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 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 18, 2025

    Energy Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's energy attorneys led EQT Corp. in its $35 billion merger with Equitrans Midstream Corp. and counseled Global Infrastructure Partners in its $12.5 billion acquisition by BlackRock Inc., earning the team a place among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 14, 2025

    Energy Group Of The Year: V&E

    Vinson & Elkins LLP helped clients advance billions of dollars of energy transactions, from Permian Basin mega-mergers to major offshore wind acquisitions, and also helped clients embroiled in litigation secure courtroom wins, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 13, 2025

    Energy Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP secured groundbreaking legal wins for some of the U.S. energy industry's biggest players, including Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and The Williams Cos., earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 12, 2025

    Energy Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP worked on large matters for energy clients over the past year, including representing Pattern Energy in securing $11 billion in financing for the largest clean energy infrastructure project in U.S. history, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 11, 2025

    Energy Group Of The Year: Norton Rose

    Norton Rose Fulbright has capitalized on momentum in the energy market to help guide multiple first-of-their-kind projects, including what deal participants have called the largest clean energy infrastructure project in U.S. history, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • February 27, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    With an achievement list spanning an unusual private market community solar portfolio, financing the Las Vegas Sphere, toll roads and New York City subway connectivity, Winston & Strawn LLP has solidified a place on Law360's 2023 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    A $7 billion deal to finance a liquefied natural gas facility in Texas is one of several clean or renewable energy transactions in which Sullivan & Cromwell LLP played a leading role in 2023, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP guided financing for a Pennsylvania bridge replacement project of unrivaled proportions and navigated a first-of-its-kind tax credit transfer transaction amid a renewable energy portfolio buy, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2024 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 14, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: Vinson & Elkins

    Vinson & Elkins LLP won a $280 million judgment for an Antero Midstream Corp. subsidiary in a water treatment facility dispute with Veolia, successfully defended Aera Energy LLC in an oil field development fight in California and also advised on billions of dollars of projects, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 13, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP was a strong force in the energy sector in 2023, guiding Duke Energy in the $2.8 billion sale of its renewables subsidiary and aiding Venture Global LNG in the largest liquid natural gas project financing in history at $21.1 billion, earning it a spot among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 12, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP attorneys advised Magellan Midstream Partners LP on the largest U.S. energy M&A deal of the year, coming in at $18.8 billion, and were also involved in seeing through four of five industry initial public offerings finalized last year, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: King & Spalding LLP

    King & Spalding LLP won a $16 billion judgment for investors suing Argentina over its nationalization of YPF SA and a nearly $2 billion award for Colombia's Refinería de Cartagena SA in a high-profile construction dispute, while also helping clients advance billions of dollars in projects, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Attorneys at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP worked on a merger between Exxon Mobil Corp. and Pioneer Natural Resources Co., steered Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co.'s development of the world's largest renewable energy microgrid and expanded the firm's global footprint, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP helped ExxonMobil Corp. pull off the largest deal of 2023 with a $60 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources Co., earning the firm a place among Law360's Energy Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 55 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2023 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2023, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • February 23, 2023

    Energy Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Lining up a $13 billion financing package for a huge natural gas export project, finalizing a unique cross-Atlantic electric utility swap and completing the purchase of a 500-mile wind energy transmission line are among the achievements that made Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP one of Law360's 2022 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 22, 2023

    Energy Group Of The Year: Norton Rose

    Norton Rose Fulbright advised Shell Enterprises LLC in its Permian Basin asset sale, secured a jury victory in a contract interference suit and helped close financing for 650 megawatt hours of standalone battery energy storage projects in Texas, earning it a place among Law360's 2022 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2023

    Energy Group Of The Year: V&E

    Vinson & Elkins LLP attorneys' wide-ranging energy focus over the past year has included advising a whopping 51 energy-related deals worth approximately $73 billion since October 2021, and successfully representing a number of clients, including NorthWestern Corp., before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, as well as other federal agencies and the Fifth Circuit, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2022 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 17, 2023

    Energy Group Of The Year: BakerHostetler

    BakerHostetler attorneys helped convince the U.S. Supreme Court to curb the federal government's climate change authority, and potentially administrative authority in general, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2022 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 16, 2023

    Energy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Energy attorneys at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped create a new energy company, shepherded an oil and gas company purchase to completion and assisted a liquefied natural gas company's initial public offering, earning it a spot among Law360's 2022 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2023

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2022, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

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