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.
  • December 02, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's tax division has been named one of Law360's 2020 Tax Groups of the Year. From advising Sterling Equities and the New York Mets on the sale of the team to advising Morgan Stanley on its $13 billion acquisition of ETRADE, the firm helped navigate some of the year's most noteworthy tax developments.

  • December 02, 2020

    Trials Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis attorneys notched a win for Motorola in what the firm says was one of the largest intellectual property theft trials in history and secured release for scores of unaccompanied immigrants transferred to jails and prisons after their 18th birthdays, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Trials Groups of the Year.

  • December 02, 2020

    Energy Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP facilitated major deals in the energy sector during a tumultuous year for the industry, including helping Parsley Energy Inc. with a $2.27 billion acquisition and assisting Hilcorp Energy Co. with its $5.6 billion purchase of BP's business in Alaska, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • December 02, 2020

    Employment Group Of The Year: Keker Van Nest

    Keker Van Nest landed a string of wins for Lyft and Instacart in employee misclassification disputes and secured a $179 million arbitration award for Google, notching it a spot among Law360's 2020 Employment Groups of the Year.

  • December 02, 2020

    Securities Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP beat multiple big-ticket securities actions against companies like Chipotle Mexican Grill, Funko and Ligand Pharmaceuticals and helped pave the way for new law on forum selection provisions in initial public offering documents, earning Latham's securities practice group a spot among Law360's Securities Groups of the Year.

  • December 02, 2020

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Kramer Levin

    From working with municipalities and states' attorneys general in Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy, to representing a diverse bondholder group in offshore driller Valaris' Chapter 11 case, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP's restructuring work last year earned it a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 02, 2020

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's appellate practice notched decisive victories at the U.S. Supreme Court this year, including one that determined the status of the Appalachian Trail and another that netted $12 billion for health insurers, earning them a spot as one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 02, 2020

    Class Action Group Of The Year: DiCello Levitt

    Class action litigators at DiCello Levitt have tallied up more than $2.3 billion in recoveries over the past year, driving settlements with auto giants Ford and General Motors to the finish line and earning the new firm its first spot among Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • December 01, 2020

    Trials Group Of The Year: Irell & Manella

    Irell & Manella LLP's litigation team secured a $506 million jury award for PanOptis over Apple's infringement of patents covering 4G LTE technology in the first in-person patent jury trial to take place in the U.S. since the coronavirus pandemic began, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Trials Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 01, 2020

    Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP helped represent clients on some of the biggest deals of 2020, including Nvidia for the pending $40 billion purchase of U.K. semiconductor business Arm Ltd. and insurance giant Aon for its plans to buy rival Willis Towers Watson for $30 billion, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year for the first time since 2015.

  • December 01, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Fish & Richardson

    Fish & Richardson PC helped Gilead dodge a historic $2.54 billion patent infringement verdict and secured a $175 million settlement to put longstanding litigation over power supply controller chips to bed, earning it a place as one of Law360's 2020 Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • December 01, 2020

    Energy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP guided an affiliate of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. through its pickup of most of Dominion Energy Inc.'s gas transmission and storage business in a deal valued at $9.7 billion in the midst of a global pandemic, earning it a spot among Law360's Energy Groups of the Year.

  • December 01, 2020

    Employment Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day helped Aetna beat a proposed collective action from nursing consultants who said they were denied overtime pay and helped McDonald's fend off employees' claims it could be held responsible for franchisees' alleged labor law violations, landing a spot among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • December 01, 2020

    Class Action Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington and Burling LLP helped Paycheck Protection Program lenders navigate $3 billion in claims, thwarted a federal judge's bid to bypass arguments in a massive opioid litigation and steered Facebook through accusations that it misled advertisers, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2020 Class Action Groups of the Year.

  • December 01, 2020

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day secured win after win for its clients before the Supreme Court last term, clearing the conviction of a public official caught up in the infamous Bridgegate scandal and earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Appellate Groups of the Year.

  • December 01, 2020

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Handling one of the largest and most complex bankruptcy cases in American history is no small feat, but Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP guided California utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to a $59 billion Chapter 11 restructuring this July thanks to the experience of its attorneys in a wide swath of legal disciplines, earning it a nod as a Law360 Bankruptcy Group of the Year.

  • December 01, 2020

    Securities Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC's securities practice group brokered the settlement of shareholder derivative allegations against the leaders of Google's parent company Alphabet that included a record-setting $310 million commitment by the company to diversity, equity and inclusion, landing it a spot among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 01, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's tax division has been named one of Law360's 2020 Tax Groups of the Year. Whether the group helped navigate corporate clients through the tax consequences of major restructurings or mergers and acquisitions, Cravath was on the forefront of some of this year's most noteworthy corporate transactions.

  • November 30, 2020

    Energy Group Of The Year: Baker Botts

    Baker Botts LLP's transactional work touched all corners of the energy sector, from brokering AES Corp.'s long-term clean energy development deal with Google to sewing up several oil and gas mergers amid an industrywide slump, earning the firm a repeat place among Law360's 2020 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • November 30, 2020

    IP Group Of The Year: Debevoise

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's intellectual property practice group scored numerous trademark victories for its clients, including Booking.com in a high-profile case at the U.S. Supreme Court, landing it a spot among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.

  • November 30, 2020

    Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has had a significant role in many major deals over the past year, including the $45.4 billion tie-up of fragrance giant IFF and DuPont's nutrition and biosciences business, and the $6 billion private equity takeover of technology distributor Tech Data, earning the firm a spot on Law360's 2020 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.

  • November 30, 2020

    Employment Group Of The Year: Outten & Golden

    Outten & Golden LLP has scored major wins for workers in recent months, including victories in a class discrimination suit against Macy's Inc. and an individual suit brought by a onetime U.S. Department of Justice employee, earning the plaintiff-side firm a place for the fifth year running among Law360's 2020 Employment Groups of the Year.

  • November 30, 2020

    Securities Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP didn't let the nationwide shift to teleworking in 2020 hinder its ability to secure nine-figure investor recoveries, including landmark securities settlements that addressed Equifax's 2017 data breach and allegations of sexual harassment at Signet Jewelers, landing it a spot among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • November 30, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Baker McKenzie

    Baker McKenzie led Facebook Inc.'s legal defense in its $9 billion dispute with the Internal Revenue Service this year in one of the most closely watched international tax cases in the country, helping it land a spot among Law360's Tax Practice Groups of the Year.

  • November 30, 2020

    Appellate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's appellate practice represented Dreamers before the Supreme Court and helped secure them an injunction halting the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Appellate Groups of the Year.

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