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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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February 24, 2025
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Proskauer
Proskauer Rose LLP worked with Ares Management Corp. on its largest-ever private credit fundraise and advised StepStone Group on the formation of its $3.3 billion venture capital secondaries fund, among other achievements, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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February 18, 2025
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP attorneys recently represented HPS Investment Partners on a $21.1 billion direct lending fund, and advised Goldman Sachs Alternatives as it raised more than $20 billion, earning the firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2025
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP's private equity attorneys had a banner year handling significant deals, such as SRS Distribution's $18.25 billion sale to Home Depot and advising Silver Lake in a $9.2 billion equity investment in Vantage Data Centers, making it one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 10, 2025
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP advised on private equity firm Silver Lake's $13 billion take-private sale of sports and entertainment conglomerate Endeavor Group Holdings Inc., the largest deal of its kind in the entertainment sector, landing it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2025
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's recent work advising on a number of significant mergers and acquisitions, including representing Amentum in its reverse Morris trust merger with two Jacobs subsidiaries, has scored the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2025
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray
A team of Ropes & Gray LLP attorneys helped shepherd a private equity firm's purchase of AT&T's stake in DirecTV for more than $7.5 billion and led several other deals with similarly large price tags last year, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups Of The Year.
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February 05, 2025
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Debevoise
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP steered private equity giant Clayton Dubilier & Rice in its $15.5 billion acquisition of Truist Insurance Holdings and led Windstream Holdings in its $13.4 billion merger with Uniti Group, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2025
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has been handling private equity deals since before they were called private equity and continues to be a leader in the field, in the past year helping Visma hit a $21 billion valuation, assisting in BlackRock's $12.9 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners and advising Permira on its investment in PharmaCord, earning it recognition among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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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.
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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.
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February 28, 2024
Structured Finance Group Of The Year: Dentons
Dentons helped rescue the banking industry in 2023 by securing a $50 billion deal financing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s receivership of First Republic Bank following the second-largest bank failure in the U.S., earning the firm a spot among Law360's Structured Financing Groups of the Year for the third consecutive year.
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February 22, 2024
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has advised on more than 100 asset management M&A deals with a combined value of over $170 billion since Oct. 1, 2022, including Bridgepoint Group's acquisition of Energy Capital Partners to create a company with €57 billion ($61 billion) invested in global private markets, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 21, 2024
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray LLP recently steered deals for clients such as New Mountain Capital, BPEA EQT and TPG Capital Inc., including TPG's sale of high-profile talent agency Creative Artists Agency and BPEA EQT's $6.5 billion merger of its Hong Kong-based business services firms Vistra and Tricor, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 20, 2024
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP advised private equity giant Apollo in nearly $30 billion of publicly disclosed transactions, including multiple multibillion-dollar take-private acquisitions, despite a slow deals market, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 09, 2024
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's fund formation practice advised private equity behemoth Blackstone in 2023 on a $30.4 billion successor real estate fund, one of the milestones earning the group a spot in Law360's Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 08, 2024
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has lent its expertise to clients on the formation of some of the largest and most complex capital funds ever, earning the firm recognition as one of Law360's 2023 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2024
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP attorneys counseled on the formation of multibillion-dollar funds, including five totaling $37 billion for Goldman Sachs, a €16.7 billion ($18 billion) fund for Permira and a $17 billion fund for Brookfield Asset Management, landing the firm among Law360's 2023 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2024
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Debevoise
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP worked with Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC on its largest-ever fundraise and advised KKR & Co. Inc. in the formation of its $8 billion European fund, among other achievements, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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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.
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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.
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March 02, 2023
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Weil
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP counseled clients, including Blackstone Group Inc. and Advent International, on some of their biggest deals over the past year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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March 01, 2023
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP steered clients such as Thoma Bravo, Blackstone and Vista on some of their biggest deals of 2022, including Vista's $16.5 billion acquisition of Citrix Systems and Blackstone's $3 billion equity investment in Invenergy Renewables Holdings, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.