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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 22, 2018

    Banking Group Of The Year: Debevoise & Plimpton

    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.

  • January 19, 2018

    Banking Group Of The Year: Ballard Spahr

    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.

  • January 18, 2018

    Banking Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    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.

  • January 17, 2018

    Banking Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    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.

  • January 16, 2018

    Banking Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    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.

  • January 12, 2018

    The Firms That Dominated In 2017

    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.

  • January 12, 2018

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    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.

  • February 02, 2017

    Banking Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    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.

  • February 01, 2017

    Banking Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    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.

  • January 31, 2017

    Banking Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    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.

  • January 30, 2017

    Banking Group Of The Year: Kasowitz

    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.

  • January 27, 2017

    Banking Practice Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    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.

  • January 09, 2017

    The Firms That Dominated In 2016

    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.

  • January 09, 2017

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    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.

  • January 14, 2016

    Banking Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    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.

  • January 13, 2016

    Banking Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    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.

  • January 12, 2016

    Banking Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    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.

  • January 11, 2016

    Banking Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb

    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.

  • December 18, 2015

    The Firms That Dominated In 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.

  • December 18, 2015

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    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.

  • January 14, 2015

    Banking Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    In a critical year for banks that continue to face fallout from the 2006 housing crash, Mayer Brown LLP was at the forefront of a new type of residential mortgage-backed securities litigation when it led trustee Bank of New York Mellon Corp. to an $8.5 billion payout, placing the firm’s banking practice on Law30’s Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Banking Group Of The Year: Kasowitz

    Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP has developed a reputation as one of the go-to firms for financial crisis-related cases, and their work in 2014 securing nearly $1.3 billion for the Federal Housing Finance Agency and other successes have landed them among Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2015

    Banking Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP earned a spot on Law360’s list of Banking Groups of the Year by guiding the world’s biggest financial institutions through a maze of regulatory reforms, from crafting “living wills” for the U.S.’ biggest banks to handling compliance with the Volcker Rule’s proprietary trading ban.

  • January 09, 2015

    Banking Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter

    Arnold & Porter LLP won a string of cases in 2014 for the Federal Housing Finance Agency, including cases ranging from a dispute over whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are subject to local taxes to a fight over the diversion of the two companies’ profits to the federal government, placing the firm among Law360’s Banking Groups of the Year.

  • December 19, 2014

    Law360 Names Law Firms Of The Year

    Showcasing strength in numbers and the agility needed to serve up top-notch client service on a number of fronts, two law firms secured a combined 18 Law360 Practice Group of the Year awards in 2014 to earn the distinction of Law360's Firms of the Year.