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.
  • 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.

  • February 10, 2025

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Fenwick

    Fenwick & West LLP leveraged its broad experience with complex health tech and science to guide large biotech clients through major acquisitions and secured a significant Federal Circuit win for a life sciences client, earning the firm a nod as one of the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year. 

  • February 10, 2025

    Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells succeeded in persuading the U.S. Government Accountability Office that an $896 million contract for transportation services supporting the Office of Refugee Resettlement's program for unaccompanied children wasn't properly awarded, landing it among the 2024 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2025

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Keller Rohrback

    Keller Rohrback won final approval of a $725 million settlement in a case accusing Facebook of harvesting millions of users' data, and a year later, sought preliminary approval of a $30 million settlement in security breach litigation against 23andMe, placing the firm among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • February 10, 2025

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Gupta Wessler

    Gupta Wessler LLP had one of the most impactful years in its 12-year history in 2024, representing transportation workers, victims of sexual assault by Uber drivers and homebuyers, as well as taking home two unanimous wins in the U.S. Supreme Court against Bank of America and preparing to argue for another in 2025, landing the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2025

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Cooley

    Cooley LLP advised radiopharmaceutical therapeutics company RayzeBio on its $4.1 billion post-IPO sale to Bristol Myers Squibb and helped biopharmaceutical company Liquidia nab significant victories in a patent dispute with United Therapeutics, earning the firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2025

    Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Debevoise

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP helped shape new NFL rules allowing private equity firms to become team owners and represented students fighting to protect transgender athletes' rights, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2025

    Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Wiley

    Wiley Rein LLP's multiple recent successes in litigation involving federal contractor clients, including a precedent-setting victory for Boeing at the Federal Circuit, have earned the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • February 07, 2025

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP delivered a heavy hit last year to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's efforts to expand regulatory authority over public companies' cybersecurity practices, winning a landmark victory for SolarWinds Corp. and landing it a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2025

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Williams & Connolly's appellate team led Starbucks to a Supreme Court victory that changed the standard for NLRB officials seeking injunctions against employers, and convinced it to overturn a former Indiana mayor's conviction by narrowing a federal bribery law's scope, earning the firm recognition as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2025

    Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn LLP

    Winston & Strawn LLP was co-counsel for the athletes that reached a groundbreaking $2.78 billion settlement of their antitrust class action against the NCAA and its institutions that will bring revenue sharing to college sports for the first time, placing it among the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2025

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Keker

    Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP successfully secured a $62 million settlement while resolving six proposed class action suits against Google, freeing the tech giant from many consumer privacy claims and pumping vast funding to internet privacy nonprofits, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2025

    Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter

    Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP played a major role in a successful bid protest of a $12 billion U.S. Air Force missile support contract for aerospace and defense giant BAE Systems, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • February 06, 2025

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Freshfields

    Freshfields US LLP's recent work advising Johnson & Johnson on its $13.1 billion acquisition of cardiovascular device developer Shockwave Medical — the largest medical device transaction of 2024 — has earned the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2025

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP notched critical wins as the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an Eighth Amendment challenge to a city's public camping law and gave insurers a voice in mass tort bankruptcies, making it one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • February 05, 2025

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP advised on deals including Signature Bank's loan sale, two mega multifamily portfolio sales and the rise of an ultra-luxury tower in New York City in 2024, placing the firm among the 2024 Law360 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • February 05, 2025

    Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Seyfarth Shaw

    Seyfarth Shaw LLP had the most GAO bid protest wins during a 12-month period spanning the bulk of 2024, setting precedent and prompting regulatory changes in several of those cases, earning the firm a spot among 2024 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • February 05, 2025

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells successfully defended Danco Laboratories LLC against an effort to revoke the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion drug mifepristone and, across the globe, helped shepherd a collaboration between Merck & Co. and Japan's Daiichi Sankyo in a multibillion-dollar cancer therapy drug deal, landing the firm among the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 05, 2025

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser

    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP secured a $115 million settlement with Oracle for its allegedly unlawful sale of internet users' electronic profiles and helped craft a $62 million deal to resolve allegations that Google illegally tracked and stored smartphone users' private location information, earning the plaintiffs' firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • February 05, 2025

    Construction Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP guided New York City's Department of Design and Construction as lead counsel on the development of the agency's design-build program, which includes a $13 billion project to replace Rikers Island with community-based jails by using a novel project delivery method for the city, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Construction Groups of the Year.

  • February 05, 2025

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells argued eight cases before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2024, secured key victories for manufacturers of abortion medication and shut down a 21 million-member class action for Google, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • February 04, 2025

    Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP advised the National Football League as its owners approved private equity investment for the first time in league history, was co-counsel for the NFL when a $4.7 billion jury verdict for subscribers in the Sunday Ticket antitrust trial was overturned by the judge, and advised the National Basketball Association on a $76.9 billion media rights agreement, placing it among the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.

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