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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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February 12, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: O'Melveny
O'Melveny & Myers LLP's work in defending Johnson & Johnson in opioid litigation across the country and the firm's defense of J&J unit Ethicon in the first state attorney general suit to go to trial over its pelvic mesh products won the firm a place as a Law360 2019 Product Liability Group of the Year.
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February 12, 2020
International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped to secure a landmark Third Circuit decision providing an opening for Venezuela's creditors to begin collecting an estimated $150 billion in debt, and convinced a California judge not to enforce a "sham" $18 billion arbitration award against Chevron Corp., landing it among Law360's 2019 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.
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February 12, 2020
Competition Group Of The Year: Dechert
Dechert LLP guided CVS through unprecedented levels of court scrutiny applied to the merger clearance deal blessing its tie-up with Aetna, while also navigating intense Federal Trade Commission oversight of other transactions, netting it a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Competition Groups of the Year.
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February 12, 2020
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray LLP helped Stone Ridge Asset Management LLC create the first Bitcoin-focused futures fund, alongside launching over a hundred other private funds, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 12, 2020
Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Orrick
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP last year continued to be a key architect of state-by-state legalization of sports betting since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to do so, while it also reached into sports litigation by defending the NCAA against concussion lawsuits, landing it on the list of Law360's 2019 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.
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February 12, 2020
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP was rewarded for taking a biotech company's securities class action to trial and backed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as it enforced restrictions on compounding drugs, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2019 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2020
Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath
The competition team at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP negotiated one of last year's highest-profile settlements and brought a two-year antitrust fight between Apple and Qualcomm to an end, handily earning the practice group a seat among Law360's 2019 Competition Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2020
International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Freshfields
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP helped secure a more than $8.7 billion arbitration award, one of the largest in history, against Venezuela this past year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2020
Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block
Ushering in the launch of the FOX Bet sports wagering platform, securing a win for FanDuel in a case over the use of former NCAA athletes' names and statistics in the Indiana Supreme Court and chopping a three-year ban on fantasy sports leagues operating in Illinois are among the accomplishments that earned Jenner & Block a spot as one of Law360's Sports and Betting Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Motley Rice
Motley Rice LLC is one of three plaintiffs firms spearheading the massive and massively complex opioid litigation, and over the past year the firm has also played a key role in initiating Honda's most recent recall of Takata air bags and secured millions at trial for lead paint victims, earning it a spot among Law360's 2019 Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2020
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP has helped pharmaceutical companies — such as Johnson & Johnson, Actelion and Galderma — fight product liability claims, defend against government investigations and protect their drug products, making it one of Law360's 2019 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2020
Transportation Group Of The Year: Nossaman
Nossaman LLP's infrastructure group has overseen a flurry of innovative and thoughtful projects this year, from crucial bridge and tunnel replacements in rural Louisiana to its continued work on modernizing Los Angeles International Airport, snagging it a spot for the fifth time in a row among Law360's 2019 Transportation Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2020
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP steered a record-breaking $16 billion technology fund and corralled investors from more than 40 countries to deliver Warburg Pincus' largest fund to date, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 10, 2020
Competition Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling
Covington & Burling LLP's competition team worked on several high-profile transactions last year, including Disney's transformative deal with 21st Century Fox, while also representing several entities on important conduct matters, landing the practice among Law360's 2019 Competition Groups of the Year.
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February 10, 2020
International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Debevoise
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP distinguished itself in 2019 with wins in traditional international arbitrations and public international law disputes, achieving a nearly $6 billion mining award for Tethyan Copper Co. and representing Qatar in a discrimination case against the United Arab Emirates, landing the firm among Law360's 2019 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.
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February 10, 2020
Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells handled some of the biggest transactions in U.S. sports last year, representing Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov as he sold the second half of the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center for the record-setting sum of $3.5 billion and helping to secure new naming rights deals for the homes of the Denver Broncos and the San Francisco Giants, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's Sports and Betting Groups of the Year.
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February 10, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Jones Day
Representing Merck & Co. in a unanimous win in the U.S. Supreme Court over its medication Fosamax and reversing a $23.6 billion verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. are among the big wins that earned Jones Day a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Product Liability Groups of the Year.
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February 10, 2020
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Fish & Richardson
Fish & Richardson PC helped the Mayo Clinic defeat a diagnostic test patent suit and protected patents covering Allergan's eye medication Combigan, all while getting a pair of biotech companies ready for multibillion-dollar acquisitions, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2019 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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February 10, 2020
Transportation Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells
With an eye toward the future and expertise in cutting-edge technology, Hogan Lovells' automotive and mobility sector group guided Ford through a multibillion-dollar deal with Volkswagen to develop an autonomous vehicle platform, earning it a spot among Law360's 2019 Transportation Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 10, 2020
Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Goodwin Procter
Goodwin Procter LLP advised some of the largest private equity groups in the world on their fund formations last year, including the creation of a $17.5 billion vehicle for private equity group Advent International and an $8.5 billion fund for TA Associates, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2020
Competition Group Of The Year: Cleary
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP helped clients navigate several massive transactions, and considerable antitrust scrutiny, last year, including T-Mobile's purchase of Sprint and the Walt Disney-Fox tie-up, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Competition Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2020
Class Action Group Of The Year: Weil
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP negotiated a $120 million deal ending claims related to the Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme and scored a rare en banc victory in the Eleventh Circuit for insurers accused of improperly lowering car repair costs, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Class Action Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2020
International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP helped U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly escape a $1.8 billion trade secrets dispute involving a French biotech company and convinced an international tribunal to find that Russia unlawfully expropriated Crimean assets belonging to Ukraine's state-owned oil company, helping to land it among Law360's 2019 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2020
Product Liability Group Of The Year: Dechert
Dechert LLP's work representing Purdue Pharma LP in opioid litigation around the country, including in the multidistrict litigation in Ohio federal court and numerous suits brought by state attorneys general, landed it as a Law360 2019 Product Liability Group of the Year.
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February 07, 2020
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP has defended Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals in various lawsuits over its blood thinner Pradaxa and helped Eli Lilly & Co. get a massive win in arbitration, landing the firm among Law360's 2019 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.