Microsoft's $77 billion acquisition of video game maker Activision. Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of Twitter. Purdue Pharma's historic, complex bankruptcy.

This is just a sample of the major transactions our Dealmakers of the Year award winners worked on over the past year during a slowdown in the M&A and capital markets.

This is but one of many categories of attorneys who will be presented with top honors on Oct. 4 at the New York Legal Awards, which will be held at Pier Sixth at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan.