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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 06, 2016

    Securities MVP: Bernstein Litowitz's Salvatore Graziano

    Over the past year, Salvatore Graziano of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has helped investors achieve nearly $1.7 billion in securities settlements with corporate giants such as Merck, landing him a spot among Law360's 2016 Securities MVPs.

  • December 06, 2016

    Telecom MVP: Sheppard Mullin's Gardner Gillespie

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP's Gardner Gillespie has a long history of representing Charter Communications before regulators and the courts at every level nationwide but this year helped shepherd the biggest deal of his career with the company's $78 billion merger with Time Warner Cable, earning him a spot as a one of Law360's 2016 Telecom MVPs.

  • December 06, 2016

    Appellate MVP: Latham's Gregory Garre

    Latham & Watkins LLP's Gregory Garre served as lead counsel for the University of Texas in its successful U.S. Supreme Court defense against a rejected student applicant's challenge to the school's affirmative action policy, earning him a spot on Law360's 2016 list of appellate MVPs.

  • December 06, 2016

    Consumer Protection MVP: Troutman Sanders' John Lynch

    A pair of clutch Fourth Circuit wins on behalf of Wells Fargo and Quicken Loans that clarified West Virginia law on lending, and credit score notifications under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, leave little doubt that Troutman Sanders partner John Lynch belongs on Law360's 2016 list of Consumer Protection MVPs.

  • December 06, 2016

    Real Estate MVP: Kelley Drye's Robert D. Bickford Jr.

    Kelley Drye & Warren LLP partner Robert D. Bickford Jr. worked on two of the biggest real estate deals of the year, a pair of billion-dollar-plus sales of Manhattan skyscrapers for longtime client AXA Financial, helping earn him a spot on Law360's 2016 list of Real Estate MVPs.

  • December 06, 2016

    Health MVP: Akin Gump's Christopher Keough

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP partner Christopher L. Keough has won back hundreds of millions of dollars for hospitals by deftly navigating the byzantine realm of Medicare reimbursement, placing him among Law360’s Health MVPs of 2016.

  • December 05, 2016

    Securities MVP: Maynard Cooper's Peter Fruin

    Maynard Cooper & Gale LLP partner Peter Fruin had a busy year wrapping up cases related to collapsed Morgan Keegan asset-backed mutual funds, litigation that saw him argue everywhere from a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel to the Sixth Circuit and landed him among Law360's 2016 Securities MVPs.

  • December 05, 2016

    Project Finance MVP: Dentons' Jonathan Ballan

    Dentons US LLP's Jonathan Ballan hit a homerun this year ensuring bond financing on one of the country's most complicated public-private transportation projects, that, when coupled with work going to bat for the New York Yankees on stadium refinancing, makes him one of Law360's 2016 Project Finance MVPs.

  • December 05, 2016

    Energy MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Joseph Frumkin

    Guiding companies through some of the energy sector's most influential deals in the past year, including Enbridge Inc. in its pending $43 billion acquisition of Spectra Energy Corp. and Pepco Holdings Inc. in its acquisition by Exelon Corp., has earned Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner Joseph Frumkin a spot among Law360's 2016 Energy MVPs.

  • December 05, 2016

    Banking MVP: Davis Polk's Luigi De Ghenghi

    Among the biggest questions hanging over the post-financial crisis regulatory landscape was how a nonbank firm deemed systemically important could escape enhanced regulation, and it was no surprise that Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's Luigi De Ghenghi helped find that answer, earning him a spot among Law360’s Banking MVPs for 2016.

  • December 05, 2016

    Real Estate MVP: Kirkland's Scott Berger

    Thanks to his work guiding various deals north of $1 billion for Starwood Capital Group as well as his work on myriad private equity portfolio deals and hotel matters, Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Scott A. Berger has been named as one of Law360's Real Estate MVPs.

  • December 05, 2016

    Class Action MVP: Lieff Cabraser's Elizabeth J. Cabraser

    If the consumer class action space saw one dominant headline in 2016, it was Volkswagen’s $14.7 billion settlement over its emissions cheating scandal, an unprecedented deal led by a widely respected plaintiffs attorney, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP’s Elizabeth J. Cabraser, one of Law360’s 2016 Class Action MVPs.

