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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.
  • February 05, 2018

    Tax Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    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.

  • February 02, 2018

    Tax Group Of The Year: Cravath

    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.

  • 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 09, 2017

    Tax Group Of The Year: Sutherland Asbill

    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.

  • February 08, 2017

    Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden

    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.

  • February 07, 2017

    Tax Group Of The Year: Reed Smith

    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.

  • February 06, 2017

    Tax Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    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.

  • February 03, 2017

    Tax Group Of The Year: Baker McKenzie

    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.

  • 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 20, 2016

    Tax Group Of The Year: Sutherland Asbill

    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.

  • January 19, 2016

    Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden

    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.

  • January 15, 2016

    Tax Group of the Year: Mayer Brown

    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.

  • January 14, 2016

    Tax Group Of The Year: Baker & McKenzie

    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.

  • 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 22, 2015

    Tax Group Of The Year: Sutherland

    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.

  • January 21, 2015

    Tax Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    A year that saw Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP’s tax group advise on Burger King Worldwide Inc.'s controversial, headline-grabbing $11.4 billion acquisition of Canada-based Tim Hortons Inc. earned it a place on Law360’s list of Tax Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2015

    Tax Group Of The Year: McDermott Will & Emery

    Tax attorneys at McDermott Will & Emery LLP handled some of last year’s most complex deals and litigation, from tax work on Tyco International Ltd.’s headquarters switch, to Caterpillar Inc.’s transfer pricing dispute, landing the firm among Law360’s Tax Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2015

    Tax Group Of The Year: Cravath Swaine & Moore

    A year that saw Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP’s tax group advise Mylan Inc. in its $5.3 billion inversion deal with Abbott Laboratories and Time Warner Inc. in its tax-free spinoff of Time Inc. earned the group a place on Law360’s list of Tax Practice 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.

  • December 19, 2014

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year, awarded to firms that came through for their clients in 2014, sealing the big deals and winning the high-stakes suits.

  • January 08, 2014

    Tax Group Of The Year: Skadden Arps

    The creative legal minds at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP helped guide clients through increasingly complex tax transactions in 2013, including several Sprint Nextel Corp. deals worth a combined $50 billion and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.'s $8.7 billion purchase of Bausch & Lomb, landing the firm among Law360's Tax Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2014

    Tax Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster

    Tax attorneys at Morrison & Foerster LLP guided billions of dollars in acquisitions involving Sprint Corp., Toshiba TEC and Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. in the past year and monitored the tax consequences of the Residential Capital LLC bankruptcy case, landing them among Law360’s Tax Practice Groups of the Year.