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.
  • February 09, 2022

    Media Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP represented AT&T in a $43 billion reverse Morris trust merger between AT&T-owned WarnerMedia and Discovery and served as counsel to Major League Baseball in a lawsuit over its moving the All-Star Game from Georgia to Colorado, helping the firm earn a place among Law360's 2021 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2022

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Hagens Berman

    Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP scored victories in a series of innovative class actions throughout the year, including a win at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of college athletes and a $700 million settlement in a suit against Mercedes-Benz USA LLC, earning the firm a place as one of Law360's 2021 Class Action Groups of of the Year.

  • February 08, 2022

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP helped represent Sweden's Oatly for its $1.4 billion initial public offering and Warby Parker for its direct listing that later saw the company valued at $6 billion, helping the firm earn a place among Law360's 2021 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2022

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Fox Rothschild

    Cannabis attorneys at Fox Rothschild LLP served as U.S. counsel to Trulieve as the Canadian cannabis giant navigated its $2.1 billion acquisition of Harvest Health & Recreation, and counseled PharmaCann as it sold a 10% ownership stake option and held an $85 million senior secured note offering, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2021 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2022

    International Arbitration Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP consistently makes a mark with its international arbitration practice, which won a fight for Chevron over a $60 billion Australian natural gas facility and represented Air Canada in a landmark bilateral investment treaty dispute against Venezuela, putting the firm among Law360's 2021 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2022

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP represented shareholders involved with Discovery Inc.'s multibillion-dollar merger with Time Warner and counseled MGM in its $8.45 billion sale to Amazon, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2022

    Competition Group Of The Year: Hagens Berman

    In a colossal win for college athletes, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP won a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the NCAA cannot restrict players' education-related compensation and benefits, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2022

    International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Freshfields

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP last year won more than $9 billion for multinational mining corporations in complex claims against dueling Venezuelan governments and successfully defended the first known investment arbitration award against the Colombian government in annulment proceedings, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2022

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Fenwick

    Fenwick & West LLP steered breakthrough transactions such as cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase's direct listing, plus a bevy of traditional initial public offerings and follow-on financing for technology and life science startups, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2022

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Dorsey & Whitney

    The cannabis practice group at Dorsey & Whitney LLP guided a $92 million initial public offering for Ascend Wellness Holdings Inc. and took Verano Holdings LLC public at a $2.8 billion valuation, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2022

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Class action attorneys at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP stopped two bet-the-company cases targeting Facebook and Jimmy John's dead in their tracks last year and reversed major decisions against Walmart, Comcast and Uber on appeal, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2022

    Competition Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    The competition group at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped longtime client Apple Inc. score an important win in its battle with Epic Games over App Store restrictions and notched several key rulings on class issues in antitrust cases against other clients, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2022

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Jenner & Block LLP won a trademark suit over the MTV reality show "Floribama Shore," successfully defended Chance the Rapper in a contract dispute and blocked online retailers from selling devices that could allegedly hack Nintendo Switch gaming consoles, earning it a spot among Law360's 2021 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 04, 2022

    Government Contracts Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    WilmerHale steered Fluor Corp. through litigation over the $82 billion LOGCAP V logistics support contract and brought Teledyne Technologies Inc.'s successful "foosball protest" against a $652 million NASA award, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • February 04, 2022

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Dentons

    The cannabis group at Dentons helped steer Green Leaf Medical LLC's $240 million sale to Columbia Care Inc. and represented Connected Cannabis Co. in consecutive debt and equity raises that brought in a total of $40 million, making the team one of Law360's 2021 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

  • February 04, 2022

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's global team prospered from a robust year for corporate financing, guiding landmark initial public offerings and public listings in industries such as fintech, consumer retail and electric vehicles and earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • February 04, 2022

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP secured Rachel Maddow's win over defamation claims from far-right media outlet One America News and helped Bob Dylan defeat claims that a co-writer on his 1976 album "Desire" was owed more than $7 million from the music icon's 2020 sale of his song catalog, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 04, 2022

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP helped successfully defend Qualcomm once again from antitrust claims targeting the chipmaker's patent practices, this time undoing the certification of a class of an estimated 250 million phone buyers, netting it a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 04, 2022

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC has scored big successes in recent months, like inking a nine-figure deal on behalf of those affected by Flint, Michigan's toxic water crisis, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2021 Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • February 04, 2022

    International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Debevoise

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP helped Qatar peacefully resolve a yearslong dispute with its neighbors and secured a €111 million ($125.2 million) arbitral award in a case that put a spotlight on media freedom, landing the firm among Law360's 2021 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.

  • February 03, 2022

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP helped pandemic-stricken theater chain AMC navigate an out-of-court restructuring, bankrupt oil and gas producer Fieldwood Energy deal with hundreds of millions of dollars in potential environmental liabilities and mall manager CBL & Associates shed $1.6 billion in debt in Chapter 11, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • February 03, 2022

    Cybersecurity Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey

    Susman Godfrey LLP helped keep alive a federal lawsuit accusing the owners of PornHub of allowing and encouraging child pornography and won an initial blessing of a $92 million settlement resolving biometric privacy claims against TikTok, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • February 03, 2022

    Health Care Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Williams & Connolly LLP won a key trial for CVS in a long-running class action dispute and scored an appellate victory for Aetna after a California court tossed a challenge to the company's coverage policy, earning it a spot among Law360's 2021 Health Care Groups of the Year.

  • February 03, 2022

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Wilson Sonsini

    It required an argument by phone from a former federal judge in a remote cabin in Utah, but Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC recently won a U.S. Supreme Court decision that preserved important constitutional rules for Delaware state courts, helping land the firm among Law360's 2021 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • February 03, 2022

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey

    Susman Godfrey LLP attorneys played an integral role in securing a $626 million settlement for victims of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis and are working to defend longtime client Chevron Corp. against dozens of local governments' novel claims seeking to hold Big Oil financially liable for climate change, earning it a place among Law360's 2021 Environmental Groups of the Year.

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