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 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • February 27, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Winston & Strawn

    With an achievement list spanning an unusual private market community solar portfolio, financing the Las Vegas Sphere, toll roads and New York City subway connectivity, Winston & Strawn LLP has solidified a place on Law360's 2023 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    A $7 billion deal to finance a liquefied natural gas facility in Texas is one of several clean or renewable energy transactions in which Sullivan & Cromwell LLP played a leading role in 2023, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP guided financing for a Pennsylvania bridge replacement project of unrivaled proportions and navigated a first-of-its-kind tax credit transfer transaction amid a renewable energy portfolio buy, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2024 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 22, 2024

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Kaplan Kirsch

    As a leader in assembling bespoke models to pay for a variety of public infrastructure projects, Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP advised construction of an urban interstate in Denver, a $5 billion update at Los Angeles International Airport and planning for a transit program powered by self-driving cars, earning a spot among Law360's 2023 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 12, 2024

    Energy Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP attorneys advised Magellan Midstream Partners LP on the largest U.S. energy M&A deal of the year, coming in at $18.8 billion, and were also involved in seeing through four of five industry initial public offerings finalized last year, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2024

    Construction Group Of The Year: King & Spalding

    King & Spalding LLP secured a $1.9 billion arbitration award in June in a case stemming from cost overruns at a Colombian oil refinery and is defending the award in forums on three continents, earning a spot among Law360's 2023 Practice Groups of the Year for Construction.

  • 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

    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.

  • March 08, 2023

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP attorneys guided clients through several multibillion-dollar power and utility infrastructure projects and renewable energy investments over the past year, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • March 07, 2023

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Milbank

    Milbank LLP advised lenders for a $9.5 billion airport upgrade, helped EVgo Services LLC negotiate a major electric vehicle charging network expansion, and helped other companies secure financing for carbon sequestration, electric buses and shipping fleet upgrades, earning it a place among Law360's 2022 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • March 03, 2023

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Shearman

    Shearman & Sterling LLP advised lenders in the financing of complex oil refinery and energy transition projects across the globe from Saudi Arabia to Mozambique, and further advised the U.S. government for its own investment into hydrogen production, landing it a spot among Law360's 2022 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2023

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2022, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • February 17, 2022

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP represented multiple airport groups and airlines in multibillion-dollar projects to construct, redevelop and modernize terminals and also advised the lead underwriter for a new 600-unit student housing development at the University of California, Davis, winning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 14, 2022

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Kirkland

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the past year advised clients in major financings and acquisitions dealing with aviation, liquefied natural gas and renewable energy assets, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 16, 2022

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Nossaman

    Nossaman LLP's project finance group has driven major public infrastructure projects by clients including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, earning the team a spot among Law360's 2021 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 15, 2022

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: McDermott Will & Emery

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP counseled a clean energy company on a first-of-its-kind joint venture with New York State and represented a major utility in one of the largest wind acquisitions since 2020, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • February 11, 2022

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Ballard Spahr

    Ballard Spahr LLP attorneys helped shape more than $10 billion in project financings over the past year, including securing funding for a lithium extraction project in southern California and advising underwriters for the world's first trash-to-fuel plant, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2022

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its 2021 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • January 14, 2022

    The Firms That Dominated In 2021

    Nine law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 52 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, having steered complex deals and won high-profile victories including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • December 17, 2020

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP attorneys served as counsel for financiers of a more than $20 billion liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique and was heavily involved in the largest private investment in Paraguay's history this year, winning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • December 16, 2020

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP helped open up capital to oil and gas entities at an important time with a unique type of financing and assisted a client in its $680 million acquisition of a gas-fired power plant, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

  • December 15, 2020

    Project Finance Group Of The Year: O'Melveny

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP helped several airlines in the U.S. raise billions of dollars for infrastructure improvements in a year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic and its heavy toll on the industry, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Project Finance Groups of the Year.

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