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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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December 12, 2018
MVP: Morrison & Foerster's Arturo Gonzalez
Arturo Gonzalez of Morrison & Foerster LLP filled his plate this year with complex and high-profile trials, securing a favorable settlement for Uber in its industry-defining trade secrets dispute with Google over self-driving cars, landing him among Law360's 2018 Trials MVPs.
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December 12, 2018
MVP: Dechert's Andrew J. Levander
Andrew J. Levander of Dechert LLP represented Robert Diamond, the former chairman of Barclays, successfully defending him from a class action over the bank's dark pool trading operations and in a criminal investigation over financings with Qatari investors among other matters, once again earning him a spot as one of Law360's White Collar MVPs.
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December 12, 2018
MVP: Hogan Lovells' Michele Farquhar
Michele Farquhar has hatched a deal to allow satellite operators to free up some of the much-coveted C-band spectrum for wireless coverage and spent the last decade bringing positive train control to the railway industry in the U.S., earning her a spot among Law360's 2018 Telecommunications MVPs.
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December 12, 2018
MVP: Greenberg Traurig's Lori Cohen
Lori Cohen, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig's global litigation practice and chair of the firm's trial practice group, spearheaded big wins for life sciences clients in the past year, including the Seventh Circuit's rejection of state lawsuits in national litigation over eye drop doses, earning her a spot among Law360's 2018 Life Sciences MVPs.
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December 12, 2018
MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Inosi Nyatta
Inosi Nyatta of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has experience working on significant energy sector deals around the world, including refinancing part of a liquified natural gas project in Australia and advising on a major expansion of an LNG facility in Texas, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Project Finance MVPs.
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December 12, 2018
MVP: Cohen Milstein's Theodore Leopold
Theodore Leopold of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC racked up a number of impressive wins this year, in one case swatting down an effort by DuPont to escape a class action over allegations it dumped hazardous chemicals into the water supply while lying to regulators, earning him honors as one of Law360's 2018 Environmental MVPs.
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December 12, 2018
MVP: Davis Polk's Richard Truesdell
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's Richard Truesdell steered a wide gamut of groundbreaking deals over the past year, from guiding financial advisers on streaming giant Spotify's direct listing to less eye-catching but complex initial public offerings like that of Goosehead Insurance Inc., which used a special tax structure, landing him among Law360's 2018 Capital Markets MVPs.
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December 12, 2018
MVP: Simpson Thacher's Kevin Kennedy
Kevin Kennedy, a partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's capital markets and corporate practices, had a hand in several of this year's highest-profile initial public offerings, including Dropbox and Sonos, landing him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Technology MVPs.
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December 12, 2018
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Matthew McGill
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Matthew McGill doesn't describe himself as a sports lawyer, but his part on the team that persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to make its historic decision to lift the bar for nationwide legalized sports gambling has nevertheless won him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Sports MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's William A. Burck
William A. Burck of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP found himself in the eye of the hurricane surrounding the production of documents in the contentious confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh this year, making him one of Law360's 2018 White Collar MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Steptoe & Johnson's Stephanie Sheridan
Stephanie Sheridan, the head of Steptoe & Johnson LLP's retail and e-commerce practice group, has scored major victories in pricing suits and other class actions for big-name clients such as L.L. Bean, FedEx and REI, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Retail & E-Commerce MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Irell & Manella's Jason Sheasby
Jason Sheasby of Irell & Manella LLP picked up superlative trial wins on both offense and defense this year, successfully shutting down a $2.5 billion verdict against Gilead Sciences Inc. just a few months before securing a $400 million verdict against Samsung, a record that earned him a spot among Law360's 2018 Trials MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Christopher Chorba
Christopher Chorba, the co-chair of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's class action practice group, defeated class certification for Aetna Inc. and Yahoo and secured the dismissal of suits against Express Scripts Inc. and Toyota this past year, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Class Action MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Paul Weiss' Brad Karp
Brad Karp of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP is the NFL's go-to attorney who helped the league avoid a lawsuit from Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and also conducted an internal investigation into a Twitter scandal for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, earning a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Sports MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: King & Spalding's Tracie Renfroe
Tracie Renfroe, partner at King & Spalding, steered a ConocoPhillips affiliate toward a $380 million win and Chevron away from billion-dollar losses in disputes over Ecuador's natural resources, making her one of Law360's 2018 Environmental MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Nader Mousavi
Nader Mousavi, co-head of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's intellectual property and technology group and head of its cybersecurity practice, led a team in helping a Google subsidiary launch independent companies from two of its successful technology projects and represented the analytics company Syntel Inc. in its acquisition for $3.57 billion, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Technology MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Proskauer's Jeff Horwitz
Proskauer Rose LLP's Jeff Horwitz has guided many deals for longtime client AccorHotels, including its $320 million investment this year in SBE Entertainment Group for a 50 percent stake and its $51 million acquisition of an 85 percent stake in 21c Museum Hotels, landing him among Law360's 2018 Hospitality MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Kirkland's Rohit Chaudhry
Over the past several months, Rohit Chaudhry of Kirkland & Ellis LLP has helped close various project finance deals, including doing the holding company financing on a $2.4 billion deal that closed in May, earning him a spot as one of Law360's Project Finance MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: DLA Piper's Nancy Victory
Nancy Victory, partner and co-chair of the global telecom practice at DLA Piper, has spent the better part of this year shepherding the megamerger of T-Mobile and Sprint, with a crucial advisory role on regulatory and strategic concerns for T-Mobile and its parent company Deutsche Telekom AG, landing her a spot among Law360's 2018 Telecommunications MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Anthony Sinclair
Anthony Sinclair of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP represented clients around the world in high profile arbitration proceedings, with wins for client DP World in its dispute with Djibouti and for AngloGold Ashanti in its challenge against Ghana, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 International Arbitration MVPs.
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December 11, 2018
MVP: Fish & Richardson's Jonathan Singer
The head of Fish & Richardson PC's life sciences litigation practice, Jonathan Singer, persuaded a federal judge to overturn a $2.5 billion patent infringement verdict against Gilead Sciences Inc., earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Life Sciences MVPs.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: Debevoise's David A. O'Neil
David A. O'Neil of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP earned his place among Law360's 2018 White Collar MVPs by guiding Twitter through government investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and by brokering the first-ever Foreign Corrupt Practices Act resolution with an Asian country, among other major achievements this year.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: Vinson & Elkins' Stephen Gill
Stephen M. Gill, a partner in Vinson & Elkins LLP's mergers and acquisitions and capital markets practices, has wielded his vast experience in the energy space this year to keep intense competition at bay as lawyers from other big-name firms swoop into Houston and try to grab market share, making him one of Law360's 2018 Energy MVPs.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: King & Spalding's Ursula Henninger
Ursula Henninger of King & Spalding LLP pulled out trial wins for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in multiple suits this past year brought by former smokers who said the company intentionally hooked them and caused them injury, making her one of Law360's 2018 Trials MVPs.
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December 10, 2018
MVP: Sheppard Mullin's Craig Cardon
Craig Cardon of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has spent his year serving as Sonic Drive-In's lead counsel in multidistrict litigation over the fast food chain's 2017 data breach and working to bring a nearly decade-old data suit against Williams Sonoma to a close, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Retail & E-Commerce MVPs.