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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 15, 2016

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Debevoise & Plimpton

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP steered security screening firm Altegrity through a complex $1.8 billion restructuring and helped a hedge fund rescue thousands of RadioShack stores from potential liquidation, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year for 2015.

  • January 15, 2016

    Energy Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's involvement on major energy deals like Baker Hughes Inc.'s $35 billion sale to Halliburton Co., and big litigation wins for the likes of BHP Billiton Ltd. and Consolidated Edison Inc., have earned the firm a spot among Law360’s Energy Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2016

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Chadbourne & Parke

    Chadbourne & Parke LLP’s project finance team, already a recognized leader in the field, advised on well over $40 billion in transactions last year overseas and around the U.S., leading the BigLaw pack and landing among Law360’s Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2016

    Telecom Group Of The Year: Davis Wright Tremaine

    Communications attorneys at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP kicked off 2015 with a U.S. Supreme Court victory, navigated regulatory enforcement actions and are poised to argue a case of first impression over Internet access assessments, earning a spot on Law360's Telecom Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2016

    M&A Group Of The Year: Debevoise & Plimpton

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP attorneys over the last year served as principal advisers in multiple transactions valued at more than $10 billion, including the $17.7 billion sale of Cablevision Systems Corp. to Altice N.V., earning the group a spot among Law360's M&A Practice Groups of 2015.

  • January 14, 2016

    Employment Group Of The Year: Akin Gump

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s employment practice helped get a client of the hook for a $100 million pension payment and prompted a judge in another case to cite Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler” when ordering a federal agency to pay about $1 million in attorneys’ fees, earning a spot among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP’s class action practice had another blockbuster year, helping clients avoid billions of dollars in potential liability and establishing novel legal theories in the process to land a spot among Law360’s Class Action Practice Groups of the Year for the third time in five years.

  • January 14, 2016

    Technology Group Of The Year: Orrick

    A longtime favorite of tech startups, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in 2015 steered high-profile financings of later-stage companies like Pinterest, saw an innovative securities instrument and employee recruitment tool take off, and won high-stakes litigation, nabbing a place among Law360's 2015 Technology Groups Of The Year.

  • January 14, 2016

    Banking Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has handled more than $50 billion in banking mergers and acquisitions over the past year and secured litigation victories in multiple high-profile cases — including two with far-reaching economic implications — earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2016

    Tax Group Of The Year: Baker & McKenzie

    Baker & McKenzie LLP’s tax group scored a $30 million win for poultry production giant Pilgrim's Pride Corp. in the Fifth Circuit and helped clinch longtime client Medtronic Inc.'s $50 billion purchase of Covidien PLC, snaring its spot among Law360's Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2016

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's capital markets lawyers spent 2015 guiding high-profile transactions including GE Capital's $36 billion bond exchange offer and Black Knight Financial Services' $507 million initial public offering, securing a spot as one of Law360's Capital Markets Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2016

    M&A Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    The global reach of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's mergers and acquisitions group led to work on several complex, multibillion-dollar, cross-border deals, as well as huge domestic transactions such as Aetna's $37 billion acquisition of Humana, earning the group a spot among Law360's M&A Practice Groups of 2015.

  • January 14, 2016

    Energy Group Of The Year: Bracewell & Giuliani

    Bracewell & Giuliani LLP makes no secret of its intense focus on almost every sector of the energy landscape, and by handling the second largest energy deal ever and myriad issues facing companies in a waning oil and gas arena, it has earned a spot among Law360’s Energy Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2016

    Food & Beverage Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn attorneys wrapped up a range of matters for some of the industry's top players in 2015, including the disposal of personal injury claims against Pepsi, the defeat of a controversial ban on polystyrene foam containers in New York City and the sale of Heineken's Mexican packaging business, earning them a place among Law360's Food & Beverage Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2016

    Energy Group Of The Year: Baker Botts

    Baker Botts LLP is an energy law leader powered by a crossfunctional global team that spent 2015 guiding clients through massive deals, including the $50 billion merger of Williams Partners and Access Midstream, and meaningful litigation, such as leading the Texas Oil and Gas Association to a first-time defeat of a local ban on hydraulic fracturing, landing it among Law360's Energy Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2016

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Willkie Farr

    Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP’s insurance group racked up major wins in the past year, including a key victory for a New Jersey energy company in a coverage row over $500 million in Hurricane Sandy damages, earning it a place among Law360’s Insurance Groups of the Year for the second year in a row.

  • January 13, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    The unique approach Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP takes to class actions secured major triumphs for notable corporate powerhouses like CBS Sterling Jewelers and Procter & Gamble over the past 12 months, sealing the global firm's place on Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2016

    M&A Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's mergers and acquisitions team flexed its deal muscles across a wide swath of industry sectors in 2015, inking multimillion- and multibillion-dollar transactions for Cigna, Heinz and others, landing the firm once again among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2016

    Securities Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Williams & Connolly LLP changed the landscape of securities litigation in 2015 by securing the blockbuster Omnicare ruling at the U.S. Supreme Court, demonstrating the trial strengths that have earned the firm a reputation as a securities powerhouse and placing it among Law360’s Securities Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2016

    Technology Group Of The Year: Fenwick & West

    Whether steering Facebook through a series of startup grabs or handling Fitbit's $840 million initial public offering, Fenwick & West LLP answered the calls of the biggest names in Silicon Valley in 2015, earning it a spot among Law360's Technology Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2016

    Banking Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP succeeded where the U.S. Department of Justice fell short, extracting $1.8 billion from Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and a dozen other banks accused of colluding to keep credit default swap prices artificially high — and placing the firm among Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2016

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Between helping Bill Ackman take one of his funds public in Amsterdam and assisting with Ferrari’s flotation while guiding various other companies in a host of debt-related transactions, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP had its hand in roughly $370 billion worth of equity and debt offerings over the past year, earning the firm a spot on Law360’s Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2016

    Competition Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP scored a first-of-its-kind win for Warner Chilcott PLC in litigation over acne medication Doryx and helped guide big-ticket mergers like Zimmer Holdings Inc.’s $14 billion purchase of a fellow medical device maker, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    In a year that included big victories for longtime client Goldman Sachs, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP also helped Barclays escape multidistrict litigation involving high-frequency trading and helped detained immigrants with mental disabilities secure a right to legal representation, earning it a place among Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2016

    Technology Group of the Year: Skadden

    With eye-popping deal totals — including two of the largest deals in sector history — along with courtroom victories in a variety of areas, attorneys from New York-based Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP lands among Law360’s 2015 Technology Practice Groups of the Year.

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