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 09, 2024

    Appellate Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    WilmerHale spent 2023 bringing home major appellate wins in the tech world for Twitter, Apple, Intel and Cisco, as well as in the automobile competition space, with a Delaware Supreme Court victory for Tesla, earning it a spot among Law360's Appellate Groups Of The Year.

  • February 09, 2024

    Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Covington

    Successfully defending against a bid protest over the U.S. Army's award of an $8 billion contract for helicopter development, Covington & Burling LLP's government contracts team was able to secure the "largest and most complex competitive procurement" in Army aviation history for Bell Textron, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2024

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Hunton

    Attorneys with Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP won a hard-fought contest over the future of a controversial West Virginia gas pipeline, got a Trump-era regulation reinstated at the Ninth Circuit and shepherded a major Florida mine through permitting, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2024

    Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's fund formation practice advised private equity behemoth Blackstone in 2023 on a $30.4 billion successor real estate fund, one of the milestones earning the group a spot in Law360's Fund Formation Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: King & Spalding LLP

    King & Spalding LLP won a $16 billion judgment for investors suing Argentina over its nationalization of YPF SA and a nearly $2 billion award for Colombia's Refinería de Cartagena SA in a high-profile construction dispute, while also helping clients advance billions of dollars in projects, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 09, 2024

    Fintech Group Of The Year: Morrison Foerster

    Morrison Foerster LLP's fintech team counseled technology startups as well as financial agencies on handling cyberattacks, strategic partnerships and acquisitions, guiding a client's $220 million digital asset recovery effort and advising Experian on the launch of a full-service digital banking platform, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Fintech Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2024

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Baron & Budd

    Baron & Budd PC attorneys wrangled a $12.5 billion settlement with 3M over contamination of public water systems — the largest settlement of its kind in U.S. history — which, among other notable legal accomplishments, earned it a spot among Law360's 2023 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Attorneys at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP worked on a merger between Exxon Mobil Corp. and Pioneer Natural Resources Co., steered Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co.'s development of the world's largest renewable energy microgrid and expanded the firm's global footprint, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2024

    Fintech Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP made waves in the fintech world last year by successfully defending venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz in a case of first impression involving so-called scam tokens as well as through its representation of Binance's CEO in ongoing enforcement actions, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Fintech Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2024

    Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP has lent its expertise to clients on the formation of some of the largest and most complex capital funds ever, earning the firm recognition as one of Law360's 2023 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.

  • February 08, 2024

    Gov't Contracts Group Of The Year: Bradley Arant

    Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP's recent work in multiple high-stakes bid protests, including scoring a precedent-setting decision that helped secure a $2.6 billion U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract for its client, have earned the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2024

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Securing intellectual property victories for Jack Daniel's Properties Inc. in a suit against a novelty toy manufacturer, and for the photographer behind an Andy Warhol painting of Prince, are among the accomplishments that earned Williams & Connolly LLP's appellate team a spot among Law360's 2022 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2024

    Construction Group Of The Year: Tannenbaum Helpern

    Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP worked on the reconstruction of major New York landmarks like Rockefeller Center and on office buildings in the city's Penn District business campus, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Construction Groups of the Year. 

  • February 07, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP helped ExxonMobil Corp. pull off the largest deal of 2023 with a $60 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources Co., earning the firm a place among Law360's Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2024

    Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Fried Frank

    Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP attorneys counseled on the formation of multibillion-dollar funds, including five totaling $37 billion for Goldman Sachs, a €16.7 billion ($18 billion) fund for Permira and a $17 billion fund for Brookfield Asset Management, landing the firm among Law360's 2023 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2024

    Environmental Group Of The Year: Baker Botts

    Baker Botts LLP successfully defended utility Washington Gas Light Co. in a "first-of-its-kind" consumer protection suit alleging so-called greenwashing for advertising natural gas as "clean," just one in a string of wins for the firm's environmental, safety and incident response practice group, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Environmental Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2024

    Fintech Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP secured a win for Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. in a suit challenging the cryptocurrency company's decision to terminate a proposed $1.2 billion merger, while also serving as lead counsel on one of the largest-ever private credit deals in history, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Fintech Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Wilkinson Stekloff

    Wilkinson Stekloff LLP took on the Federal Trade Commission in the second-largest merger trial in American history and won, defending Microsoft Corp. in the agency's challenge to its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2024

    Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Debevoise

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP worked with Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC on its largest-ever fundraise and advised KKR & Co. Inc. in the formation of its $8 billion European fund, among other achievements, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2024

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Stueve Siegel

    Within days of T-Mobile announcing its 2021 data breach that exposed more than 76 million Americans' personal information, Stueve Siegel & Hanson LLP filed one of the first lawsuits on the matter, leading an eventual multidistrict litigation that resulted in a $500 million settlement on behalf of consumers and earned the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Cybersecurity and Privacy Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2024

    Construction Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP secured a $1.9 billion arbitration award in June in a case stemming from cost overruns at a Colombian oil refinery and is defending the award in forums on three continents, earning a spot among Law360's 2023 Practice Groups of the Year for Construction.

  • February 05, 2024

    Competition Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal & Manges

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP helped tech behemoths like Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. knock out antitrust challenges left and right last year, tangling with competition enforcers around the world and coming out on top, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2024 Competition Groups of the Year.

  • February 05, 2024

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells' appellate group racked up landmark wins in the U.S. Supreme Court over the past year, including a stay that kept available a medication used in abortions and an injunction against Alabama's congressional district map, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • February 05, 2024

    Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's data privacy and security practice successfully thwarted what was potentially one of the largest class actions in history — with hundreds of millions of litigants and more than $5 billion in damages at stake — defending Google in a nationwide data collection suit, earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 05, 2024

    Construction Group Of The Year: Kaplan Kirsch

    An industry leader in the planning and construction of some of the country's major transit hubs, Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP worked on guiding the expansion of the L in Chicago and the improvements to Los Angeles International Airport, earning a spot among Law360's 2023 Construction Groups of the Year.

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