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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, 2019

    M&A Group Of The Year: Wachtell Lipton

    Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz earned its stripes again as an ace firm in the mergers and acquisitions realm in the past year, in part by being the lead adviser to T-Mobile in its roughly $59 billion proposed merger with Sprint, making it one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 18, 2019

    M&A Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has helped steer some of the year's largest deals, including AT&T's $108.7 billion deal for Time Warner and Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies' roughly $35 billion merger of equals, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2019

    M&A Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has steered some of the world's largest companies through transformational deals, like 21st Century Fox's $71.3 billion acquisition by the Walt Disney Co. and Cigna's $67 billion acquisition of pharmacy benefit management services company Express Scripts, earning it a spot among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2019

    M&A Group Of The Year: Shearman & Sterling

    Shearman & Sterling LLP has tackled deals around the globe for major clients, including Novartis, CVS Health Corp. and Unibail-Rodamco SE, and its comprehensive approach to mergers and acquisitions has set it apart from the competition and earned the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2019

    M&A Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP worked on several global mergers and acquisitions this year, including guiding Comcast Corp. in its bidding war with 21st Century Fox for British telecom giant Sky PLC, earning it a spot as one of Law360's 2018 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2019

    M&A Group Of The Year: Cravath

    This past year, Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP steered Time Warner through a fight over a $108.7 billion deal with AT&T and guided Disney through an $85 billion deal for 21st Century Fox's film and television studios, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the 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.

  • 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.

  • February 01, 2018

    M&A Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP played a major role in some of 2017’s most talked-about deals, representing big names like Amazon, Panera Bread Co. and Kite Pharma in industry altering and big-money transactions to earn a spot among Law360’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2018

    Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has advised on a wide variety of megadeals this year, from the $1.2 billion acquisition of Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins to United Technologies Corp.'s $30 billion acquisition of Rockwell Collins, landing the firm among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2018

    Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    A year spent steering Walgreens’ nearly $5.2 billion bid to buy 2,186 Rite Aid stores and Blackstone’s $6.5 billion sale of a Hilton Worldwide stake, as well as other multibillion-dollar deals, has once again earned Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP a spot among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2018

    Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    For its success in steering big-ticket, complex transactions, such as the tie-up between the oil and gas division of General Electric Co. and Baker Hughes Inc. as well as the largest acquisition by a Chinese company of a foreign company ever completed, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s mergers and acquisitions team seized a spot as one of Law360’s Practice Groups of the Year for the fifth year in a row.

  • January 26, 2018

    Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP in the past year advised on more than $587 billion in mergers & acquisitions transactions for big-name clients across a wide variety of sectors and industries, including British American Tobacco plc in its $97 billion merger with Reynolds American Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2017 M&A Practice Groups of the Year.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • February 02, 2017

    M&A Group Of The Year: Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz

    Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz LLP stamped its influence on the mergers and acquisitions space in 2016 by handling record-setting cross-border deals, including advising Monsanto Co. in a $66 billion acquisition by Bayer AG and guiding Spectra Energy Corp. in a $28 billion acquisition by Enbridge Inc., making the firm one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2017

    M&A Group Of The Year: Skadden

    The mergers and acquisitions practice at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP had a bustling 2016, counseling companies on major transactions across a range of industries and in different corners of the world, earning a spot among Law360’s M&A Practice Groups of the Year for the sixth year in a row.

  • January 31, 2017

    M&A Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

    By steering deals such as the largest ever overseas acquisition by a Chinese company and the third largest tech deal ever, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's mergers and acquisitions attorneys earned a spot among Law360's M&A Groups of the Year list for the second year in a row.

  • January 30, 2017

    M&A Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster

    Mergers and acquisitions experts Morrison & Foerster LLP staked a claim for continued dominance among M&A practices last year when the law firm worked on one of the biggest deals in 2016 by representing Ducera Securities LLC as financial adviser to agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto Co. in its proposed all-cash $66 billion sale to pharmaceutical-chemical multinational Bayer AG, earning the practice a spot on Law360's M&A Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2017

    M&A Group Of The Year: Davis Polk & Wardwell

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP continued to leverage its geographic reach in 2016 to ink some of the year's biggest cross-border deals, making the firm's mergers and acquisitions team one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year for the fourth year running.

  • 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 26, 2016

    M&A Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's mergers and acquisitions group brokered several key deals in 2015, including representing Kraft Foods Group Inc. in its $55 billion merger with H.J. Heinz Co., and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. in its pending $40.5 billion acquisition of Allergan PLC's generics unit, earning the practice a spot among Law360's M&A Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2016

    M&A Group Of The Year: Skadden

    It was business as usual for the mergers and acquisitions practice at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP in 2015, as the firm got its fingerprints on most of the largest deals of the year, advising on a record $1.125 trillion in transactions worldwide and landing the firm once again among Law360’s M&A Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2016

    M&A Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's mergers and acquisitions attorneys put their cutting-edge tactics and extensive experience to work on some of 2015's biggest and most complex transactions, including Dell Inc.'s record-breaking $67 billion deal to buy data storage company EMC Corp., garnering the team a spot on Law360's M&A Groups of the Year.

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