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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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December 04, 2020
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter
Arnold & Porter has spent the year helping AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP ink deals to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine developed with the University of Oxford, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2020 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's tax group used a relatively uncommon and tax-favorable structure to tie up DuPont's nutrition and biosciences business with a fragrance giant to create $45.4 billion industry behemoth, placing the firm among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Cooley
Cooley LLP helped Facebook reach the largest cash settlement ever in a privacy case, resolving litigation that could have led to tens of billions of dollars in damages, while swiftly steering videoconferencing platform Zoom through probes from state and federal regulators, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2020 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Appellate Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly
Williams & Connolly LLP scored wins in two major intellectual property cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including a decision in favor of Booking.com that adding a domain to a generic name can create a protectable trademark, which put it among Law360's Appellate Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Trials Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP attorneys successfully defended a number of the past year's largest transactions including Sabre's $360 million acquisition of Fairlogic and Sprint's $26 billion merger with T-Mobile, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Trials Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Energy Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP guided a group of private investors, including Global Infrastructure Partners and Brookfield Asset Management, through its $20.7 billion deal to pick up a significant stake in the gas pipeline assets of state-owned oil giant Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., earning it a spot among Law360's 2020 Energy Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil
The outbreak of COVID-19 led to a run of retail bankruptcies, and the restructuring team at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP was positioned to handle some of the most noteworthy of those cases, like J.Crew and Chuck E. Cheese, while also spearheading a successful reorganization for California utility Pacific Gas and Electric Co., earning the firm a spot on Law360's list of Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Banking Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP's banking practice dealt a blow to multibillion-dollar litigation over fees earned by lenders in a federal coronavirus relief loan program, helped thwart class certification sought by aluminum buyers suing JPMorgan for collusion, and guided one of the biggest European bank mergers in years, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Banking Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Environmental Group Of The Year: Baron & Budd
Baron & Budd PC's environmental team achieved big, cutting-edge settlements for municipal clients that sued Pacific Gas and Electric Co. over wildfire damage in California and Bayer AG over water pollution across the country, earning it a place as one of Law360's 2020 Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Securities Group Of The Year: Robbins Geller
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP nabbed a pair of billion-dollar settlements for investors in the former Valeant Pharmaceuticals International and American Realty Capital Properties this year and wrapped up a case on the eve of trial with a $350 million deal, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Benefits Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's executive compensation and benefits practice group is counseling Peugeot SA in its $50 billion merger with Fiat Chrysler, along with Just Eat Takeaway.com NV in its $7.3 billion acquisition of Grubhub Inc., earning it a spot on Law360's 2020 Benefits Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Employment Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's employment practice has been a frequent defender of arbitration agreements, winning a series of cases for Uber, Lowe's and DoorDash related to worker classification and other wage and hour issues, and landing the firm among Law360's 2020 Employment Groups of the Year.
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December 04, 2020
Insurance Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis
Its ability to secure coverage for ITT Corp. in a $66 million settlement over defense of asbestos claims and defense of Rite-Aid Corp. for claims against the pharmacy chain in national opioid litigation has earned Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Insurance Groups of the Year.
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December 03, 2020
Employment Group Of The Year: Orrick
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP scooped up big wins in pay bias and discrimination cases for a handful of tech giants including Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub and Twitter, earning it a spot among Law360's 2020 Employment Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 03, 2020
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has assisted on a bevy of big-ticket transactions over the past year, including the $45.5 billion merger of DuPont's nutrition and biosciences business with fragrance giant IFF and the tumultuous multibillion-dollar tie-up of Tiffany and LVMH, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 03, 2020
Class Action Group Of The Year: Edelson
Edelson PC inked an unprecedented $650 million settlement with Facebook over biometric privacy violations, and snagged the highest-ever privacy verdict in a TCPA suit against marketing company ViSalus, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.
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December 03, 2020
Trials Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel's trial specialists had a big year, helping CalTech win $1.1 billion against two tech companies over Wi-Fi patent infringement and saving Elon Musk from a $190 million defamation suit by a man who rescued children stuck in a cave, making it a Law360 Trials Group of the Year for 2020.
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December 03, 2020
IP Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's intellectual property practice group secured a trademark win for Lucky Brand in the U.S. Supreme Court and a major victory for Motorola in a trade secrets case against competitor Hytera, earning them a spot as one of Law360's 2020 IP Groups of the Year.
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December 03, 2020
Energy Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP guided Saudi Aramco through its eye-popping $25.6 billion initial public offering and advised a consortium that made one of the year's largest global energy infrastructure investments, earning it a spot among Law360's 2020 Energy Groups of the Year.
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December 03, 2020
Tax Group Of The Year: Eversheds Sutherland
Eversheds Sutherland's tax practice earned key victories in 2020, including one for Walmart.com in a Louisiana sales tax case and a trio for Cox Communications in Virginia over whether localities can tax gross receipts from internet access, landing it among Law360's 2020 Tax Groups of the Year.
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December 03, 2020
Securities Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP guided several groundbreaking wins over the past year, including securing the dismissal of an unprecedented $50 billion breach-of-fiduciary duty suit against Blackstone, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Securities Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 03, 2020
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Pachulski Stang
Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP secured a settlement for unsecured creditors in retail chain Neiman Marcus' Chapter 11 case, saw trade creditors through the bankruptcy of retailer J.Crew, and helped gym chain 24 Hour Fitness deal with its COVID-19 shutdown to earn a spot on Law360's 2020 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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December 03, 2020
Appellate Group Of The Year: O'Melveny
Lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers LLP netted several wins before the U.S. Supreme Court this year, where they helped overturn decades-old precedent that permitted convictions without a unanimous jury vote and helped an inmate appeal his sentence pro bono — accomplishments that landed them among Law360's 2020 Appellate Groups of the Year.
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December 02, 2020
Mergers & Acquisitions Group of the Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP guided automotive industry supplier BorgWarner in ironing out its multibillion-dollar purchase of Delphi Technologies, advised MultiPlan in its $11 billion take-public merger with a blank check company and represented six firms that invested $20.7 billion in gas pipeline assets, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year, the fifth year it has received the recognition.
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December 02, 2020
IP Group Of The Year: Irell
Irell & Manella LLP was able to help PanOptis and related companies gain a $506 million jury win in a patent infringement case — the country's first in-person jury trial over patents since the COVID-19 pandemic led to nationwide court closures — earning the firm a place among Law360's 2020 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.