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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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February 08, 2019
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Cleary
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP advised clients on billion-dollar portfolio acquisitions, including representing Brookfield Asset Management in the formation of a $1.9 billion joint venture, among others, earning it a spot as one of Law360's Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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February 08, 2019
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP won the attention of the private equity world in the past year in part by spearheading KKR & Co. Inc.'s $9.9 billion purchase of Envision Healthcare, making it one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 08, 2019
Product Liability Group Of The Year: King & Spalding
Among King & Spalding LLP's achievements last year was when the Seventh Circuit overturned a $3 million verdict against GlaxoSmithKline PLC in a suit over suicide warnings on the generic form of its antidepressant Paxil, landing the firm among Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2019
International Trade Group Of The Year: Wiley Rein
Wiley Rein LLP represented the nation's largest steel and aluminum producers as part of the Trump administration's investigations into national security concerns with imports, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2018 International Trade Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2019
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Jones Day
Jones Day argued major pharmaceutical and complex asbestos cases before the Supreme Court, fended off scores of suits targeting R.J. Reynolds and laid the groundwork for its defense of Walmart and AbbVie Inc. in the high stakes opioid multidistrict litigation, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2019
Energy Group Of The Year: Vinson & Elkins
Vinson & Elkins LLP represented Energy Transfer Partners in its acquisition by Energy Transfer Equity in a deal valued at about $60 billion and helped Plains All American Pipeline LP get a major securities suit thrown out by a Texas federal judge, grabbing a spot on Law 360's Energy Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2019
White Collar Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's trailblazing work for Barclays saw the bank fight a financial crisis-era case and avoid criminal charges in a foreign currency investigation at the same time the group helped Wells Fargo weather fallout over retail sales practices, putting the firm among Law360's White Collar Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2019
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP's private equity practice ushered forward some of the biggest deals in the industry this year, including The Carlyle Group's partnership with GIC in acquiring an AkzoNobel chemicals unit for €10.1 billion, making the firm a Law360 Private Equity Group of the Year.
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February 07, 2019
Health Care Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly
Williams & Connolly LLP helped CVS beat Medicaid fraud allegations lodged by the Texas Attorney General as well as two proposed consumer class actions against CVS in California, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Health Care Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2019
Health Care Group Of The Year: McDermott
McDermott Will & Emery LLP is assisting CVS Health Corp. in its $69 billion acquisition of Aetna Inc., and it represented Air Medical Group Holdings on a $2.44 billion acquisition and successfully defeated an antitrust suit against a medical group, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Health Care Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2019
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray LLP advised on close to 250 private equity deals over the past year, including helping Bain Capital complete its controversial, multibillion-dollar acquisition of Toshiba Corp.'s memory business amid a trade war between the U.S. and China, landing the firm on Law360's list of 2018 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2019
Energy Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP advised on several large-scale energy transactions in 2018 and helped Exxon Mobil Corp. establish a joint venture to create the world's largest petrochemical facility, landing it among Law360's Energy Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2019
International Trade Group of the Year: Kelley Drye
The international trade team at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP landed a major win for the domestic steel industry in a massive, 10-country anti-dumping investigation in 2018 and racked up victories for large power transformer producers as well, earning its place among Law360's International Trade Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2019
White Collar Group Of The Year: Skadden
While achieving the rare feat of beating insider trading charges in a stateside jury trial for medical device executive James Mazzo, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP also flexed its cross-border prowess by helping Société Générale resolve allegations levied at it by multiple countries' agencies, landing the firm a spot among Law360's White Collar Groups of the Year.
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February 05, 2019
International Trade Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP worked to secure a presidential order that effectively blocked Broadcom Ltd.'s $117 billion takeover bid for California-based Qualcomm Inc. and knocked back a rare antitrust probe at the U.S. International Trade Commission, earning the firm a spot among Law360's International Trade Groups of the Year.
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February 05, 2019
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP represented Bain Capital in the estimated $8 billion sale of BMC Software Inc. and guided General Motors Corp. through nearly $5 billion worth of investments into its self-driving cars unit, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's Private Equity Groups of the Year for the eighth year in a row.
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February 05, 2019
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Dechert
Racking up defense wins in some of the year's most complex and far-reaching product liability cases and plunging into the nationwide multidistrict opioid litigation, Dechert LLP has earned a place as one of Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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February 05, 2019
White Collar Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's white collar defense group took on cases with vast political and legal implications — from representing White House figures in the Russia investigation to advising former President George W. Bush in document handovers during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings — landing the firm a spot among Law360's White Collar Groups of the Year.
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February 05, 2019
Health Care Group Of The Year: Lash & Goldberg
Florida's Lash & Goldberg LLP blocked a hospital from crossing the borders of its congressionally allowed district and helped a separate hospital keep personal injury protection litigation at bay, earning it a spot as one of Law360's Health Care Groups of the Year.
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February 05, 2019
Energy Group Of The Year: Latham
A key player in major energy sector deals and litigation, Latham & Watkins LLP scored big wins in some closely watched cases, including a $765 million suit on behalf of Consol Energy Inc. and CNX Gas Co., landing the firm among Law360's Energy Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2019
International Trade Group of the Year: Barnes & Thornburg
Barnes & Thornburg LLP convinced the U.S. International Trade Commission to set tariffs totaling more than 400 percent on imported sodium gluconate from China in a significant trade remedy victory for a client last year, landing it a spot as one of Law360's International Trade Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2019
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP ended 13 years of litigation over Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.'s acne drug Accutane, won bellwether trials for Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals over blood thinner Pradaxa and resolved hundreds of suits over a Bayer-made IUD, earning it a place among Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2019
Energy Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block
Jenner & Block LLP's new energy group racked up achievements last year, from upholding nuclear credit programs at two appellate courts to helping eliminate entry barriers for distributed energy resources in wholesale markets, earning it recognition as one of Law360's 2018 Energy Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2019
Health Care Group Of The Year: King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP's health care group spent 2018 guiding clients through a number of cases, including helping Prime Healthcare defeat a bid to dismiss a suit over alleged Medicare Advantage underpayments, earning its lawyers a spot among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2019
White Collar Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP served as co-counsel on an investigation into claims of sexual misconduct at CBS News and, specifically, by CBS Chairman Les Moonves, and made recommendations on a racially charged, headline-grabbing incident between a Starbucks employee and a customer over the last year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2018 White Collar Groups of the Year.