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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.
  • January 20, 2016

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Munger Tolles & Olson

    Munger Tolles & Olson LLP’s privacy and data security team defended ESPN and Disney Interactive from claims their apps violated user privacy, secured the end to class action suits against LinkedIn and wiped out privacy claims against a smartphone manufacturer, making it one of Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2016

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has helped secure more than $13 billion in infrastructure, transportation and energy deals across four continents, many of which pushed the industry's boundaries, earning the firm a spot on Law360's Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2016

    M&A Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's mergers and acquisitions team spent 2015 not just closing massive deals like H.J. Heinz's $55 billion merger with Kraft Foods, but wading into complex, contested deals, landing the firm among Law360's M&A Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2016

    Employment Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP was involved in not one, but two unanimous victories for employers last year at the U.S. Supreme Court on the issues of health benefits and employee pay, earning the group a spot on Law360's list of Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2016

    Telecom Group Of The Year: Wiley Rein

    Steeped in a strong communications industry background, attorneys at Wiley Rein LLP spent 2015 looking forward to new technology, never before done auctions and new clients around the world, earning a spot among Law360’s Telecom Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2016

    Food & Beverage Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    In 2015, Winston & Strawn LLP's food and beverage practice group notched key victories for some of the industry's largest leaders, including consumer labeling class action wins for liquor giant Beam Suntory, landing it a spot on Law360's Food & Beverage Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2016

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    With significant successful cases in 2015, including NII Holdings Inc. and RadioShack, and major ones like American Apparel and Alpha Natural Resources pending in 2016, Jones Day has continued to distinguish itself as one of the premier bankruptcy firms and merited mention among Law360’s Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2016

    Energy Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    Sidley Austin LLP's energy practice group guided some of the industry's largest companies through regulatory hurdles and multibillion-dollar transactions over the past year, including an proposed $5 billion acquisition by Duke Energy, making it one of Law360's Energy Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2016

    Tax Group Of The Year: Sutherland Asbill

    Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP’s diverse tax team helped secure litigation costs in its quest for a $27 million refund of California’s franchise tax for Comcast and scored a landmark win for insurance company RVI Guaranty, easily landing among Law360’s Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2016

    Sports Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Big wins for the Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs and an inside role at one of the big daily fantasy sports operators are among the achievements that landed Kirkland & Ellis LLP a spot among Law360's Sports Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2016

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Nossaman

    Nossaman LLP has played a key role in massive public-private partnership projects in seven states over the past year, including some that were the largest, or the first, of their kind, landing the firm among Law360’s Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2016

    Food & Beverage Group Of The Year: Patterson Belknap

    Last year was a sweet one for Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, whose food and beverage litigation team landed a win for Hershey Co., first in a proposed antioxidant benefit mislabeling class action then again in an alleged chocolate price-fixing scheme, solidifying the group's place among Law360’s Food and Beverage Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2016

    Privacy Group Of The Year: Cooley

    Cooley LLP has burnished its reputation for top-flight privacy work with appellate victories for Sony under the Video Privacy Protection Act and for Facebook in litigation challenging the use of minors' names and likenesses in ads, earning the firm a place among Law360's Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2016

    Energy Group of the Year: King & Spalding LLP

    King & Spalding LLP's energy group had a busy year in both the litigation and project finance arenas, winning a major victory in a federal wetlands dispute and guiding the first industrial gases project financed exclusively on an Islamic finance model, landing the team among Law360's Energy Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2016

    Employment Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser

    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP helped developers at some of the world's biggest technology companies score $435 million in settlements over an alleged plot not to cold-call one another's programmers, earning the group a spot on Law360's list of Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2016

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Jenner & Block LLP crafted the winning argument for client Wellness International in perhaps the most important bankruptcy case the U.S. Supreme Court heard in 2015 and continued to help guide Caesars Entertainment as its operating unit goes through a heated Chapter 11, earning the firm recognition as one of Law360’s Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2016

    Sports Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    From successfully defending Tom Brady in the “Deflategate” drama to tackling fantasy sports litigation, steering franchise relocations and resolving lucrative cable programming disputes, Gibson Dunn's sports law team aggressively defended its turf in 2015, landing it among Law360's Sports Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2016

    M&A Group Of The Year: Fried Frank

    The transactions team at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP guided some of 2015's blockbuster deals, including Humana's $37 billion sale to Aetna and CVS' $1.9 billion play for Target's pharmacy business, landing the firm among Law360's M&A Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2016

    Telecom Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    From the fight over net neutrality, to Time Warner Cable transactions, to multidistrict litigation over wireless switched-access charges, Latham & Watkins LLP was at the helm of some of the biggest regulatory, transactional and litigation issues in the communications space, earning a spot on Law360's list of Telecom Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2016

    Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden

    The tax team at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP in 2015 secured $234 million in foreign tax credits on behalf of Santander Holdings USA Inc. and advised Broadcom Corp. in the largest-ever semiconductor transaction, earning it a place among Law360’s tax groups of the year.

  • January 15, 2016

    Food & Beverage Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    Greenberg Traurig LLP has been behind some big wins for novel alcoholic beverage makers in labeling suits, besting consumers in several proposed class actions over the "all-natural" claims on the "Skinnygirl Margarita" drink developed by reality television star Bethenny Frankel, and landing its Food and Beverage group among Law360's Food & Beverage Groups of the Year. 

  • January 15, 2016

    Sports Group of the Year: Covington & Burling

    The Covington & Burling LLP sports group continued its representation of longtime client the NFL over the past year, guiding the league through several major issues including helping it score a major victory in a suit by the players union that had alleged the league colluded to suppress player salaries during the uncapped 2010 season, helping the Covington team earn a spot as one of Law360’s Sports Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2016

    Privacy Group Of The Year: BakerHostetler

    While beating back a proposed class action against its client GameStop over its sharing of subscribers' personal information with Facebook, BakerHostetler's privacy group helped develop important case law in the privacy arena, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2016

    Employment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    From obtaining a major en banc victory for Ford in an Americans with Disabilities Act case to nabbing the reversal of a roughly $90 million judgment in a rest break dispute, Gibson Dunn racked up a string of wins in 2015, landing it on Law360's list of Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2016

    Tax Group of the Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP's tax practice in 2015 successfully challenged the IRS on behalf of chipmaker Altera Corp. in one of the most important federal tax cases of the year and guided European telecommunications giant Altice's expansion into the U.S., earning the group a spot among Law360's Tax Practice Groups of 2015.

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