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January 15, 2020
Latham & Watkins LLP defended a biotech startup in a rare securities litigation jury trial, which ended with a jury verdict largely in favor of the firm's client. This accomplishment by Latham's securities practice group has earned the team a spot among Law360's 2019 Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 14, 2020
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP was a staunch defender of its client Credit Suisse in 2019, helping it beat a spate of bond- and rate-rigging class actions and leading it as the only bank out of 16 to fight a sprawling foreign exchange market manipulation lawsuit rather than settle, making the firm one of Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 13, 2020
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP recovered more than $1 billion for shareholders in a variety of high-profile litigations over the past year, including a landmark $53 million derivative action settlement and a $92.5 million deal for investors in Starz, landing it a spot among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 10, 2020
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.
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January 11, 2020
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.
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January 22, 2019
A Supreme Court win narrowing a Dodd-Frank Act provision's scope and a successful defense in the first prosecution of an individual connected with the U.S. Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program, among other successes, landed Williams & Connolly LLP a spot among Law360's 2018 Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 18, 2019
Pomerantz LLP secured almost $3 billion in 2018 for investors who alleged securities of Brazil's state-run oil giant Petrobras were negatively impacted by a massive corruption scandal, earning the firm a place on Law360's list of Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 17, 2019
The multifaceted securities team at Labaton Sucharow LLP scored impressive wins for clients in the past year in class action litigation, opt-out cases and in representing whistleblowers in a landmark U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement action, among other achievements, landing it on the list of Law360's 2018 Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 16, 2019
Securing a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that opened up potential appointments clause challenges to administrative law judges who decide enforcement cases for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is one of the victories that earned Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP a spot among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 15, 2019
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP earned victories in some of 2018's most high-profile cases, settling landmark securities litigation over the Petrobras scandal and defeating an attempt to strip voting control from CBS Corp.'s parent company, earning it a spot among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year for the second year in a row.
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January 14, 2019
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP recently secured settlements worth a combined $820 million resolving major shareholder litigation against Wells Fargo & Co., Pershing Square and Valeant Pharmaceuticals, and Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. directors, earning the firm a place on Law360's list of Securities 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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February 12, 2018
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has recovered more than $25 billion for the Federal Housing Finance Agency from shoddy residential mortgage-backed securities and bagged a $1.74 billion settlement from Citibank for Lehman Brothers’ creditors, earning it a spot as one of Law360’s 2017 Securities Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 09, 2018
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP notched decisive victories in a string of high-profile securities cases over the last year, including the complete dismissal of a 10-year-old, $4 billion shareholder class action in one of the largest real estate investment trust leveraged buyouts ever and reversal of a $171 million trial verdict for energy giant Kinder Morgan, to earn a spot among Law360's 2017 Securities Groups of the Year.
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February 08, 2018
In the past year, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s securities practice won dismissal of a high-profile SEC suit seeking a $200 million disgorgement from a distressed debt fund manager and defended Yahoo board members in a shareholder class derivative action related to the firing of the company’s chief operating officer, earning the firm Practice Group of the Year honors for 2017.
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February 07, 2018
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP’s big victories at the end of long-fought shareholder suits against a unit of HSBC Holdings PLC, Community Health Systems Inc. and the former bosses of auto parts supplier Dana Corp. have set it apart from other securities litigation shops and have earned it a spot on Law360’s list of Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2018
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP employed novel arguments over the last year to secure victories in an array of diverse cases, ranging from dismissal of class certification for a group of investors suing Brazilian oil company Petrobras to a decisive win for Putnam Investments in an Employee Retirement Investment Security Act class action, landing the firm among Law360's 2017 Securities Groups of the Year.
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February 05, 2018
Kirkland & Ellis LLP notched a major victory for securities defendants in the U.S. Supreme Court this past year and fired off a volley of successful dismissal bids for corporate clients from a variety of industries, landing its securities team a slot among Law360’s 2017 Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 02, 2018
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP deployed innovative strategies across a range of cases in 2017, including in a U.S. Supreme Court win for a group of banks caught up in Lehman Brothers’ historic 2008 bankruptcy and in decertifying an investor class suing Brazilian oil company Petrobras, landing it among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.
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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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January 26, 2017
Williams & Connolly LLP scored defining victories in 2016 surrounding the financial crisis eight years earlier, such as the Second Circuit’s reversal of a roughly $1.3 billion penalty against Bank of America Corp. regarding a mortgage program, securing a spot as one of Law360's Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 25, 2017
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP’s securities litigation team pulled off landmark victories this year both at trial and in appellate courts at the state and federal levels, including a Second Circuit win that broadened the U.S. Supreme Court’s Omnicare decision, landing it among Law360's 2016 Securities Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2017
Record-breaking wins by Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP's securities team in the past year — including a $1.575 billion payout from HSBC Finance Corp. for defrauding shareholders as well as the largest shareholder class recovery ever in Tennessee — have earned the firm a place among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.