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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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February 11, 2022
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Debevoise
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP represented Clayton Dubilier & Rice on the closing of a $16 billion buyout fund — the private equity company's largest to date — and helped KKR & Co. raise a $3.9 billion Asia-Pacific infrastructure fund, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 02, 2022
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Weil
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP counseled clients including Blackstone and Advent International on some of their biggest deals over the past year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 01, 2022
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's transatlantic team of private equity professionals guided Apollo Global Management and Hg Capital on two of the year's biggest insurance industry transactions, landing it a spot among Law360's 2021 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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January 31, 2022
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's private equity practice group spent last year racking up multibillion-dollar deals with powerhouses including Blackstone and KKR, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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January 28, 2022
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster
The private equity practice at Morrison & Foerster LLP advised on 129 deals worth about $80 billion last year, including several sizable cross-border deals and transactions involving special purpose acquisition vehicles, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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January 14, 2022
Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its 2021 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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January 14, 2022
The Firms That Dominated In 2021
Nine law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 52 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, having steered complex deals and won high-profile victories including at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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December 17, 2020
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Weil
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's private funds practice steered more than $29 billion worth of fundraises for Brookfield Asset Management and guided the creation of up-and-comer Altas Partners' $3 billion buyout fund, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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December 16, 2020
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
In a year of multitudes, the fund formation team at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP raised the bar on capital fundraising, helping the Blackstone Group form both the largest European real estate fund ever raised and the largest real estate credit fund in history and earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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December 15, 2020
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP steered the creation of the direct lending platform Apollo Strategic Origination Partners and secured the dismissal of a suit looking to hold Blackstone accountable for a Kentucky pension fund's losses, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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December 14, 2020
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP guided Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division in the formation of a fund aiming to raise $14 billion and advised BlackRock in the $5.1 billion closing of its largest alternative asset fundraise, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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December 11, 2020
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Debevoise
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP represented Global Infrastructure Partners on the closing of its $22 billion investment fund, the largest such fund ever put together, as well as Stone Point Capital on its financial services-focused $7 billion fund, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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December 10, 2020
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's private equity practice spent the year guiding giants including Blackstone and KKR on more than 110 deals totaling more than $133 billion, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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December 09, 2020
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray LLP guided half of the 10 largest private equity deals in the country between March 1 and July 1, and spearheaded Advent International in its $1.6 billion acquisition of Forescout Technologies, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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December 08, 2020
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP guided funds managed by client Apollo Global through a handful of billion-dollar deals this year, including shepherding over the finish line the private equity giant's $2.7 billion deal to buy Shutterfly, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Private Equity Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 07, 2020
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins was able to keep plugging away this summer despite a pandemic, securing several big-ticket deals such as the $6.8 billion merger of CPA Global and Clarivate and earning the firm a spot among Law360's Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP helped an investor consortium buy RSA from Dell Technologies for more than $2 billion and is assisting KPS Capital Partners in its $2.1 billion bid to buy bankrupt auto company Garrett Motion, earning it a spot among Law360's Private Equity Practice Groups of the Year.
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November 25, 2020
Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year
Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2020 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.
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November 25, 2020
The Firms That Dominated In 2020
The eight law firms topping Law360's Firms of the Year managed to win 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, for guiding landmark deals, scoring victories in high-profile disputes and helping companies navigate uncharted legal seas made rough by the coronavirus pandemic.
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February 13, 2020
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher guided the creation of the world's largest real estate fund to date, the Blackstone Real Estate Partners IX $20.5 billion fund, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 12, 2020
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray LLP helped Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC create the first Bitcoin-focused futures fund, alongside launching over a hundred other private funds, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2020
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP steered a record-breaking $16 billion technology fund and corralled investors from more than 40 countries to deliver Warburg Pincus' largest fund to date, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 10, 2020
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Goodwin Procter
Goodwin Procter LLP advised some of the largest private equity groups in the world on their fund formations last year, including the creation of a $17.5 billion vehicle for private equity group Advent International and an $8.5 billion fund for TA Associates, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2020
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Cleary
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP steered multibillion-dollar investment funds and helped investors in Abraaj's Global Healthcare Fund find a new fund manager following Abraaj's collapse, earning the group a spot among Law360's 2019 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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January 30, 2020
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Weil
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's private equity practice helped close some of the biggest deals in the industry, including SoftBank's $9.5 billion rescue of WeWork following its failed IPO and Brookfield's $4.8 billion majority stake in Oaktree Capital Group, making it one of Law360's 2019 Private Equity Groups of the Year.