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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.
  • December 08, 2020

    Banking Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP's banking practice secured for UBS a more than $1 billion judgment against two defunct affiliates of the bankrupt Highland Capital Management, and it got more than two dozen underwriters of two initial public offerings off the hook in separate investor class actions, earning it a place among Law360's 2020 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • December 08, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: Dechert

    Dechert helped end the FTC's five-year merger challenge winning streak when it led PeroxyChem to victory earlier this year, allowing the company's $635 million union with fellow chemical producer Freshfields-led Evonik to move forward and landing the firm among Law360's 2020 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • December 08, 2020

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Edelson

    Edelson PC won initial approval of a $650 million cash settlement in a biometric privacy case against Facebook and retained a $925 million jury verdict against dietary supplement marketer ViSalus in an unauthorized robocall suit, landing it among Law360's 2020 Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 08, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Bracewell

    Bracewell LLP's environmental attorneys worked on several major deals and scored key litigation wins this year, including defeating efforts to halt construction on the Permian Highway Pipeline natural gas project in Texas, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • December 08, 2020

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins attorneys represented the underwriters of Saudi Aramco's record-breaking $29.4 billion initial public offering, steered the debut of tech companies including Lemonade on public securities markets and handled multibillion-dollar deals with special purpose acquisition companies, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Competition attorneys from Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP scored a pivotal victory for Qualcomm this year defending against a Federal Trade Commission enforcement action, while also filing high-profile suits against Apple and Google on behalf Epic Games and helping companies including Mylan get through major merger reviews, landing the practice among Law360's 2020 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP successfully defended AbbVie from a novel theory that it had created a "patent thicket" around its immunosuppressant drug Humira to block cheaper biosimilars from coming onto the market, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • December 07, 2020

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC's life sciences practice group is a small but mighty team of two attorneys who landed a number of litigation wins over the past year, including a $62.5 million settlement in a pay-for-delay class action against Allergan over its birth control drug, landing the group among Law360's 2020 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells advised Facebook on a billion-dollar investment in an Indian telecommunications provider and represented a U.S. packaging supplier in duty probes over Chinese glass containers, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2020 International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    Insurance Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP represented Chubb in COVID-19 business interruption disputes and successfully argued on behalf of dozens of insurers against industrywide consolidation of over 130 virus coverage suits before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP won a $1.1 billion verdict for the California Institute of Technology against Apple and Broadcom in one of the largest patent verdicts in history, earning it a spot among Law360's 2020 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    Banking Practice Group Of The Year: Cravath

    In the past year, Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's banking practice group fended off a suit accusing Goldman Sachs of unfairly profiting from advising natural food wholesaler United Natural Foods Inc. on a $2.9 billion acquisition. This accomplishment, among others, garnered the group a place among Law360's 2020 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    Benefits Practice Group Of The Year: Keller Rohrback

    Keller Rohrback LLP has helped workers score victories against large corporations in "David and Goliath-type situations," including a $9 million settlement for about a quarter of a million current and former JPMorgan Chase & Co. employees, making it one of Law360's 2020 Benefits Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: DiCello Levitt

    DiCello Levitt Gutzler LLC helped consumers impacted by Equifax's massive data breach secure a deal that requires the credit reporting giant to shell out more than $1 billion and scored a ruling that kept alive multidistrict litigation over a cyberattack at hotel chain Marriott, earning it a spot among Law360's 2020 Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    Securities Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's work defending JPMorgan Chase in a $1.8 billion bankruptcy fight created new precedent protecting the $2.4 trillion syndicated loan market from legal scrutiny, and companies like Volkswagen and Wells Fargo continue to turn to the firm to navigate legal crises, earning the firm a place among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP notched victories in high-profile overtime cases this year while also collaborating with affinity groups to support diverse lawyers throughout the profession who may face a disproportionate punch from the COVID-19 pandemic, earning it a spot among Law360's 2020 Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Beveridge & Diamond

    Beveridge & Diamond PC served as the court-appointed monitor for marquee actions like Volkswagen's $2.8 billion criminal plea over its emissions regulations scandal and Duke Energy's polluting of North Carolina waters with coal ash, earning itself a spot among Law360's 2020 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • December 04, 2020

    Mergers & Acquisitions Group of the Year: Wachtell

    The mergers & acquisitions team at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz executed a historically complicated corporate restructuring, advising the split-up of industrial giant United Technologies Corp., which resulted in three publicly traded companies, landing the team among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.

  • December 04, 2020

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Hagens Berman

    Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP brought massive class actions to a close throughout the year, securing a landmark $215 million deal for the patients of a doctor accused of sexual assault and nabbing $700 million for Mercedes drivers, earning the firm a spot on Law360's Class Action Groups of 2020.

  • December 04, 2020

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP steered giant debt offerings that went beyond vanilla structures to include funding for environmental and social goals despite unprecedented economic volatility caused by the coronavirus pandemic, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • December 04, 2020

    Competition Group Of The Year: Berger Montague

    Berger Montague played a leading role in some of the year's largest antitrust class action settlements, helping earn its clients hundreds of millions of dollars and earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • December 04, 2020

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Crowell & Moring

    From disproving forced labor allegations against a Malawi tobacco company to helping a nonprofit combat tuberculosis in North Korea and providing real-time COVID-19 advice to clients across the globe, Crowell & Moring LLP has successfully navigated uncharted territory, earning it a spot among Law360's 2020 International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • December 04, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP spearheaded 3M's use of trademark law to target price gouging of its masks during the COVID-19 pandemic and represented Spotify in a high-profile fight over streaming royalty rates, earning it a place among Law360's 2020 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

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