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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.
  • December 14, 2016

    Environmental MVP: Greenberg Traurig's Paul M. Seby

    Greenberg Traurig’s Paul M. Seby, who serves as North Dakota’s special assistant attorney general, cemented his spot among Law360’s 2016 Environmental MVPs by representing the state in litigation over some of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s most contentious regulations, including the Clean Power Plan and the Clean Water Rule.

  • December 14, 2016

    Privacy MVP: King & Spalding's Phyllis Sumner

    King & Spalding LLP’s Phyllis Sumner spent 2016 guiding major retail names through class actions over high-profile data breaches and winning summary judgment to protect credit reporting agency practices, winning her a spot among Law360’s 2016 Privacy MVPs.

  • December 14, 2016

    Private Equity MVP: Jones Day's Andrew Levine

    Andrew Levine has always sought interesting and complex deals in his practice, and this year was no different for the Jones Day partner, as he advised on the $1.56 billion sale of Penton and the $1.5 billion cross-border acquisition of Relypsa Inc., landing him a spot among Law360’s 2016 Private Equity MVPs.

  • December 14, 2016

    Competition MVP: Cohen Milstein's Richard Koffman

    For his work reaching momentous settlements on behalf of clients in antitrust cases, including an $835 million agreement with Dow Chemical in a suit over urethane price fixing, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC’s Richard A. Koffman has earned a place among Law360’s 2016 competition MVPs.

  • December 14, 2016

    Employment MVP: Sanford Heisler's David Sanford

    David Sanford of Sanford Heisler LLP helped a pair of Chadbourne & Parke LLP female attorneys lodge a landmark $100 million lawsuit accusing the firm of discriminating against them and other women, and guided thousands of female Qualcomm Technologies Inc. employees to a rare $19.5 million pre-suit settlement in their own bias suit, earning him a place on Law360's list of 2016 employment MVPs.

  • December 14, 2016

    International Arbitration MVP: Dechert's Eduardo Silva Romero

    Dechert LLP's Eduardo Silva Romero helped convince a World Bank tribunal to slash $700 million from a $1.77 billion award issued to Occidental Petroleum Corp. following a dispute with Ecuador, the largest annulment ever at the World Bank's dispute resolution forum, landing him a spot among Law360's 2016 International Arbitration MVPs.

  • December 14, 2016

    Bankruptcy MVP: BakerHostetler's Elizabeth A. Green

    BakerHostetler’s Elizabeth Green took the lead on several large Chapter 11 cases in the energy and health care industries in 2016, securing three plan confirmations and freeing Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations LLC from more than $700 million in offshore oil platform decommissioning obligations, making her one of Law360's Bankruptcy MVPs for 2016.

  • December 14, 2016

    Government Contracts MVP: Perkins Coie's Andrew Shipley

    A pair of major bid protest wins, including one for Harris Corp. that added a new phrase to the government contracting lexicon, headline a busy year for Perkins Coie LLP’s Andrew Shipley, one that has earned him a spot on Law360’s list of Government Contracts MVPs.

  • December 14, 2016

    Transportation MVP: O'Melveny & Myers' Robert Siegel

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP partner Robert Siegel cemented his reputation this year as one of the nation's foremost airline labor lawyers by carrying American Airlines to victory in a long-running dispute with flight attendants and advising on Alaska Airlines’ and Virgin America’s proposed $4 billion merger, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Transportation MVPs.

  • December 14, 2016

    International Trade MVP: Wiley Rein's Daniel Pickard

    Wiley Rein LLP partner Daniel Pickard’s passionate trade law advocacy for steel giants and small-town manufacturers has earned him his first appearance on Law360's list of International Trade MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    Environmental MVP: White & Case's Tallat Hussain

    For her efforts as lead environment counsel advising lenders on a variety of multibillion-dollar projects around the world and her pro bono work on behalf of human trafficking victims, White & Case LLP’s Tallat Hussain has earned a spot on Law360’s 2016 list of Environmental MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    Employment MVP: Akin Gump's Daniel Nash

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's Daniel Nash handled several high-profile cases for the National Football League in 2016, including a legal battle over the Deflategate suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, helping earn him a spot on Law360's list of Employment MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    Life Sciences MVP: Latham & Watkins' John Manthei

