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.
  • March 01, 2023

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP steered clients such as Thoma Bravo, Blackstone and Vista on some of their biggest deals of 2022, including Vista's $16.5 billion acquisition of Citrix Systems and Blackstone's $3 billion equity investment in Invenergy Renewables Holdings, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.

  • March 01, 2023

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP has represented several high-profile entertainment clients, including Starz Entertainment in a dispute against an MGM unit over copyright damages before the Ninth Circuit, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • March 01, 2023

    Health Care Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day helped Sutter Health defeat an antitrust case, guided one of the largest cancer research centers in its acquisition of Cancer Treatment Centers of America and represented industry groups supporting a challenge of Idaho's abortion ban, earning it a spot among Law360's 2022 Health Care Groups of the Year.

  • March 01, 2023

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP this year helped McKesson Corp. win the only trial against distributors in the sprawling opioid multidistrict litigation and secure a victory in the first multiplaintiff trial over Roundup for Monsanto, earning it a spot among Law360's Product Liability Practice Groups of the Year.

  • March 01, 2023

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has successfully navigated a host of high-stakes litigation in the biotechnology field, including helping Complete Genomics Inc. score a $334 million damages award in its patent suit over DNA sequencing technology, earning it a place among Law360's 2022 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 28, 2023

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Fried Frank

    Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP last year racked up a handful of multibillion-dollar deals, including two transactions centered around cybersecurity amid the pandemic-spurred shift to hybrid working environments, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.

  • February 28, 2023

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's win for Endo Pharmaceuticals in a difficult discovery controversy in opioid litigation and for Johnson & Johnson in fighting a contempt order in a talc trial earned the firm a place among Law360's 2022 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 28, 2023

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Cooley

    Representing a clinical-stage life sciences company in its $6.7 billion sale to Pfizer and shepherding a cancer drugmaker's $4.1 billion acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb are among the achievements that made Cooley LLP one of Law360's 2022 Life Science Groups of the Year.

  • February 28, 2023

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    In the face of intense media coverage, along with a vocal fan base, Greenberg Traurig LLP managed to free Britney Spears from her 13-year conservatorship, earning it a place among Law360's 2022 Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 28, 2023

    Health Group Of The Year: Whistleblower Law Collaborative

    Whistleblower Law Collaborative LLC successfully steered a host of high-stakes whistleblower suits in the health care field last year, including helping a former Mallinckrodt director score $40 million for reporting that the drug company failed to pay correct rebates for the drug Acthar, earning it a spot among Law360's 2022 Health Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2023

    Health Care Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis

    Health care lawyers at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP persuaded a federal jury last year to acquit a kidney dialysis business on all counts of conspiring with rivals to suppress competition, and defeated a nurse's racial bias allegations against the University of Maryland Medical Center, wins that earned the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Health Care Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2023

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Sidley

    Sidley Austin LLP flourished in 2022, steering one of the biggest sports deals in history with the $3.1 billion sale of Chelsea Football Club and the $5.4 billion acquisition of Quest Software, along with other high-value transactions that included complicated regulatory and financing challenges, to earn the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2023

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig

    Greenberg Traurig LLP helped convince the Third Circuit to affirm the dismissal of a lawsuit against Teva Pharmaceuticals over claims related to heart medication, securing its fifth appellate win on similar arguments made against the drug and landing it a spot on Law360's 2022 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2023

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Covington

    In just the past year, Covington & Burling LLP handled Discovery's $43 billion acquisition of WarnerMedia and also advised Major League Soccer on its 10-year media rights deal with the Apple TV streaming service, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Media and Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 27, 2023

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP lawyers over the past year were part of a legal team that made history by ​​winning an in-house merger challenge at the Federal Trade Commission over an $8 billion Illumina deal, and secured the approval of Mallinckrodt's Chapter 11 plan that trimmed more than $1 billion in opioid-related claims, accomplishments that landed the firm among Law360's 2022 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2023

    Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Debevoise

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP simultaneously advised KKR & Co. on the closing of an infrastructure fund and a private equity fund that combined to total $36 billion, just one of the achievements that earned the firm a place among Law360's 2022 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2023

    Product Liability Group Of The Year: Keller Rohrback

    Keller Rohrback LLP's numerous victories on behalf of consumers allegedly impacted by faulty vehicle transmissions and other products, including a quarter-billion-dollar settlement with Nissan, have earned the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Product Liability Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2023

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Dechert

    Dechert LLP's life sciences practice group helped Endo Pharmaceuticals get wins in litigation over its Opana ER painkiller, and also aided Tiziana Life Sciences in a complex transaction, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2023

    Media & Entertainment Group Of The Year: Davis Wright

    Davis Wright Tremaine LLP quashed a $95 million slander suit targeting comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for mocking Roy Moore as a pedophile, helping affirm the satirist's First Amendment rights and earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Media & Entertainment Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2023

    Health Care Group Of The Year: McDermott

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP helped push through numerous deals in the health care realm last year, including guiding CVS Health's decision to buy Signify Health in an $8 billion deal, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Health Care Groups of the Year.

  • February 24, 2023

    Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP boasts a long list of well-known private equity clients, having advised Blackstone Group on a €58 billion ($61.5 billion) bid for Italian infrastructure giant Atlantia, and Silver Lake as the second-largest shareholder in cloud services provider VMware's $61 billion acquisition by Broadcom, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Private Equity Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2023

    Fintech Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in the past year oversaw a groundbreaking settlement with regulators registering the first interest-bearing cryptocurrency product as a security, advised the largest-ever acquisition of a fintech company and facilitated the first cryptocurrency registered with federal futures oversight bodies, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Fintech Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2023

    Gov't Contracts Group Of The Year: Pillsbury

    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP scored a rare, precedent-setting debarment victory for a veteran-owned small business and got an $83 million settlement over spent nuclear fuel storage for Entergy–Indian Point 2 from the U.S. Department of Justice, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Government Contracts Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2023

    Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP helped several of its corporate clients raise and close high-value funds over the past year, including representing Francisco Partners on the closing of nearly $17 billion in capital commitments between two of its flagship funds that were both oversubscribed and exceeded target fund sizes, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2023

    Energy Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Lining up a $13 billion financing package for a huge natural gas export project, finalizing a unique cross-Atlantic electric utility swap and completing the purchase of a 500-mile wind energy transmission line are among the achievements that made Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP one of Law360's 2022 Energy Groups of the Year.

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