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.
  • March 04, 2024

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Weil

    Real estate attorneys at Weil played key roles in Micron Technology's development of a $100 billion semiconductor factory, Kroger's proposed $24.6 billion merger with fellow supermarket giant Albertsons and Brookfield's $8 billion sale of Westinghouse Electric Co., earning their practice a spot among Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • March 01, 2024

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Thanks to its role advising on multiple deals north of the $10 billion mark, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has earned a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • February 29, 2024

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Kasowitz

    Recent legal victories by the real estate practice at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, such as confirming SL Green Realty Corp.'s $185 million arbitral award against Chinese conglomerate HNA Group and keeping the Hotel Chelsea's suit over a revoked building permit alive, earned the team a spot among Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • February 28, 2024

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells oversaw a busy 2023 that included successfully defending real estate investment trust Life Storage from a hostile takeover attempt, advising on billions in transactions in the real estate investment trust space and guiding clients to a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2024

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    Greenberg Traurig LLP attorneys helped the Metropolitan Transportation Authority complete the development of a major train terminal in New York City and advised a $2 billion transaction in which a Japanese real estate firm bought a 50% stake in a Manhattan office tower, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2024

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Fried Frank

    Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP helped clients close deals last year for the development of prominent additions to the New York City and Las Vegas skylines, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • February 03, 2023

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Wachtell

    Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz guided Prologis in what became the year's largest real estate transaction, totaling more than $25 billion in one merger, and represented companies across the REIT spectrum with no signs of slowing down, earning a spot in Law360's 2022 Real Estate Group of the Year.

  • February 02, 2023

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP led Starwood Capital Group in its $1.5 billion joint acquisition with the Blackstone Group of 111 WoodSpring Suites properties, in what the firm said was the largest real estate M&A deal in the first half of last year, earning it a spot among Law360's 2022 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2023

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    Greenberg Traurig LLP attorneys helped CBRE Investment Management land a $4.9 billion portfolio of American and European logistics properties, and anchored the Necessity Retail REIT's rebrand with a $1.3 billion deal for 81 open-air shopping centers, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2023

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells successfully closed out an initially hostile $23 billion real estate investment trust deal, and led VICI Properties through its $17.2 billion play to become America's largest experiential real estate owner, landing a spot among Law360's 2022 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2023

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's real estate group guided the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on a $9.5 billion project to build a new airport terminal, and helped Google seal a $2.1 billion deal for a new office campus, landing it a spot among Law360's 2022 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2023

    Construction Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    With King & Spalding LLP's global practice handling half a trillion dollars in construction contracts, including advising Occidental Petroleum on its plans to create the world's first commercial-scale direct air capture project, and also untangling litigation for similarly complex deals, the firm earned a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Construction Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2023

    Construction Group Of The Year: Tarter Krinsky

    Tarter Krinsky & Drogin worked on several major projects in the past year, including a 300,000-square-foot charter school in New York's Bronx borough, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Construction Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2023

    Construction Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    Perhaps no construction settlement last year rivaled the impact of Greenberg Traurig LLP's skillful and speedy work involving multiple defendants and insurance companies to settle claims from the June 2021 collapse of a condo tower in Surfside, Florida, which killed 98 people and garnered national headlines, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Construction Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • January 28, 2022

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Weil

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP guided MGM Resorts International on a deal to sell MGM Growth Properties at an enterprise value of $17.2 billion and is advising Lendlease Americas Inc. on a $15 billion development project in California, making it one of Law360's 2021 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2022

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP attorneys helped raise more than $460 million for Harvard's forthcoming 14-acre life sciences campus and advised AIG on its $5.1 billion residential portfolio sale to Blackstone, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Real Estate Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2022

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    The real estate practice group at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP completed several major deals in 2021, including Blackstone's $10 billion acquisition of data center solutions company QTS Realty Trust and its $7.3 billion acquisition of several AIG real estate assets, landing it a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2022

    Energy Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP recently represented clients including Devon Energy and PPL Corporation in some of the largest transactions in the oil, gas and electric energy sectors, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2022

    Energy Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP helped guide nine international and U.S.-based banks in their financing for America's first major offshore wind farm, earning it a spot among Law360's 2021 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2022

    Real Estate Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP represented Starwood Capital on the $6 billion take-private joint venture of hotel operator Extended Stay America, as well as KKR for the $2.2 billion sale of industrial warehouses to Oxford Properties, helping it earn a place among Law360's 2021 Real Estate Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2022

    ​White Collar Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP deftly navigated a shifting regulatory landscape as it clinched favorable resolutions in SEC probes of Kraft-Heinz and Deutsche Bank — and exposed significant prosecutorial missteps defending a $500 million real estate fraud case — earning the firm a place among Law360's 2021 White Collar Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2022

    ​Energy Group Of The Year: Holland & Knight

    Attorneys from newly combined firm Holland & Knight LLP advised Exelon through the $810 million sale of hundreds of U.S. solar facility sites as well as helped Surge Energy pick up a significant stake in the Permian Basin for $420 million, earning the firm a spot on Law360's 2021 Energy Groups of the Year.

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