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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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February 01, 2016
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings
Paul Hastings LLP's real estate team helped guide headline-grabbing deals in 2015, from the $5.4 billion purchase of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan to the $185 million sale and lease-back of DreamWorks' Glendale, California, campus, earning it a place among Law360's Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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February 01, 2016
IP Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's intellectual property team helped Intel overturn a $10 million Ericsson standard essential patent verdict, nabbed a rare injunction for C.R. Bard in a patent infringement suit and fought off a $13 million claim for Samsung from "the original patent troll," landing the group a spot on Law360's list of IP Groups of the Year.
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February 01, 2016
White Collar Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s formidable trial prowess allowed Petro Tiger Ltd.’s former CEO to walk out of court a free man and its international expertise is being leveraged to represent FIFA in a high-profile global bribery investigation, earning it a spot among Law360’s White Collar Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 29, 2016
IP Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block
From representing Hospira Inc. in a major appeal over patents for a popular blood thinning drug, to nabbing a copyright victory for rapper Jay Z, Jenner & Block LLP has had a slew of intellectual property successes this year, landing the firm on Law360’s list of IP Groups of the Year.
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January 29, 2016
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Shook Hardy
After scoring victories on behalf of Philip Morris both overseas and domestically, as well as the continued success at trial representing Boston Scientific Corp. in its pelvic mesh litigation in 2015, the product liability team at Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP nabbed a spot among Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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January 29, 2016
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis
With transactions trending larger and clients commanding quick executions, Kirkland & Ellis LLP's real estate group has proven itself this past year on several complex deals — including Starwood Capital Group's $5 billion acquisition of a multistate apartment portfolio — and claimed a place among Law360's Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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January 29, 2016
White Collar Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP attorneys negotiated a global settlement on behalf of client Deutsche Bank AG over the Libor scandal and helped cement the landmark Newman insider trading decision, earning the firm recognition as one of Law360’s White Collar Groups of the Year.
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January 29, 2016
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher's private equity practice steered some of the year's largest deals and fundraisings, drawing on its financing prowess to champion Dell's $67 billion EMC buyout and Blackstone's $15.8 billion real estate fund, landing the firm among Law360's Practice Groups Of The Year.
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January 28, 2016
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has notched significant wins over for major client Pfizer in multdisitrict litigation cases over its cholesterol drug Lipitor and its antidepressant Zoloft, successfully targeting the plaintiffs' causation experts in those cases and landing among Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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January 28, 2016
Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal
From inking industry-changing deals such as DirecTV's $67 billion sale to AT&T to doggedly representing Pandora in a six-week copyright trial, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP worked the gamut of media law in 2015, earning it a spot among Law360’s list of Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.
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January 28, 2016
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig
Closing a number of record-breaking deals worth billions of dollars, Greenberg Traurig LLP achieved milestones like the highest price per room of any U.S. hotel sale and the second-largest office building transaction ever and secured a spot among Law360's 2015 Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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January 28, 2016
IP Group Of The Year: Goodwin Procter
Goodwin Procter LLP scored two U.S. Supreme Court victories on cases related to patents and trademarks and prompted the Federal Circuit to rewrite precedent last year, earning a spot among Law360's 2015 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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January 28, 2016
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis LLP spent the last year ushering billions of dollars' worth of deals across the globe for Thoma Bravo, Sycamore Partners, Bain Capital LP and other private equity clients old and new, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Private Equity Groups of the Year for the fifth consecutive year.
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January 28, 2016
White Collar Group Of The Year: Morvillo Abramowitz
Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC persuaded a jury to acquit Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP's former chairman of criminal charges following a grueling, four-month trial, then struck a favorable deferred prosecution deal, earning the firm a spot among Law360's White Collar Practice Groups of the Year for 2015.
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January 27, 2016
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Motley Rice
Motley Rice LLC attorneys seized on their abilities in the courtroom and at the negotiating table to secure some big wins for plaintiffs in 2015, including a $100 million jury verdict against Boston Scientific over pelvic mesh injuries and a $100 million settlement with three major tobacco companies over smoking-related injuries, earning the firm a place among Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2016
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn’s role in multibillion-dollar real estate mergers and massive hotel, entertainment and residential property deals in some of the world’s biggest markets, from Manhattan to New South Wales, Australia, has helped snag the firm a prime location among Law360’s Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2016
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Long established as a major law firm player in the private equity space, Gibson Dunn worked on a pair of billion-dollar deals for Lone Star Funds this past year as the firm continued grabbing work on some of 2015's largest private equity matters and secured a place among Law360’s Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2016
Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Mitchell Silberberg
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP's entertainment practice has steered high-profile trademark and copyright cases, including defending director James Cameron against claims he lifted elements of his 2009 blockbuster "Avatar" from lesser-known works, and tackled precedent-setting litigation for major record companies, earning it a spot among Law360's Media and Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2016
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in 2015 showcased the international and interdisciplinary depth that has made the firm a restructuring powerhouse, pulling off a major auction for A&P and landing the firm among Law360’s Bankruptcy Groups of the Year for the sixth year in a row.
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January 27, 2016
IP Group Of The Year: Fish & Richardson
The intellectual property attorneys at Fish & Richardson PC secured a slew of high stakes appellate and trial patent victories in 2015 for companies like Ion Geophysical Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360's IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 26, 2016
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
After helping facilitate several multibillion-dollar transactions in the past year, including heavy involvement in the development of New York City’s Hudson Yards and other major purchases across Manhattan, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP has earned a spot among Law360’s Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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January 26, 2016
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Skadden
Over the last year, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP’s corporate restructuring team pioneered the use of English law schemes of arrangement for European companies and helped Exide Technologies Inc. restructure more than $1 billion in debt, landing it among Law360’s Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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January 26, 2016
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP's product liability group has been an integral part of some of the past year's biggest product liability suits, including a $2.4 billion settlement for patients who developed bladder cancer after taking diabetes drug Actos, landing it among Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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January 26, 2016
IP Group Of The Year: Debevoise & Plimpton
Securing a win for Snyder's-Lance in a battle over the “Pretzel Crisps” trademark and scoring a copyright victory for Costco in its sale of “gray market” Omega watches have placed Debevoise & Plimpton among Law360’s IP Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 26, 2016
Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block
Decisive copyright victories in 2015, including cases directly representing the rapper Jay Z, helped Jenner & Block LLP once again earn a spot among Law360's Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.