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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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December 12, 2014
Capital Markets MVP: Davis Polk's John Meade
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP partner John Meade's recent work sealing multibillion-dollar initial public offerings for companies in a wide variety of industries, like Synchrony Financial and Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., and his guidance of similarly massive debt issues helped earn him a place among Law360's Capital Markets MVPs.
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December 12, 2014
Real Estate MVP: Fried Frank's Ross Silver
Ross Z. Silver of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP closed one of the most complicated real estate transactions of 2014 and helped liquidate more than $800 million for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. a year earlier, part of a track record that has earned him a spot on Law360’s list of Real Estate MVPs.
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December 12, 2014
Government Contracts MVP: Dickstein's Scott Arnold
For representing companies aiming for big-ticket work with the federal government, including steering Wyle Laboratories Inc. through a successful protest over a $1.76 billion contract with NASA, Dickstein Shapiro LLP partner Scott Arnold has been named a Law360 Government Contracts MVP for 2014.
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December 12, 2014
Private Equity MVP: Simpson Thacher's Anthony Vernace
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP’s Anthony Vernace championed a series of complex deal as a new private equity partner with the calm of a seasoned leader, including navigating antitrust regulations to lock down the $13.5 billion sale of TRW Automotive Holdings Corp., earning him a spot among Law360’s Private Equity MVPs.
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December 12, 2014
Bankruptcy MVP: Jones Day's David G. Heiman
Jones Day partner David G. Heiman spent 2014 as the lead counsel for the city of Detroit in its historic bankruptcy case, driving it to a restructuring plan to cut $7 billion in debt and invest $1.7 billion into the city’s future, and earning himself a berth among this year’s Law360 Bankruptcy MVPs.
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December 11, 2014
Bankruptcy MVP: Stroock's Kris Hansen
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP partner Kristopher Hansen has skillfully served clients on both sides of the restructuring aisle, from senior lenders aiming to restructure Caesars Entertainment Corp.'s debt-laden operating arm to debtor Trump Entertainment Resorts seeking salvation in Chapter 11, earning him a place on Law360's list of Bankruptcy MVPs.
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December 11, 2014
Employment MVP: King & Spalding's Michael Johnston
Longtime King & Spalding litigator Michael W. Johnston represented Bass Pro Outdoor World LLC in a high-profile discrimination case brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and wrapped up work in an influential retaliation suit against University of Texas Southwestern, earning himself a spot among Law360's Employment MVPs.
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December 11, 2014
Environmental MVP: Morgan Lewis' Hugh Tanner
A veteran of decades of oil and gas industry litigation, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Hugh Tanner was called within days of the April 2010 Macondo well explosion to lead a unit of longtime client Schlumberger out of the Deepwater Horizon litigation — a task he completed after four years of litigation and several congressional investigations, landing him among Law360's Environmental MVPs.
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December 11, 2014
Private Equity MVP: Ropes & Gray's Amanda Morrison
Ropes & Gray LLP partner Amanda Morrison deftly handled a variety of transactions across the private equity portfolio-company life cycle this year, including an “inordinately complicated” $1.4 billion spinoff and the $1.5 billion IPO of a TPG Capital-backed health care company, to land a spot among Law360's Private Equity MVPs.
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December 11, 2014
Energy MVP: Vinson & Elkins' Keith Fullenweider
Vinson & Elkins LLP partner Keith Fullenweider helped guide some of the biggest and most-complex energy transactions of 2014, continuing his long track record of success in the field and earning him a spot among Law360’s Energy MVPs.
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December 11, 2014
Real Estate MVP: Morris Manning's Lauren Prevost
Morris Manning & Martin LLP’s Lauren Prevost was the quarterback for a team of lawyers that, on top of two multibillion-dollar mergers this year, closed an $11.2 billion merger that created the country’s largest net lease real estate investment trust, making her one of Law360’s Real Estate MVPs.
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December 11, 2014
Capital Markets MVP: Wilson Sonsini's Katie Martin
Between her work on an array of financing moves made by both Twitter Inc. and LinkedIn Corp., Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC's Katharine Martin has spent much of the past year successfully navigating pressure-packed, high-profile situations, earning her a spot on Law360's list of Capital Markets MVPs.
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December 11, 2014
Insurance MVP: Wiley Rein's Charles C. Lemley
Wiley Rein LLP’s Charles C. Lemley helped XL Specialty Insurance Co. and other insurers shake off the Washington Mutual Inc. liquidating trust’s suit seeking millions to cover executives' defense costs, one of several important insurance-related victories this year that landed him among Law360’s 2014 Insurance MVPs.
