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Rankings: MVPs of the Year
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October 24, 2024
MVP: Kaplan Marino's Nina Marino
Nina Marino, founding partner of white collar boutique Kaplan Marino PC, secured a full acquittal for engineering firm founder Dennis Mitsunaga in a 12-week jury trial in Hawaii, and ensured that charges were dismissed against a lawyer accused by the district attorney's office in Orange County, California, of running an illegal referral and kickbacks scheme before the case ever went to trial, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 White Collar MVPs.
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October 23, 2024
MVP: Dechert's Jonathan R. Streeter
Jonathan R. Streeter, co-chair of Dechert LLP's global litigation practice, guided Icahn Enterprises LP in the navigation of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation and related civil litigation, and also represented Energy Harbor through a corruption investigation that was followed by a successful sale of the company earlier this year. Streeter's efforts in these matters, among others, earned him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 White Collar MVPs.
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October 22, 2024
MVP: E. Danya Perry of Perry Law
E. Danya Perry represented former President Donald Trump's former personal attorney Micahel Cohen in a trio of cases, including Trump's criminal trial in which Cohen was a star witness, and started her own law firm. Those and other events from the past year landed her a spot among Law360's 2024 White Collar MVPs.
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October 21, 2024
MVP: Steptoe's Brian Heberlig
Steptoe LLP's Brian Heberlig got a British tech billionaire and former CEO acquitted of federal securities fraud charges involving billions of dollars, and pushed through profound personal tragedy to serve his clients' needs, earning him a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 White Collar MVPs.
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October 18, 2024
Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attys From 74 Firms
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2024 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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November 03, 2023
MVP: Paul Hastings' John S. Darden
John "Jay" Darden of Paul Hastings LLP's white collar practice has successfully defended international clients, including a Swiss tech firm and a Brazilian electricity company, from complex, high-stakes investigations over the last year, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 White Collar MVPs.
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November 02, 2023
MVP: Moore & Van Allen's John A. Fagg Jr.
John Fagg Jr. of Moore & Van Allen PLLC achieved an acquittal at the end of a historic third federal trial for a retired Pilgrim's Pride CEO accused of conspiring to fix chicken prices and then quickly pivoted to help Bank of America resolve a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission matter, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 White Collar MVPs.
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November 01, 2023
MVP: Kramer Levin's Barry Berke
Barry Berke of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP successfully defended a former New York lieutenant governor against bribery charges and secured a win in a seven-year-old insider trading suit, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2023 White Collar MVPs.
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October 31, 2023
MVP: Jones Day's Bethany Biesenthal
Bethany Biesenthal of Jones Day's white collar practice secured a full acquittal for a client who was accused of spoofing and market manipulation while working at a large Wall Street bank, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2023 White Collar MVPs.
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October 30, 2023
MVP: Covington & Burling's Steve Fagell
This is the second time in three years that Steve Fagell of Covington & Burling LLP has earned a spot among Law360's White Collar MVPs — and for good reason: He continues to negotiate impressive, relatively painless resolutions for prominent corporate clients grappling with high-stakes regulatory investigations and enforcement matters.
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October 01, 2023
Law360 MVP Awards Go To 171 Attys At 76 Firms
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2023 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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October 05, 2022
MVP: Dechert's Andrew J. Levander
Andrew J. Levander, chair of Dechert LLP, represented a billionaire antiquities collector during an intense investigation that concluded with no criminal charges and negotiated a $200 million settlement between JPMorgan and federal regulators over the bank's failure to track employees' electronic communications, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 White Collar MVPs.
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October 04, 2022
MVP: Sidley Austin's Timothy J. Treanor
Timothy J. Treanor of Sidley Austin LLP helped steer $201 million worth of victim payouts to global soccer organizations in the FIFA corruption probe and negotiated a $90 million foreign bribery settlement for waste management company Stericycle, earning him a spot among Law360's 2022 White Collar MVPs.
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September 09, 2022
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Thomas Werlen
Thomas Werlen of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's white collar practice won the first criminal trial against a Swiss bank and helped FIFA recover $201 million in losses stemming from an international corruption scandal, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 White Collar MVPs.
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September 08, 2022
MVP: Gibson Dunn's Joel Cohen
Joel Cohen of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP defended a real estate developer in a once-sweeping $500 million fraud case that ended in July with the developer accepting a plea deal involving minor accusations and receiving a no-prison sentence, earning Cohen a spot on Law360's White Collar MVPs.
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September 06, 2022
MVP: Cahill Gordon's Bradley Bondi
Bradley Bondi of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's white collar practice prompted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to take an alleged short-seller to trial, and he will represent Nikola Corp. founder and former CEO Trevor Milton in one of the most anticipated criminal trials of the year, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 White Collar MVPs.
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September 02, 2022
Law360 MVP Awards Go To 188 Attys From 78 Firms
The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2022 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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September 16, 2021
MVP: Arnold & Porter's Soo-Mi Rhee
Arnold & Porter partner Soo-Mi Rhee secured leniency agreements with three different government agencies in Brazil to resolve corruption-related charges against Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. and helped a global financial institution escape monetary penalty for alleged violations of sanctions laws, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2021 White Collar MVPs.
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September 15, 2021
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's Juan Morillo
Juan Morillo of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP helped a Swiss bank avoid criminal charges as it navigates the fallout from the 1MDB scandal and is helping Mexican industrial executives fight alleged government takeovers of their businesses, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 White Collar MVPs.
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September 14, 2021
MVP: Paul Weiss' Jessica S. Carey
Jessica S. Carey of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP helped write a massive report for Credit Suisse on the collapse of Archegos Capital Management and convinced the U.S. Department of Justice to close a long-running Foreign Corrupt Practices Act inquiry into Iraqi pharmaceutical contracts, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2021 White Collar MVPs.
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September 13, 2021
MVP: Simpson Thacher's Jeffrey Knox
Jeff Knox, co-managing partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Washington, D.C., office, has shaved millions off of potential penalties as he guided energy and banking giants to favorable resolutions of federal investigations, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 White Collar MVPs.
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September 10, 2021
MVP: Cahill Gordon's Bradley J. Bondi
Bradley J. Bondi of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP secured a sentence of time served for a former KPMG partner who tipped off accounting firms ahead of regulatory inspections and won a last-minute pardon for a client at high risk of dying in prison from COVID-19, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 White Collar MVPs.
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August 30, 2021
Law360 MVP Awards Go To 182 Attys From 77 Firms
The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2021 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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October 30, 2020
MVP: Steptoe & Johnson's Brian Heberlig
One of the first lawyers to handle a federal jury trial impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Steptoe & Johnson LLP's Brian Heberlig was part of a defense team that helped exonerate an Iranian banker in a case marred by allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, earning him a spot among Law360's 2020 White Collar MVPs.
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October 29, 2020
MVP: Paul Hastings' Robert Luskin
Robert Luskin of Paul Hastings LLP steered a first-of-its-kind $4 billion resolution of a multinational bribery probe into Airbus and led a diplomat through a high-stakes congressional hearing, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2020 White Collar MVPs.