Our first runners-up this week are Jack DiCanio, Matthew Sloan, Emily Reitmeier and their team at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom who secured an acquittal for Chinese semiconductor company Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. in a criminal trade secret and economic espionage case. After a bench trial that included eight weeks of testimony spread over the past two years, Senior U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney in San Francisco this week found prosecutors failed to prove that Jinhua misappropriated trade secrets from Micron Technology Inc., the largest DRAM chip maker in the U.S., via a manufacturing deal with Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp. UMC pleaded guilty in 2020 to receiving and possessing a stolen trade secret, brought as part of the Justice Department's now-defunct China Initiative, and paid a $60 million fine. The defense team also included Skadden partner Christopher Gunther, and associates Christopher McKinley and Jake Meiseles.