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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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January 08, 2016
Securities Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in 2015 proved once again why it is the go-to law firm for Wall Street’s biggest players, as the crucial role it played in cementing the landmark Newman insider trading decision and the litigation wins it nabbed for the likes of Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and SAC Capital made it one of Law360’s Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 08, 2016
Environmental Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin
Sidley Austin LLP earned a spot among Law360's Environmental Groups of the Year by being a go-to firm in some of 2015's most significant environmental matters, from industry challenges of blockbuster U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations to criminal and civil litigation for Duke Energy Corp. over alleged coal ash pollution.
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January 08, 2016
Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis
Capital markets lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis LLP guided a debt offering for the massive Kraft-Heinz merger, helped clean power yieldco TerraForm Global go public and pulled off other high-stakes deals in 2015, earning a place among Law360’s Capital Markets Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 08, 2016
Health Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin
A rare win limiting the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the successful defense of one of the most successful orphan drug companies from anti-kickback allegations have helped earn Sidley Austin LLP recognition as one of Law360’s Health Care Groups of the Year.
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January 07, 2016
Insurance Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP's dramatic, fit-for-television victory that caused the California Supreme Court to overturn its own recent precedent based on an arcane provision in the state's insurance code, plus successes in other high-profile and complicated cases, have landed the firm among Law360's Insurance Groups of the Year.
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January 07, 2016
International Trade Group Of The Year: King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP attorneys have scored victories in prominent U.S. trade remedies investigations, including winning stiff duties on imports of Chinese melamine, and helped secure passage of a law to strengthen antidumping and countervailing duties, nailing down the firm's place among Law360's International Trade Groups of 2015.
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January 07, 2016
Securities Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis
The securities litigators of Kirkland & Ellis LLP hammered out another banner year for the firm and its clients in 2015, scoring courtroom wins for major league clients such as General Motors Co., Facebook Inc. and BP PLC, earning the firm a spot on Law360’s Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 07, 2016
Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins
Major appellate wins in 2015 against False Claims Act suits combined with an important victory over a patent used in work for federal agencies helped earn Latham & Watkins LLP a spot among Law360’s Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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January 07, 2016
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin
Sidley Austin LLP continued to establish itself as a leader in the life sciences sector by adding several high-profile hires in China and the U.S. and helping clients to a series of major court victories, including for Bayer Corp. in its win over federal regulators, making it one of Law360’s Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 07, 2016
Competition Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
Attorneys from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP scored major litigation victories for T-Mobile and Bank of America and handled big-ticket merger issues like Syngenta's defense of a $46 billion hostile takeover bid from Monsanto, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.
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January 07, 2016
Class Action Group Of The Year: Labaton Sucharow
By steering shareholders to a historic settlement with a mining giant and continuing to pioneer new antitrust and securities matters, Labaton Sucharow LLP has landed among Law360's Class Action Practice Groups of the Year for the third time in four years.
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January 07, 2016
Environmental Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis
From shielding Anadarko Petroleum Corp. from what could have been a $3.5 billion penalty over the company's role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, to winning a groundbreaking hydraulic fracturing pollution decision in favor of a Pennsylvania oil and gas operator, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP made the cut as one of Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 07, 2016
Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
Davis Polk's international capital markets practice has championed a broad spectrum of debt and equity offerings, including the largest-ever debt offering by a pharmaceutical company and the first U.S. float of a Finnish company in more than two decades, earning the firm a nod as a 2015 Law360 Practice Group Of The Year.
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January 07, 2016
Appellate Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s appeals lawyers crowned a remarkable year with a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision that bars admission of juror testimony concerning supposedly biased statements made by other jurors during deliberations, placing the firm among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.
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January 07, 2016
Health Group of the Year: O'Melveny & Myers
O’Melveny & Myers LLP proved the strength of its booming managed care focused health practice in 2015, securing dismissals in several Medicare fraud cases for clients like Humana and leading the Eleventh Circuit to address confusion with the Affordable Care Act, landing it among Law360’s Heath Groups of the Year.
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January 06, 2016
Health Group Of The Year: Latham
A broad range of abilities bolstered Latham & Watkins LLP’s health care practice in a year that saw it represent the lead arrangers in the financing of the blockbuster Anthem-Cigna merger and HCA Holdings in several acquisitions and False Claims Act cases, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Health Groups of the Year.
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January 06, 2016
Environmental Group Of The Year: King & Spalding
From putting out enforcement fires for Kia Motors Corp. and an Arkansas city to representing Chevron Corp. and Halliburton Co. in high-stakes litigation in both the U.S. And abroad, King & Spalding LLP's breadth of environmental expertise has earned the firm a spot among Law360's Environmental Groups of the Year.
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January 06, 2016
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Irell & Manella LLP
Irell & Manella LLP's series of victories largely in the world of life sciences patent law, including a closely watched win for Ariosa Diagnostics Inc. defining patentability in diagnostic tests, has earned the firm a spot on Law360's Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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January 06, 2016
Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Crowell & Moring
Big-ticket successes — including vacating a $657 million False Claims Act verdict at the Sixth Circuit — along with wins for government contractor clients in district courts, agencies and through acquisitions showed the continuing muscle of Crowell & Moring in 2015, earning the firm another spot among Law360’s Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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January 06, 2016
Insurance Group Of The Year: K&L Gates
Attorneys at K&L Gates LLP's exclusively policyholder-focused practice won a precedential ruling in Pennsylvania Supreme Court that made it easier for policyholders to settle cases over the objections of inflexible insurers, cementing the group's place among Law360's Insurance Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 06, 2016
Competition Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's competition group advised GlaxoSmithKline PLC in securing global antitrust clearance of its multibillion-dollar, three-part transaction with Novartis AG and represented Family Dollar Stores Inc. when it was acquired by Dollar Tree Inc. for $9.3 billion, earning the group a spot on Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.
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January 06, 2016
Securities Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP continued to amplify its marquee status in the securities practice area in 2015, landing high-profile and important wins for such names as Herbalife, Hewlett-Packard, UBS and Wal-Mart and earning the firm a berth among Law360’s Securities Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 06, 2016
IT Group Of The Year: Kelley Drye
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP’s advocacy on behalf of U.S. manufacturers in trade remedy cases over that past year, including filing a series of major anti-dumping and countervailing duty petitions on behalf of domestic steel producers, has earned the firm a spot among Law360’s International Trade Groups of the Year.
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January 06, 2016
Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's capital markets practice flourished in 2015, aiding more than $293 billion worth of financial offerings for a roster of clients including Actavis, Mylan and Ferrari, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Capital Markets Groups of the Year.
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January 06, 2016
Class Action Group of the Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn’s class action lawyers in 2015 racked up an impressive string of victories in state and federal courts, securing the dismissal of billions’ worth of putative class claims across a wide breadth of industries, earning the firm Class Action Group of the Year status for the sixth time in a row.