  • December 05, 2016

    Consumer Protection MVP: Girard Gibbs' Eric Gibbs

    Girard Gibbs LLP’s Eric Gibbs has spent two decades advocating for consumers and shows no signs of slowing down, landing on Law360’s list of Consumer Protection MVPs after a year that included negotiating a large Chrysler recall and wrapping up data-breach litigation against Adobe after securing a game-changing standing decision.

  • December 05, 2016

    Health MVP: Zuckerman Spaeder's D. Brian Hufford

    Zuckerman Spaeder LLP partner D. Brian Hufford has made a career of getting insurance companies to expand mental and behavioral health coverage by challenging their internal processes, most recently winning class certification in two such suits against United Behavioral Health, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2016 Health MVPs.

  • December 05, 2016

    IP MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Garrard Beeney

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Garrard Beeney led Stryker Corp. to victory in a U.S. Supreme Court case that made it easier for patent owners to recover enhanced damages in infringement suits and strengthened patent rights, earning himself a spot on Law360’s list of Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • December 05, 2016

    Capital Markets MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Catherine Clarkin

    Despite a slowdown in initial public offerings over the past year, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner Catherine Clarkin remained busy, guiding the underwriters on Visa’s first registered securities offering since its 2008 IPO and a BNP Paribas subsidiary’s IPO, landing her a spot among Law360’s 2016 capital markets MVPs.

  • December 05, 2016

    Appellate MVP: Jones Day's Noel Francisco

    When former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell was slapped with corruption allegations, Jones Day’s Noel Francisco was already framing the case for the U.S. Supreme Court, a strategy that would later free the ex-governor and set the tone for future corruption prosecutions, landing Francisco among Law360’s 2016 appellate MVPs.

  • December 02, 2016

    Immigration MVP: Greenberg Traurig's Laura Reiff

    An influential player in the world of immigration policy, Laura Reiff of Greenberg Traurig LLP has worked on legislation impacting the EB-5 visa program, tackled guest worker litigation and handled foreign investor petitions for a high-profile New York project, making her one of Law360's 2016 Immigration MVPs.

  • December 02, 2016

    Energy MVP: BakerHostetler's Mark Barron

    Guiding oil and gas industry groups to an invalidation of the Obama administration's controversial rule regulating hydraulic fracturing on public lands has helped earn BakerHostetler's Mark Barron a spot on the list of Law360's Energy MVPs.

  • December 02, 2016

    Class Action MVP: Hagens Berman's Steve Berman

    After fighting court battles that put a little extra money in amateur athletes' pockets, augmented safety protocols in youth and college sports and allowed Volkswagen diesel owners to draw from a $14.7 billion settlement over emissions cheating, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP partner Steve Berman has earned a place among Law360's 2016 Class Action MVPs.

  • December 02, 2016

    IP MVP: Steptoe & Johnson's Michael Allan

    Steptoe & Johnson LLP partner Michael J. Allan won a closely watched music copyright case against Cox Communications and continued to represent top fashion brands in trademark matters, landing him a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • December 02, 2016

    Appellate MVP: Fish & Richardson's Craig Countryman

    Fish & Richardson PC appellate practice co-chair Craig Countryman this year helped persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a stringent test for awarding enhanced damages in patent cases, a key ruling that has earned Countryman a spot among Law360’s 2016 Appellate MVPs.

  • December 02, 2016

    Capitals Markets MVP: Weil's Corey Chivers

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP veteran Corey Chivers guided the transformation of General Electric Co.'s capital structure amid a historic downsizing and counseled underwriters of massive bond offerings by Microsoft Corp. over the past year, earning him a spot among Law360's capital markets MVPs.

  • December 02, 2016

    Consumer Protection MVP: Jones Day's Darren Cottriel

    Jones Day partner Darren K. Cottriel gave Procter & Gamble Co. a boost this year by successfully defending the conglomerate against multiple class actions claiming it duped consumers into paying more for certain Duracell batteries through false promises, powering him to Law360’s list of Consumer Protection MVPs.

  • December 02, 2016

    Banking MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Andrew Gerlach

    In the past year, Sullivan & Cromwell partner Andrew Gerlach has had a hand in finalizing three of the largest bank acquisitions since the financial crisis, including the long-delayed $3.7 billion sale of Hudson City Bancorp to M&T Bank Corp., earning him a spot among Law360's banking MVPs.

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