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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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December 12, 2013
Private Equity MVP: Willkie Farr's Gordon Caplan
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's Gordon Caplan had a hand in some of this year's most complex, uniquely structured private equity deals including Hudson's Bay Co.'s $2.9 billion merger with Saks Inc., landing him a spot among Law360's 2013 Private Equity MVPs.
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December 12, 2013
Competition MVP: White & Case's Christopher Curran
Fighting against claims that Toshiba Corp. took part in a liquid crystal display cartel, White & Case LLP partner Christopher Curran helped exonerate the company in a case brought by Best Buy Co., just one of the recent successes that helped land him among Law360's Competition MVPs.
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December 12, 2013
Life Sciences MVP: White & Case's Dimitrios Drivas
White & Case LLP's Dimitrios Drivas leverages his background in biochemistry and his nearly 30 years of experience representing major pharmaceutical companies to net victories for his clients when billion-dollar inventions are at stake, including a battle over the world's top-selling drug of all time, earning him a spot on Law360's list of 2013 Life Sciences MVPs.
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December 12, 2013
Real Estate MVP: Morrison & Foerster's Mark Edelstein
Morrison & Foerster LLP’s Mark Edelstein oversaw Union Bank NA’s $3.7 billion purchase of a commercial real estate lending portfolio and used creative financing deals to launch or revive projects that are reshaping the New York City skyline, making him one of Law360’s 2013 MVPs.
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December 12, 2013
International Trade MVP: Hogan Lovells' Lourdes Catrain
Hogan Lovells' Lourdes Catrain helped a Dubai industrial testing company get its name removed from the European Union's Iran sanctions list while guiding Chinese and German companies through the bloc's solar panel anti-dumping probe in 2013, winning her a spot on Law360's list of International Trade MVPs.
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December 11, 2013
Life Sciences MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Frank Aquila
This past year, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's Frank Aquila guided Amgen Inc. in its $10.4 billion acquisition of Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc., strengthening the biotechnology firm's cancer drug portfolio and earning him a spot among Law360's Life Sciences MVPs of 2013.
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December 11, 2013
Competition MVP: Davis Polk's Arthur Burke
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's Arthur J. Burke helped Bank of America Corp. fight off a substantial chunk of the claims in multidistrict litigation over an alleged conspiracy to rig the London Interbank Offered Rate and advised Comcast Corp. on a $3.6 billion deal with Verizon Communications Inc., landing a spot on Law360's list of Competition MVPs.
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December 11, 2013
Private Equity MVP: Kirkland & Ellis' David Breach
Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner David A. Breach served as lead counsel on more than 45 private equity and mergers and acquisitions deals in the past year, including several valued at more than $1 billion, earning him a place among Law360’s 2013 Private Equity MVPs.
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December 11, 2013
Real Estate MVP: Weil Gotshal's W. Michael Bond
Weil Gotshal & Manges partner W. Michael Bond is on the cutting edge of real estate investment trusts mergers and acquisitions, advising Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in its sale of its largest asset, Archstone Enterprise LP, in a deal valued at more than $16 billion, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Real Estate MVPs.
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December 11, 2013
International Trade MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Paul Brinkman
Operating at the critical nexus of international trade law and patent litigation, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Paul Brinkman relied on diligent preparation and keen foresight to land high-profile wins for tech giants such as Samsung Electronics Co Ltd., earning him his first appearance on Law360's list of International Trade MVPs.
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December 10, 2013
Government Contracts MVP: Covington's Robert Nichols
Robert Nichols has helped Covington & Burling LLP assemble an all-star team of government contracts attorneys and personally led the charge in litigating bid protests with billions of dollars at stake, earning him a place among Law360's list of Government Contracts MVPs.
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December 09, 2013
Appellate MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Kathleen Sullivan
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP name partner Kathleen Sullivan's was the voice that persuaded the nation’s highest courts on several high-stakes, groundbreaking decisions, including a victory that permitted the Federal Housing Finance Agency to proceed with lawsuits against at least 18 banks, earning her a spot on the list of Law360’s 2013 Appellate MVPs.
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December 09, 2013
Environmental MVP: Nossaman's Robert Thornton
Nossaman LLP’s Robert Thornton convinced the California Supreme Court this year to endorse an environmental impact assessment methodology that could give public infrastructure authorities nationwide a boost in proving their proposals faithfully considered conservation impacts, landing him aboard Law360’s select group of Environmental MVPs.