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December 11, 2014
Hospitality MVP: Dentons' Rick Ross
From guiding the blockbuster sale of the Waldorf Astoria New York Hotel to chaperoning high-ticket deals for properties across five continents, Denton’s Rick Ross had a hand in some of the luxury hospitality world’s biggest market-moving deals in 2014, earning him a spot on Law360's list of 2014 Hospitality MVPs.
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December 10, 2014
Bankruptcy MVP: Willkie Farr's Matthew Feldman
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP’s Matthew Feldman helped private equity-owned Momentive Performance Materials Inc. secure court approval for its plan to exit bankruptcy $3 billion lighter in debt, a hotly debated, blockbuster ruling that earns him a spot among Law360’s list of Bankruptcy MVPs.
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December 10, 2014
Environmental MVP: Steptoe's Lawrence Riff
Steptoe & Johnson LLP partner Lawrence Riff in the span of just two months secured defense verdicts for Monsanto Co. in the first of dozens of cases alleging its polychlorinated biphenyl products caused cancer and for ConocoPhillips Co. and Union Oil Co. of California in litigation over gasoline leaks that a developer claimed dirtied the site of a planned construction project, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Environmental MVPs.
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December 10, 2014
Hospitality MVP: Dentons' Meghan Cocci
Successfully shepherding the historic sale of the Waldorf Astoria New York hotel was one of several blockbuster deals and developments completed by Dentons' Meghan Cocci this year, earning her a spot among Law360's 2014 Hospitality MVPs.
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December 10, 2014
Capital Markets MVP: Kirkland & Ellis' Joshua Korff
Using often complex and innovative deal structures, Kirkland & Ellis LLP capital markets partner Joshua Korff oversaw 35 initial public offerings worth $14.5 billion this past year, earning him a place on Law360's 2014 list of Capital Markets MVPs.
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December 10, 2014
Insurance MVP: Kasowitz's Robin Cohen
Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP partner Robin Cohen won an appellate decision that kept IMO Industries Inc. covered for a deluge of asbestos claims under a $1.8 billion insurance program, living up to her reputation for staring down insurance companies angling for a quick settlement and earning her a spot among Law360’s Insurance MVPs.
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December 10, 2014
Real Estate MVP: Stroock's Ross Moskowitz
Guiding Sterling Equities in the $3 billion redevelopment of Willets Point in Queens and KNIC Partners LLP on the $320 million Kingsbridge Armory project in the Bronx has earned Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP's Ross Moskowitz a spot on Law360’s list of Real Estate MVPs.
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December 10, 2014
Energy MVP: Chadbourne & Parke's Peter Fitzgerald
Work on a series of ambitious renewable energy projects in Chile, as well as a lead role in helping to finance the first new U.S. nuclear reactors in nearly three decades, has landed Chadbourne & Parke LLP’s Peter Fitzgerald on Law360’s list of Energy MVPs.
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December 10, 2014
Private Equity MVP: Simpson Thacher's Marni Lerner
Thanks to her wide-ranging work representing various private equity firms and many of their portfolio companies — including several of private equity titan KKR & Co. LP's — Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Marni J. Lerner has earned a spot on Law360's list of Private Equity MVPs.
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December 10, 2014
Employment MVP: Lieff Cabraser's Kelly Dermody
As the head of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP's employment practice group, partner Kelly M. Dermody has been at the forefront of contentious gender discrimination cases against Bank of America Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., as well as a case accusing numerous Silicon Valley tech giants of conspiring to suppress workers' pay, earning her a spot on Law360's list of Employment MVPs.
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December 10, 2014
Life Sciences MVP: Irell & Manella's David Gindler
Irell & Manella LLP partner David I. Gindler scored a clear victory as lead counsel for molecular diagnostics company Ariosa Diagnostics Inc. in a patent infringement fight against Sequenom Inc., securing him a spot among Law360’s Life Sciences MVPs.
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December 09, 2014
Food & Beverage MVP: Hunton & Williams' Richard Wyatt Jr.
Hunton & Williams LLP partner Richard Wyatt Jr.'s work unraveling a price-inflation scheme by one of the largest food distributors in the U.S. and leading an antitrust suit on behalf of supermarkets added a plaintiff-side wrinkle to his normally defense-oriented practice and earned him a spot among Law360's Food and Beverage MVPs.