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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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February 28, 2024
Structured Finance Group Of The Year: Dentons
Dentons helped rescue the banking industry in 2023 by securing a $50 billion deal financing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s receivership of First Republic Bank following the second-largest bank failure in the U.S., earning the firm a spot among Law360's Structured Financing Groups of the Year for the third consecutive year.
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February 22, 2024
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has advised on more than 100 asset management M&A deals with a combined value of over $170 billion since Oct. 1, 2022, including Bridgepoint Group's acquisition of Energy Capital Partners to create a company with €57 billion ($61 billion) invested in global private markets, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 21, 2024
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray LLP recently steered deals for clients such as New Mountain Capital, BPEA EQT and TPG Capital Inc., including TPG's sale of high-profile talent agency Creative Artists Agency and BPEA EQT's $6.5 billion merger of its Hong Kong-based business services firms Vistra and Tricor, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 20, 2024
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP advised private equity giant Apollo in nearly $30 billion of publicly disclosed transactions, including multiple multibillion-dollar take-private acquisitions, despite a slow deals market, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 09, 2024
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's fund formation practice advised private equity behemoth Blackstone in 2023 on a $30.4 billion successor real estate fund, one of the milestones earning the group a spot in Law360's Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 08, 2024
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has lent its expertise to clients on the formation of some of the largest and most complex capital funds ever, earning the firm recognition as one of Law360's 2023 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2024
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP attorneys counseled on the formation of multibillion-dollar funds, including five totaling $37 billion for Goldman Sachs, a €16.7 billion ($18 billion) fund for Permira and a $17 billion fund for Brookfield Asset Management, landing the firm among Law360's 2023 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2024
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Debevoise
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP worked with Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC on its largest-ever fundraise and advised KKR & Co. Inc. in the formation of its $8 billion European fund, among other achievements, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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January 19, 2024
Law360 Names Firms Of The Year
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 55 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2023 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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January 19, 2024
Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2023, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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March 02, 2023
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Weil
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP counseled clients, including Blackstone Group Inc. and Advent International, on some of their biggest deals over the past year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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March 01, 2023
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP steered clients such as Thoma Bravo, Blackstone and Vista on some of their biggest deals of 2022, including Vista's $16.5 billion acquisition of Citrix Systems and Blackstone's $3 billion equity investment in Invenergy Renewables Holdings, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 28, 2023
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP last year racked up a handful of multibillion-dollar deals, including two transactions centered around cybersecurity amid the pandemic-spurred shift to hybrid working environments, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 27, 2023
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Sidley
Sidley Austin LLP flourished in 2022, steering one of the biggest sports deals in history with the $3.1 billion sale of Chelsea Football Club and the $5.4 billion acquisition of Quest Software, along with other high-value transactions that included complicated regulatory and financing challenges, to earn the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 24, 2023
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Debevoise
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP simultaneously advised KKR & Co. on the closing of an infrastructure fund and a private equity fund that combined to total $36 billion, just one of the achievements that earned the firm a place among Law360's 2022 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 24, 2023
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP boasts a long list of well-known private equity clients, having advised Blackstone Group on a €58 billion ($61.5 billion) bid for Italian infrastructure giant Atlantia, and Silver Lake as the second-largest shareholder in cloud services provider VMware's $61 billion acquisition by Broadcom, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 23, 2023
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP helped several of its corporate clients raise and close high-value funds over the past year, including representing Francisco Partners on the closing of nearly $17 billion in capital commitments between two of its flagship funds that were both oversubscribed and exceeded target fund sizes, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 21, 2023
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has advised the fund formation of several active investment managers, including Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners and Carlyle Group Inc., over the past year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 17, 2023
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Willkie
A whopping $20 billion fundraise for longtime client Insight Partners, a leading private equity and venture capital firm, fueled Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's entry into Law360's 2022 Fund Formation Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 16, 2023
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP attorneys counseled on multiple billion-dollar deals over the past year, including a $1.5 billion fund for BlackRock, a $9.7 billion fund for Goldman Sachs and the formation of a $3.1 billion credit solutions fund for Angelo Gordon, earning it a spot among Law360's 2022 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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January 13, 2023
Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2022, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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February 17, 2022
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP represented Hellman & Friedman on the closing of a $24 billion buyout fund, the largest private equity fund to close in 2021, and helped CVC Capital Partners raise €21.25 billion (about $24.2 billion) to form Europe's largest buyout fund to date, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 16, 2022
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Mattos Filho
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados has been on the cutting edge of investments in Brazil, serving as underwriters in the country's first crypto-asset exchange-traded fund and helping XP Allocation Asset Management form the first Brazilian private equity fund-of-funds targeted to qualified investors, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 15, 2022
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP helped financial institutions create and raise funds for investment in markets worldwide, including Dyal Capital Partners' vehicle to acquire minority interests in NBA teams and a $13 billion fund that marked Goldman Sachs' largest since the 2008 financial crisis, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2021 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 14, 2022
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Dentons
Dentons guided a host of high-profile clients through the creation of impactful multimillion-dollar funds, including leading the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a $120 million fund for minority depository institutions in low-income communities, scoring the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.