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 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.

  • 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 15, 2013

    Competition Group Of The Year: Wilson Sonsini

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC guided both Netflix Inc. and Live Nation Entertainment Inc. to victory in separate certified antitrust class actions and secured regulatory approval on three continents for Seagate Technology PLC's acquisition of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s hard drive business, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 14, 2013

    Competition Practice Group Of The Year: White & Case

    Whether it's winning Toshiba Corp. an inexpensive settlement after a price-fixing class action trial or handling precedent-setting cases in Japan, White & Case LLP's work in high-profile cases has earned it a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 11, 2013

    Competition Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP combined litigation moxie, helping Barr Pharmaceuticals beat class action claims over a $400 million pay-for-delay settlement for the antibiotic Cipro, and regulatory know-how, winning antitrust approval for Constellation Energy Group Inc. in its $7.9 billion merger with utilities giant Exelon Corp., helping earn the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 10, 2013

    Competition Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Guiding Dole Food Co. Inc. to the successful dismissal of a price-fixing class action brought by potato buyers and helping UBS AG navigate a global investigation into alleged Libor manipulations were just two of the recent, high-profile antitrust representations that landed Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP among Law360's Competition Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 09, 2013

    Antitrust Group Of The Year: Cleary Gottlieb

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's antitrust team steered Google Inc. through its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and helped secure clearance of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc.'s $2.3 billion merger with Hertz Global Holdings Inc., two of the achievements that earned Cleary a spot among Law360's Antitrust Practice 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

    Antitrust Group Of The Year: White & Case

    With trillions of dollars in potential damages on the line, the antitrust team from White & Case LLP successfully defended the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. against claims it restricted supply to keep prices artificially inflated, earning the firm a spot on Law360's list of top Antitrust Groups of 2011.

  • January 13, 2012

    Antitrust Group Of The Year: Skadden

    The antitrust practice at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP played a key role in several of the most important competition matters of the year, from leading Sprint Nextel Corp.'s challenge to AT&T Inc.'s merger with T-Mobile USA Inc. to securing dismissal of litigation over Southwest Airlines Co.'s acquisition of AirTran Airways, earning it a spot on Law360's list of Antitrust Groups of 2011.

  • January 12, 2012

    Competition Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP scored a win in one of the highest-profile antitrust jury trials of last year when a California jury cleared Micron Technology Inc. in Rambus Inc.'s $12 billion case alleging Micron took part in a conspiracy to push it out of the dynamic random access memory chip market, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Competition Groups of 2011.

  • January 11, 2012

    Competition Group Of The Year: O'Melveny & Myers

    O'Melveny & Myers LLP's litigators convinced a jury to nix antitrust conspiracy claims against Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and scored major appellate wins for eBay Inc. and Asiana Airlines Inc. in 2011, earning the firm a spot on Law360's list of Competition Groups of 2011.

  • January 10, 2012

    Competition Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    This past year, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP attorneys persuaded the plaintiff-friendly Ninth Circuit to uphold the dismissal of a class action alleging Comcast Corp. and others violated antitrust laws by refusing to sell channels individually, one of many achievements that earned the firm's antitrust group a spot among Law360's Competition Groups of 2011.

  • January 10, 2011

    Competition Group Of The Year: WilmerHale

    The close-knit relationship between WilmerHale's competition attorneys and its intellectual property lawyers has helped the firm land some huge clients — including Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and Cephalon Inc. — caught up in controversial and cutting-edge cases, earning the firm's antitrust and competition practice group a spot on Law360's Competition Groups of 2010.

  • January 07, 2011

    Competition Group Of The Year: Latham

    Through its careful counsel on major mergers and landmark courtroom wins in cases such as Lundbeck Inc.'s defeat of the Federal Trade Commission, Latham & Watkins LLP demonstrated the kind of success and versatility that are hallmarks of Law360's Competition Firms of 2010.

  • January 06, 2011

    Competition Group Of The Year: Kirkland & Ellis

    With courtroom victories including the dismissal of Redbox Automated Retail LLC's trade restraint lawsuit against Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. and the defeat of landmark litigation against Barr Laboratories Inc. over the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, Kirkland & Ellis LLP has earned a spot among Law360's Competition Firms of 2010.

  • January 05, 2011

    Competition Group Of The Year: Jones Day

    By winning arguably the most important antitrust case of the year — the U.S. Supreme Court decision that rejected an NFL push for broader protections from antitrust scrutiny — among other legal battles, Jones Day has earned itself a place among Law360's Competition Groups of 2010.

  • January 04, 2011

    Competition Group Of The Year: Howrey

    Always ready to face its clients' regulatory and litigation challenges head-on, Howrey LLP won clearance for oil field service giant Smith International Inc.'s $11 billion sale in one of the largest deals of last year and successfully defended Merck & Co. Inc. against an onslaught of reverse payment cases, earning it a spot among Law360's Competition Groups of 2010.

  • January 03, 2011

    Law360's Competition Groups Of The Year

    Faced with a quiet U.S. antitrust enforcement regime, several law firms' competition practices stood out in 2010 by steering controversial transactions through merger reviews and recording big wins for major corporations in civil antitrust suits, earning them a spot among Law360's Competition Groups Of 2010.