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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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February 04, 2025
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has been handling private equity deals since before they were called private equity and continues to be a leader in the field, in the past year helping Visma hit a $21 billion valuation, assisting in BlackRock's $12.9 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners and advising Permira on its investment in PharmaCord, earning it recognition among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2025
Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Bradley Arant
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP's efforts leading a complicated multiparty dispute over a $60.7 billion U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs contract have earned the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2025
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP life sciences attorneys got Europe's highest court to scale back the European Commission's ability to oversee mergers, and advised Cerevel Therapeutics on its monumental $8.7 billion acquisition by AbbVie, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2025
Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn helped Meta Platforms Inc. stave off claims that Illinois' biometric privacy law broadly applies to nonusers' facial scans and assisted DoorDash Inc. in limiting its exposure in one of the first regulatory investigations under California's trailblazing data privacy law, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2025
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings
Paul Hastings LLP spent 2024 representing renowned bankruptcy cases, including FTX, Core Scientific, WeWork and Diamond Sports Group's Chapter 11, helping various creditors recover billions of dollars and overcome challenging restructuring hurdles, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2025
Environmental Group Of The Year: Keller Rohrback
Keller Rohrback LLP attorneys secured a $160 million settlement for the city of Seattle in a lawsuit accusing Monsanto of forever-chemical contamination, and they won $126.4 million in damages against PacifiCorp for its role in igniting the 2020 Oregon wildfires, earning the firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Environmental Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2025
Appellate Group Of The Year: Jones Day
Jones Day spent 2024 stacking up wins in some of the highest-profile and controversial appellate cases of the year, representing everyone from election betting market Kalshi to gun manufacturers and a state legislature accused of racial gerrymandering, all reasons it was picked as one of the 2024 Law360 Appellate Groups of the Year.
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February 05, 2025
Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Keker
Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP's sports team helped revive an imperiled college athletics conference, defended the PGA Tour against antitrust litigation and is the go-to counsel for MLB, placing the firm among the 2024 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups Of The Year.
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February 03, 2025
White Collar Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP pulled off a legal high-wire act guiding FTX Trading Ltd. through a complex $16 billion bankruptcy proceeding while navigating a parallel criminal investigation into the crypto exchange's collapse, securing the firm's place among the 2024 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.
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February 03, 2025
Environmental Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin
Sidley Austin LLP attorneys over the past year have helped protect a large offshore wind energy project from multiple lawsuits, helped Cummins Inc. resolve a major federal investigation and helped force Alexandria, Virginia, to stop discharging coal tar into the Potomac River, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Environmental Groups of the Year.
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February 03, 2025
Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's global team mastered the gamut of capital-raising transactions across continents in 2024, including billion-dollar-plus initial public offerings involving Finnish sporting goods giant Amer Sports and Swiss skincare company Galderma, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.
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February 03, 2025
Technology Group Of The Year: Fenwick
Fenwick & West LLP attorneys guided Smartsheet in its $8.4 billion acquisition by private equity giants Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners, and notched a number of significant patent litigation victories for Amazon, earning the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Technology Groups of the Year.
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February 03, 2025
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Akin
The more than 100 restructuring lawyers at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP have untangled some of the most complex Chapter 11 cases in recent years for the benefit of unsecured creditors, including the sprawling proceedings of hospital system Steward Health Care and the difficult reorganization of Diamond Sports Group, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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January 31, 2025
White Collar Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP successfully ended a five-year government investigation into alleged illegal monkey importation by two drug development companies with no enforcement actions and secured a favorable plea for a private equity manager accused of what prosecutors claimed was the most significant white collar case ever in Oregon, earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.
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January 31, 2025
Tax Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's diverse tax practice went from strength to strength this year, from advising well-known companies like Boeing and Discover that inked multibillion-dollar deals to counseling industry leaders in shaking up their sectors, helping it earn a place among the 2024 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.
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January 31, 2025
Technology Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP won a significant victory for Google in an ongoing antitrust case and advised longtime client Apollo Global Management on one of the year's most significant technology deals, a joint venture with Intel, earning recognition as a 2024 Law360 Technology Group of the Year.
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January 31, 2025
Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly
Williams & Connolly LLP was successful in several significant First Amendment cases, including one upholding a reporter's right to express opinions, and two others recognizing the importance of summary judgment against the chilling effect of a defamation lawsuit, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.
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January 31, 2025
Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP had a banner year guiding the largest New York Stock Exchange initial public offering of 2024, arranging the top two high-yield transactions of 2023 and wielding an international team to help their clients stand out in any market, earning the firm a spot in the 2024 Law360 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.
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January 31, 2025
Environmental Group Of The Year: Bracewell
Bracewell LLP helped a Louisiana chemical facility stave off a regulatory push that would allegedly force it to shut down, helped small refiners win hardship exemptions from renewable fuel-blending requirements, and helped companies advance regional hydrogen hub and offshore wind projects, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Environmental Groups of the Year.
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January 31, 2025
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Jones Day
Jones Day's bankruptcy attorneys spent 2024 on the frontiers of their practice, with work that included helping a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary enter bankruptcy with a proposal for a historically large talc injury settlement, as well as helping Spark Networks SE to navigate a new German bankruptcy law and the Chapter 15 process — putting the team among the 2024 Law360 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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January 30, 2025
Technology Group Of The Year: Orrick
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's technology practice has advised on a range of high-value deals and litigation matters in the sector over the past year, including handling over $20 billion in venture financing transactions for artificial intelligence companies and overturning a $2 billion trade secrets verdict, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Technology Groups of the Year.
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January 30, 2025
White Collar Group Of The Year: Kaplan Marino
Kaplan Marino secured a client's acquittal of federal bribery charges, dismissal of state charges for an attorney accused in a kickback scheme and negotiated a probated sentence for a doctor accused of over 40 state crimes, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 White Collar Groups of the Year.
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January 30, 2025
Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP attorneys played a key role in a massive $28 billion merger agreement between Paramount and Skydance that would create a new media conglomerate, and it counseled Disney in a suit from a Mexican soccer club claiming it was owed millions in streaming rights following Disney's purchase of 21st Century Fox, earning the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.
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January 30, 2025
Environmental Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's environmental practice handled a particularly diverse array of cases last year, including successfully defending eBay against U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency allegations that it violated three environmental statutes via harmful products sold using its platform, earning the team a spot among the 2024 Law360 Environmental Groups of the Year.
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January 30, 2025
Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's tax practice advised on key deals and cases in 2024, including Mars Inc.'s $35.9 million acquisition of Kellanova and BlackRock Inc.'s $12.5 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners, landing it among the 2024 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.