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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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December 10, 2020
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's private equity practice spent the year guiding giants including Blackstone and KKR on more than 110 deals totaling more than $133 billion, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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December 10, 2020
Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher shepherded numerous billion-dollar transactions in the face of pandemic-related market upsets, helping steer Carnival's $6.59 billion debt and equity offering and guiding ZoomInfo's $1.07 billion initial public offering, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.
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December 10, 2020
Banking Group Of The Year: McGuireWoods
McGuireWoods LLP's financial institutions industry team helped its banking clients face the COVID-19 crisis head-on, guiding Bank of America's $1 billion corporate social bond and winning a case of first impression interpreting the CARES Act to land it among Law360's 2020 Banking Groups of the Year.
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December 10, 2020
Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Robbins Geller
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP helped win initial approval of a $650 million, all-cash settlement on behalf of Illinois residents bringing biometric privacy claims against Facebook, landing the firm a place among Law360's 2020 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.
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December 10, 2020
Benefits Group Of The Year: Wachtell
The tight-knit benefits team at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz steered a slate of megamergers to the finish line this year, including Allergan's $63 billion sale to AbbVie and United Technologies' marriage with Raytheon, landing the group among Law360's 2020 Benefits Groups of the Year.
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December 10, 2020
Insurance Group Of The Year: Steptoe & Johnson
Steptoe & Johnson LLP's insurance group won the first substantive ruling denying coverage for COVID-19-related losses and notched a couple of victories in representing Hartford, Connecticut, insurers in business income matters arising out of the pandemic, landing the firm among Law360's 2020 Insurance Groups of the Year.
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December 10, 2020
International Trade Group Of The Year: Wiley
Wiley Rein LLP delivered American cabinet makers a victory in one of the biggest trade cases ever filed against China and secured anti-dumping tariffs against foreign wind towers, successes that notched its spot among Law360's International Trade Groups of 2020.
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December 10, 2020
Competition Group of the Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP guided several massive transactions through heavy antitrust winds, including the unprecedented challenges that faced T-Mobile's purchase of Sprint, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Competition Groups of the Year.
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December 10, 2020
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's life sciences group helped Novartis beat a challenge over its multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya and advised on a number of biotech initial public offerings, landing it a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Life Science Groups of the Year.
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December 10, 2020
Environmental Group Of The Year: Hunton
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP recently represented clients in major litigation including ongoing municipal tort claims over climate change and the drama surrounding Nationwide Permit 12's vacatur, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Environmental Groups of the Year.
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December 09, 2020
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray LLP guided half of the 10 largest private equity deals in the country between March 1 and July 1, and spearheaded Advent International in its $1.6 billion acquisition of Forescout Technologies, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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December 09, 2020
Competition Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP helped lead Qualcomm's charge in the Ninth Circuit to overturn the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's lower court win against the chipmaker in a key antitrust dispute over licensing practices, making it one of Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.
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December 09, 2020
Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP steered multibillion-dollar initial public offerings and debt financings for businesses in the software and hospitality industries, helping clients navigate volatility triggered by the coronavirus pandemic and earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.
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December 09, 2020
Banking Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown LLP's banking practice freed Citi from litigation over fees it earned in a federal coronavirus relief loan program, extricated a big Swiss bank from a $350 million bribery case, and helped Goldman Sachs raise $6.8 billion for United Airlines by monetizing its reward program, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Banking Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 09, 2020
Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP narrowed a consolidated data breach class action against Facebook from 16 plaintiffs to one and achieved a preliminary settlement with no damages, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 09, 2020
Environmental Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC has represented plaintiffs in major cases including the residents of Flint, Michigan, who suffered through the city's lead water crisis and received a $600 million settlement this summer, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Environmental Groups of the Year.
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December 09, 2020
Insurance Group Of The Year: Reed Smith
Getting more than $750 million in coverage for MGM Resorts International for suits related to the 2017 Mandalay Bay shooting in Las Vegas and settling an insurance claim for Kosmos Energy Ghana over the repairs to one of its offshore oil facilities are among the victories that earned Reed Smith a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Insurance Groups of the Year.
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December 09, 2020
International Trade Group Of The Year: Sidley
Sidley Austin LLP scored an unprecedented victory for beIN Sports against Saudi Arabia and won relief for Airbus in its long-running dispute over U.S. subsidies to Boeing before the World Trade Organization, once again earning a spot among Law360's International Trade Groups of the Year.
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December 09, 2020
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Dechert
Dechert LLP has helped Eli Lilly fend off a suit accusing it of infringing a Genentech patent through the sale of a psoriasis drug and continued to guide Purdue Pharma LP through sprawling opioid litigation, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2020 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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December 09, 2020
Benefits Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP advised clients on benefits over the past year in transactions worth billions of dollars, including Microsoft's planned acquisition of ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion and Visa's agreement to purchase fintech company Plaid for $5.3 billion, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Benefits Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 08, 2020
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP guided funds managed by client Apollo Global through a handful of billion-dollar deals this year, including shepherding over the finish line the private equity giant's $2.7 billion deal to buy Shutterfly, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Private Equity Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 08, 2020
Insurance Group of the Year: Pillsbury
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's insurance recovery and advisory attorneys have recovered more than $1 billion for big-name clients over the past year, landing it a spot among Law360's Insurance Groups of the Year.
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December 08, 2020
International Trade Group Of The Year: Kelley Drye
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP's success in obtaining trade protections for a broad cross-section of domestic manufacturers, including by convincing a federal judge to rework the findings of the executive branch, earned the firm a slot among Law360's 2020 International Trade Groups of the Year.
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December 08, 2020
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Covington
Attorneys at Covington & Burling LLP served this year as counsel to Gilead Sciences during its quest for emergency use authorization of a COVID-19 treatment and defeated claims that a pharmaceutical company took part in helping fund an anti-American militia in Iraq, winning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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December 08, 2020
Benefits Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown LLP has been busy this year defending universities against Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuits and staging defenses for companies that could be the focus of the next wave of lawsuits over benefits plans, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Benefits Groups of the Year.