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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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February 07, 2017
International Arbitration Group Of The Year: King & Spalding
It might come as no surprise that King & Spalding LLP’s Texas-born international arbitration group does a lot of work for oil companies, but its solid record for clients like Chevron Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp. and KBR Inc. has drawn more business and landed it a spot on Law360’s list of 2016 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2017
Tax Group Of The Year: Reed Smith
Reed Smith LLP’s tax team has hashed out a high-stakes settlement with the government over Bayer Corp.’s $175 million in research credits denied by the IRS and successfully challenged a Pennsylvania corporate net income tax bill leveled against Nextel Inc., landing it among Law360’s 2016 Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2017
Sports Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling
Covington & Burling LLP’s sports group in 2016 successfully represented the U.S. Olympic Committee in an antitrust challenge over its advertising restrictions and helped long-standing client the NFL fight off allegations of Americans with Disabilities Act violations, earning a spot among Law360’s Sports Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2017
Appellate Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown LLP's appellate group went undefeated in the four cases it argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last term, including a big win for businesses fighting statutory class action claims with the high court's Spokeo ruling, cementing its spot as one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2017
Project Finance Group Of The Year: Chadbourne & Parke
Chadbourne & Parke LLP has become a major participant in the renewable energy arena, representing a power company in connection with financing for the biggest rooftop solar array in the country and working with lenders on a $350 million wind project, earning the firm a place on Law360’s 2016 list of project finance Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2017
International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb
If assisting the Russian government annul the largest damages ever awarded for an international arbitration wasn’t enough, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP also recently guided Argentina through the resolution of the first-ever mass arbitration claim, earning it a place among Law360’s International Arbitration Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2017
Sports Group Of The Year: Akin Gump
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP had a busy 2016 guiding the NFL to some major labor wins that confirmed the commissioner’s authority, including an arbitration decision upholding the commissioner’s new player personal conduct policy, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2017
Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Offering a broad range of services and a Wall Street-minded approach, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson's government contracts group stormed to Law360 Practice Group of the Year honors, advising on high-profile M&A deals, False Claims Act litigation and nearly 20 bid disputes.
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February 06, 2017
Appellate Group Of The Year: Jones Day
Once again, Jones Day made a big splash at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016, taking on some of most high profile legal matters including the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate and former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell’s corruption case, earning it a spot as one of Law360’s Appellate Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2017
White Collar Group of the Year: King & Spalding
King & Spalding LLP attorneys represented clients in some of the past year’s biggest white collar cases and government investigations, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the George Washington Bridge scandal, earning them a spot among Law360’s White Collar Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2017
Tax Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's tax team powered through billions of dollars in major mergers and acquisitions last year in sectors including energy, software, medicine and more, providing solid and sometimes novel tax advice that earned it recognition as one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 03, 2017
Appellate Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn
Gibson Dunn's appellate group notched wins in the U.S. Supreme Court for victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism and in federal appeals courts around the country on behalf of Uber, Chevron and other clients in high-stakes litigation, earning it a spot among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 03, 2017
Project Finance Group Of The Year: Akin Gump
Renewable energy projects are among the most complicated pieces of infrastructure to finance, but it's that complexity that most interests the lawyers at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, who worked on more than a dozen of the world's largest renewable projects last year, landing the firm among Law360's 2016 Project Finance Groups of the Year.
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February 03, 2017
White Collar Practice Group of the Year: Jones Day
The Jones Day white collar group made headlines by securing a vacated corruption conviction for a former Virginia governor and the first ever deferred prosecution deal in the United Kingdom, landing it among this year's Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 03, 2017
Government Contracts Group Of The Year: Crowell & Moring
Since its founding in 1979 as Washington, D.C.'s go-to government contracts firm for defense companies, Crowell & Moring LLP has considered the practice the bedrock of its business and expanded the group's expertise to multiple industries.
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February 03, 2017
International Arbitration Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter
Long sought after in Latin American investor-state disputes, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP’s international arbitration practice has expanded its work with businesses and countries around the world, landing it a spot on this year’s list of Law360 International Arbitration Groups of the Year.
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February 03, 2017
Tax Group Of The Year: Baker McKenzie
Baker McKenzie LLP’s tax group scored significant victories against the IRS when it successfully challenged a cost-sharing rule on behalf of chipmaker Altera Corp. and convinced the U.S. Tax Court to reject Medtronic Inc.’s $1.36 billion deficiency calculation, landing it a spot among Law360’s 2016 Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 02, 2017
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal & Manges
From the scale of solar power producer SunEdison’s $16.1 billion Chapter 11 filing to the swift 63-day restructuring of grocer Fairway to the creative solution that saved thousands of jobs at clothing retailer Aeropostale, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP showed its bankruptcy prowess by many measures last year to earn a seventh consecutive selection to Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 02, 2017
Privacy Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray LLP
Ropes & Gray's work on what's sure to be one of the most important privacy decisions coming down the pipe in 2017 — LabMD's appeal against the Federal Trade Commission over its data security practices — makes the firm's privacy team one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 02, 2017
Banking Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s work for clients including JPMorgan Chase & Co., which benefited from the firm’s assistance in both unloading an investment management business and defeating claims stemming from the so-called London Whale scandal, has helped land the practice on Law360’s 2016 list of Banking Groups of the Year.
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February 02, 2017
M&A Group Of The Year: Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz LLP stamped its influence on the mergers and acquisitions space in 2016 by handling record-setting cross-border deals, including advising Monsanto Co. in a $66 billion acquisition by Bayer AG and guiding Spectra Energy Corp. in a $28 billion acquisition by Enbridge Inc., making the firm one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 02, 2017
International Trade Group Of The Year: Wiley Rein
A year of success for the steel industry and a launch into the waters of the World Trade Organization helped win Wiley Rein LLP’s trade team its seventh consecutive sport as one of Law360’s International Trade Groups of the Year.
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February 01, 2017
Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP’s corporate restructuring team earned a spot among Law360’s Bankruptcy Groups of the Year by working on restructurings that stood out in size, such as SunEdison Inc.’s massive bankruptcy spanning six continents, and in novelty, including one of the first reorganizations of a master limited partnership.
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February 01, 2017
Privacy Group Of The Year: Orrick
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP scored a major victory for Microsoft Corp. last year when the Second Circuit ruled the U.S. government cannot use search warrants to obtain customer data stored overseas, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Privacy Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 01, 2017
Banking Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP often takes the side of the little guys in litigation against some of the world’s biggest banks, but the outsize victories it secured last year on their behalf were big enough to earn the firm a place among Law360’s Banking Practice Groups of the Year.