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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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January 23, 2019
Class Action Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Class action experts at Kirkland & Ellis LLP were at the table last year in the nationwide opioid dispute, among the largest mass litigation in U.S. history, while scoring key wins for transgender military members and Xerox Corp., putting them among Law360's Class Action Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2019
Banking Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP hit a heavy stride halfway through 2018 when New York's highest court sided with its argument for a three-year limit for bringing actions under a state anti-fraud law and, two weeks later, the nation's highest court affirmed its win for American Express Co. in a landmark antitrust enforcement case, landing it a spot among Law360's Banking Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2019
International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells scored big wins for big-name clients, including the governments of Slovakia and Panama, in major international dispute resolution venues this past year, earning the firm a spot on Law360's list of International Arbitration Practice Groups of the Year for 2018.
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January 23, 2019
Competition Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's antitrust team notched an unprecedented win for a Shire PLC unit in a Federal Trade Commission pay-for-delay suit, grounded cable installers' collusion allegations against Comcast and successfully kept Philadelphia taxi drivers' antitrust allegations against Uber parked on appeal, continuing its streak as one of Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2019
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's restructuring group shepherded a handful of blockbuster cases all over the world through the bankruptcy process last year, including Balkan agriculture and supermarket giant Agrokorp's roughly $9 billion case and iHeartMedia's $20 billion case, the largest of 2018, earning it a place among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2019
Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's cybersecurity and privacy attorneys continue to show why they're the trusted choice for leading technology companies, guiding the likes of Uber and Yahoo to favorable outcomes in closely watched data breach litigation to land among Law360's Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year for the second year running.
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January 22, 2019
Banking Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has long been known as a go-to firm in the banking world, and this year was no exception. The firm earned a spot among Law360's Banking Groups of the Year for the sixth year in a row by guiding the Royal Bank of Scotland through investigations into the "mortgage meltdown" and by extricating Morgan Stanley from a $3.7 billion suit over residential mortgage-backed securities, among other achievements.
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January 22, 2019
Securities Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly
A Supreme Court win narrowing a Dodd-Frank Act provision's scope and a successful defense in the first prosecution of an individual connected with the U.S. Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program, among other successes, landed Williams & Connolly LLP a spot among Law360's 2018 Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2019
IP Group Of The Year: Susman Godfrey
Susman Godfrey LLP delivered a $706.2 million trial verdict for HouseCanary in a trade secrets case over real estate valuation technology, and defended Uber against Waymo in the companies' self-driving car trade secret battle, securing a spot among Law360's IP Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2019
Class Action Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's 215-attorney class action team secured its place as a leader in "gig economy" lawsuits, successfully arguing on behalf of Uber and others for the decertification of large classes of independent contractors, among other high-profile victories that earned it a place among Law360's 2018 Class Action Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2019
International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Freshfields
Freshfields secured wins for clients including ConocoPhillips and a Spanish toll road operator in high-profile arbitration proceedings and related enforcement actions against nation states, with the firm's success in securing settlements with Venezuela and Argentina ensuring it a place as one of Law360's International Arbitration Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2019
M&A Group Of The Year: Wachtell Lipton
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz earned its stripes again as an ace firm in the mergers and acquisitions realm in the past year, in part by being the lead adviser to T-Mobile in its roughly $59 billion proposed merger with Sprint, making it one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2019
Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: Edelson
Edelson PC pursued headline-grabbing privacy suits in 2018 — suing Uber over a data breach, assisting a state regulator in a case against Facebook and Cambridge Analytica and winning class certification in a case claiming Facebook violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act — landing it among Law360's Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2019
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
After representing parties in some of the largest and most complex bankruptcy and restructuring cases of 2018 — including the Toys R Us bankruptcy, the Puerto Rican restructuring and record-setting Latin American and Japanese bankruptcies — Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has earned a place among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2019
Competition Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP helped AT&T and Time Warner beat the U.S. Department of Justice's merger challenge in 2018's most closely watched antitrust case, netting the firm a spot for the third time in four years as one of Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2019
Life Sciences Group Of The Year: White & Case
White & Case LLP helped protect Par Pharmaceuticals from facing class claims in a Georgia drug pricing suit, got a grant of class certification overturned by the First Circuit and represented Pfizer in a key bellwether case against Johnson & Johnson regarding the emerging biosimilar market, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Life Sciences Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2019
Tax Practice Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom participated in some of the most important and newsworthy tax transactions of 2018, from guiding Fox's sale of a $15 billion stake in Sky to Comcast Corp. to helping Starr International on its way to securing a $38.2 million refund from the Internal Revenue Service.
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January 18, 2019
IP Group Of The Year: McKool Smith
McKool Smith PC's intellectual property attorneys notched key wins at the U.S. International Trade Commission and the federal courts, including a $110 million verdict awarded to Ericsson Inc. and favorable rulings against Apple and Comcast, landing them among Law360's Intellectual Property Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2019
International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP scored a settlement for Western Digital in a dispute with joint venture partner Toshiba Corp. over the Japanese technology giant's planned sale of its memory unit to a group led by Bain Capital, and aided Russian energy company Tatneft in its ongoing campaign to enforce a $112 million arbitration award against Ukraine, landing the firm a spot among Law360's International Arbitration Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2019
Class Action Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz
By securing victories for clients through creative approaches that maximized high-dollar awards, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP earned a spot among Law360's 2018 Class Action Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2019
Banking Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling
Covington & Burling LLP's financial institutions practice over the past year guided PayPal to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, steered two of 2018's largest financial services acquisitions and notched a win for a major bank trade group in litigation over a federal credit union regulation, earning a spot as one of Law360's Banking Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2019
Securities Group Of The Year: Pomerantz
Pomerantz LLP secured almost $3 billion in 2018 for investors who alleged securities of Brazil's state-run oil giant Petrobras were negatively impacted by a massive corruption scandal, earning the firm a place on Law360's list of Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2019
Cybersecurity & Privacy Group Of The Year: BakerHostetler
The fast-growing privacy and data protection team at BakerHostetler won a precedent-setting ruling for Southwest Airlines that dismissed a suit brought under Illinois' hotly debated biometric privacy law, while steering a diverse group of companies through the legal fallout from data breaches, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Cybersecurity & Privacy Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2019
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Akin Gump
After steering stakeholders to resolutions on contentious corporate restructuring plans for Avaya Inc. and Seadrill Ltd. while also negotiating higher recoveries for unsecured creditors in other large Chapter 11 cases, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has earned a spot among Law360's 2018 Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2019
Competition Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter
The competition and antitrust team at Arnold & Porter worked on two of last year's largest mergers, Bayer's purchase of Monsanto and AT&T's blockbuster deal for Time Warner, while also scoring big wins on conduct matters for other clients, earning the team a spot among Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.