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 23, 2015

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP was involved in the most-talked-about sports media rights deals last year, including the NFL's $12 billion Sunday Ticket pact with DirecTV, and helped seal Steve Ballmer’s $2 billion bid for the Los Angeles Clippers, making it a Law360 Media and Entertainment Group of the Year.

  • January 23, 2015

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP's real estate attorneys guided Edens Investments Trust through a $762 million transaction with AmREIT Inc. and represented Morgan Stanley in $2 billion worth of transactions, landing the group on Law360's list of Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2015

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP’s global project finance group leveraged its attorneys and resources around the world in several game-changing projects including successfully facilitating negotiations to restructure the $5.4 billion Panama Canal expansion, keeping the project moving amid conflict between the parties, earning it a spot as one of Law360’s Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2015

    Class Action Group of the Year: Dentons

    Dentons attorneys defeated a proposed $1 billion class action against Lincoln Benefit Life Co. that challenged its calculation of life insurance rates and beat class certification in a securities fraud suit against Genworth Financial Wealth Management Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2015

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Kelley Drye

    The international trade team at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP continued its sterling work in 2014 for U.S. manufacturers in a bevy of high-profile trade remedy cases while also providing valuable guidance on customs and export compliance matters, cementing the firm's status as one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2015

    Energy Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    From shepherding one of 2014's biggest energy mergers to guiding multibillion-dollar power sector financings, the dealmaking chops of Latham & Watkins LLP's energy attorneys have earned the firm a spot among Law360's Energy Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2015

    IP Group Of The Year: Durie Tangri

    Durie Tangri LLP secured a ruling that Google Inc.'s massive book digitization program is fair use under copyright law and has successfully invalidated several patents using the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice decision in the last year, landing the firm among Law360's Intellectual Property Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Willkie Farr & Gallagher

    Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP’s restructuring team flexed its muscles in 2014 by guiding Momentive Performance Materials Inc. through a complex Chapter 11 proceeding and advocating for U.K. pensioners in Nortel Networks' hard-fought bankruptcy case, earning a spot among Law360’s Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2015

    Technology Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP spent 2014 handling industry-changing mergers, including Facebook Inc.'s blockbuster $19 billion deal for WhatsApp, and helping big-name clients like Adobe Systems Inc. and Intel Corp. shrug off suits by litigious patent-holders, landing the firm among Law360's Technology Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP developed a consensual Chapter 11 plan designed to slash Endeavour International Corp.'s $1.2 billion debt and negotiated a deal improved Financial Guaranty Insurance Co.'s recovery on its more than $1 billion claim against bankrupt Detroit, earning a place among Law360’s Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2015

    Tax Group Of The Year: Sutherland

    Corporations call on Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP's tax group when facing their most-complex audit and litigation matters, as did American International Group Inc. in its economic substance battle before the Second Circuit, as well as MetroPCS Communications Inc., which beat a $4 million refund row with Pennsylvania tax authorities, landing Sutherland's practice on Law360's list of Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2015

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day tackled a robust mix of energy, transportation and technology projects in 2014 — from advising on Alaska natural gas pipelines to expanding Mexican airports and increasing Internet connectivity in Latin America — earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Project Finance Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2015

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser

    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP spent 2014 racking up settlements and trial verdicts for plaintiffs in some of the year’s most highly publicized personal injury suits, including litigation over unintended acceleration in Toyota Motor Corp. vehicles and the risk of bladder cancer associated with diabetes drug Actos, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2015

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    With a year highlighted by major recoveries in securities class actions from the likes of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Ernst & Young LLP and Morgan Stanley, the class action lawyers at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP earned a spot on Law360’s Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2015

    Competition Group of the Year: White & Case

    From winning the dismissal of three separate pay-for-delay class actions to securing antitrust clearance for mega cross-border mergers such as Grupo Bimbo SAB de CV's $1.6 billion acquisition of Canada Bread Co. Ltd., White & Case LLP's work landed the firm on Law360's list of Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2015

    Energy Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP energy attorneys did it all in 2014 to earn a spot among Law360's Energy Groups of the Year, from guiding the development of multibillion-dollar projects around the globe to convincing the D.C. Circuit to nix the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's controversial power demand rule.

  • January 22, 2015

    Technology Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP advised on some of the hottest technology deals last year — including client Nest Labs Inc.'s landmark $3.2 billion sale to Google Inc. — and scored a surprise appellate reversal for client Oracle Corp. in a massive $8 billion software copyright dispute, placing the firm among Law360's Technology Groups Of The Year.

  • January 21, 2015

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Fried Frank

    Providing a superior breadth of services to their clients, the real estate lawyers at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP are reshaping New York's landscape, from Hudson Yards to Brooklyn's Greenpoint Landing, earning recognition as a Law360 Real Estate Practice Group of the Year.

  • January 21, 2015

    Competition Group Of The Year: Robins Kaplan

    Not only did Robins Kaplan LLP secure a green light for a landmark $7.25 billion deal in a credit card swipe fee price-fixing case, it also recently helped win approval for $590 million in settlements in a collusion case against private equity firms, landing the firm on Law360's list of Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2015

    Tax Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    A year that saw Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP’s tax group advise on Burger King Worldwide Inc.'s controversial, headline-grabbing $11.4 billion acquisition of Canada-based Tim Hortons Inc. earned it a place on Law360’s list of Tax Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2015

    Technology Group Of The Year: Fenwick & West

    Fenwick & West LLP was behind some of the biggest technology deals of 2014, including Facebook Inc.'s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp and its $2 billion acquisition of OculusRift VR, earning the techcentric firm a place among Law360's Technology Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2015

    Class Action Group Of The Year: BakerHostetler

    Class action litigators and employment defense lawyers with BakerHostetler secured an impressive string of victories last year across a spectrum of high-stakes matters, from consumer practice cases to data privacy defense for health care clients, securing them a place among Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2015

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    From its success in defending against attempts to skirt Supreme Court decisions that created extra protections for generic- and branded-drug manufacturers to representing General Motors Co. in lawsuits arising from its recall of ignition switches, Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s product liability practice has earned a place among Law360's 2014 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Orrick

    In a bankruptcy legal marketplace widely seen as flat, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's 30-lawyer international restructuring team got results for major clients this year in key niches including distressed municipalities, infrastructure and structured finance, earning it a spot on Law360's list of Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2015

    Appellate Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    The appellate pros at WilmerHale had another strong year in 2014 that included a big win at the U.S. Supreme Court, in which the justices reversed a Ninth Circuit decision and found in favor of Pom Wonderful LLC in its false-labeling suit against Coca-Cola, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

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