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January 30, 2017
Mergers and acquisitions experts Morrison & Foerster LLP staked a claim for continued dominance among M&A practices last year when the law firm worked on one of the biggest deals in 2016 by representing Ducera Securities LLC as financial adviser to agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto Co. in its proposed all-cash $66 billion sale to pharmaceutical-chemical multinational Bayer AG, earning the practice a spot on Law360's M&A Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2017
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP continued to leverage its geographic reach in 2016 to ink some of the year's biggest cross-border deals, making the firm's mergers and acquisitions team one of Law360's Practice Groups of the Year for the fourth year running.
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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 26, 2016
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's mergers and acquisitions group brokered several key deals in 2015, including representing Kraft Foods Group Inc. in its $55 billion merger with H.J. Heinz Co., and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. in its pending $40.5 billion acquisition of Allergan PLC's generics unit, earning the practice a spot among Law360's M&A Groups of the Year.
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January 25, 2016
It was business as usual for the mergers and acquisitions practice at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP in 2015, as the firm got its fingerprints on most of the largest deals of the year, advising on a record $1.125 trillion in transactions worldwide and landing the firm once again among Law360’s M&A Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2016
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's mergers and acquisitions attorneys put their cutting-edge tactics and extensive experience to work on some of 2015's biggest and most complex transactions, including Dell Inc.'s record-breaking $67 billion deal to buy data storage company EMC Corp., garnering the team a spot on Law360's M&A Groups of the Year.
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January 21, 2016
The mergers and acquisitions team at Latham & Watkins LLP posted yet another strong year that was boosted by a $40.5 billion deal to sell Allergan's generic drugs business and a $38 billion takeover of The Williams Cos., landing the firm among Law360's M&A Groups of the Year.
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January 20, 2016
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's mergers and acquisitions team spent 2015 not just closing massive deals like H.J. Heinz's $55 billion merger with Kraft Foods, but wading into complex, contested deals, landing the firm among Law360's M&A Groups of the Year.
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January 19, 2016
The transactions team at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP guided some of 2015's blockbuster deals, including Humana's $37 billion sale to Aetna and CVS' $1.9 billion play for Target's pharmacy business, landing the firm among Law360's M&A Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 15, 2016
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP attorneys over the last year served as principal advisers in multiple transactions valued at more than $10 billion, including the $17.7 billion sale of Cablevision Systems Corp. to Altice N.V., earning the group a spot among Law360's M&A Practice Groups of 2015.
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January 14, 2016
The global reach of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP's mergers and acquisitions group led to work on several complex, multibillion-dollar, cross-border deals, as well as huge domestic transactions such as Aetna's $37 billion acquisition of Humana, earning the group a spot among Law360's M&A Practice Groups of 2015.
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January 13, 2016
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's mergers and acquisitions team flexed its deal muscles across a wide swath of industry sectors in 2015, inking multimillion- and multibillion-dollar transactions for Cigna, Heinz and others, landing the firm once again among Law360's Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 12, 2016
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP capped a remarkable year of complex deal-making in 2015 with the announcement that its client Allergan PLC entered into a record-breaking $160 billion merger agreement with Pfizer Inc., helping place the firm’s mergers and acquisitions team among Law360's M&A Groups of the Year.
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December 18, 2015
Nine firms have consistently shown their ability to creatively handle the largest and most complex transactions, each racking up multiple M&A practice group of the year wins in the past five years.
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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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February 10, 2015
Thanks to its “Pac-Man” defense and other sorts of counsel for The Men's Wearhouse Inc. and its work on several high-profile deals north of $5 billion, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has earned a spot among Law360's Mergers and Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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February 09, 2015
A stream of longtime clients and fresh faces flocked to Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP last year with more than 40 transactions worth at least $1 billion apiece, putting the firm's mergers and acquisitions team squarely in the deal-making surge and cementing its place among Law360's M&A Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2015
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's mergers and acquisitions group continued its strong reputation in the industry advising some of the biggest and most controversial deals of the past year, including advising AT&T Inc. in its proposed $49 billion acquisition of satellite television provider DirecTV Inc., landing it among Law360’s M&A Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 05, 2015
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP’s deals team had a blockbuster year, from helping Hillshire Brands Co. land a winning $8.6 billion offer in the “meat wars” to having a hand in Valeant Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s epic, if unsuccessful, bid for Allergan Inc., earning a spot among Law360’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2015
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's mergers and acquisitions team spent last year helping giants like Time Warner Cable Inc., SAP America Inc. and Oak Hill Capital Partners lock in billions of dollars worth of deals, earning it a spot on Law360's list of M&A Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 03, 2015
Latham & Watkins LLP's mergers and acquisitions team advised on some of the biggest value transactions across multiple industries and overcame diverse deal challenges in 2014, earning it a place among Law360's M&A Practice Groups of the Year.
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February 02, 2015
Kirkland & Ellis LLP's mergers and acquisitions team structured some of the most innovative deals of 2014, including the unorthodox partnership between Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management LP and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. on their $55 billion hostile bid for Allergan Inc., landing Kirkland among Law360's M&A Practice Groups of the Year.
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January 30, 2015
Jones Day’s merger and acquisitions group stood behind a number of 2014’s most complex blockbuster deals, including a trio of transactions related to Reynolds American Inc.’s $24.7 billion purchase of Lorillard Inc., landing a spot among Law360’s M&A Groups of the Year.