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.
  • January 29, 2024

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Vicente LLP

    Vicente LLP helped orchestrate the creation of the largest employee-owned cannabis company and assisted in legalizing magic mushroom trips in Colorado, marking major wins in budding industries that face pushback and landing the firm among Law360's 2023 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2024

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's capital markets team steered longtime client Enbridge Inc.'s $3.4 billion public offering, advised on Madison Square Garden's former parent's entertainment spinoff, and guided SoftBank through chip designer Arm's $5.2 billion initial public offering, placing the firm among Law360's 2023 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2024

    Tax Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's tax practice advised Abiomed on the tax aspects of its acquisition by Johnson & Johnson in the largest medtech deal in history last year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2024

    Employment Group Of The Year: Morgan Lewis & Bockius

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP counseled UPS in contract negotiations covering hundreds of thousands of workers, defended employers against discrimination claims and advised multiple clients on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, earning it a top spot among Law360's Employment Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2024

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP lawyers advised on a slew of successful transactions around the world worth hundreds of billions of dollars last year, including guiding Cava Group Inc. in its successful initial public offering and steering Japan's biggest IPO in years, securing the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2024

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Dentons

    The cannabis group at Dentons helped steer Canada-based Canopy Growth Corp.'s entrance into the U.S. marijuana market and shepherded multiple blockbuster deals, including The Parent Co.'s merger with its California neighbor Gold Flora, making the team one of Law360's 2023 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2024

    Tax Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP secured local and global victories in 2023, from a Washington state appellate court's decision in a novel sales tax case to an energy company's $307 million merger resulting in a business with an Africa exploration and production focus, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2024

    Banking Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Banking practitioners at Mayer Brown LLP recently persuaded the Second Circuit to affirm dismissal of claims under the Anti-Terrorism Act against HSBC and Credit Suisse while also securing an opinion from New York's highest court clarifying the responsibilities of trustees for residential mortgage-backed securities, earning them a spot among Law360's 2023 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2024

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Cozen O'Connor

    From helping a cannabis firm relocate from Canada to the U.S., to arranging for cannabis company stock buyouts and lobbying for improved banking laws for cannabis companies, Cozen O'Connor has kept busy in the past year, earning it a place among Law360's 2023 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2024

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Morrison Foerster

    Morrison Foerster LLP helped clients raise vast amounts of funds over the past year, highlighted by U.K. chip designer Arm Ltd.'s $5.2 billion U.S. initial public offering, a blockbuster deal that required global collaboration and earned the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Capital Markets Group of the Year.

  • January 25, 2024

    Banking Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP played a pivotal role in preserving the stability of financial markets by picking up the pieces after Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank spectacularly collapsed, while also guiding UBS' $3.2 billion acquisition of Credit Suisse, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2024

    Tax Group Of The Year: Eversheds Sutherland

    Eversheds Sutherland's tax practice earned key victories in 2023, including one for Fitzgerald Truck Parts and Sales LLC in a $400 million tax refund battle with the IRS and another for Verizon Communications in a fight with New York state over gross receipts taxes, landing it among Law360's 2023 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2024

    Banking Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Landing the plane of the voluntary self-liquidation of cryptocurrency-aligned bank Silvergate Capital was one of the achievements that won Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP a spot among Law360's 2023 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2024

    Tax Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP attorneys provided tax advice to Johnson & Johnson on a landmark $41 billion spinoff of its consumer health business to Kenvue Inc. that led to a $4.37 billion initial public offering, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2024

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Burns & Levinson

    Burns & Levinson LLP's cannabis group spearheaded a first-of-its-kind receivership that ultimately led to a $22 million default and eventual sale of the debtor company's assets, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2024

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP attorneys recently represented Johnson & Johnson's consumer health spinoff Kenvue Inc. in connection with its $4.37 billion initial public offering and advised the underwriters in L3Harris Technologies Inc.'s $3.25 billion registered notes offering, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2024

    Capital Markets Group Of The Year: Cooley LLP

    Cooley LLP's attorneys served as lead counsel for Instacart's $660 million initial public offering and advised Acelyrin on the largest-ever initial public offering for a clinical-stage biotech, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Capital Markets Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2024

    Tax Group Of The Year: Baker McKenzie

    Baker McKenzie successfully represented FedEx in the first case in which a court struck down a regulation under the 2017 federal tax overhaul on substantive grounds, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2024

    Cannabis Group Of The Year: Akerman

    Akerman LLP secured three commercial loans worth a combined $100 million for multistate cannabis operators in 2023, marking a major accomplishment in what is still a tough financing environment for cannabis companies and landing the firm among Law360's 2023 Cannabis Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2024

    Banking Group Of The Year: Cahill Gordon

    Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP helped leading financial institutions like Credit Suisse secure major wins in the face of significant exposure, even triumphing in an antitrust class action after all of its clients' co-defendants settled, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 55 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2023 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2023, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • March 09, 2023

    White Collar Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP had a hand in some of the highest profile and most complex white collar cases of the past year, including ongoing actions against Nissan ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn and Archegos Capital Management, securing the firm's place among Law360's 2022 White Collar Groups of the Year.

  • March 09, 2023

    Technology Group Of The Year: Irell

    Irell & Manella LLP secured a $2.3 billion final judgment for VLSI Technology LLC in a suit against Intel Corp., and helped USAA get a $218.45 million jury verdict in a patent infringement suit over mobile technology, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Technology Groups of the Year.

  • March 09, 2023

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Project finance attorneys at Kirkland & Ellis LLP helped facilitate a $30 billion deal that will bring two new semiconductor chip factories to Arizona, worked on raising $2.3 billion for an offshore wind energy project and assisted buyers in a $15 billion go-private deal for a data center company, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

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