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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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November 30, 2016
Insurance MVP: Dentons' Keith Moskowitz
Keith Moskowitz not only helped Dentons win a big trial for an insurance company defending against an environmental coverage suit and bad faith action, but also advised clients in several significant cases this past year, earning himself a spot on Law360’s 2016 list of Insurance MVPs.
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November 29, 2016
White Collar MVP: Dechert's Andrew Levander
Dechert partner Andrew Levander remained a white collar heavy hitter this year by brokering a landmark settlement in Takata air bag defect litigation and representing high-profile clients like GM’s former General Counsel Michael Millikin, landing him one of five spots on Law360’s list of White Collar MVPs.
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November 29, 2016
Insurance MVP: Pillsbury Winthrop's Geoffrey Greeves
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP partner Geoffrey J. Greeves recently helped Lion Oil Co. score a massive, $72 million award in a lawsuit over insurance coverage for business interruption losses tied to a pipeline breach, landing him a spot among Law360’s 2016 Insurance MVPs.
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November 29, 2016
Tax MVP: Baker & McKenzie's Thomas Linguanti
Baker & McKenzie’s Thomas Linguanti landed on Law360’s 2016 list of Tax MVPs after his research, litigation and leadership skills ushered Medtronic Inc. to a much-hyped victory in a $1.36 billion tax deficiency row, while also setting the discourse among practitioners on how to handle such cases.
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November 29, 2016
M&A MVP: Simpson Thacher's Alan Klein
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's mergers and acquisitions co-head Alan Klein helmed a series of transformative megadeals in the last year, including ChemChina’s record $43 billion acquisition of Swiss seeds and pesticides maker Syngenta, earning him a spot among Law360’s 2016 MVPs.
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November 28, 2016
White Collar MVP: Quinn Emanuel's William Burck
Former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell’s corruption conviction was reversed under the counsel of William Burck, a Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner who has represented multiple high-profile clients — including FIFA — in cross-border criminal investigations, earning him a spot among Law360's 2016 White Collar MVPs.
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November 28, 2016
Tax MVP: Dakessian Law's Marty Dakessian
Dakessian Law Ltd.'s Marty Dakessian has saved his clients millions of dollars in disputes with the California Franchise Tax Board since he broke off from BigLaw to form his own niche practice at the beginning of 2016, earning himself a spot once more among Law360's Tax MVPs.
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November 28, 2016
Insurance MVP: McKool Smith's Robin Cohen
Fresh off of launching McKool Smith PC’s new insurance recovery practice, Robin Cohen spent 2016 scoring significant victories against carriers including new holdings over insurance coverage allocation methods, landing her among Law360’s 2016 Insurance MVPs.
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November 28, 2016
M&A MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Frank Aquila
More than three decades into his career, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP attorney Francis J. Aquila is as busy as ever, and his work this past year on blockbuster deals for clients including Diebold and AB InBev places him among Law360’s Mergers and Acquisitions MVPs.
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November 23, 2016
White Collar MVP: Morvillo Abramowitz's Elkan Abramowitz
Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC name partner Elkan Abramowitz undermined prosecutors' case against Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Chairman Steven Davis during a marathon trial last year involving a mountain of evidence, and did it without calling a single witness, landing him among Law360's White Collar MVPs.
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November 23, 2016
Banking MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Mitchell Eitel
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s Mitchell S. Eitel has for years been one of the banking bar’s preeminent voices, and his work guiding several banks and other financial institutions through a series of complex transactions and thorny regulatory issues earned him a spot among Law360’s Banking MVPs for 2016.
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November 23, 2016
M&A MVP: Weil's Michael Aiello
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP corporate head Michael Aiello's M&A expertise landed him at the helm of more than $250 billion worth of deals in the past year, including negotiating three complex multibillion-dollar deals at once, earning him a spot on Law360's list of M&A MVPs.
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November 23, 2016
Tax MVP: Davis Polk's Neil Barr
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s Neil Barr spent most of this year guiding clients like Lockheed Martin Corp., ConAgra Foods Inc. and McKesson Corp. in billions of dollars of complex transactions to maximize tax efficiency, earning him a spot among Law360’s 2016 tax MVPs.
