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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 04, 2016

    Competition Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter

    It’s been a busy year for the antitrust group at Arnold & Porter LLP, from advising General Electric in its roughly $13 billion deal with Alstom SA to representing AT&T on its $49 billion merger with DirecTV, landing the team on Law360’s list of Competition Groups of the Year.

  • December 18, 2015

    5 Firms Are Competition All-Stars

    Five firms have consistently shown their strength in clinching merger clearances in complex megadeals and winning game-changing antitrust litigation, each racking up multiple competition practice group of the year wins in the past five years.

  • 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

    Competition Group of the Year: White & Case

    From winning the dismissal of three separate pay-for-delay class actions to securing antitrust clearance for mega cross-border mergers such as Grupo Bimbo SAB de CV's $1.6 billion acquisition of Canada Bread Co. Ltd., White & Case LLP's work landed the firm on Law360's list of Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2015

    Competition Group Of The Year: Robins Kaplan

    Not only did Robins Kaplan LLP secure a green light for a landmark $7.25 billion deal in a credit card swipe fee price-fixing case, it also recently helped win approval for $590 million in settlements in a collusion case against private equity firms, landing the firm on Law360's list of Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 20, 2015

    Competition Group of the Year: O'Melveny & Myers

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP's work helping Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. defeat a class certification bid by purchasers of optical disk drives who accused the electronics giant of participating in a price-fixing scheme earned the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2015

    Competition Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP’s antitrust and competition group had a banner year, from representing WhatsApp in its $21.8 billion sale to Facebook Inc. to helping the London Metal Exchange beat price-fixing claims and successfully defeating class certification in the Toshiba Corp. optical disk drive litigation, earning the firm a spot on Law360’s list of Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 15, 2015

    Competition Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's antitrust team helped hospital company Community Health Systems Inc. navigate its $7.6 billion acquisition of Health Management Associates Inc. and fended off high-stakes litigation against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and others, landing itself among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2015

    Competition Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP handled antitrust work from high-profile consumer class actions against T-Mobile USA and Comcast Corp. to multibillion deals such as Comcast's merger with Time Warner Cable and Tyson Foods Inc.'s buyout of Hillshire Brands Co., earning a spot among Law360's Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2015

    Competition Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP's competition group had a busy 2014 securing the dismissal of separate antitrust suits against clients Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Expedia Inc, earning the firm a spot on Law360's list of Competition Groups of the Year.

  • January 12, 2015

    Competition Group Of The Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC’s antitrust group had a notable year, winning plaintiffs more than a billion dollars in major lawsuits challenging Apple Inc. and book publishers over price-fixing allegations in the e-book industry and Dow Chemical Co.’s alleged price-fixing activity in the polyurethane industry, earning the firm a spot on Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year list.

  • January 09, 2015

    Competition Group Of The Year: Boies Schiller & Flexner

    Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP has had a standout year in the antitrust arena, defending American Express Corp. and Apple Inc. in two high-stakes trials and prevailing over the National Collegiate Athletic Association in a closely watched case over its amateurism rules, earning the firm a spot on Law360’s list of Competition 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 30, 2014

    Competition Group Of The Year: White & Case

    White & Case LLP’s competition group helped Toshiba Corp. avoid Best Buy Co.’s $2.3 billion price-fixing damages claims at trial and won clearance for Warner Chilcott PLC’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Actavis Inc., just a few of the accomplishments that landed the firm among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2014

    Competition Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Playing a lead role in many of last year’s headline-making antitrust cases, from deals such as Anheuser-Busch InBev SA's acquisition of Grupo Modelo to litigation leading to the U.S. Supreme Court's Actavis decision, has landed Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP a place among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 28, 2014

    Competition Group Of The Year: O'Melveny & Myers

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP negotiated a settlement with the federal government on the eve of trial that allowed US Airways Group Inc. to complete its $17 billion merger with American Airlines Inc., landing the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 27, 2014

    Competition Group Of The Year: Latham & Watkins

    Latham & Watkins LLP's competition experts secured global merger control clearance in Omnicom Group Inc.'s consolidation with Publicis Groupe SA to create the world's largest mass marketing conglomerate with a total market value of $35 billion, earning the team a spot on Law360's Competition Practice Groups of 2013.

  • January 24, 2014

    Competition Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to decertify a class of Comcast Inc. customers who claimed the company monopolized the Philadelphia cable market – a ruling that reshaped class actions nationwide – was just one of the feats placing Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP among Law360's antitrust groups of the year.

  • January 23, 2014

    Competition Group Of The Year: Dechert

    Dechert LLP's antitrust professionals were hard at work last year, handling no less than four billion-dollar transactions, with none looming larger than the $17 billion merger of US Airways Group Inc. and American Airlines, resolving a challenge to the deal from government regulators and landing the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2014

    Competition Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in 2013 successfully represented Comcast Corp. in several antitrust matters and secured the dismissal of antitrust claims against Bank of America Corp. over an alleged conspiracy to rig the London Interbank Offered Rate, landing the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2014

    Competition Group Of The Year: Crowell & Moring

    Steering Coventry Health Care Inc. through its $5.7 billion acquisition by rival health insurer Aetna Inc. and helping convince the D.C. Circuit to vacate the certification of a massive class of rail shippers in a price-fixing case against CSX Transportation Inc. and others landed Crowell & Moring LLP a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2014

    Competition Group Of The Year: Covington & Burling

    Covington & Burling LLP's antitrust practice group made short work of billions in competition claims facing Citigroup Inc. over alleged manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate, one of several victories during the past 12 months that made it one of Law 360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 16, 2014

    Competition Group of the Year: Cohen Milstein

    Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC secured a $1.06 billion price-fixing judgment in a class action against The Dow Chemical Co. and helped consumers ink a $75 million settlement with Penguin Group USA Inc. in litigation over e-books, landing the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

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