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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 16, 2019

    Securities Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    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.

  • January 15, 2019

    Securities Group Of The Year: Cleary

    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.

  • January 14, 2019

    Securities Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    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.

  • 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 12, 2018

    Securities Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    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.

  • February 09, 2018

    Securities Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal & Manges

    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.

  • February 08, 2018

    Securities Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    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.

  • February 07, 2018

    Securities Group Of The Year: Robbins Geller

    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.

  • February 06, 2018

    Securities Group Of The Year: Skadden

    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.

  • February 05, 2018

    Securities Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    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.

  • February 02, 2018

    Securities Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb

    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.

  • 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.

  • January 26, 2017

    Securities Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    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.

  • January 25, 2017

    Securities Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    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.

  • January 24, 2017

    Securities Group of 2016: Robbins Geller

    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.

  • January 23, 2017

    Securities Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP’s year defending electronics security company ADT Corp. in litigation over a $450 million buyback and Citigroup from cases over losses due to the 2008 financial crisis and over subprime-related asset exposure has won the firm a spot as one of Law360's Securities Groups of the Year for the third consecutive year.

  • January 20, 2017

    Securities Group Of The Year: Bernstein Litowitz

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP’s securities team brokered blockbuster settlements with powerhouses like General Motors and Merck, including a $1.06 billion deal pegged as the largest securities recovery ever achieved against a pharmaceutical company, landing it among Law360's 2016 Securities Groups of the Year.

  • 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 13, 2016

    Securities Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Williams & Connolly LLP changed the landscape of securities litigation in 2015 by securing the blockbuster Omnicare ruling at the U.S. Supreme Court, demonstrating the trial strengths that have earned the firm a reputation as a securities powerhouse and placing it among Law360’s Securities Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2016

    Securities Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP bills its securities litigation practice as the go-to place for "bet-the-company" cases, and in 2015 the group backed that up with wins for megabank Barclays in high-frequency trading litigation and for giants including JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, and won a spot among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2016

    Securities Group Of The Year: Robbins Geller

    One night last January, as 18 Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP attorneys prepped in a hotel for a securities fraud trial against Pfizer, firm co-founder Darren Robbins was summoned to a ritzy building near Central Park. Three hours later, he had hammered out a $400 million settlement that defined his firm’s year and helped place it among Law360's Securities Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 08, 2016

    Securities Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP in 2015 proved once again why it is the go-to law firm for Wall Street’s biggest players, as the crucial role it played in cementing the landmark Newman insider trading decision and the litigation wins it nabbed for the likes of Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and SAC Capital made it one of Law360’s Securities Groups of the Year.

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