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.
  • January 24, 2020

    Banking Group Of The Year: Cadwalader

    Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP may be one of the oldest law firms in the country, but its banking attorneys are at the cutting edge of the financial services industry's efforts to leave behind what has been called the world's most important number, earning a spot among Law360's 2019 Banking Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2020

    Consumer Protection Group Of The Year: Robbins Geller

    Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP attorneys successfully stopped Greyhound Lines from subjecting its California passengers to immigration raids and got the company to change its policies to protect passenger rights, helping to earn the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Consumer Protection Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2020

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Cahill Gordon

    Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's expertise in debt finance guided clients through massive and multilayered deals, spanning from Comcast's $27 billion bond to fund its acquisition of British broadcaster Sky to Netflix bonds encompassing two continents and Blackstone Group's buyout of Refinitiv, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2020

    Health Care Group Of The Year: Akin Gump

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP secured an impressive number of accomplishments over the last year, like leading Allina Health Services to a win at the U.S. Supreme Court in a challenge to a Medicare payment policy and guiding one of the largest hospital mergers to date in the country, landing it a place among Law360's 2019 Health Care Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2020

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP handled many major private equity matters over the past year, including guiding across the finish line Brookfield Business Partners' $13.2 billion deal for the power solutions business of Johnson Controls and steering Warburg Pincus in a $5.1 billion transaction involving portfolio company SemGroup, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Private Equity Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP was involved in some of the year's biggest environmental disputes, from the ongoing fallout over the Aliso Canyon gas leak to defending against a growing wave of climate change litigation, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2020

    International Trade Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    WilmerHale shepherded a big win this past year for Boeing in a long-running dispute over aircraft subsidies by helping to secure the largest-ever World Trade Organization arbitration award, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2020

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Sheppard Mullin

    For its work helping to steer Baker Technologies into a four-way merger that yielded TILT Holdings Inc. and other pioneering work in the growing cannabis industry, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP earned a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2020

    Consumer Protection Group Of The Year: Morgan & Morgan

    Morgan & Morgan was the driving legal force behind a massive settlement arising from the unprecedented Yahoo data breach and helped secure the $380.5 million Equifax deal over compromised data, landing it a spot on Law360's 2019 Consumer Protection Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2020

    Telecommunications Group Of The Year: Sidley Austin

    Sidley Austin LLP has secured high-profile court victories in closely watched telecom cases over the last year, including cementing AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner and the FCC's net neutrality deregulation, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Telecommunications Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2020

    Construction Group Of The Year: Goldberg Segalla

    Goldberg Segalla helped New York City's environmental regulator shake a $25 million injury demand last year and knocked down $10 million in cost overrun claims for the builder of an Appalachian natural gas pipeline, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Construction Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2020

    Consumer Protection Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP helped household names like Facebook, Google and Nestle fend off several major suits brought by consumers over the past year, earning the firm a place for the third year running among Law360's Consumer Protection Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2020

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Steptoe & Johnson

    Steptoe & Johnson LLP has successfully represented international companies in the pipeline and plastics industry in trade investigations, securing its place as one of Law360's 2019 International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Western Enviro Law Center

    The Western Environmental Law Center has won several court cases in different jurisdictions over the past year that have forced the federal government to reassess how it accounts for climate change when considering leases for fossil fuel exploration and production on public lands, earning the nonprofit a spot in Law360's 2019 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2020

    Cannabis Group of the Year: Fox Rothschild

    The $875 million Curaleaf deal with Grassroots announced last July was just one of the major cannabis transactions Fox Rothschild LLP had a hand in last year, a stretch that earned it a place among Law360's 2019 Cannabis Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2020

    Telecommunications Group Of The Year: Sheppard Mullin

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP scored some big wins for Charter Communications in 2019, carrying the telecom to victory in a decade-long dispute with the city of San Antonio over discriminatory fees and earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Telecommunications Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2020

    Construction Group Of The Year: Schiff Hardin

    Schiff Hardin LLP's recent work advising American Airlines on a $344 million project to upgrade a New York City airport terminal and overseeing a "nightmare" of a bridge construction dispute helped the firm claim a spot among Law360's 2019 Construction Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's tax division has been named one of Law360's 2019 Tax Groups of the Year. From advising Occidental Petroleum in a $57 billion acquisition to advising Mylan on its $50 billion merger with Upjohn, the firm was on the frontlines of some of the year's most noteworthy tax developments.

  • January 21, 2020

    Consumer Protection Group Of The Year: Edelson

    Edelson PC scored a $925 million jury verdict in a multilevel marketing privacy suit and won class certification in a suit accusing a volleyball club of covering up a coach's sexual abuse of children, earning the small firm a place among Law360's 2019 Consumer Protection Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2020

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Dentons

    The cannabis group at Dentons helped steer the largest domestic cannabis deal to date — the sale of Cura Partners Inc.'s cannabis business to Curaleaf Holdings Inc. — and shepherded multiple companies in the industry to their U.S. initial public offerings, making them one of Law360's 2019 Cannabis Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2020

    Securities Group of the Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP closed the book on 17 years of Enron-related litigation last year by defeating a $2 billion securities class action against UBS and clinched a decade-long case against Barclays stemming from losses during the financial crisis, landing the firm among Law360's 2020 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2020

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP last year secured litigation wins against the Obama administration's rule expanding the reach of the Clean Water Act and helped a gas company defeat accusations that it polluted a Chicago suburb through abandoned gas pipelines, landing itself a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2020

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Sidley

    Sidley Austin LLP landed a win for plane maker Airbus at the World Trade Organization this past year in the European Union's long-running dispute with the U.S. over subsidies to Boeing Co., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2020

    Telecommunications Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP battled in the trenches of the Apple-Qualcomm patent wars, acting as lead counsel for Qualcomm and prevailing in a series of global intellectual property cases against the rival phone technology giant, making the firm one of Law360's 2019 Telecommunications Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2020

    Energy Group Of The Year: V&E

    Vinson & Elkins LLP was "hitting on all cylinders" in 2019, guiding $72 billion in energy deals to fruition and scoring a victory for Marathon Petroleum in a $1 billion fight with the Internal Revenue Service, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2019 Energy Groups of the Year.

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