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February 12, 2024
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP guided the Snyder family through a tense environment to seal the $6.05 billion sale of the Washington Commanders and advised WestRock's complicated $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Mergers and Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 19, 2024
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.
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January 19, 2024
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.
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January 26, 2023
Mayer Brown LLP found success defending corporations' right to deny or award workers severance benefits and helping administer their benefit plans, creating "ripple effects" across corporate America that earned the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Benefits Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2023
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's global team steered acquisitions, divestitures and spin-offs for a diverse mix of clients over the past year, highlighted by migraine-treatment developer Biohaven Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s $11.6 billion sale to Pfizer Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 20, 2023
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP had another banner year in 2022 representing clients on blockbuster deals, including guiding General Electric Co. in its spinoff into three public companies and advising global investment firm 3G Capital in its $7.1 billion acquisition of Hunter Douglas, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 19, 2023
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP represented clients involved in some of the highest-profile deals of the year, including longstanding client Microsoft in its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard and the Twitter board of directors as they navigated the Elon Musk takeover, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2023
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP steered clients through some of the most talked-about deals of 2022, including the record-breaking $68.7 billion agreement between Activision Blizzard Inc. and Microsoft Corp. and Elon Musk's blockbuster $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, earning the firm a spot on Law360's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2023
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP guided data center real estate investment trust CyrusOne in its acquisition by two private equity firms for $15 billion and is aiding Johnson & Johnson in its planned spinoff of its consumer health business, landing it a spot among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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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 26, 2022
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz guided medical supplies corporation Medline's $31 billion June sale of its majority interest to major private equity firms including Blackstone and also represented Square Inc. in its $29 billion buy of payment corporation Afterpay Ltd., which helped land the New York law firm on the list for Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 25, 2022
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has led clients through some of the biggest deals of 2021, including the largest luxury retail deal in history between Tiffany & Co. and LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, securing the group's spot among Law360's 2021 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2022
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP represented clients on some of the biggest deals of 2021, including MGM Studios in its $8.45 billion sale to Amazon and software company Nuance Communications Inc. in its $19.7 billion sale to Microsoft Corp., earning the firm a spot among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 21, 2022
Latham & Watkins LLP handled some of the biggest deals of last year, including advising Slack on its $27.7 billion sale to Salesforce and Intuit's $12 billion acquisition of Mailchimp, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year for the second year in a row.
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January 20, 2022
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP helped represent Discovery as part of its $43 billion reverse Morris trust deal with AT&T's WarnerMedia, as well as a special committee of Liberty Broadband Corp. for its multibillion-dollar acquisition of GCI Liberty Inc., helping Debevoise earn a place among Law360's 2021 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 19, 2022
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP assisted on multiple massive M&A transactions over the past year, from the more than $30 billion purchase of General Electric's aircraft leasing business by AerCap to the nearly $21 billion acquisition of contract research organization PPD by Thermo Fisher, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Mergers & Acquisitions Practice 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 04, 2020
The mergers & acquisitions team at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz executed a historically complicated corporate restructuring, advising the split-up of industrial giant United Technologies Corp., which resulted in three publicly traded companies, landing the team among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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December 03, 2020
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has assisted on a bevy of big-ticket transactions over the past year, including the $45.5 billion merger of DuPont's nutrition and biosciences business with fragrance giant IFF and the tumultuous multibillion-dollar tie-up of Tiffany and LVMH, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 02, 2020
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP guided automotive industry supplier BorgWarner in ironing out its multibillion-dollar purchase of Delphi Technologies, advised MultiPlan in its $11 billion take-public merger with a blank check company and represented six firms that invested $20.7 billion in gas pipeline assets, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2020 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year, the fifth year it has received the recognition.
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December 01, 2020
Latham & Watkins LLP helped represent clients on some of the biggest deals of 2020, including Nvidia for the pending $40 billion purchase of U.K. semiconductor business Arm Ltd. and insurance giant Aon for its plans to buy rival Willis Towers Watson for $30 billion, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year for the first time since 2015.
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November 30, 2020
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has had a significant role in many major deals over the past year, including the $45.4 billion tie-up of fragrance giant IFF and DuPont's nutrition and biosciences business, and the $6 billion private equity takeover of technology distributor Tech Data, earning the firm a spot on Law360's 2020 Mergers & Acquisitions 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.