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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 21, 2022

    Banking Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP represented Morgan Stanley in its $13 billion acquisition of E-Trade, which was the biggest purchase by a Wall Street bank in more than a decade, and helped a major Indian bank successfully sew up a U.S. regulatory investigation, just two of the accomplishments that earned the team a spot among Law360's 2021 Banking 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 10, 2020

    Banking Group Of The Year: McGuireWoods

    McGuireWoods LLP's financial institutions industry team helped its banking clients face the COVID-19 crisis head-on, guiding Bank of America's $1 billion corporate social bond and winning a case of first impression interpreting the CARES Act to land it among Law360's 2020 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • December 09, 2020

    Banking Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP's banking practice freed Citi from litigation over fees it earned in a federal coronavirus relief loan program, extricated a big Swiss bank from a $350 million bribery case, and helped Goldman Sachs raise $6.8 billion for United Airlines by monetizing its reward program, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Banking Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 08, 2020

    Banking Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP's banking practice secured for UBS a more than $1 billion judgment against two defunct affiliates of the bankrupt Highland Capital Management, and it got more than two dozen underwriters of two initial public offerings off the hook in separate investor class actions, earning it a place among Law360's 2020 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • December 07, 2020

    Banking Practice Group Of The Year: Cravath

    In the past year, Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's banking practice group fended off a suit accusing Goldman Sachs of unfairly profiting from advising natural food wholesaler United Natural Foods Inc. on a $2.9 billion acquisition. This accomplishment, among others, garnered the group a place among Law360's 2020 Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 04, 2020

    Banking Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP's banking practice dealt a blow to multibillion-dollar litigation over fees earned by lenders in a federal coronavirus relief loan program, helped thwart class certification sought by aluminum buyers suing JPMorgan for collusion, and guided one of the biggest European bank mergers in years, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Banking Practice Groups of the Year.

  • November 25, 2020

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2020 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.

  • November 25, 2020

    The Firms That Dominated In 2020

    The eight law firms topping Law360's Firms of the Year managed to win 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, for guiding landmark deals, scoring victories in high-profile disputes and helping companies navigate uncharted legal seas made rough by the coronavirus pandemic.

  • January 30, 2020

    Banking Practice Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's financial services group advised client SunTrust Bank Inc. on its $66 billion, all-stock merger of equals with BB&T, which formed one of the country's largest banks and represents the largest transaction since the financial crisis. This accomplishment has earned the group a place among Law360's 2019 Banking Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2020

    Banking Practice Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's banking litigators completed a trifecta of final False Claims Act case dismissals, steered billion-dollar class investor litigation to resolutions in the millions, and helped Citi bring home a $1 billion judgment from Italy, securing their place among Law360's 2019 Banking Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2020

    Banking Practice Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP has led the pack on banking litigation stemming from the Anti-Terrorism Act over the last year with wins for HSBC that narrowed the scope of liability for banks accused of financing terror attacks, earning it a spot among Law360's 2019 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2020

    Banking Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP started off 2019 by closing out almost 17 years of Enron-related litigation for Credit Suisse, then locked down $5 billion in financing for PG&E to maneuver through its bankruptcy, guided Occidental's $57 billion Anadarko acquisition, and won major rulings for its bank clients, earning the firm back-to-back honors as one of Law360's 2019 Banking Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2020

    Banking Group Of The Year: Cadwalader

    Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP may be one of the oldest law firms in the country, but its banking attorneys are at the cutting edge of the financial services industry's efforts to leave behind what has been called the world's most important number, earning a spot among Law360's 2019 Banking Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2020

    The Firms That Dominated In 2019

    Law360's top seven Firms of the Year cleaned up at the 2019 Practice Group of the Year awards, notching a combined 46 wins after spending the past year helping companies navigate blockbuster deals and secure key high court rulings.

  • January 10, 2020

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2019 Practice Groups of the Year awards, which honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.

  • January 28, 2019

    Banking Group Of The Year: Weil

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP helped complete some of the biggest merger and acquisition deals in 2018, including advising Barclays, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America in providing $49 billion of financing to CVS Health for its acquisition of Aetna, helping land it among Law360's Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2019

    Banking Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's financial institutions practice advised Fifth Third Bancorp on its $4.7 billion buy of MB Financial, settled investor litigation stemming from TD Bank's purchase of Scottrade and helped TD and others defeat class certification in a $4.5 billion Ponzi scheme investor suit, taking its place as one of Law360's Banking Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2019

    Banking Group Of The Year: McGuireWoods

    McGuireWoods LLP's financial institutions industry team in 2018 guided a community bank through a $690 million tie-up and led Countrywide Home Loans to a win in a Truth in Lending Act case at the Eighth Circuit, landing it a spot among Law360's Banking Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • January 11, 2019

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2018 Practice Group of the Year awards, which honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.

  • January 11, 2019

    The Firms That Dominated In 2018

    Law360's top four Firms of the Year notched a combined 32 Practice Group of the Year awards after successfully securing wins in bet-the-company matters and closing high-profile, big-ticket deals for clients throughout 2018.