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

    Trials Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP's trials group successfully represented major companies such as TikTok, The Hain Celestial Co., McKesson and Merck last year in courts across the country, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Trials Groups of the Year.

  • 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 04, 2024

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP helped longtime client Revlon untangle its knotted bankruptcy, guiding the global beauty behemoth from a liquidity crisis and debilitating interlender dispute to a confirmed Chapter 11 plan in under a year, just one of several high-profile matters that earned the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • March 04, 2024

    Technology Group Of The Year: Irell

    Irell & Manella LLP won a $303 million judgment for a company that designs circuit boards in a patent lawsuit against Samsung, a ruling a Texas federal judge upheld later in the year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • March 04, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel obtained a complete victory for Elon Musk in an investor class action arising from an infamous tweet, as well as for Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the LA Times who previously helmed immunotherapy company NantCell, in a series of court cases and arbitrations with rival cancer-drug companies, earning it a place among Law360's 2023 Securities 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.

  • March 01, 2024

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP helped Revlon, Party City and LATAM Airlines get their bankruptcy cases over the finish line while moving Purdue Pharma through the appeals of its Chapter 11 plan, landing the firm a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • March 01, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Munger Tolles

    The Munger Tolles & Olson LLP securities group's multiple victories for high-profile clients over the past year, including successfully appealing a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ruling on Grayscale Investment's bitcoin exchange-traded product, has earned it a spot among Law360's 2023 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • March 01, 2024

    Technology Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP blocked a Montana law from going into effect that would have banned TikTok across the state and is currently taking on a challenge lobbed at Microsoft over privacy issues stemming from artificial intelligence, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Technology 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 29, 2024

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Brown Rudnick

    The bankruptcy department at Brown Rudnick LLP has coalesced into a powerful team able to fight for the rights of commercial and tort creditors in large Chapter 11 cases, including securing the dismissal of insolvency cases for Johnson & Johnson's talc unit — twice — and forging a resolution for the sprawling case of cryptocurrency player BlockFi Inc., earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • February 29, 2024

    Structured Finance Group Of The Year: Milbank

    Milbank LLP's structured finance team last year crafted unique solutions to allow capital markets to access rated notes, to securitize a fiber-optic network and to finance an acquisition of Subway Restaurants, earning it a place among Law360's Structured Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 29, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins successfully helped Oracle company executive Lawrence J. Ellison and CEO Safra Catz beat a derivative challenge to a $9.4 billion acquisition deal, one of the largest challenges against a corporate deal to go to trial before the Delaware Court of Chancery, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • February 28, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    The securities litigation team at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP played a central role in winning a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of Slack Technologies LLC, putting in place new barriers to shareholder suits against companies that go public via direct listings, winning it a spot on Law360's 2023 Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • February 28, 2024

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Seeger Weiss

    Seeger Weiss LLP's work on securing a landmark $6 billion deal to end the massive litigation brought by veterans and service members who alleged that 3M's combat earplugs harmed their hearing made it one of Law360's Product Liability 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

    Securities Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC's securities team made headlines last year by securing one of the largest securities class action recoveries of all time for Wells Fargo investors and by introducing major corporate governance reforms at several financial institutions after their alleged attempts to obstruct the stock loan market, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Securities 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 27, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    With an achievement list spanning an unusual private market community solar portfolio, financing the Las Vegas Sphere, toll roads and New York City subway connectivity, Winston & Strawn LLP has solidified a place on Law360's 2023 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2024

    Structured Finance Group Of The Year: Cahill Gordon

    Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's structured finance team guided the $16 billion take-private of audience measurement company Nielsen, corralling more than 10 banks to cooperate amid difficult market conditions, earning a place among Law360's 2023 Structured Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2024

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Lieff Cabraser

    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP has obtained a $230 million settlement from Walgreens over the opioid crisis in San Francisco and secured a $235 million vaping litigation settlement from tobacco giant Altria, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2024

    Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    Winston & Strawn LLP's sports law practice notched several high-profile wins in 2023, including helping certify a class of 184,000 college athletes who are seeking an injunction against the NCAA over their name, image and likeness rights — one of many cases earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's Sports Law Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2024

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Buchanan Ingersoll

    Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC's international trade practice scored crucial wins last year, shepherding bet-the-company deals through national security reviews and challenging unlawful dumping practices, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 International Trade 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.

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