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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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January 18, 2019
Appellate Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly
Williams & Connolly LLP's Supreme Court and appellate practice group tallied up an impressive series of wins over the last year, including presenting oral arguments in three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and representing the prevailing parties in several of the most significant appellate victories in the country, earning it a place among Law360's 2018 Appellate Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2019
M&A Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has helped steer some of the year's largest deals, including AT&T's $108.7 billion deal for Time Warner and Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies' roughly $35 billion merger of equals, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 17, 2019
Securities Group Of The Year: Labaton Sucharow
The multifaceted securities team at Labaton Sucharow LLP scored impressive wins for clients in the past year in class action litigation, opt-out cases and in representing whistleblowers in a landmark U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement action, among other achievements, landing it on the list of Law360's 2018 Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 17, 2019
IP Group Of The Year: Jones Day
The intellectual property team at Jones Day achieved a slew of victories in 2018 but perhaps none more significant than a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board must decide the validity of every challenged patent claim when it agrees to institute America Invents Act review, cementing the firm's spot among Law360's IP Groups of the Year.
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January 17, 2019
Tax Group Of The Year: McDermott Will & Emery
McDermott Will & Emery's tax practice made headlines in 2018 by winning a high-stakes repatriation case before the U.S. Tax Court, advising CVS in its multibillion-dollar acquisition of health insurance giant Aetna and securing a victory for Starbucks in a New York False Claims Act case, landing it among Law360's Tax Practice Groups Of The Year.
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January 17, 2019
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Weil
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has amassed numerous wins in federal court in the past year — including a nearly $27 million jury win for Illumina Inc. in a patent suit — landing its life sciences team among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 17, 2019
M&A Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has steered some of the world's largest companies through transformational deals, like 21st Century Fox's $71.3 billion acquisition by the Walt Disney Co. and Cigna's $67 billion acquisition of pharmacy benefit management services company Express Scripts, earning it a spot among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 17, 2019
Appellate Group Of The Year: Orrick
Orrick's appellate team was undefeated at the U.S. Supreme Court in the last term, swaying then-new Justice Neil Gorsuch's deciding vote in an immigration case that nixed a tool used to place people in deportation proceedings, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2018 Appellate Groups of the Year.
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January 16, 2019
IP Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP scored a victory on behalf of Fox News in a closely watched copyright case against a television search engine, and also secured a $93 million patent win for Schlumberger Ltd. unit WesternGeco, landing it a spot as one of Law360's IP Groups of the Year.
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January 16, 2019
Securities Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Securing a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that opened up potential appointments clause challenges to administrative law judges who decide enforcement cases for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is one of the victories that earned Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP a spot among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 16, 2019
Tax Group Of The Year: Eversheds Sutherland LLP
Racking up key victories in representing SiriusXM in Texas in a franchise tax case and Utah candy company See's Candies in a transfer pricing case, Eversheds Sutherland LLP's tax attorneys have helped land their team as a Law360 2018 Practice Group of the Year.
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January 16, 2019
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP scored a Federal Circuit win for Vanda Pharmaceuticals that led to new patent guidance, successfully defended Fresenius' decision to cancel its $4.8 billion Akorn buy and kept a Genentech hemophilia treatment from being booted from the market, landing the firm among Law360's Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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January 16, 2019
Appellate Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP had a big year in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018, winning six cases, including one concerning the Alien Tort Statute and one for the Wisconsin State Legislature in a gerrymandering case, earning it a spot among Law360's Appellate Groups of the Year.
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January 16, 2019
M&A Group Of The Year: Shearman & Sterling
Shearman & Sterling LLP has tackled deals around the globe for major clients, including Novartis, CVS Health Corp. and Unibail-Rodamco SE, and its comprehensive approach to mergers and acquisitions has set it apart from the competition and earned the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 15, 2019
Tax Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's tax division had a banner year in 2018. From advising the Walt Disney Co. regarding its acquisition of 21st Century Fox to providing the Linde Group with advice on its merger with Praxair, Cravath found itself on the front lines of some of the year's most important tax-related transactions.
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January 15, 2019
Securities Group Of The Year: Cleary
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP earned victories in some of 2018's most high-profile cases, settling landmark securities litigation over the Petrobras scandal and defeating an attempt to strip voting control from CBS Corp.'s parent company, earning it a spot among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year for the second year in a row.
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January 15, 2019
IP Group Of The Year: Fish & Richardson
Fish & Richardson PC successfully overturned two major jury verdicts — including the largest patent infringement award in U.S. history — for its client Gilead Sciences Inc., while also notching victories for companies such as Altair Engineering Inc. and Velcro USA Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 15, 2019
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins
Latham & Watkins LLP was able to block Nevada from using Alvogen Inc.'s drug in a lethal injection, secured orphan drug exclusivity for Eagle Pharmaceuticals Inc. after a large fight with the FDA and advised a key generic-drug industry merger, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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January 15, 2019
Appellate Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block
Jenner & Block's 22-person appellate team won a case that could radically change how people watch sporting events and successfully argued a case at the U.S. Supreme Court that will affect anyone who pays taxes, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2018 Appellate Groups of the Year.
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January 15, 2019
M&A Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP worked on several global mergers and acquisitions this year, including guiding Comcast Corp. in its bidding war with 21st Century Fox for British telecom giant Sky PLC, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 14, 2019
Tax Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's tax team in 2018 guided several monster mergers and acquisitions and secured the lowest fine for a Category 1 Swiss bank under the U.S. Department of Justice's Swiss bank program, earning the firm a return to Law360's Tax Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 14, 2019
Securities Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP recently secured settlements worth a combined $820 million resolving major shareholder litigation against Wells Fargo & Co., Pershing Square and Valeant Pharmaceuticals, and Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. directors, earning the firm a place on Law360's list of Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 14, 2019
IP Group Of The Year: Desmarais
Desmarais LLP netted a $400 million settlement for Cisco Systems Inc. against network equipment rival Arista Networks Inc. and secured an $82.5 million verdict for IBM Corp. as the technology giant cruised through its first jury trial as a plaintiff in a patent infringement case, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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January 14, 2019
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP edged out a win in Delaware federal court in August when a judge ruled Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC's proposed generic version of firm client Galderma Laboratories LP's flagship rosacea drug Oracea infringes five of Galderma's patents, landing its life sciences team among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 14, 2019
M&A Group Of The Year: Cravath
This past year, Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP steered Time Warner through a fight over a $108.7 billion deal with AT&T and guided Disney through an $85 billion deal for 21st Century Fox's film and television studios, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.