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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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January 28, 2022
Health Care Group Of The Year: McDermott
McDermott Will & Emery LLP represented Babylon Health in numerous transactions in the last year — including helping the company go public — earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Health Care Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 28, 2022
Environmental Group Of The Year: Baker Botts
Environmental attorneys at Baker Botts LLP notched several notable achievements in recent months, establishing what the firm calls a "go-to" incident response team, successfully helping ExxonMobil Corp. recover cleanup costs from the U.S. government and setting a new standard for how environmental consent decrees may be terminated, earning a place among Law360's 2021 Environmental Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 28, 2022
Insurance Group Of The Year: Wiley Rein
Wiley Rein LLP's representation of insurers over the past year in key coverage actions over soured mergers and acquisitions, like those involving Jarden LLC and Joy Global Inc., and COVID-19 business interruption suits has landed it a spot among Law360's 2021 Insurance Groups of the Year.
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January 28, 2022
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster
The private equity practice at Morrison & Foerster LLP advised on 129 deals worth about $80 billion last year, including several sizable cross-border deals and transactions involving special purpose acquisition vehicles, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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January 28, 2022
Appellate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP came out on top in a long-running tug-of-war over media ownership rules that culminated in a U.S. Supreme Court case, scoring a unanimous decision that helped land the firm among Law360's 2021 Appellate Groups of the Year.
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January 28, 2022
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has deployed a multidisciplinary team of attorneys to deal with historically complex restructuring cases such as Hertz Global's and Purdue Pharma's, earning the firm a series of big wins for its clients and a spot among Law360's 2021 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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January 28, 2022
Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter
Arnold & Porter's work helping SpaceX defeat a challenge to a high-profile NASA contract and its successes in challenges to billions of dollars in contentious contract awards helped the firm secure a place as one of Law360's 2021 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2022
Banking Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Showcasing its knowledge of and experience with complex regulatory structures, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP advised LendingClub Corp. in its $185 million takeover of Radius Bank, making LendingClub the first U.S. fintech company to acquire a bank and earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2022
Trials Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly
Williams & Connolly LLP successfully defended AstraZeneca and CVS in lawsuits that spared the companies from paying hundreds of millions of dollars, earning the firm a spot among Law360s 2021 Trial Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2022
Energy Group Of The Year: Troutman Pepper
When Avangrid and PNM Resources merged last year to form one of the nation's biggest utility companies, Troutman Pepper guided PNM through the $4.2 billion transaction and related regulatory red tape, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Energy Groups of the Year.
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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.
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January 27, 2022
Insurance Group Of The Year: Pasich LLP
With a landmark victory for Dole Food Co. against one of its directors and officers insurers in the Delaware Supreme Court, as well as some of the few COVID-19 coverage successes for policyholders, Pasich LLP has been named one of Law360's 2021 Insurance Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2022
White Collar Group Of The Year: Paul Hastings
Paul Hastings LLP guided Goldman Sachs through a $2.9 billion plea deal that resolved a criminal investigation into the bank's role in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd. scandal, and helped reverse the fraud convictions of former Wilmington Trust Corp. executives, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 White Collar Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2022
International Trade Group Of The Year: Wiley Rein
Wiley Rein LLP secured duties on Chinese chassis that brought domestic producers back from the brink of extinction while continuing to defend domestic wind and solar producers against international onslaughts, earning its place among Law360's 2021 International Trade Groups of the Year.
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January 26, 2022
Banking Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP deterred a push by Citibank to claw back $500 million in accidentally wired funds from a group of asset managers and helped secure a pivotal $50 million deal for investors to wrap up a gold price-fixing case, landing the firm a place among Law360's 2021 Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 26, 2022
Trials Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP proved once again in 2021 why it's a top trial firm, winning tough cases for Revlon lenders in a Citibank case with national coverage and a bet-the-company patent case for key duplication startup KeyMe LLC, becoming one of Law360's Trials Groups of the Year.
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January 26, 2022
White Collar Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP won a full defense verdict for an engine maker's CEO and narrowed what the feds described as a multibillion-dollar trade secret case against a Taiwanese chipmaker to a one-count guilty plea and nominal fine, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 White Collar Groups of the Year.
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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.
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January 26, 2022
Insurance Group Of The Year: O'Melveny
Insurance attorneys at O'Melveny & Myers LLP in the last year scored wins for Chubb in pandemic coverage and reinsurance suits, including a $137 million victory over the Los Angeles Lakers, landing the firm among Law360's 2021 Insurance Groups of the Year.
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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.
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January 26, 2022
International Trade Group Of The Year: Kelley Drye
With wins in two of the largest international trade remedy cases ever, filed on behalf of the U.S. Aluminum Association and producers of steel wire, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP secured its place among Law360's 2021 International Trade Groups of the Year.
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January 26, 2022
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Wachtell
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz guided medical supplies corporation Medline's $31 billion June sale of its majority interest to major private equity firms including Blackstone and also represented Square Inc. in its $29 billion buy of payment corporation Afterpay Ltd., which helped land the New York law firm on the list for Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 25, 2022
Banking Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
The banking group at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP secured dismissal of a suit alleging Morgan Stanley participated in a conspiracy to rig the U.S. Treasury markets and prepared a comprehensive report on Credit Suisse's relationship with collapsed investment manager Archegos Capital Management, earning the team a place among Law360's 2021 Banking Groups of the Year.
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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.
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January 25, 2022
Employment Group Of The Year: Seyfarth
Employment attorneys at Seyfarth Shaw LLP notched several wins in recent months, including a Ninth Circuit ruling that clarified when a joint employer can force workers into arbitration and a settlement that ended a class action against Jimmy John's that threatened its franchise business model, earning the firm a place as one of Law360's 2021 Practice Groups of the Year.