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January 15, 2019
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's tax division had a banner year in 2018. From advising the Walt Disney Co. regarding its acquisition of 21st Century Fox to providing the Linde Group with advice on its merger with Praxair, Cravath found itself on the front lines of some of the year's most important tax-related transactions.
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January 14, 2019
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's tax team in 2018 guided several monster mergers and acquisitions and secured the lowest fine for a Category 1 Swiss bank under the U.S. Department of Justice's Swiss bank program, earning the firm a return to Law360's Tax Practice Groups of the 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 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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February 08, 2018
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's global tax practice has provided advice on transactions to big-name companies such as NXP Semiconductors N.V. in its proposed $47 billion acquisition by San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise in its $8.8 billion spin-off and merger of its software business with a foreign company, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2017 Tax Practice Groups of the Year for the third year in a row.
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February 07, 2018
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP’s growth strategy paid off big in 2017, evident in its blistering $1.5 billion win for Amazon in a case against the Internal Revenue Service that went back more than a decade and marked one of the largest transfer pricing disputes ever litigated, landing the firm a spot among Law360's Tax Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2018
Mayer Brown LLP’s tax practice — a global heavyweight in the transactional and litigation spheres — was a shoo-in for Law360’s 2017 Practice Groups of the Year after having successfully defended Eaton Corp. against the IRS’ cancellation of two agreements and guided several multibillion-dollar transactions such as a major Canadian bank’s expansion in the U.S. and one of last year’s largest IPOs.
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February 05, 2018
This past year saw Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's tax team mop up a $2.4 billion victory for Citigroup Inc. and advise Baker Hughes Inc. on its $32 billion combination with General Electric’s oil and gas business, earning the firm a place among Law360’s Tax Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 02, 2018
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP was thrust into Law360's Practice Groups of the Year following a successful 2017 guiding headline-grabbing, multibillion-dollar transactions such as Anheuser-Busch InBev's $123 billion acquisition of SABMiller and Time Warner Inc.'s pending $108.7 billion sale to AT&T Inc.
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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 09, 2017
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP tax attorneys logged key victories nationwide in the last year, including for Verizon in fights over local attempts to hit the company’s set-top boxes with property taxes and for Comcast in Oregon Tax Court over $300 million in new taxes, landing the team as a Law360 2016 Practice Group of the Year.
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February 08, 2017
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's global tax practice group during the last term has litigated for its clients some of the most significant pricing transfer cases, including Amazon.com Inc.'s fight with the IRS, and advised others like DuPont Co. on major mergers, earning it a spot for the second year in a row as one of Law360's 2016 Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2017
Reed Smith LLP’s tax team has hashed out a high-stakes settlement with the government over Bayer Corp.’s $175 million in research credits denied by the IRS and successfully challenged a Pennsylvania corporate net income tax bill leveled against Nextel Inc., landing it among Law360’s 2016 Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2017
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's tax team powered through billions of dollars in major mergers and acquisitions last year in sectors including energy, software, medicine and more, providing solid and sometimes novel tax advice that earned it recognition as one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 03, 2017
Baker McKenzie LLP’s tax group scored significant victories against the IRS when it successfully challenged a cost-sharing rule on behalf of chipmaker Altera Corp. and convinced the U.S. Tax Court to reject Medtronic Inc.’s $1.36 billion deficiency calculation, landing it a spot among Law360’s 2016 Practice Groups of the Year.
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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 20, 2016
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP’s diverse tax team helped secure litigation costs in its quest for a $27 million refund of California’s franchise tax for Comcast and scored a landmark win for insurance company RVI Guaranty, easily landing among Law360’s Tax Groups of the Year.
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January 19, 2016
The tax team at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP in 2015 secured $234 million in foreign tax credits on behalf of Santander Holdings USA Inc. and advised Broadcom Corp. in the largest-ever semiconductor transaction, earning it a place among Law360’s tax groups of the year.
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January 15, 2016
Mayer Brown LLP's tax practice in 2015 successfully challenged the IRS on behalf of chipmaker Altera Corp. in one of the most important federal tax cases of the year and guided European telecommunications giant Altice's expansion into the U.S., earning the group a spot among Law360's Tax Practice Groups of 2015.
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January 14, 2016
Baker & McKenzie LLP’s tax group scored a $30 million win for poultry production giant Pilgrim's Pride Corp. in the Fifth Circuit and helped clinch longtime client Medtronic Inc.'s $50 billion purchase of Covidien PLC, snaring its spot among Law360's Tax 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.
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January 22, 2015
Corporations call on Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP's tax group when facing their most-complex audit and litigation matters, as did American International Group Inc. in its economic substance battle before the Second Circuit, as well as MetroPCS Communications Inc., which beat a $4 million refund row with Pennsylvania tax authorities, landing Sutherland's practice on Law360's list of Tax Groups of the Year.