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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, 2015

    Energy Group Of The Year: Baker Botts

    Baker Botts LLP attorneys represented the firm’s strong base of major energy companies in significant litigation and transactions throughout 2014, including Halliburton Co.’s blockbuster $34.6 billion deal to acquire rival Baker Hughes Inc., earning the firm a place among Law360’s Energy Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2015

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Vinson & Elkins

    Often standing behind last year's largest capital markets deals in the energy sector, including Shell Midstreams Partners' $1.1 billion initial public offering, was a team of Vinson & Elkins LLP attorneys that have become the go-to representation for issuers, landing a spot on Law360’s Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2015

    Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Wiley Rein

    The bench of government contracts attorneys at Wiley Rein LLP proved to be an invaluable asset to the firm's clients last year, supplying a bevy high-profile bid protest wins and essential advisory services surrounding the Affordable Care Act rollout that vaulted the firm into Law360's Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2015

    Employment Group Of The Year: Sanford Heisler

    Sanford Heisler Kimpel LLP’s work in securing three class certifications and pushing two others past the pleadings stage amid an increasingly difficult legal climate has made it the sole employee-side firm to land on Law360’s Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2015

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Maintaining a historically dominant presence before the U.S. Supreme Court, Jones Day’s issues and appeals group has had a busy year with four victories at the high court, including a constitutional challenge to President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board appointments, earning it a spot on Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2015

    Employment Group Of The Year: Ogletree Deakins

    Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC spent the past year expanding its practice while helping D.R. Horton Inc. rack up a big win against the National Labor Relations Board in the Fifth Circuit and representing Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. in a case that could have repercussions on the board's joint-employer standard, making the firm one of Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2015

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's capital markets practice guided some of the year's most innovative and noteworthy debt and equity offerings, including the first Eurobond deal by a U.S. health care REIT and the largest-ever U.S. listing of an Israeli company, embodying the ideals of the firm's founder and landing the team a spot on Law360's Capital Markets Practice Groups Of Year.

  • January 14, 2015

    Environmental Group of the Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in 2014 secured a complete defense verdict for International Paper Co. in a $1.6 billion suit over alleged contamination of a Texas river and convinced a Louisiana federal court that a Schlumberger Ltd. subsidiary wasn't liable for the Deepwater Horizon disaster, landing the firm a spot among Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2015

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP’s life sciences practice group helped Merck & Co. Inc. sell its consumer products division to Bayer AG for $14.2 billion and beat back a suit seeking Pfizer Inc. compliance records on file with the federal government, the first of its kind, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Jenner & Block LLP’s bankruptcy group’s successes in 2014 included protecting benefits for nearly 50,000 American Airlines Corp. retirees, winning $272 million in damages for Emerald Casino’s estate, and convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a landmark dispute, landing it among Law360’s Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2015

    Competition Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP handled antitrust work from high-profile consumer class actions against T-Mobile USA and Comcast Corp. to multibillion deals such as Comcast's merger with Time Warner Cable and Tyson Foods Inc.'s buyout of Hillshire Brands Co., earning a spot among Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2015

    Government Contracts Group Of The Year: McKenna

    A year that included deflecting a court injunction that threatened United Launch Alliance LLC’s $11 billion Air Force contract in a case that evoked Cold War tensions earned the dominant government contracts practice at McKenna Long & Aldridge a place as one of Law360's Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2015

    Banking Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    In a critical year for banks that continue to face fallout from the 2006 housing crash, Mayer Brown LLP was at the forefront of a new type of residential mortgage-backed securities litigation when it led trustee Bank of New York Mellon Corp. to an $8.5 billion payout, placing the firm’s banking practice on Law30’s Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Competition Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP's competition group had a busy 2014 securing the dismissal of separate antitrust suits against clients Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Expedia Inc, earning the firm a spot on Law360's list of Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    The life sciences industry was flush with initial public offerings and mergers in 2014 as investors sought yield in the relative risk of cutting-edge companies, and Latham & Watkins LLP’s attorneys advised on $354 billion in deals, including the $66 billion Actavis PLC purchase of Allergan Inc., landing the firm among Law360’s Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    From debt to equity and from mammoth cross-border initial public offerings to private equity exits, the team at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has proven itself adept at meeting client needs, with its work last year on the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. IPOs helping its capital markets practice land a spot among Law360's Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Appellate Group of the Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells lawyers spent the last year securing major wins for clients throughout the federal appeals courts, including a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on behalf of insurer Highmark Inc. in a dispute over the awarding of attorneys' fees in meritless patent suits, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Katten Muchin

    Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP's young environmental practice had a hand in some of 2014's most-consequential cases related to climate change, including a U.S. Supreme Court challenge to federal regulators' greenhouse gas rules and a fight over California's carbon fuel emission standards, landing the team among Law360's Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells' government contracts practice once again showed its knack for helping clients dominate tough litigation, as it guided Lockheed Martin Corp. through contentious fee litigation with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and successfully maintained a concession contract for the Grand Canyon's primary resort manager, placing it among Law360’s Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Employment Group of the Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP helped argue three employment cases to the U.S. Supreme Court, scored a first-of-its-kind class certification defeat against unpaid interns and defended a biometric screening wellness program, netting the firm a spot on Law360’s Employment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Banking Group Of The Year: Kasowitz

    Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP has developed a reputation as one of the go-to firms for financial crisis-related cases, and their work in 2014 securing nearly $1.3 billion for the Federal Housing Finance Agency and other successes have landed them among Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Hughes Hubbard

    Years after being tapped to clean up the mess from Lehman Brothers Inc. and MF Global Inc., two crisis-era brokerage failures, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP attorneys secured recoveries in 2014 for claimants whose repayment was never certain, earning the firm its debut appearance on Law360’s list of Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2015

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Thanks to its work last year on myriad initial public offerings and debt deals, handling a number of highly complex IPOs and various mega debt offerings, Kirkland & Ellis LLP's capital markets practice has earned a spot among Law360's Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2015

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Hunton & Williams

    Hunton & Williams LLP put its stamp on several of the most influential environmental decisions handed down in 2014, including the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gases from stationary sources, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP helped oil tanker giant Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. sail out of Chapter 11 and orchestrated other novel restructurings in Brazil and Puerto Rico, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

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