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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 12, 2016

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Wiley Rein

    Wiley Rein LLP’s trade team burnished its credentials as one of the nation’s top shops for U.S. manufacturers by securing hefty tariffs on imported solar energy goods and helping to beat back China’s rare earth export restraints, once again staking a claim as one of Law360’s International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2016

    Securities Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP bills its securities litigation practice as the go-to place for "bet-the-company" cases, and in 2015 the group backed that up with wins for megabank Barclays in high-frequency trading litigation and for giants including JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, and won a spot among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2016

    Competition Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP’s trial win for Cox Communications in an antitrust tying case, along with its representation of Apple in a putative class action and Allergan in its acquisition by Actavis for $73 billion, has earned the firm a spot among Law360’s Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2016

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Wiley Rein

    After saving XL Specialty Insurance Co. nearly $5 million because its policyholder failed to obtain consent for a settlement, while in another instance landing Starr Indemnity a reimbursement of almost $1 million in defense costs, the insurance team at Wiley Rein finds itself among Law360's Insurance Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2016

    Banking Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    For the third year straight, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's banking team has landed among Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year, for continuing to steer clients through an increasingly complex regulatory environment and advising General Electric Co. as it works to shake its systemically important financial institution status through the $90 billion spinoff of GE Capital.

  • January 12, 2016

    M&A Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP capped a remarkable year of complex deal-making in 2015 with the announcement that its client Allergan PLC entered into a record-breaking $160 billion merger agreement with Pfizer Inc., helping place the firm’s mergers and acquisitions team among Law360's M&A Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2016

    Energy Group Of The Year: BakerHostetler

    BakerHostetler attorneys yielded results for clients over the past year that impacted the entire energy industry, winning a preliminary injunction against the federal government in litigation over hydraulic fracturing regulations, making it one of Law360's Energy Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2016

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's capital markets group last year counseled some of the largest initial public offerings in the U.S., U.K. and Japan and guided massive debt offerings and other complex transactions, earning the firm a nod as one of Law360's Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2016

    Securities Group Of The Year: Robbins Geller

    One night last January, as 18 Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP attorneys prepped in a hotel for a securities fraud trial against Pfizer, firm co-founder Darren Robbins was summoned to a ritzy building near Central Park. Three hours later, he had hammered out a $400 million settlement that defined his firm’s year and helped place it among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2016

    Appellate Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    The appellate practice group at WilmerHale had another strong year that was headlined by a major victory in the Second Circuit for tech giant Google Inc. in a copyright dispute over Google Books, landing the firm among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2016

    Technology Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Victories for a tech client on the International Trade Commission’s patent authority and for Apple and Amazon in other prominent cases, plus key roles on major transactions like Avago Technologies’ $37 billion Broadcom acquisition, have earned Latham & Watkins LLP a place among Law360’s Technology Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP scored major class action successes on the plaintiff and defense sides in the past year, from a nearly $2 billion settlement in antitrust litigation against investment banks to defenses on behalf of Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive and Hyundai, earning selection as one of Law360's Class Action Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2016

    International Trade Group Of The Year: White & Case

    A series of unique victories, such as successfully safeguarding Chinese imports competing against American products, and finalizing multibillion-dollar deals for Saudi Aramco launched White & Case LLP’s international trade group into Law360's 2015 International Trade Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2016

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP's expansive deals team overcame a wobbly market in 2015, representing issuers and underwriters involved in complex transaction across a vast scope of industries, including Shake Shack's smash $120 million initial public offering, earning a place among Law360's Capital Markets Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2016

    Health Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Williams & Connolly LLP knocked out a closely watched whistleblower suit alleging Medicare Part D fraud by pharmacy giant CVS, one of many high-profile defense wins that made the firm a False Claims Act heavyweight and ranked it among Law360's Health Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2016

    Competition Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    From steering DirecTV’s $67 billion acquisition by AT&T Inc. to completion in the face of antitrust scrutiny to shepherding Reynolds American Inc.’s $27.4 billion tie-up with Lorillard Inc. through its own rough regulatory waters, Jones Day’s competition team has earned a place on Law360's list of Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2016

    Banking Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb

    Banks have long turned to Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP for help in guiding them through the regulatory process, and 2015 saw the firm extend its reach into the digital arena in helping a bitcoin firm win the first license to operate in New York state, making it one of Law360’s Banking Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2016

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

    Steptoe & Johnson LLP's wins in major insurance cases, including one in which the West Virginia supreme court reversed an $8 million jury verdict against its longtime client Travelers Indemnity Co., have landed it among Law360's Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2016

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Pillsbury

    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP recovered more than $1 billion for a range of policyholders in 2015, including a $55 million jury verdict in a dispute with three AIG units over coverage for pipe fitting manufacturer Victaulic's product defect claims, earning it a place among Law360's Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2016

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Wilson Sonsini

    Silicon Valley heavyweight Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati was at the forefront of one of the largest IPOs in the history of the life sciences industry last year, guiding cancer treatment developer NantKwest Inc. to a $207 million debut and placing the firm's life science practitioners squarely on Law360's Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2016

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray

    Ropes & Gray LLP went to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 and won a landmark ruling defining same-sex marriage as a constitutional right as well as a creditor-boosting bankruptcy decision, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2016

    Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Wiley Rein

    High-profile wins representing diverse clients in a variety of forums —  including what partners said was a precedential Federal Circuit decision — set Wiley Rein LLP apart from other firms' government contracts groups in 2015 and earned the group a spot among Law360's Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2016

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Steptoe & Johnson

    Steptoe's effort in fending off steep duties on behalf of Chinese firm Singamas Container Holdings Ltd. and its work on behalf of Esterline Technologies Corp. in a $200 million, cross-border merger demonstrated the Washington, D.C.-headquartered firm's range and earned it a spot on Law360's list of International Trade Groups of 2015.

  • January 08, 2016

    Competition Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP continued to establish itself as a leader in the competition sector by helping guide clients like Time Warner Cable to decisive court victories in large, complex suits and companies like Norbord and Ainsworth to successful mergers, making it one of Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2016

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis & Bockius

    A string of impressive victories throughout 2015, including persuading the U.S. Supreme Court to toss out a decades-old precedent in a case over caps on retiree health benefits, has earned Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP a place among Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.

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