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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 27, 2025

    Banking Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    Williams & Connolly's financial services litigators clinched court victories for Fifth Third Bank and Bank of America and helped banking industry groups take on federal regulators' new rules on community lending, medical debt and more, earning a place as one of the 2024 Law360 Banking Practice Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2025

    Banking Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP's banking team secured the reversal of a $1 billion verdict against BMO Harris Bank over Thomas Petters' Ponzi scheme, achieved a landmark False Claims Act win for Citibank, and helped BNY Mellon beat claims over a financial crisis settlement, placing the firm among the 2024 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2025

    Banking Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's attorneys are advising Discover Financial Services in its historic planned merge with Capital One, steered Morgan Stanley away from criminal fines suggested by regulators, and have helped other big names bounce back from the banking crisis that rocked the industry in 2023, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 22, 2025

    Banking Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Over the past year, the banking practice group at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP secured several wins for Goldman Sachs and guided alternative asset management firm Apollo Global Management through two major transactions — earning a spot among the 2024 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 21, 2025

    Banking Group Of The Year: Cahill Gordon

    Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP earned dismissals in two shareholder securities class actions on behalf of Credit Suisse and UBS following the banks' merger, once again earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • January 30, 2024

    Banking Group Of The Year: Williams & Connolly

    An Ohio federal jury found last April that Fifth Third Bank owed no damages for a $444 million breach of contract claim brought by a certified class of customers in a major trial victory for the bank and its defense team, led by Williams & Connolly LLP, earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 29, 2024

    Banking Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's attorneys steered a stricken Credit Suisse into the arms of UBS for the biggest bank merger since the 2008 financial crisis and helped Wells Fargo reach a record-setting $3.7 billion settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2024

    Banking Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Banking practitioners at Mayer Brown LLP recently persuaded the Second Circuit to affirm dismissal of claims under the Anti-Terrorism Act against HSBC and Credit Suisse while also securing an opinion from New York's highest court clarifying the responsibilities of trustees for residential mortgage-backed securities, earning them a spot among Law360's 2023 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2024

    Banking Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP played a pivotal role in preserving the stability of financial markets by picking up the pieces after Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank spectacularly collapsed, while also guiding UBS' $3.2 billion acquisition of Credit Suisse, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2024

    Banking Group Of The Year: Cravath

    Landing the plane of the voluntary self-liquidation of cryptocurrency-aligned bank Silvergate Capital was one of the achievements that won Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP a spot among Law360's 2023 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 23, 2024

    Banking Group Of The Year: Cahill Gordon

    Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP helped leading financial institutions like Credit Suisse secure major wins in the face of significant exposure, even triumphing in an antitrust class action after all of its clients' co-defendants settled, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 55 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2023 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • January 19, 2024

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2023, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • February 06, 2023

    Banking Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's financial services team last year advised the U.S. Department of the Treasury on a program that issued more than $8.3 billion in funding to minority-owned banks in low-to-moderate-income areas across the country, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • February 02, 2023

    Banking Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP's banking litigators helped Citibank recover $500 million in mistakenly wired funds and pulled off double victories for Société Générale against first-of-their-kind claims over decades-old Cuban asset confiscations, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • February 01, 2023

    Banking Group Of The Year: Orrick

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP attorneys helped steer some of 2022's biggest moments in banking, including winning major decisions slashing Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs' potential liabilities in mortgage-backed securities cases stemming from the 2008 financial crisis, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 31, 2023

    Banking Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP counseled TD Bank on an upcoming $13.4 billion acquisition of First Horizon, and represented the bank in litigation stemming from Allen Stanford's $7 billion Ponzi scheme, as well as securing debt financing for the WarnerMedia/Discovery merger, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 30, 2023

    Banking Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    Banking attorneys at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP secured dismissals with prejudice of two investor antitrust actions against Morgan Stanley and defeated a proposed investor class action against PayPal, earning the firm a spot among Law360's Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 13, 2023

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2022, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • January 27, 2022

    Banking Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Showcasing its knowledge of and experience with complex regulatory structures, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP advised LendingClub Corp. in its $185 million takeover of Radius Bank, making LendingClub the first U.S. fintech company to acquire a bank and earning the firm a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 26, 2022

    Banking Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP deterred a push by Citibank to claw back $500 million in accidentally wired funds from a group of asset managers and helped secure a pivotal $50 million deal for investors to wrap up a gold price-fixing case, landing the firm a place among Law360's 2021 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 25, 2022

    Banking Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss

    The banking group at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP secured dismissal of a suit alleging Morgan Stanley participated in a conspiracy to rig the U.S. Treasury markets and prepared a comprehensive report on Credit Suisse's relationship with collapsed investment manager Archegos Capital Management, earning the team a place among Law360's 2021 Banking Groups of the Year.

  • January 24, 2022

    Banking Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown

    Mayer Brown LLP's banking practice convinced the Second Circuit to affirm the dismissal of Anti-Terrorism Act claims brought against HSBC units, skirting a novel liability theory involving drug cartels and earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2021 Banking Groups of the Year.