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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 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 04, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's tax group used a relatively uncommon and tax-favorable structure to tie up DuPont's nutrition and biosciences business with a fragrance giant to create $45.4 billion industry behemoth, placing the firm among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • December 03, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Eversheds Sutherland

    Eversheds Sutherland's tax practice earned key victories in 2020, including one for Walmart.com in a Louisiana sales tax case and a trio for Cox Communications in Virginia over whether localities can tax gross receipts from internet access, landing it among Law360's 2020 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • December 02, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's tax division has been named one of Law360's 2020 Tax Groups of the Year. From advising Sterling Equities and the New York Mets on the sale of the team to advising Morgan Stanley on its $13 billion acquisition of ETRADE, the firm helped navigate some of the year's most noteworthy tax developments.

  • December 01, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's tax division has been named one of Law360's 2020 Tax Groups of the Year. Whether the group helped navigate corporate clients through the tax consequences of major restructurings or mergers and acquisitions, Cravath was on the forefront of some of this year's most noteworthy corporate transactions.

  • November 30, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Baker McKenzie

    Baker McKenzie led Facebook Inc.'s legal defense in its $9 billion dispute with the Internal Revenue Service this year in one of the most closely watched international tax cases in the country, helping it land a spot among Law360's Tax Practice Groups of the 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.

  • 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.

  • January 21, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's tax division has been named one of Law360's 2019 Tax Groups of the Year. From advising Occidental Petroleum in a $57 billion acquisition to advising Mylan on its $50 billion merger with Upjohn, the firm was on the frontlines of some of the year's most noteworthy tax developments.

  • January 17, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP guided DowDuPont Inc. through spinoffs with more than $100 billion of enterprise value and helped Fidelity Investments achieve victory in the U.S. Tax Court over millions of dollars in tax credits, earning it a spot among Law360's 2019 Tax Groups Of The Year.

  • January 16, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown's tax practice earned key victories in 2019, including one for Bank of America over the U.S. Department of Justice in a tax refund battle and another for Fidelity and a coal-refining partner in a fight with the IRS over credits, landing it among Law360's 2019 Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's tax group has innovated novel approaches to headline-grabbing mergers and acquisitions — including Bristol-Myers Squibb's $90 billion deal to buy Celgene, the largest M&A transaction in 2019 — placing the firm among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2020

    Tax Group Of The Year: Eversheds Sutherland LLP

    Eversheds Sutherland's tax team participated in key cases in 2019, from its victory for Comcast Corp. in a multimillion-dollar franchise tax case against Mississippi, to representing Microsoft Inc. in Wisconsin tax litigation involving licensing software receipts, earning it a spot among Law360's Tax Practice Groups Of The Year.

  • 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 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 18, 2019

    Tax Practice Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom participated in some of the most important and newsworthy tax transactions of 2018, from guiding Fox's sale of a $15 billion stake in Sky to Comcast Corp. to helping Starr International on its way to securing a $38.2 million refund from the Internal Revenue Service.

  • January 17, 2019

    Tax Group Of The Year: McDermott Will & Emery

    McDermott Will & Emery's tax practice made headlines in 2018 by winning a high-stakes repatriation case before the U.S. Tax Court, advising CVS in its multibillion-dollar acquisition of health insurance giant Aetna and securing a victory for Starbucks in a New York False Claims Act case, landing it among Law360's Tax Practice Groups Of The Year.

  • January 16, 2019

    Tax Group Of The Year: Eversheds Sutherland LLP

    Racking up key victories in representing SiriusXM in Texas in a franchise tax case and Utah candy company See's Candies in a transfer pricing case, Eversheds Sutherland LLP's tax attorneys have helped land their team as a Law360 2018 Practice Group of the Year.

  • January 15, 2019

    Tax Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's tax division had a banner year in 2018. From advising the Walt Disney Co. regarding its acquisition of 21st Century Fox to providing the Linde Group with advice on its merger with Praxair, Cravath found itself on the front lines of some of the year's most important tax-related transactions.

  • January 14, 2019

    Tax Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's tax team in 2018 guided several monster mergers and acquisitions and secured the lowest fine for a Category 1 Swiss bank under the U.S. Department of Justice's Swiss bank program, earning the firm a return to Law360's Tax 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.

  • February 08, 2018

    Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's global tax practice has provided advice on transactions to big-name companies such as NXP Semiconductors N.V. in its proposed $47 billion acquisition by San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise in its $8.8 billion spin-off and merger of its software business with a foreign company, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2017 Tax Practice Groups of the Year for the third year in a row.

  • February 07, 2018

    Tax Group of the Year: Morgan Lewis & Bockius

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP’s growth strategy paid off big in 2017, evident in its blistering $1.5 billion win for Amazon in a case against the Internal Revenue Service that went back more than a decade and marked one of the largest transfer pricing disputes ever litigated, landing the firm a spot among Law360's Tax Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2018

    Tax Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP’s tax practice — a global heavyweight in the transactional and litigation spheres — was a shoo-in for Law360’s 2017 Practice Groups of the Year after having successfully defended Eaton Corp. against the IRS’ cancellation of two agreements and guided several multibillion-dollar transactions such as a major Canadian bank’s expansion in the U.S. and one of last year’s largest IPOs.