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November 23, 2016
Insurance MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Michael Carlinsky
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Michael B. Carlinsky helped American International Group Inc. beat a False Claims Act lawsuit accusing the insurance giant of misrepresenting the value of its subsidiaries and improperly receiving a $25 billion bailout, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Insurance MVPs.
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November 22, 2016
Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 76 Firms
The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360’s 2016 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals. Here is a list of this year's Law360 MVPs.
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December 17, 2015
M&E MVP: Weil Gotshal's Yehudah Buchweitz
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's Yehudah Buchweitz helped CBS Broadcasting Inc. escape a pair of cases claiming that the broadcaster and its website had violated college athletes' publicity rights by using their names and likenesses in television broadcasts and online without permission, earning him a spot on Law360's 2015 list of media and entertainment MVPs.
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December 16, 2015
Media & Entertainment MVP: O'Melveny's Daniel Petrocelli
After securing a Supreme Court victory for Warner Bros. in a fight over the rights to Superman, Daniel Petrocelli of O’Melveny & Myers LLP nabbed a win for Fox in a dispute over “American Idol,” and is currently handling major cases for Sirius XM, earning him a spot on Law360’s 2015 list of Media and Entertainment MVPs.
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December 15, 2015
Media and Entertainment MVP: Loeb & Loeb's Barry Slotnick
Obtaining dismissal of copyright infringement claims over Shakira's hit song "Loca" for client Sony Corp. and helping Walt Disney Pictures secure a win in a right of publicity and copyright action against the estate of late horse-racing announcer Charles "Chic" Anderson earned Loeb & Loeb's Barry Slotnick a spot on Law360's list of Media and Entertainment MVPs for 2015.
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December 15, 2015
M&A MVP: White & Case's Morton Pierce
With work over the past year on major transactions across a variety of industries, from Zimmer Holdings Inc.’s $13.35 billion acquisition of Biomet Inc., to Global Infrastructure Partners’ $2.7 billion Bakken Shale joint venture with Hess Corp., White & Case LLP’s Morton Pierce has earned a spot on Law360’s 2015 list of Mergers and Acquisitions MVPs.
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December 14, 2015
Bankruptcy MVP: Weil's Ray Schrock
Weil partner Ray Schrock's assistance in guiding the A&P grocery chain to a job-saving asset sale and his work in helping obtain a $300 million emergency boost for foreign exchange trader FXCM Inc. showed his skill in aiding both clients battling long-term headwinds, and those dealing with the unexpected, and landed him on Law360's list of 2015 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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December 14, 2015
M&A MVP: Sidley Austin's Brian Fahrney
Sidley Austin LLP’s Brian Fahrney guided GE Capital Corp. in its $12 billion sale of its sponsored finance business to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a deal that accelerated General Electric's planned sell-offs as part of its strategy to reduce its financial services offerings and refocus on its core industrial business, helping land him among Law360’s M&A MVPs for 2015.
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December 14, 2015
Media & Entertainment MVP: King & Spalding's Kenneth Steinthal
King & Spalding LLP's Kenneth Steinthal guided Pandora Media Inc. this past year to a victory over efforts by large publishers to partially pull their digital rights from collective licenses for their catalogues to instead strike more lucrative direct deals with the Internet radio giant, earning him a place on Law360 list of 2015 media MVPs.
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December 12, 2015
Media & Entertainment MVP: Katten's Joel R. Weiner
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner Joel R. Weiner has defeated lawsuits against Seth MacFarlane, NBCUniversal, Eddie Murphy and many other major Hollywood clients, landing him a spot on Law360's list of Media & Entertainment MVPs.
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December 11, 2015
Bankruptcy MVP: Kramer Levin's Amy Caton
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP’s Amy Caton has spent the last year guiding big-time bondholders through the shoals and reefs of Puerto Rico’s ongoing debt crisis. Even as she waits to see where the Supreme Court lands on the territory’s shelved restructuring strategy, Caton can bask in the glow of an innovative bond-exchange deal that helped make her one of Law360’s 2015 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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December 11, 2015
M&A MVP: Paul Weiss' Ariel Deckelbaum
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP corporate partner Ariel Deckelbaum is often at the helm of game-changing transactions, including leading Time Warner Cable through the tumultuous road that ended in a $78.7 billion combination with Charter Communications, landing him among Law360's list of M&A MVPs for 2015.