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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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February 28, 2023
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP last year racked up a handful of multibillion-dollar deals, including two transactions centered around cybersecurity amid the pandemic-spurred shift to hybrid working environments, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 27, 2023
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Sidley
Sidley Austin LLP flourished in 2022, steering one of the biggest sports deals in history with the $3.1 billion sale of Chelsea Football Club and the $5.4 billion acquisition of Quest Software, along with other high-value transactions that included complicated regulatory and financing challenges, to earn the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 24, 2023
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Debevoise
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP simultaneously advised KKR & Co. on the closing of an infrastructure fund and a private equity fund that combined to total $36 billion, just one of the achievements that earned the firm a place among Law360's 2022 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 24, 2023
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP boasts a long list of well-known private equity clients, having advised Blackstone Group on a €58 billion ($61.5 billion) bid for Italian infrastructure giant Atlantia, and Silver Lake as the second-largest shareholder in cloud services provider VMware's $61 billion acquisition by Broadcom, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 23, 2023
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP helped several of its corporate clients raise and close high-value funds over the past year, including representing Francisco Partners on the closing of nearly $17 billion in capital commitments between two of its flagship funds that were both oversubscribed and exceeded target fund sizes, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 21, 2023
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has advised the fund formation of several active investment managers, including Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners and Carlyle Group Inc., over the past year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 17, 2023
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Willkie
A whopping $20 billion fundraise for longtime client Insight Partners, a leading private equity and venture capital firm, fueled Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's entry into Law360's 2022 Fund Formation Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 16, 2023
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP attorneys counseled on multiple billion-dollar deals over the past year, including a $1.5 billion fund for BlackRock, a $9.7 billion fund for Goldman Sachs and the formation of a $3.1 billion credit solutions fund for Angelo Gordon, earning it a spot among Law360's 2022 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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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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February 17, 2022
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP represented Hellman & Friedman on the closing of a $24 billion buyout fund, the largest private equity fund to close in 2021, and helped CVC Capital Partners raise €21.25 billion (about $24.2 billion) to form Europe's largest buyout fund to date, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 16, 2022
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Mattos Filho
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados has been on the cutting edge of investments in Brazil, serving as underwriters in the country's first crypto-asset exchange-traded fund and helping XP Allocation Asset Management form the first Brazilian private equity fund-of-funds targeted to qualified investors, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 15, 2022
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP helped financial institutions create and raise funds for investment in markets worldwide, including Dyal Capital Partners' vehicle to acquire minority interests in NBA teams and a $13 billion fund that marked Goldman Sachs' largest since the 2008 financial crisis, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2021 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 14, 2022
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Dentons
Dentons guided a host of high-profile clients through the creation of impactful multimillion-dollar funds, including leading the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a $120 million fund for minority depository institutions in low-income communities, scoring the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Fund Formation 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.