's Jonathan Waldron
Blank Rome LLP’s maritime practice co-chair Jonathan Waldron helped turn back a proposed regulation that would have banned most international vessels from serving U.S. offshore energy projects in the Gulf of Mexico, advised a shipyard faced with financial ruin in its effort to secure a Jones Act waiver, and represented developers of an offshore wind farm expected to be the largest in the U.S. upon completion, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2017 Transportation MVPs.
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December 20, 2017
MVP: Jones Day's Stephanie Parker
Jones Day partner Stephanie E. Parker's leadership over the past year — co-leading her firm’s business and litigation tort practice, heading the team that won Merck & Co. a record-breaking $2.5 billion patent infringement verdict, and guiding R.J. Reynolds’ tobacco litigation defense — has won her a place as one of Law360’s 2017 Trials MVPs.
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December 20, 2017
MVP: Willkie's Michael Schachter
Michael Schachter of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has scored a series of wins this year, including the rare reversal of a conviction in a case involving former Rabobank employees accused of manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate, landing him among Law360’s 2017 White Collar MVPs.
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December 20, 2017
MVP: Jones Day's Daniel Mitz
Jones Day’s Daniel Mitz worked on a number of multibillion-dollar deals in the semiconductor space over the past year as global head of the firm’s technology mergers and acquisitions practice, earning a spot on Law360’s 2017 list of Technology MVPs.
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December 20, 2017
MVP: Weil's Jonathan Polkes
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP’s Jonathan D. Polkes avoided a potentially lengthy and costly trial in a sprawling class action in which he defended an array of big-name real estate and financial firms behind the $22 billion sale of the Archstone-Smith real estate investment trust, winning summary judgment for his clients and earning him a spot among Law360's 2017 Securities MVPs.
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December 20, 2017
MVP: Jones Day's Andrew Levine
Andrew Levine’s contributions to Jones Day’s private equity practice totaled more than $7.5 billion in transaction value in the last year alone, thanks to deals for longtime firm clients ABM Industries, Verizon and EagleTree Capital, earning him a spot among Law360’s Private Equity MVPs for the second year in a row.
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December 20, 2017
MVP: Sedgwick's Stephanie Sheridan
Sedgwick LLP's Stephanie A. Sheridan’s defense of retail clients in “deceptive pricing” suits often results in these cases getting dismissed at the pleadings stage, including a recent action against DSW Inc., putting her in the ranks of Law360’s 2017 Retail MVPs.
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December 20, 2017
MVP: Nossaman's Yukiko Kojima
In the last year, Nossaman LLP’s Yukiko Kojima has guided multiple high-profile public-private partnership infrastructure projects worth more than a billion dollars each, landing her among Law360's 2017 Project Finance MVPs.
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December 20, 2017
MVP: Zuckerman Spaeder's D. Brian Hufford
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP partner D. Brian Hufford's recent work challenging insurance companies' denials of coverage for mental health and substance abuse treatments has built on success that previously earned him Law360 MVP honors in 2015 and 2016, landing him among Law360's Health MVPs for the third consecutive year.
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December 20, 2017
MVP: Squire Patton Boggs' Stephen Anway
Stephen Anway of Squire Patton Boggs LLP has been involved in some of the most important international arbitration disputes of the year, including spearheading Slovakia’s successful defense of a $1.65 billion investment treaty case, landing him among Law360’s 2017 International Arbitration MVPs.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: Seward & Kissel's Rita Glavin
Rita Glavin of Seward & Kissel LLP shepherded former Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Executive Director Stephen DiCarmine through his three-month-long retrial in New York state court and got him acquitted on charges including securities fraud and conspiracy, earning her a spot among Law360’s 2017 White Collar MVPs.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Thomas Dupree Jr.
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s Thomas Dupree Jr. translated a D.C. Circuit win dismantling Amtrak’s regulatory power into another victory by getting the Eighth Circuit to strike a Surface Transportation Board railroad performance rule, upending the regulatory regime for railroads and earning him a spot among Law360’s 2017 Transportation MVPs.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: Davis Wright's Peter Karanjia
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP’s Peter Karanjia scored crucial telecommunications law wins in multiple circuit courts this year, including an important victory in a case over a massive Federal Communications Commission contract involving call connections, earning him a spot as one of Law360’s 2017 Telecommunications MVPs.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Ronald Creamer
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s Ronald E. Creamer Jr., who leads the firm’s tax group as well as the tax group's mergers and acquisitions practice, played a key role in Enbridge Inc.’s merger with Spectra Energy Corp. in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $28 billion, helping land him a spot as one of Law360’s 2017 Tax MVPs.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: McDermott's Christopher Jedrey
McDermott Will & Emery LLP’s Christopher Jedrey led the stunningly swift transformation of a modestly sized hospital company into the country's largest privately held, for-profit health care system, placing him among Law360’s 2017 Health MVPs.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: Dechert's Martin Black
Dechert LLP’s Martin Black has protected patent portfolios for industry giants like Endo Pharmaceuticals and Microsoft since founding the firm’s intellectual property group in 2000, and his recent Supreme Court victory limiting the laches defense in patent infringement cases has earned him a spot as one of Law360’s 2017 Intellectual Property MVPs.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: Ropes & Gray's Harvey Wolkoff
Ropes & Gray LLP's Harvey Wolkoff obtained a nearly $100 million award for LoJack after convincing a Hong Kong arbitration tribunal that the company’s battery supplier had misrepresented the quality of its batteries, securing the relative newcomer to the practice area a spot among Law360’s 2017 International Arbitration MVPs.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: WilmerHale's Matthew Martens
WilmerHale’s Matthew Martens scored an enormous victory over the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this year when he convinced a federal judge to toss the agency’s fraud claims against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, making Martens one of Law360’s Securities MVPs for 2017.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: Gordon & Rees' Nancy Erfle
Gordon & Rees LLP's Nancy M. Erfle has taken the lead on managing Imerys Talc America Inc. in its fight against a mass tort that's ballooned over the past year to include more than 7,000 cases alleging talc-based body powder products cause ovarian cancer, landing her among Law360's 2017 Product Liability MVPs.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: Keker Van Nest's John Keker
Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP co-founder John Keker notched three major wins in his representation of Major League Baseball this year, including striking out two antitrust suits and a putative class action, earning him a spot among Law360’s 2017 Sports MVPs.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: Ropes & Gray's Taylor Hart
Representing the Northeast’s leading provider of fiber technology solutions, Ropes & Gray LLP’s Taylor Hart this year helped usher a monster deal for that company to be acquired by Crown Castle International for $7.1 billion in cash, earning him a spot on Law360’s 2017 Technology MVPs.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: Weil's Michael Aiello
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP’s Michael Aiello took on a number of matters this year that grabbed headlines, including Reynolds American’s $49 billion sale to a foreign company, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2017 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: Kirkland's Mario Mancuso
Mario Mancuso, the head of Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s international trade and national security practice, has tackled thorny deals involving significant global regulatory hurdles in the past year, including a $6.1 billion health care industry acquisition for the Blackstone Group LP, securing him a place as one of Law360’s 2017 International Trade MVPs.
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December 19, 2017
MVP: Paul Weiss' Meredith Kane
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP’s Meredith J. Kane has helped steer a number of development projects reshaping the New York City skyline, including recently representing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in a $3 billion office building project that will become the second-tallest tower in the city, earning her a spot as one of Law360’s 2017 Real Estate MVPs.