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February 19, 2026
Latham & Watkins LLP shepherded Skydance Media's $8 billion merger deal with CBS owner Paramount Global, and the Ellison family and RedBird Capital Partners' $2.4 billion takeover of a controlling stake in Paramount owner National Amusements, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Telecommunications Groups of the Year.
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February 19, 2026
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's international arbitration lawyers scored a key discovery victory for client Exxon Mobil Corp. in a €20 billion ($23.74 billion) dispute over gas production in the Netherlands and successfully defended Ukraine against a $100 million investment treaty claim brought by a Russian-American businessman, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.
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February 19, 2026
Glancy Prongay Wolke & Rotter LLP has helped secure hundreds of millions of dollars from companies accused of misleading investors, navigating high-profile controversies such as the collapse of Archegos Capital Management LP, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.
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February 19, 2026
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP attorneys continued this past year to steer some of the biggest fundraises, including $22 billion in capital commitments for Blackstone's inaugural evergreen institutional U.S. direct lending fund, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 19, 2026
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP's environmental practice fended off a number of climate change liability suits waged by city governments against its oil and natural gas clients, and helped clients like East Tennessee Natural Gas LLC secure permitting for key infrastructure projects, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Environmental Groups of the Year.
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February 19, 2026
Finding creative ways to restructure $270 million in debt issued by a struggling cannabis company — and having the restructuring settlement recognized by a Canadian court — was one of the wins that helped make Feuerstein Kulick LLP one of the 2025 Law360 Cannabis Groups of the Year.
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February 19, 2026
Between helping Glencore PLC obtain early termination of its U.S. Department of Justice-imposed compliance monitorship, NatWest Markets end its DOJ compliance monitorship and GE HealthCare successfully resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations, WilmerHale's compliance group has had a busy year that earned it a place among the 2025 Law360 Compliance Groups of the Year.
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February 19, 2026
Goodwin Procter LLP scored a full defense verdict for Natixis while also winning a class action appeal at the Eleventh Circuit on behalf of John Hancock Life Insurance Co., earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Benefits Groups of the Year.
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February 18, 2026
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP steered telecom megadeals, among them AT&T's $5.75 billion acquisition of nearly all of Lumen's fiber business, and scored a court victory on media ownership rules, making it a 2025 Law360 Telecommunications Group of the Year.
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February 18, 2026
Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP was named one of the 2025 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year after it finalized a $200 million shareholder settlement with Uber, along with settlements on behalf of investors in Walmart, Discovery Inc. and Olaplex Holdings Inc., capping a year of victories that was also marked by tragedy when its chairman Christopher Keller died of cancer at age 54.
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February 18, 2026
Eversheds Sutherland's tax practice advised on key deals in 2025, guiding Duke Energy in securing $20 million in investment credits and aiding Verizon in avoiding $12 million in corporate franchise taxes, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.
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February 18, 2026
Kirkland & Ellis LLP guided several high-profile global investment funds as they sought to raise billions of dollars in capital last year, including a $16 billion distressed debt fund for Oaktree Capital and $34.4 billion in commitments for the Thoma Bravo Fund, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 18, 2026
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP guided Henry Crown & Co. in a record-setting $3.5 billion refinancing of Rockefeller Center, along with advising Saks Global on its $2.7 billion acquisition of Neiman Marcus Group, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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February 18, 2026
Freshfields LLP scored a historic win in the world of international arbitration in December 2024, when it secured for Austrian construction company Strabag SE the first-ever investment treaty award against Germany, earning the law firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.
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February 18, 2026
Mandelbaum Barrett PC secured a $14 million trial victory for a luxury condominium association against a contractor and guided a client through a thorny construction dispute following a change of ownership, earning its spot among the 2025 Law360 Construction Groups of the Year.
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February 18, 2026
Covington & Burling LLP advised U.S. Steel in its $14.9 billion acquisition by Japan's largest steelmaker, Nippon Steel, and helped Hino Motors Ltd. avoid the imposition of a third-party compliance monitor by the U.S. Department of Justice, earning it a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Compliance Groups of the Year.
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February 18, 2026
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP helped New Jersey sue DuPont in a first-of-its-kind series of bench trials in federal district court in 2025, one of several high-profile wins the firm's environmental team earned in cases regarding the environmental and human impact of "forever chemicals" — earning a place among the 2025 Law360 Environmental Groups of the Year.
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February 18, 2026
The cannabis group at Mandelbaum Barrett PC has represented numerous hemp and marijuana companies in clashes with regulators and law enforcement in New York, securing key victories for businesses navigating the rocky rollout of legalized cannabis in the Empire State, making the team one of the 2025 Law360 Cannabis Groups of the Year.
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February 18, 2026
Cohen Milstein's benefits team struck a $14.75 million deal with Citgo to end an outdated mortality data suit and secured a $7.9 million settlement in a 401(k) mismanagement case, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Benefit Groups of the Year.
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February 17, 2026
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP secured one of the largest shareholder class settlements of all time in a deal with Under Armour Inc. and has defeated multiple attempts by Disney to fend off a lawsuit filed by its investors, making the firm one of the 2025 Law360 Securities Groups of the Year.
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February 17, 2026
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz guided Charter Communications through the biggest telecom merger of the year when it picked up Cox Communications for $34.5 billion in a deal that created the second-largest broadband company in the country, earning it a spot among the Law360 2025 Telecommunications Groups of the Year.
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February 17, 2026
Wilkinson Stekloff LLP led the NCAA to a historic $2.78 billion name, image and likeness settlement and helped the organization fend off challenges to its eligibility requirements, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.
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February 17, 2026
Williams & Connolly LLP held onto the first contested injunction in Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act history and defended Pfizer's COVID-19 products against infringement claims, earning the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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February 17, 2026
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP helped Panama fend off a $2 billion claim asserted by a subsidiary of Canada-based First Quantum Minerals after the company's concession for one of the world's largest copper mines was ruled unconstitutional, landing the firm among the 2025 Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.
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February 17, 2026
Last year, the fund formation team at Ropes & Gray LLP helped private equity giant TPG Inc. close a $3 billion credit-focused continuation fund, guided another major private equity player, Bain Capital, in securing $5.7 billion from investors for its second global special situations fund and aided a unit of the Carlyle Group in raising $20 billion for its latest secondary fund, landing it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.