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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 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.

  • January 17, 2012

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    The bankruptcy team at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP grabbed public attention in 2011 with its resolution of massive restructurings that shook the world after the recent financial crisis, including those of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and General Motors Co., earning the team a spot as one of Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of 2011.

  • January 13, 2012

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Skadden

    Although the sudden collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd. grabbed the headlines, it's been Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's work redefining restructuring laws with its service for Centro Properties Group and orchestrating an innovative auction for Dish Network Corp. that catapulted the firm onto Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of 2011.

  • January 12, 2012

    Bankruptcy Group of the Year: Sidley Austin

    After electricity producer Dynegy Holdings LLC filed for Chapter 11 protection in November, shadowed by bondholders' doubts about the validity of its filing, its attorneys from Sidley Austin LLP were soon able to resolve the dispute and keep the case on track, helping the firm earn a place among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of 2011.

  • January 11, 2012

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's restructuring group recently sealed a landmark environmental settlement in the reorganization of Tronox Inc. and solidified its strong reputation in real estate bankruptcies by shepherding the sale of Innkeepers USA Trust and adjusting to difficult circumstances on the fly, earning it a place among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of 2011.

  • January 10, 2012

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Dewey & LeBoeuf

    Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP attorneys guided Los Angeles Dodgers LLC through its July Chapter 11 filing, helped insurer Ambac Financial Group Inc. through its restructuring and were tapped to represent unsecured creditors in the massive MF Global Holdings Ltd. bankruptcy, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of 2011.

  • January 19, 2011

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Weil Gotshal

    Guiding shopping mall owner and operator General Growth Properties Inc., hotel owner Extended Stay Inc. and Texas Rangers Baseball Properties through the rocky shoals of Chapter 11, among other notable accomplishments, has helped earn Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's restructuring team a place among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of 2010.

  • January 18, 2011

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Sidley

    Sidley Austin LLP's reorganization group efficiently guided clients such as R.H. Donnelley Corp. and Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. through the reduction and elimination of billions of dollars in debt, making it one of Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of 2010.

  • January 14, 2011

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP's restructuring group counseled several clients reorganizing massive debt loads toward successful emergence from bankruptcy in 2010, including hundreds of General Growth Properties Inc. affiliates holding $15 billion in debt, earning the firm a place among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of 2010.

  • January 13, 2011

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Cadwalader

    Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP's restructuring group worked in 2010 to steer the U.S. government's ongoing reorganization of General Motors and Chrysler and oversee the $23 billion restructuring of LyondellBasell Industries NV, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of 2010.

  • January 12, 2011

    Bankruptcy Group Of The Year: Brown Rudnick

    A landmark ruling in favor of tort claimants finding that Pfizer Inc. engineered subsidiary Quigley Co. Inc.'s bankruptcy to limit asbestos liability and a $450 million settlement for unsecured creditors in the LyondellBasell Industries NV case are among the victories that have earned Brown Rudnick LLP a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of 2010.

  • January 11, 2011

    Law360's Bankruptcy Groups Of The Year

    Good bankruptcy lawyering remained a prized skill in the recession-afflicted landscape of 2010, and several firms distinguished themselves with huge wins for huge clients, earning them a spot among Law360's Bankruptcy Groups of 2010.