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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 31, 2025

    Tax Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's diverse tax practice went from strength to strength this year, from advising well-known companies like Boeing and Discover that inked multibillion-dollar deals to counseling industry leaders in shaking up their sectors, helping it earn a place among the 2024 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2025

    Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's tax practice advised on key deals and cases in 2024, including Mars Inc.'s $35.9 million acquisition of Kellanova and BlackRock Inc.'s $12.5 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners, landing it among the 2024 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2025

    Tax Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP's bench of tax talent is so deep that it can help its clients sell the Chicago Cubs one day and buy $646 million of Brazilian solar farms on another. The firm's ability to offer tax transaction and advisory services across industries, transaction types and specialty areas earned it a place among the 2024 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2025

    Tax Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP helped secure high-profile mergers and acquisitions for major media and communications companies in 2024, having played key roles in Paramount's $28 billion merger agreement with Skydance Media and a separate deal involving Verizon Communications, earning the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • 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

    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 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

    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 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 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.

  • January 23, 2023

    Tax Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP's successful appeal for Fidelity Investments in a closely watched $26 million tax credit dispute was one of several high-profile wins over the past year that earned the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2023

    Tax Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP's tax practice guided medical records giant Cerner in its $28.3 billion acquisition by Oracle and helped secure a U.S. Supreme Court win in a law firm's day-late challenge to an Internal Revenue Service levy, exemplifying its strengths in both transactional tax and tax controversy, and earning it a spot on Law360's 2022 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2023

    Tax Group Of The Year: Eversheds Sutherland

    Eversheds Sutherland secured several significant tax victories in 2022, including convincing a judge to side with Comcast and Verizon to invalidate Maryland's first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax and winning Sirius XM a $2.5 million Texas franchise tax refund, earning it a spot on Law360's 2022 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2023

    Tax Group Of The Year: Akerman

    Akerman LLP's tax practice group has been involved in major decisions across the country over the past year, including successfully arguing that Massachusetts couldn't tax the capital gains of a company domiciled in another state and that a Target subsidiary isn't liable for Florida income tax, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2023

    Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's tax team last year helped broker the largest merger deal ever in the video gaming industry, between independent studio Activision Blizzard and tech giant Microsoft, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Tax 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.

  • January 25, 2022

    Tax Group Of The Year: Weil

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP advised Medicaid and Medicare claims recovery specialist MSP Recovery LLC in its $32.6 billion merger with a special-purpose acquisition company — at the time, one of the largest such transactions ever — earning the firm a spot among Law360's Tax Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2022

    Tax Group Of The Year: ​Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's tax group advised AT&T on a blockbuster $43 billion combination of its WarnerMedia business with Discovery Inc. through what is expected to be a tax-free deal, earning the firm a spot on Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2022

    Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's tax practice earned key victories in 2021, earning it a spot among Law360's 2021 Tax Groups Of The Year. Those victories include aiding Livongo Health Inc.

  • January 20, 2022

    Tax Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    For work by its transactional tax and tax controversy practice groups — including advising online optician Warby Parker on tax aspects of its direct listing — Latham & Watkins LLP has been named as one of Law360's 2021 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2022

    Tax Group Of The Year: Baker McKenzie

    Baker McKenzie's North American tax practice group has been involved in major transfer pricing disputes ongoing in the U.S. Tax Court and advised companies on major acquisitions during 2021, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's Practice 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.