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.
  • February 26, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    A $7 billion deal to finance a liquefied natural gas facility in Texas is one of several clean or renewable energy transactions in which Sullivan & Cromwell LLP played a leading role in 2023, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2024

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP's product liability group helped McKesson Corp. notch a trial win in the nationwide opioid litigation and secured a dismissal of claims against Hain Celestial Group Inc. over allegations that their baby food contained dangerous amounts of heavy metals, earning the group a spot as one of Law360's Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2024

    Securities Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP recently secured $1 billion for Wells Fargo investors who claimed losses over the bank's risk management practices and reached a $145 million settlement on behalf of investors in Allianz's Structured Alpha Funds, earning the firm a place among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2024

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Grunfeld Desiderio

    Grunfeld Desiderio Lebowitz Silverman & Klestadt LLP continued to rack up critical wins for foreign exporters in the past year, including a major Chinese tire manufacturer for which it secured a rare 0% dumping rate, and successfully defended against fraud allegations by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2024

    Healthcare Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's recent work overcoming antitrust challenges to major healthcare transactions, including its victory at a federal bench trial over the government's attempt to block a $13 billion acquisition by UnitedHealth Group, has earned the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Healthcare Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2024

    Sports & Betting Practice Group Of the Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP guided World Wrestling Entertainment to a better deal for shareholders in a $21 billion merger with the parent company of Ultimate Fighting Championship while conducting an internal investigation of the Northwestern University athletics department in the wake of a hazing scandal, earning it a spot in Law360's 2023 Sports and Betting Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2024

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Williams & Connolly LLP pulled off a hat trick at the U.S. Supreme Court in May 2023 when it secured three victories on issues of tech company liability and photography ownership on the same day, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP guided financing for a Pennsylvania bridge replacement project of unrivaled proportions and navigated a first-of-its-kind tax credit transfer transaction amid a renewable energy portfolio buy, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2024 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 22, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Kaplan Kirsch

    As a leader in assembling bespoke models to pay for a variety of public infrastructure projects, Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP advised construction of an urban interstate in Denver, a $5 billion update at Los Angeles International Airport and planning for a transit program powered by self-driving cars, earning a spot among Law360's 2023 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 22, 2024

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Crowell & Moring

    Crowell & Moring LLP saw success on both sides of the Atlantic this year, with its attorneys successfully representing Indian steel importers in a trade matter involving dozens of European enforcement agencies and winning the quick remand of American steel anti-dumping duties, landing it a spot among Law360's 2023 International Trade Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 22, 2024

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has advised on more than 100 asset management M&A deals with a combined value of over $170 billion since Oct. 1, 2022, including Bridgepoint Group's acquisition of Energy Capital Partners to create a company with €57 billion ($61 billion) invested in global private markets, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Private Equity Groups of the Year.

  • February 22, 2024

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey

    Susman Godfrey LLP secured hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of Dominion Voting Systems and billionaire investor Louis Bacon in separate defamation actions against Fox News and fashion magnate Peter Nygård, cementing the firm's place among Law360's 2023 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 22, 2024

    Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Jenner & Block LLP helps its clients navigate critical moments, including guiding Caesars to victory over a change-skimming lawsuit and engineering a multibillion-dollar sports betting arbitration win for Fox FSG Services in a spat with FanDuel, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.

  • February 22, 2024

    Healthcare Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray

    Ropes & Gray LLP's recent work facilitating several multibillion-dollar transactions, including the largest healthcare acquisition to date by Amazon.com Inc., has earned the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Healthcare Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2024

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Davis Wright

    Davis Wright Tremaine LLP notched a win for the publishing industry when a New York federal judge in March ruled it was illegal for the Internet Archive to scan and lend out books without payment or permission, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2024

    Healthcare Practice Group Of The Year: McDermott

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP helped complete several high-profile healthcare-related deals last year, including the acquisition of Geisinger Health by Kaiser Permanente, achievements that landed the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Healthcare Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2024

    Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells advised Major League Soccer's Inter Miami CF on its groundbreaking acquisition of international soccer icon Lionel Messi and was lead counsel for a group led by Josh Harris in its purchase of the NFL's Washington Commanders for the highest sale price in North American sports history, placing it among Law360's 2023 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2024

    International Trade Group Of The Year: White & Case LLP

    White & Case LLP successfully countered anti-dumping duties on lemon juice imports from Brazil for agriculture giant Louis Dreyfus Co. Sucos, scored a rare suspension agreement to halt the U.S. government's anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations into imports of white grape juice concentrate from Argentina, and it helped Mercedez-Benz escape political instability in Russia, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • February 21, 2024

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray

    Ropes & Gray LLP recently steered deals for clients such as New Mountain Capital, BPEA EQT and TPG Capital Inc., including TPG's sale of high-profile talent agency Creative Artists Agency and BPEA EQT's $6.5 billion merger of its Hong Kong-based business services firms Vistra and Tricor, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Private Equity Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2024

    International Trade Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP scored important wins across the international trade space last year, including shepherding bet-the-company deals through national security review, challenging fertilizer tariffs and guiding Seagate Technology LLC through a record-breaking export control settlement, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 International Trade Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2024

    Sports and Betting Group Of The Year: Covington

    With accomplishments such as advising the new Phoenix Suns owner in the $4 billion acquisition of the team and leading a joint investigation finding abuse, harassment and bullying of players in the National Women's Soccer League, attorneys with Covington & Burling LLP earned themselves a place among Law360's 2023 Sports and Betting Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2024

    Healthcare Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells' health team secured multibillion-dollar acquisitions and redefined the limits of federal antitrust challenges against state healthcare transactions in just two chapters of its landmark year for the health practice group, landing it among Law360's 2023 Healthcare Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2024

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP negotiated deals that allowed NBCUniversal to expand its streaming platform to sub-Saharan Africa and Taboola to power native advertising on Yahoo-owned websites, plus defeated a $177 million lawsuit against longtime client Comcast, landing the firm a spot among Law360's Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 20, 2024

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP advised private equity giant Apollo in nearly $30 billion of publicly disclosed transactions, including multiple multibillion-dollar take-private acquisitions, despite a slow deals market, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Private Equity Groups of the Year.

  • February 16, 2024

    Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Wachtell

    Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz helped heavyweight clients in major 2023 deals, including Pfizer in its $43 billion acquisition of Seagen and the parent company of Michael Kors in its $10 billion sale to the owner of Kate Spade, putting the firm among Law360's Mergers and Acquisitions Groups of the Year.

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