    Latham & Watkins LLP’s John Manthei served as lead counsel for Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc. in a dispute that prompted a rare formal withdrawal of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration warning letter, earning himself a spot on Law360’s list of Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    Project Finance MVP: Sidley Austin's Ayaz Shaikh

    Sidley Austin LLP partner Ayaz Shaikh had a blockbuster 2016, representing Mongolia Railways in a $7 billion rail project, advising Facebook and an Asian investor group on satellite procurement deals and working with Macquarie to secure a credit facility for multiple U.S. natural gas power projects, earning him a spot among Law360's 2016 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    Transportation MVP: Orrick's Dan Mathews

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP’s Dan Mathews has spent the past year advising clients on multimillion-dollar infrastructure deals across the U.S., including a $2.2 billion computer rail line in Maryland that reached financial close in April, earning him a spot on Law360’s list of Transportation MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    Hospitality MVP: Gibson Dunn's Stephen Glover

    Gibson Dunn partner Stephen Glover earned a spot on Law360's list of Hospitality MVPs after counseling hotel giant Marriott through its turbulent, $13.6 billion purchase of Starwood Hotels this year, a large and complicated deal that involved multiple suitors and significant regulatory hurdles.

  • December 13, 2016

    Privacy MVP: Gibson Dunn's Alexander H. Southwell

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Alexander H. Southwell has leveraged his experience as a former cybercrimes prosecutor to become a go-to attorney for companies such as Facebook and Apple in prominent high-stakes battles over law enforcement demands for access to user data, earning him a spot among Law360's 2016 Privacy MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    Bankruptcy MVP: Skadden's Jay Goffman

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP’s partner Jay Goffman continues to be a go-to attorney for some of the biggest restructuring efforts in the world, and his work this year for Russian Standard Bank and SunEdison, among many others, has landed him among Law360’s 2016 Bankruptcy MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    Government Contracts MVP: Jenner & Block's Mark Nackman

    Jenner & Block LLP's Mark J. Nackman landed major victories for contractors involved in high stakes bid protests, including successfully fighting back against Lockheed Martin's challenge to a $500 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers computer contract decision, landing him a spot among Law360's 2016 Government Contracts MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    International Trade MVP: Crowell & Moring's Daniel Cannistra

    Crowell & Moring LLP partner Daniel Cannistra found himself on the cutting edge of trade remedy litigation over the past year by handling the first-ever countervailing duty case against a Russian company and crafting crucial case law on the scope of a duty order on aluminum extrusions, earning him a spot among Law360's International Trade MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    Private Equity MVP: Simpson Thacher's Marni J. Lerner

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Marni J. Lerner took on a new role as head of the firm’s private equity mergers and acquisitions practice this year, while also counseling clients including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and a pair of its portfolio companies through impactful transactions, earning her a spot on Law360's list of Private Equity MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    International Arbitration MVP: Foley Hoag's Paul Reichler

    Governments have long turned to Foley Hoag LLP’s Paul Reichler for help with international legal disputes, but his recent arbitration wins for Uruguay in a tobacco regulation fight with Philip Morris International Inc. and the Philippines in its maritime rights row with China got the world’s attention and earned him a spot on Law360’s list of international arbitration MVPs.

  • December 13, 2016

    Competition MVP: Wilson Sonsini's Jonathan Jacobson

    After most of the vitamin C makers who claimed China forced them to fix prices settled out of a U.S. antitrust case, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC's Jonathan Jacboson helped his client fight a $147 million judgment all the way to a landmark international comity ruling at the Second Circuit, putting him on Law360's list of Competition MVPs for 2016.

  • December 12, 2016

    Enviro MVP: Latham & Watkins' Robert Howard

    Latham & Watkins LLP’s Robert M. Howard landed among Law360’s 2016 Environmental MVPs after spending the past year working as lead national counsel for Monsanto Co. in eight cases where West Coast cities allege the agrochemical giant polluted various waterways with polychlorinated biphenyls and raise unprecedented public-nuisance issues.

  • December 12, 2016

    Employment MVP: Ogletree Deakins' Jeffrey C. Londa

    Many attorneys handled a bigger caseload in 2016 than Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC's Jeffrey C. Londa, but few have had as great an impact, earning the managing shareholder of the labor boutique’s Houston office a spot on Law360’s list of employment MVPs for this year.

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