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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 02, 2014

    White Collar MVP: Gibson Dunn's Joel Cohen

    Gibson Dunn’s Joel Cohen convinced a jury to reject the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s insider trading suit against hedge fund manager Nelson Obus following a 14-year legal battle, handing the agency a stinging loss and earning himself a spot on Law360’s list of White Collar MVPs.

  • December 02, 2014

    Capital Markets MVP: Simpson Thacher's Leiming Chen

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Leiming Chen championed several jaw-dropping cross-border and China-based deals in 2014, including the historic and heavily buzzed about $25 billion initial public offering of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., earning him a spot on Law360's list of Capital Markets MVPs.

  • December 02, 2014

    M&A MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Alison Ressler

    Between leading the charge in Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.’s $55 billion hostile takeover attempt of Allergan Inc. and helping Zynga Inc. snatch up NaturalMotion Ltd. for $527 million, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s Alison Ressler oversaw billions of dollars worth of complex deals this year, landing her on Law360’s list of M&A MVPs

  • December 02, 2014

    Life Sciences MVP: Sullivan & Cromwell's Matt Hurd

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s Matt Hurd has been a central figure in structuring and closing some of last year’s largest and most controversial pharmaceuticals deals, including the aborted AbbVie Inc. takeover of Shire PLC, making him a natural fit among Law360’s Life Sciences MVPs.

  • December 02, 2014

    Tax MVP: Honigman's Richard S. Soble

    Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP’s Richard S. Soble’s taxpayer-favorable victory in Aragona Trust v. Commissioner, a case with far-reaching implications that blazed a new trail in trust and partnership taxation, earned him a spot on Law360’s list of Tax MVPs.

  • December 01, 2014

    Retail & E-Commerce MVP: Theodore Grossman

    With a series of high-profile wins this year in a dispute involving three household names in retail, Jones Day’s Theodore M. Grossman landed among Law360’s 2014 Retail & E-Commerce MVPs.

  • December 01, 2014

    International Trade MVP: Weil Gotshal's Ted Posner

    As he squared off against the Republic of Argentina on behalf of a Bank of America Corp. subsidiary in an effort to enforce a $133 million arbitration award, Ted Posner of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP worked to apply the right combination of legal and political pressure to bring the country around to a deal, earning him a spot on Law360's list of International Trade MVPs.

  • December 01, 2014

    Appellate MVP: Hogan Lovells' Neal Katyal

    Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal's arguments on behalf of insurer Highmark Inc. in February helped convince the Supreme Court justices to side with Highmark's argument that the Federal Circuit should give deference to district courts' attorneys' fee awards in "baseless" patent suits, earning him a spot among Law360's Appellate MVPs.

  • December 01, 2014

    Health MVP: Grant & Eisenhofer's Reuben Guttman

    Grant & Eisenhofer PA's False Claims Act expert Reuben Guttman helped negotiate a $98.15 million settlement this year with Community Health Systems Inc. in a whistleblower suit accusing the hospital chain of health care fraud, landing Guttman on Law360's list of Health Care MVPs.

  • December 01, 2014

    White Collar MVP: Morris Manning's Ross Albert

    Ross A. Albert's successful defense of insider trading suspect Larry Schvacho — who was pursued aggressively by the SEC in federal court despite a lack of compelling evidence — triggered a significant rebuke from a veteran federal judge, helped generate a round of soul-searching by the agency and landed the Morris Manning & Martin LLP litigator a spot on Law360's list of white collar MVPs.

  • December 01, 2014

    IP MVP: Paul Weiss' Catherine Nyarady

    Representing Edwards Lifesciences AG in court battles with Medtronic Inc. over heart valve patents and helping to secure a more than $1 billion settlement between the medical device companies has earned Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner Catherine Nyarady a place on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • December 01, 2014

    Tax MVP: Weil's Marc Silberberg

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP partner Marc Silberberg’s involvement in the $70 billion Kinder Morgan Inc. megamerger and advisement of DirecTV on its pending $67.1 billion sale to AT&T were just two highlights in a successful year that earned his place on Law 360’s list of Tax MVPs.

  • December 01, 2014

    M&A MVP: Jones Day's Randi Lesnick

    Randi Lesnick, a mergers and acquisitions partner at Jones Day, has put together an eye-popping $50 billion worth of deals with complex structures over the past year, earning her a title as a Law360 M&A MVP of 2014.