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December 09, 2013
Government Contracts MVP: Hogan Lovells' Michael Mason
Michael F. Mason racked up a series of wins for Hogan Lovells' aerospace and defense clients over the past year, including fending off a challenge to Lockheed Martin's piece of a $5.6 billion intelligence analyst contract, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Government Contracts MVPs.
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December 09, 2013
Technology MVP: Wiley Rein's Nancy Victory
Wiley Rein LLP partner Nancy J. Victory served as top regulatory counsel on some of the biggest telecommunications deals of 2013, including the $1.5 billion merger of Deutsche Telekom AG subsidiary T-Mobile USA Inc. with MetroPCS Communications Inc., earning her a spot on the list of Law360's 2013 Technology MVPs.
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December 06, 2013
Technology MVP: Davis Polk's Alan Denenberg
A body of work over the past year involving several multibillion-dollar technology deals and debt offerings, as well as the highly anticipated Twitter Inc. initial public offering, have earned Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s Alan Denenberg a spot on Law360’s list of Technology MVPs.
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December 06, 2013
Environmental MVP: Katten Muchin Rosenman's Steven Solow
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner Steven Solow successfully fended off a 26-count criminal indictment leveled at one of the nation’s largest water service providers, staring down the might of the federal government to prove at trial that no environmental violations had occurred and earning himself a spot among Law360's list of Environmental MVPs.
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December 06, 2013
Government Contracts MVP: Dickstein's Richard Conway
In the fast-changing universe of government contracts litigation, Dickstein Shapiro LLC partner Richard Conway has leveraged more than 40 years of experience to score major victories in 2013 that could have resounding impact for years to come, earning him a spot among Law360's Government Contracts MVPs.
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December 06, 2013
Appellate MVP: Orrick's Joshua Rosenkranz
In a remarkably successful year for Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner Joshua Rosenkranz, persuading the U.S. Supreme Court that copyrighted goods can be imported without the copyright owner's authority was just one of the triumphs that landed him on Law360's list of 2013 Appellate MVPs.
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December 06, 2013
Employment MVP: O'Melveny & Myers' Bob Siegel
This year, O’Melveny & Myers LLP partner Bob Siegel cemented his reputation as one of the nation's top airline labor lawyers by counseling US Airways Group Inc. executives over antitrust litigation amid its $11 billion merger with American Airlines Inc., landing himself a place on Law360's list of Employment MVPs.
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December 06, 2013
Project Finance MVP: Akin Gump's Adam Umanoff
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP partner Adam Umanoff has spent his career shaping the world's renewable energy landscape, including helping SunPower develop, build and sell its 580 megawatt solar project spanning two California counties, earning him a spot among Law360's Project Finance MVPs for 2013.
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December 05, 2013
Environmental MVP: Steptoe's Lawrence Riff
Steptoe & Johnson LLP partner Lawrence Riff convinced the Sixth Circuit not only to uphold a summary judgment ruling in favor of Chevron Corp. in a benzene and gasoline contamination lawsuit, but to affirm $250,000 in sanctions against the plaintiffs' attorneys in the case, earning him a spot among Law360's Environmental MVPs.
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December 05, 2013
Technology MVP: Weil Gotshal & Manges' Keith Flaum
Over the past year, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP partner Keith Flaum has deftly helped helm Applied Materials Inc.'s $29 billion merger with Tokyo Electron Ltd., while closing several multibillion-dollar deals for Oracle Corp., earning him a spot on Law360's list of Technology MVPs.
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December 05, 2013
Employment MVP: Morgan Lewis' Samuel Shaulson
Helping Citigroup Inc. secure a Second Circuit win that allowed the bank to enforce an individual arbitration policy in an overtime dispute is just one of the recent successes that landed Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Samuel Shaulson among Law360's Employment MVPs.
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December 05, 2013
Bankruptcy MVP: Chadbourne & Parke's Howard Seife
For ten months, Chadbourne & Parke LLP’s Howard Seife oversaw the enormous investigation and subsequent report on Ally Financial Inc.’s potential liability with respect to Residential Capital LLC’s bankruptcy, an undertaking that helped score him a spot among Law360's 2013 Bankruptcy MVPs.