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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 30, 2014

    Competition Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP’s competition group helped Toshiba Corp. avoid Best Buy Co.’s $2.3 billion price-fixing damages claims at trial and won clearance for Warner Chilcott PLC’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Actavis Inc., just a few of the accomplishments that landed the firm among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2014

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP's victory in the headline-grabbing courtroom showdown that pitted its client Anschutz Entertainment Group against Michael Jackson's family over who was liable for the pop star's untimely death helped earn the firm a spot among Law360's 2013 Media and Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2014

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's real estate group achieved success for its clients both in the courtroom and across the negotiating table in 2013, from heading off a foreclosure sale at the last minute to facilitating Lehman Brothers' sale of Archstone, landing it among Law360's Real Estate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2014

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP attorneys in 2013 won a ruling that Marvel Comics owned the rights to a slew of storied comic book characters, saved ESPN from having to pay $280 million in contractual disputes, and led media clients through high-profile transactions, landing the firm among Law360's Media & Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2014

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Perkins Coie

    Perkins Coie LLP insurance attorneys have enjoyed resounding success in recovering insurance proceeds to cover some of the Tennessee Valley Authority's $1 billion in losses during one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, making it one of Law360's Insurance Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2014

    Competition Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Playing a lead role in many of last year’s headline-making antitrust cases, from deals such as Anheuser-Busch InBev SA's acquisition of Grupo Modelo to litigation leading to the U.S. Supreme Court's Actavis decision, has landed Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP a place among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2014

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP led its heavyweight private equity clients through a slew of megadeals and fund formations, including Silver Lake Partners' controversial $24.4 billion acquisition of Dell Inc. and the creation of The Blackstone Group’s $4.5 billion Tactical Opportunities fund, landing it a place among Law360's Private Equity Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2014

    Employment Group of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day labor and employment lawyers secured a blockbuster D.C. Circuit victory for soda bottler Noel Canning before defending that win at the U.S. Supreme Court, and are also helping bankrupt Detroit with its massive restructuring, just two of the engagements that put Jones Day among Law360's Employment Practice Groups of the Year for a third time.

  • January 29, 2014

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Kasowitz

    As part of the tiny circle of BigLaw firms standing exclusively with policyholders, Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP's insurance recovery team won precedent-setting victories for clients facing government investigations and privacy claims and won a landmark jury trial over hundreds of millions in asbestos coverage, landing the firm among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2014

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP's project finance group closed eight major transactions totaling $48.4 billion this year, including Saudi Arabian Oil Co's $20 billion integrated chemical complex with Dow Chemical Co., helping the firm secure a place among Law360's Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2014

    Banking Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    An innovative litigation strategy, the willingness to go to trial and a keen strategic grasp allowed Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's banking and financial institutions litigation group to garner more than $10 billion in settlements from big banks in 2013, placing it among Law360's Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2014

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP structured high-profile commercial real estate deals for AT&T Inc. and Vornado Realty Trust, and the firm advised a Goldman Sachs & Co.-managed fund in the sale of its stake in Manhattan’s iconic General Motors Building, making it one of Law360’s Real Estate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2014

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Nossaman

    Nossaman LLP represented at least 70 percent of all public-private partnership deals that netted financing for infrastructure projects across the U.S. in 2013, including a $1.2 billion bridge across the Ohio River, earning it a spot — for the second consecutive year — among Law360’s Project Finance Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2014

    Insurance Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells carved out groundbreaking victories for Federal Insurance Co. in a dispute over a multiple-year policy endorsement and for Argonaut Insurance Co. in a reinsurance tussle over the late-notice defense, earning its team a spot among Law360's Insurance Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2014

    Real Estate Group of the Year: Skadden Arps

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP handled a variety of real estate deals this past year, including foreign companies expanding their U.S.portfolios, deals involving major New York City office buildings and expansion of its representation in the health care sector, landing it on the list of Law360's Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2014

    Employment Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    Greenberg Traurig LLP's labor and employment practice lived up to its reputation for not backing down from a fight in 2013, winning a major Fair Labor Standards Act case at the Supreme Court, defeating a wage class action in a jury trial and earning a spot among Law360's employment practice groups of the year.

  • January 28, 2014

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Katten Muchin

    Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP attorneys helped engineer the sale of the NBA's Sacramento Kings to an ownership group that kept the team in California and defended Lance Armstrong in a lawsuit over the disgraced cyclist's autobiography, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2013 Media and Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2014

    Health Group Of The Year: Sheppard Mullin

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP’s health care team has represented nearly every variation of health care and industry-associated organization, most recently assisting physician group Lakewood IPA in its unique acquisition by Tenet Healthcare Corp., earning it a place among Law360's Health Care Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2014

    Competition Group Of The Year: O'Melveny & Myers

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP negotiated a settlement with the federal government on the eve of trial that allowed US Airways Group Inc. to complete its $17 billion merger with American Airlines Inc., landing the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2014

    Banking Group Of The Year: Debevoise & Plimpton

    Attorneys from Debevoise & Plimpton LLP are representing American International Group Inc. in the drafting the first so-called living will for a non-bank financial institution, leveraging a collaborative approach of cross-disciplinary expertise within the firm and landing a place among Law360's Banking Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2014

    Banking Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s financial institutions group spent 2013 advising top banks across the globe on key financial reforms, most notably through its work on “living wills” for the country’s largest banks, a feat that landed it among Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2014

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray

    Between developing existing relationships and cultivating new ones — such as Bain Capital LLC and Madison Dearborn Partners LLC, respectively — Ropes & Gray LLP spent 2013 helping to usher billions of dollars in deals across the globe, earning the firm a spot on Law360's Private Equity Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2014

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP had its fingerprints on commercial and residential real estate investment deals worth billions on behalf private equity giants The Blackstone Group and Carlyle Group LP, earning it a spot among Law360’s Real Estate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2014

    Competition Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP's competition experts secured global merger control clearance in Omnicom Group Inc.'s consolidation with Publicis Groupe SA to create the world's largest mass marketing conglomerate with a total market value of $35 billion, earning the team a spot on Law360's Competition Practice Groups of 2013.

  • January 27, 2014

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP helped sew up some of the most complex private mergers and represented some of the biggest private equity funds that closed in 2013, earning the firm a place among Law360's Private Equity Practice Groups of the Year.

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