  • November 26, 2014

    Securities MVP: Davis Polk's James Rouhandeh

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP securities litigator James Rouhandeh defended Morgan Stanley this year against a slew of class actions regarding the megabank's mortgage-backed securities business, earning him a spot on Law360's 2014 list of Securities MVPs.

  • November 26, 2014

    Media & Entertainment MVP: Loeb & Loeb's Jonathan Zavin

    Loeb & Loeb LLP partner Jonathan Zavin is a giant in entertainment litigation whose vigorous defenses of iconic intellectual properties including "Avatar" and "Raging Bull" have earned him a spot on Law360's list of Media and Entertainment MVPs.

  • November 26, 2014

    IP MVP: Erise IP's Jason Mudd

    Erise IP’s Jason Mudd was one of the attorneys to help Garmin International Inc. win the first-ever decision issued under the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s new inter partes review process and represented Ford Motor Co. in other high-profile cases, landing him a spot on Law360's list of Intellectual Property MVPs.

  • November 26, 2014

    Tax MVP: Paul Weiss' Jeffrey Samuels

    Several of this year's mega-mergers, from Burger King Worldwide Inc.'s tie-up with Tim Hortons Inc. to Time Warner Cable Inc.'s headline-busting merger with Comcast Corp., have a common link in Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP tax partner Jeffrey Samuels, whose lengthy list of deal making landed him on Law360's list of tax MVPs.

  • November 26, 2014

    Life Sciences MVP: White & Case's Dimitrios Drivas

    White & Case LLP partner Dimitrios Drivas, the chair of the firm’s global intellectual property practice group out of its New York office, won key victories for major pharmaceutical companies over the past year that helped to earn him a place on Law360's list of Life Sciences MVPs for 2014.

  • November 26, 2014

    International Trade MVP: Covington's David Fagan

    By helping successfully steer major global M&A deals, including Lenovo Group Ltd.’s $2.1 billion acquisition of an IBM Corp. server business, through approvals by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., Covington & Burling partner David Fagan has earned a spot among Law360’s International Trade MVPs.

  • November 26, 2014

    Product Liability MVP: King & Spalding's Chilton Davis Varner

    When Merck & Co. Inc. was facing more than 800 cases in multidistrict litigation over its osteoporosis drug Fosamax, it enlisted King & Spalding LLP’s veteran trial attorney Chilton Davis Varner, whose work securing several important victories for the company helped land her a spot among Law360’s Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 26, 2014

    M&A MVP: Cleary Gottlieb's Ethan Klingsberg

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP’s Ethan A. Klingsberg’s prowess crafting deals and advising corporate boards helped Family Dollar Stores Inc. fend off years of activist-led takeover campaigns to snag a proposed $8.5 billion merger with Dollar Tree Inc., earning him a spot on Law360’s list of M&A MVPs.

  • November 25, 2014

    Media & Entertainment MVP: Gibson Dunn's Orin Snyder

    As the litigator whom Facebook Inc.'s and Twitter Inc.'s founders go to when they need to defend their stakes in major ventures, Gibson Dunn’s Orin Snyder leads the pack where media and technology converge, earning him a spot on Law360's list of Media & Entertainment MVPs.

  • November 25, 2014

    Product Liability MVP: Kaye Scholer's Pamela Yates

    Kaye Scholer LLP partner Pamela Yates helped discredit the testimony of a key plaintiffs’ expert in multidistrict litigation alleging Pfizer Inc.’s Zoloft antidepressant causes birth defects and convinced a jury that Philip Morris USA Inc. wasn’t at fault for the death of a longtime smoker, earning her place among Law360’s Product Liability MVPs.

  • November 25, 2014

    Tax MVP: Skadden's David Polster

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's David Polster found himself at the forefront of the year's cutting-edge real estate investment trust spinoff arrangements, resolving the tax prongs of multi-billion-dollar deals in sectors ranging from telecommunications to gaming and landing among Law360's Tax MVPs.

  • November 25, 2014

    IP MVP: WilmerHale's Bill Lee

    WilmerHale's Bill Lee secured $410 million in damages for Apple Inc. in two separate patent trials against arch rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and got a $368 million infringement verdict against Apple set aside in another case, earning a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property MVPs for the fourth straight year.

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