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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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February 15, 2019
Asset Management Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP spent 2018 helping its clients form multibillion-dollar funds, all while representing embattled Emirati private equity firm Abraaj Group's limited partners, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Asset Management Groups of the Year.
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February 14, 2019
Trials Group Of The Year: Weil
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP had a big year in 2018 with trial wins for Johnson & Johnson in the always-newsworthy talc litigation and for a giant grocery warehouser accused of divvying up the distribution market with a competitor, among others, landing it on Law360's list of Trials Groups of the Year.
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February 14, 2019
Gov't Contracts Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown LLP leveraged its legal team's expertise in the contracting world to tackle major bid controversies, including winning a key protest of the U.S. Army's entry into a noncompetitive cloud migration deal, earning the firm recognition as a Law360 Government Contracts Group of the Year.
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February 14, 2019
Media Group Of The Year: Munger Tolles
Munger Tolles & Olson LLP has long been at the forefront of media and entertainment litigation, in 2018 representing Disney in cases against RedBox and VidAngel and defending FX Networks in a suit brought by actress Olivia de Havilland, earning the firm a spot on Law360's list of Media and Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 14, 2019
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP scooped up a series of high-dollar real estate victories last year, including guiding mall operator GGP Inc. through its $14.8 billion takeover by Brookfield Property Partners, valued at nearly $28 billion including debt, maintaining its spot among Law360's Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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February 14, 2019
Project Finance Group Of The Year: White & Case
White & Case LLP leveraged its global footprint to bolster a slew of high-acclaim, high-value projects, including a $4.9 billion automated people mover system at the Los Angeles International Airport and a $14 billion refinery project in Malaysia, making it a Law360 Project Finance Practice Group of the Year.
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February 13, 2019
Project Finance Group Of The Year: Orrick
Last year Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe advised Microsoft Inc. on one of the largest corporate solar energy purchases in the country and counseled John F. Kennedy International Airport's operator on its $13 billion redevelopment, landing the firm a spot among Law360's Project Finance Groups of the Year for the fifth time since 2011.
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February 13, 2019
Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis LLP secured a win for Fox News Network at the Second Circuit that clarified the fair use doctrine for copyrights of video clips collated by other websites, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.
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February 13, 2019
Trials Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Last year Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP was tapped by Google to protect the trade secrets underlying its self-driving car venture Waymo, and by securing a settlement worth $250 million for the Google unit midway through its trial against rival Uber, the firm earned a spot among Law360's Trial Groups of the Year.
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February 13, 2019
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Kramer Levin
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP attorneys advised the Walt Disney Co. on the acquisition and redevelopment of its new headquarters in lower Manhattan and the disposition and $1.2 billion sale of its Upper West Side properties, earning them a spot among Law360's Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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February 13, 2019
Gov't Contracts Group Of The Year: Crowell & Moring
Crowell & Moring LLP handled high-profile cases related to cost-sharing reduction payments owed to insurers under the Affordable Care Act and represented clients including Lockheed Martin Corp. in bid protests, earning it a place as one of Law360's Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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February 12, 2019
Trials Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP convinced a Delaware Chancery judge and a New York bankruptcy judge to hand wins to its clients in two bench trials in 2018, making the firm one of Law360's Trials Groups of the Year.
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February 12, 2019
Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Hueston Hennigan
Hueston Hennigan LLP's media and entertainment practice group has made a name for itself handling a long-running saga of litigation involving media mogul Sumner Redstone, a trademark suit for Walt Disney subsidiaries, and a constitutional challenge to a California law on behalf of IMDb, earning the group a spot on Law360's list of 2018 Media and Entertainment Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 12, 2019
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's real estate team broke new ground in 2018 by advising Jamestown LP on its $2.4 billion sale of Manhattan's Chelsea Market to Google, earning it a spot among Law360's Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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February 12, 2019
Project Finance Group Of The Year: Nossaman
As massive projects get underway at the Los Angeles International Airport spurred on by the financial spadework of Nossaman LLP, the latest in a line of multibillion-dollar initiatives, the firm has notched a spot as one of Law360's Project Finance Groups of the Year.
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February 12, 2019
Gov't Contracts Group Of The Year: Covington
Covington & Burling LLP handled the regulatory aspects of a private equity firm's acquisition of PricewaterhouseCoopers' U.S. public sector business and successfully challenged a roughly $5 billion nuclear waste contract award, maintaining its spot among Law360's Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2019
Trials Group Of The Year: Kasowitz Benson
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP's trial lawyers had a big year in 2018 with some big wins, like one in New Jersey over claims that hedge funds tried to damage an insurer's stock price, and one in California that the firm said is the first time a software implementation consultant has been held liable for professional negligence, earning the firm a spot on Law360's list of Trials Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2019
Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Davis Wright
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP's work helping Buzzfeed beat back a defamation suit after the media outlet published a dossier connecting Russia and then-President-elect Donald Trump, along with successfully defending client Universal Pictures in a case the firm said will empower members of the entertainment industry, earned it a spot among Law360's 2018 Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2019
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP represented JP Morgan Chase in its planned replacement of its midtown Manhattan headquarters and helped Google buy Chelsea Market for $2.4 billion, the second-highest price ever paid for a U.S. building, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2019
Gov't Contracts Group Of The Year: Blank Rome
Blank Rome LLP added to its running tally of successful bid protests this past year with a major Federal Circuit win that put a tech contractor back in the running for a $5 billion U.S. Army award, earning it a place among Law360's Government Contracts Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2019
Project Finance Group Of The Year: Norton Rose
Norton Rose Fulbright helped Cheniere Energy Inc. secure $6.1 billion in financing for its liquefied natural gas export facility in Texas and assisted Orsted in two acquisitions of significant renewable energy assets valued in excess of $500 million each, earning it a place as one of Law360's Project Finance Groups of the Year.
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February 08, 2019
Trials Group Of The Year: Desmarais
By winning an $82.5 million verdict for IBM Corp. in its first patent trial as a plaintiff, setting up the technology giant for future success licensing out its long-held patents, Desmarais proved its courtroom chops, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Trials Groups of the Year.
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February 08, 2019
Project Finance Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown LLP advised underwriters on the $600 million financing for Florida's one-of-a-kind rail service, steered Purdue University through a uniquely funded student housing project and guided a pension fund in its record-breaking $1.2 billion bond offering, continuing its streak as one of Law360's Project Finance Groups of the Year.
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February 08, 2019
Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in 2018 represented Comcast as the media giant acquired British media company Sky for £30.6 billion and guided Spotify's financial advisers as the streaming service completed an unusual direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.
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February 08, 2019
Gov't Contracts Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter
Arnold & Porter successfully represented Raytheon Co. against multiple challenges to its $1.15 billion U.S. Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity contract and has defended many clients in high-stakes False Claims Act cases, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Government Contracts Groups of the Year.