Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year

Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year highlights up to five practice groups that notched the biggest litigation victories or deals of the year. Winners are recognized for the size, complexity and significance of the deals or litigation they worked on.
  • February 21, 2025

    Transportation Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP helped close billions of dollars in loans to revitalize rail infrastructure along the Northeast Corridor and helped secure a long-term lease for an airport thousands of miles south in the Virgin Islands, helping the firm land a spot among the 2024 Law360 Transportation Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Labaton Keller

    Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP continued its work battling big-name companies in corporate fraud cases last year, including securing a $200 million settlement for the Boston Retirement System against Uber Technologies Inc. for allegedly misleading investors, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2025

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser

    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP helped obtain a $600 million settlement from Norfolk Southern over a train derailment and secured an early win in a social media addiction case against Silicon Valley heavyweights, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2025

    Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Weil

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP guided Brookfield Asset Management in securing a record-shattering $30 billion private infrastructure fund, and assisted Crow Holdings in closing the largest real estate private equity fund of 2024's first quarter at $3.1 billion, earning the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    The competition team at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC helped secure settlements worth hundreds of millions of dollars last year for groups of home sellers, mixed martial arts fighters, poultry plant workers and others, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2025

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Boies Schiller

    Boies Schiller Flexner LLP remained in the vanguard of high-impact class action victories throughout last year, including a deal with Google in which the search giant agreed to delete billions of records marking users' activities in the browser's incognito mode, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2025

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: DLA Piper

    DLA Piper convinced an Arkansas jury to clear Monsanto of potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in liability relating to the herbicide Roundup and also garnered some achievements in multidistrict litigation over Ozempic, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP won a Fifth Circuit ruling last year that repealed a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule that would have given the agency more oversight over hedge funds and private equity funds, earning the firm a spot on the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2025

    Transportation Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP lawyers advised Boeing in an $8.3 billion acquisition of its chief supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, amid corporate tumult and intense regulatory scrutiny of the American aerospace giant, earning the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Transportation Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2025

    Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP earned such key victories as advising Warburg Pincus on formation of its largest-ever private equity fund of $17.3 billion and working with KPS Capital Partners LP on two funds collectively worth $9.7 billion, landing it among the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2025

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP's class action practice group helped block Elon Musk's $55 billion compensation plan from Tesla Inc. and won more than $400 million in settlements in an investor suit over the sale of Columbia Pipeline Group to TC Energy, earning it a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2025

    Complex Financial Instruments Group Of The Year: Cahill Gordon

    Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's expertise in leveraged finance helped it execute a bevy of high-impact deals in 2024 — including its representation of financial institutions that negotiated the blockbuster, $8.4 billion merger of entertainment giants Paramount Global and Skydance Media — earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP scored a trailblazing antitrust verdict for Epic Games when a California federal jury decided Google's Play Store illegally dominated the Android app market, making Cravath one of the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2025

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Dentons

    The cannabis group at Dentons led the consolidation of the American assets of marijuana giant Canopy Growth, pioneered restructuring deals to ease cannabis companies' federal tax burden and lobbied Capitol Hill to create a comprehensive federal hemp policy, making the team one of the 2024 Law360 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Transportation Group Of The Year: Dykema

    Dykema Gossett PLLC scored a significant trial victory for Nissan in a Texas product liability suit, and continues to advise leading developers of autonomous and electric vehicles, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Transportation Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped Koninklijke Philips negotiate a $1.1 billion settlement agreement ending sprawling litigation related to its recalled sleep breathing machines, causing company stock to jump and landing the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Securities Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    Winston & Strawn LLP secured a unanimous victory on behalf of client Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. before the U.S. Supreme Court last year, winning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Wachtell

    Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz's real estate team guided major deals, representing Spirit Realty Capital Inc. in its $9.3 billion, all-stock acquisition by Realty Income Corp., and Public Storage's $2.2 billion acquisition of Simply Self Storage, earning it a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Competition Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    Winston & Strawn LLP represented former student-athletes who changed the shape of college sports with a $2.78 billion antitrust settlement over the NCAA's name, image and likeness compensation rules, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP lawyers advised on some of the biggest fundraises in the past year, including helping EQT establish a buyout fund that raised €22 billion ($23 billion) and guiding Lexington Partners in forming what became the largest secondaries fund to date, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Construction Group Of The Year: Seyfarth

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP's construction attorneys are advising a massive transit project valued at nearly $2 billion that the firm said will be the centerpiece of the Miami skyline when completed. That and other recent work have earned the team a spot among the 2024 Law360 Construction Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Energy Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Jenner & Block LLP's recent work on behalf of power industry players has resulted in cutting-edge courtroom wins and boardroom deals, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Complex Financial Instruments Group Of The Year: Dentons

    Dentons attorneys represented JPMorgan in its $6 billion acquisition of Flagstar Bank's residential mortgage warehouse business, and advised the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on the issuance of $43 billion in notes as the agency acted as Silicon Valley Bank's receiver, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Complex Financial Instruments Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Class Action Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    WilmerHale helped Norfolk Southern navigate a wave of class actions over the fiery derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, shepherding it to a $600 million settlement resolving claims for a class of nearly half a million people and earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • February 19, 2025

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Dykema

    Dykema Gossett PLLC's cannabis group has helped ink a landmark sponsorship deal between Primitiv and Detroit's Ford Field, kept a charter amendment on whether to legalize recreational cannabis in Keego Harbor, Michigan, on the ballot, and helped online platform LeafLink avoid an intellectual property suit between two of its customers, earning the group a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

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