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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.
  • 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 23, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Willkie Farr & Gallagher

    Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP’s restructuring team flexed its muscles in 2014 by guiding Momentive Performance Materials Inc. through a complex Chapter 11 proceeding and advocating for U.K. pensioners in Nortel Networks' hard-fought bankruptcy case, earning a spot among Law360’s Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP developed a consensual Chapter 11 plan designed to slash Endeavour International Corp.'s $1.2 billion debt and negotiated a deal improved Financial Guaranty Insurance Co.'s recovery on its more than $1 billion claim against bankrupt Detroit, earning a place among Law360’s Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Orrick

    In a bankruptcy legal marketplace widely seen as flat, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's 30-lawyer international restructuring team got results for major clients this year in key niches including distressed municipalities, infrastructure and structured finance, earning it a spot on Law360's list of Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Kramer Levin

    Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP's bankruptcy team had hands in some of the splashiest bankruptcies of 2014, including two hands in the bankruptcy of Detroit, making it one of Law360's Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    From guiding bankrupt Edison Mission Energy away from the brink to a $2.6 billion sale to clinching Syncora Holdings Ltd. a deal in Detroit’s bankruptcy that will keep it in the Motor City for decades to come, the creativity and tenacity of Kirkland & Ellis LLP's restructuring attorneys makes them one of Law360’s Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Tasked with restructuring the debt of the largest municipality in U.S. history to enter Chapter 9, lawyers from Jones Day in less than 16 months secured confirmation of a sweeping restructuring plan that eliminates more than $7 billion in debt while rehabilitating city infrastructure, earning the firm a spot on Law360’s list of Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Jenner & Block

    Jenner & Block LLP’s bankruptcy group’s successes in 2014 included protecting benefits for nearly 50,000 American Airlines Corp. retirees, winning $272 million in damages for Emerald Casino’s estate, and convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a landmark dispute, landing it among Law360’s Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Hughes Hubbard

    Years after being tapped to clean up the mess from Lehman Brothers Inc. and MF Global Inc., two crisis-era brokerage failures, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP attorneys secured recoveries in 2014 for claimants whose repayment was never certain, earning the firm its debut appearance on Law360’s list of Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP helped oil tanker giant Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. sail out of Chapter 11 and orchestrated other novel restructurings in Brazil and Puerto Rico, earning the firm a spot among Law360’s Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2015

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Brown Rudnick

    Brown Rudnick LLP obtained landmark rulings that spurred a successful auction of Fisker Automotive Holdings Inc. and enabled the liquidator of an offshore Bernie Madoff feeder fund to fight an unfavorable asset sale in its Chapter 15 case, earning the firm a place among Law360’s Bankruptcy 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

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP had a knockout 2013, guiding bankrupt American Airlines Inc. parent AMR Corp. through a merger with US Airways Group Inc. and carrying defunct Lehman Brothers Inc. through the fifth year of its bankruptcy, earning a place among Law360's Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 07, 2014

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP's restructuring, insolvency and workouts practice guided US Airways Group Inc. through its merger with bankrupt American Airlines Inc. parent AMR Corp., creating the world's largest airline, and deftly took A123 Systems Inc. through a cross-border restructuring fraught with political uncertainty, landing it a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • January 06, 2014

    Bankruptcy Group of the Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    With the creativity, care and skill that have come to typify Kirkland & Ellis LLP, the firm stewarded bankruptcy cases for prominent clients including Fisker Automotive Holdings Inc., OGX Petroleo & Gas Participacoes SA and Hawker Beechcraft Corp., meriting a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 03, 2014

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day helped Detroit secure Chapter 9 relief in the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history and negotiated sales of Hostess Brands Inc.'s assets that brought the iconic baker more than $860 million, earning the firm a place among Law360's Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 02, 2014

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn broke barriers in 2013 as it guided Bahrain-based Arcapita Bank BSC through the first U.S. reorganization that complies with Islamic financial law, landing itself a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 01, 2014

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 is pleased to announce the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards, given to firms that excelled at getting the job done for clients in litigation and deals in 2013.

  • January 17, 2013

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Akin Gump

    Bringing together disparate creditor constituencies and bringing home better-than-expected recoveries in billion-dollar bankruptcies such as Washington Mutual Inc. and Dynegy Holdings LLC brought the restructuring pros at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP a place among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2013

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    The bankruptcy practice group at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP continued a long tradition of managing and litigating large, global restructurings in 2012, negotiating the distribution of more than $6.5 billion to creditors on behalf of Washington Mutual Inc. and winning a major trial for MF Global UK Limited administrators over multibillion-dollar repurchase-to-maturity transactions, earning a spot among Law360’s Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2013

    Bankruptcy Practice Group Of The Year: Morrison & Foerster

    Morrison & Foerster LLP garnered impressive results for creditors and debtors in 2012, representing Residential Capital LLC during one of the largest restructurings on record and supporting MF Global Inc.'s trustee in collecting billions in assets for creditors, earning it a place among Law360's Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2013

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Kramer Levin

    Whether it's been negotiating better conditions for creditors in Residential Capital LLC's mammoth bankruptcy or shepherding shipping giant General Maritime Corp. through a successful restructuring, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP's corporate restructuring and bankruptcy department has had a banner year, earning it a spot on Law360's Bankruptcy Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 10, 2013

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    Jones Day's varied successes, including ushering the Los Angeles Dodgers from insolvency to a record sale, its precedent-setting work for overseas debtors and expanding beyond its reputation as a debtors-only shop, have earned the firm a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of the Year.

  • January 01, 2013

    Law360 Selects Top Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 is pleased to announce the winners of this year's Practice Groups of the Year award.

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