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January 13, 2023
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.
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January 27, 2022
Showcasing its knowledge of and experience with complex regulatory structures, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP advised LendingClub Corp. in its $185 million takeover of Radius Bank, making LendingClub the first U.S. fintech company to acquire a bank and earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 26, 2022
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP deterred a push by Citibank to claw back $500 million in accidentally wired funds from a group of asset managers and helped secure a pivotal $50 million deal for investors to wrap up a gold price-fixing case, landing the firm a place among Law360's 2021 Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 25, 2022
The banking group at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP secured dismissal of a suit alleging Morgan Stanley participated in a conspiracy to rig the U.S. Treasury markets and prepared a comprehensive report on Credit Suisse's relationship with collapsed investment manager Archegos Capital Management, earning the team a place among Law360's 2021 Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2022
Mayer Brown LLP's banking practice convinced the Second Circuit to affirm the dismissal of Anti-Terrorism Act claims brought against HSBC units, skirting a novel liability theory involving drug cartels and earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 21, 2022
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.
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January 14, 2022
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.
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January 14, 2022
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.
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December 10, 2020
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.
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December 09, 2020
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.
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December 08, 2020
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.
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December 07, 2020
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.
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December 04, 2020
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.
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November 25, 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.
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November 25, 2020
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.
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January 30, 2020
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.
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January 29, 2020
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.
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January 28, 2020
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.
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January 27, 2020
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.
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January 24, 2020
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.
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January 11, 2020
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.
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January 10, 2020
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.
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January 28, 2019
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.
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January 25, 2019
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.
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January 24, 2019
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.