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 16, 2013

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells represented the Venezuelan oil industry in several major infrastructure projects last year, including a $3 billion engineering, procurement and construction endeavor to renovate an old refinery, earning it a place on Law360's Project Finance Groups of 2012.

  • January 16, 2013

    Privacy & CP Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling

    Covington & Burling LLP's privacy and data protection practice group secured a victory for LinkedIn Corp. last year by scoring the dismissal of a putative class action that accused the online networking site of transmitting user IDs to third parties, work that helped land the firm a spot among Law360's Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2013

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    The bankruptcy practice group at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP continued a long tradition of managing and litigating large, global restructurings in 2012, negotiating the distribution of more than $6.5 billion to creditors on behalf of Washington Mutual Inc. and winning a major trial for MF Global UK Limited administrators over multibillion-dollar repurchase-to-maturity transactions, earning a spot among Law360’s Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2013

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Willkie Farr

    A focus on complex transactions for some of the leading players in the global property market led to several billion-dollar deals for Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in 2012, earning it a spot on Law360's list of Real Estate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2013

    Securities Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's securities team continued its success defending companies ensnared in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme and convinced the Second Circuit to take up a UBS AG appeal with broad implications for banks accused of packaging and peddling toxic mortgage-backed securities, earning a place among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2013

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    Sidley Austin LLP’s appellate attorneys last year convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an $18 million criminal fine against Southern Union Co. and rule that a Federal Communications Commission indecency policy was unconstitutionally vague, earning the firm a spot on Law360’s Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2013

    Competition Group Of The Year: Wilson Sonsini

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC guided both Netflix Inc. and Live Nation Entertainment Inc. to victory in separate certified antitrust class actions and secured regulatory approval on three continents for Seagate Technology PLC's acquisition of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s hard drive business, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2013

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Shook Hardy

    For its lead role in defending Philip Morris USA in mass tobacco litigation to securing important trial victories for Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc. in Accutane lawsuits and 7-Eleven Inc. in hot fuel multidistrict litigation, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP has earned a place on Law360’s list of Product Liability Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2013

    Bankruptcy Practice Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster

    Morrison & Foerster LLP garnered impressive results for creditors and debtors in 2012, representing Residential Capital LLC during one of the largest restructurings on record and supporting MF Global Inc.'s trustee in collecting billions in assets for creditors, earning it a place among Law360's Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2013

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Kramer Levin

    In less than 50 years, Kramer Levin has succeeded in making itself a fixture on the New York real estate scene and breaking into a number of dynamic markets across the country. 2012 may have been one of its busiest years yet, with the firm racking up an impressive list of real estate deals that all but assured it a spot on Law360's list of 2012 Real Estate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2013

    Appellate Practice Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    Scoring coast-to-coast appellate victories — including three in the U.S. Supreme Court — O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s appellate group had a prolific 2012, as it defended clients facing billion-dollar judgments, secured far-reaching federal preemption rulings and redefined constitutional limits on law enforcement, landing the firm among Law360's Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2013

    Competition Practice Group Of The Year: White & Case

    Whether it's winning Toshiba Corp. an inexpensive settlement after a price-fixing class action trial or handling precedent-setting cases in Japan, White & Case LLP's work in high-profile cases has earned it a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2013

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: O'Melveny & Myers

    Attorneys from O'Melveny & Myers LLP convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to expand federal preemption in asbestos exposure cases and secured major appellate victories for pharmaceutical giants Johnson & Johnson and Merck & Co., earning the firm a spot among Law360's Product Liability Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2013

    Health Group Of The Year: Skadden

    With a hand in some of the largest corporate transactions in the health care sector and a leading role in several key False Claims Act cases, 2012 was another banner year for Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's health care and life sciences team, earning it a spot among Law360's Health Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2013

    Competition Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP combined litigation moxie, helping Barr Pharmaceuticals beat class action claims over a $400 million pay-for-delay settlement for the antibiotic Cipro, and regulatory know-how, winning antitrust approval for Constellation Energy Group Inc. in its $7.9 billion merger with utilities giant Exelon Corp., helping earn the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2013

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Kramer Levin

    Whether it's been negotiating better conditions for creditors in Residential Capital LLC's mammoth bankruptcy or shepherding shipping giant General Maritime Corp. through a successful restructuring, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP's corporate restructuring and bankruptcy department has had a banner year, earning it a spot on Law360's Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2013

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster

    A key U.S. Supreme Court ruling that secured creditors have the right to bid on what is owed to them when a debtor moves to sell its collateral in a bankruptcy auction is just one of the victories that has earned Morrison & Foerster LLP a spot among Law360's Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2013

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP's work representing Morgan Stanley in more than $2.5 billion worth of property investments to structuring some of the sector's most complex finance deals, like Jamestown LP's new $1.4 billion fund, has earned the firm a spot among Law360's Real Estate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2013

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day's product liability team emerged victorious from a trip into uncharted territory when it notched a win for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in the first Engle progeny case to go to trial in federal court, bringing a sigh of relief to Big Tobacco companies and securing a spot on Law360's Product Liability Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2013

    Health Practice Group Of The Year: McDermott Will & Emery

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP's health industry practice group spent 2012 working on several big hospital and physician group mergers, including DaVita Inc.'s $4.4 billion acquisition of the largest owner and operator of physician practices in the country, making it one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2013

    Securities Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    A small but talented group, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s securities litigation team made waves in 2012 by negotiating a $20 million settlement in litigation over Bank of America Corp.’s acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. and helping Credit Suisse Group AG dodge a $3.8 billion fraud suit, earning a spot on Law360’s list of Securities Groups of the Year.

  • January 10, 2013

    Real Estate Practice Group of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    Greenberg Traurig LLP wrangled many top-billing commercial real estate deals of the past year, including Colorado-based REIT UDR Inc.'s coup of five residential properties in Manhattan's swanky Upper West Side for $630 million in one of the largest deals of the year, to land among Law360's Real Estate Practice Groups of 2012. 

  • January 10, 2013

    Competition Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Guiding Dole Food Co. Inc. to the successful dismissal of a price-fixing class action brought by potato buyers and helping UBS AG navigate a global investigation into alleged Libor manipulations were just two of the recent, high-profile antitrust representations that landed Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 10, 2013

    Securities Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's securities team showed why it's a go-to group for banks fending off suits related to residential mortgage-backed securities, winning a hard-fought $26 million settlement for JPMorgan Chase & Co. and representing Credit Suisse Group AG in more than 36 shareholder actions, earning a spot on Law360's list of Securities Groups of the Year.

  • January 10, 2013

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: DLA Piper

    DLA Piper's product liability pros knocked out a string of major league wins for a diverse roster of clients in 2012, from defending design defect claims against Harley-Davidson Motor Co. to representing Pfizer Inc. in more than 2,500 claims over smoking cessation aid Chantix, earning the firm a spot on Law360's list of Product Liability Groups of the Year.

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