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January 23, 2019
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.
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January 22, 2019
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.
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January 18, 2019
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.
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January 11, 2019
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.
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January 11, 2019
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.
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January 22, 2018
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's banking group handled complex anti-money laundering issues for Societe Generale and Pakistan’s largest bank and facilitated Silicon Valley Bank’s investments in Chinese startups over the last year, landing it a spot among Law360’s 2017 Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 19, 2018
Ballard Spahr LLP led the pack in challenging significant Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations over the past year, including its outsized role in defeating a consumer arbitration regulation, landing it a spot among Law360’s 2017 Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2018
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP continued making its mark in 2017 as one of the leading firms to challenge Wall Street banks in the aftermath of 2008’s financial crisis, winning big for country and countryman alike to earn a place among Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 17, 2018
Mayer Brown LLP’s banking practice continued to notch courtroom victories and handle mega-sized transactions for some of the world’s largest financial institutions over the last year, earning it a spot among Law360’s 2017 Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 16, 2018
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has again proven its dedication to guiding financial institutions through an ever-changing regulatory environment, including advising on over two dozen "living wills" and penning a letter to guide the U.S. Treasury Department on potential new rules under the Trump administration, earning it a spot among Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year for the fifth year straight.
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January 12, 2018
Law360’s Firms of the Year rose above the competition with a combined 24 Practice Group of the Year awards after helping their clients win game-changing judgments and close record-breaking deals in 2017. Here’s a closer look at how they landed at the top.
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January 12, 2018
Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2017 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.
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February 02, 2017
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP’s work for clients including JPMorgan Chase & Co., which benefited from the firm’s assistance in both unloading an investment management business and defeating claims stemming from the so-called London Whale scandal, has helped land the practice on Law360’s 2016 list of Banking Groups of the Year.
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February 01, 2017
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP often takes the side of the little guys in litigation against some of the world’s biggest banks, but the outsize victories it secured last year on their behalf were big enough to earn the firm a place among Law360’s Banking Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 31, 2017
Mayer Brown LLP’s banking and finance group fired on all cylinders in 2016, counseling clients through tens of billions of dollars in financing work, often through never-before-seen structures, and defending banks against high-profile Anti-Terrorism Act cases to become one of Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 30, 2017
With a win at the Second Circuit for collateralized debt obligation investors and another at the Ninth Circuit defending European bank UniCredit against fraud claims over illegal tax shelters, Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP has cemented its spot as a go-to litigation firm in the banking industry and earned a place among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2017
A year ago, GE Capital was burdened by its designation as a nonbank systemically important financial institution, but Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's banking team helped the company shed that label, a victory that earned the firm a spot among Law360's Banking Groups of the Year for the fourth time straight.
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January 09, 2017
Law360's Firms of the Year rose above the competition in 2016 by earning a combined 20 Practice Group of the Year awards on the strength of work that helped their clients attain game-changing judgments and close record deals.
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January 09, 2017
Law360 congratulates the winners of its 2016 Practice Group of the Year awards, the law firms that racked up victories in litigation and closed the big deals to make their mark among clients and throughout the legal industry.
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January 14, 2016
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has handled more than $50 billion in banking mergers and acquisitions over the past year and secured litigation victories in multiple high-profile cases — including two with far-reaching economic implications — earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 13, 2016
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP succeeded where the U.S. Department of Justice fell short, extracting $1.8 billion from Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and a dozen other banks accused of colluding to keep credit default swap prices artificially high — and placing the firm among Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year.
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January 12, 2016
For the third year straight, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's banking team has landed among Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year, for continuing to steer clients through an increasingly complex regulatory environment and advising General Electric Co. as it works to shake its systemically important financial institution status through the $90 billion spinoff of GE Capital.
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January 11, 2016
Banks have long turned to Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP for help in guiding them through the regulatory process, and 2015 saw the firm extend its reach into the digital arena in helping a bitcoin firm win the first license to operate in New York state, making it one of Law360’s Banking Practice Groups of the Year.
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December 18, 2015
Three legal stalwarts landed at the top of the pack in 2015 to take the title of Law360's Firms of the Year, bolstered by their combined 27 Practice Group of the Year wins and their deft handling of high-stakes, high-profile work.
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December 18, 2015
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Group of the Year awards, given to those firms that came through for clients by sealing the biggest deals and securing wins in high-stakes litigation.