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.
  • February 27, 2026

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Goodwin

    Goodwin Procter LLP advised Blueprint Medicines in its $9.5 billion acquisition by Sanofi and represented SpringWorks Therapeutics as it was purchased by Merck for $3.9 billion, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 26, 2026

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Covington

    Covington & Burling LLP's recent work advising Novartis on its $12 billion acquisition of Avidity Biosciences Inc., boosting the Swiss pharmaceutical giant's neuroscience portfolio, is among the reasons the firm landed among the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 25, 2026

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Davis Polk

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP attorneys advised Intra-Cellular Therapies Inc. on its $14.6 billion sale to Johnson & Johnson, guided Endo Inc. through its $6.7 billion merger with Mallinckrodt PLC and advised Novo Nordisk in its proposed $9.1 billion acquisition of Metsera, earning it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year. 

  • February 24, 2026

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Gibson Dunn

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP advised 89bio in a complex sale to Roche Holdings that could be worth up to $3.5 billion and won a precedent-setting victory that allowed Sun Pharma to launch an innovative alopecia treatment, earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 23, 2026

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Ropes & Gray

    Ropes & Gray LLP guided Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals in a potentially $1.2 billion deal with AbbVie and advised Novo Nordisk in eight licensing and mergers and acquisitions transactions for novel obesity and metabolic disease treatments, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Life Sciences Group of the Year.

  • January 20, 2026

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 48 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, achieving milestones such as high-profile litigation wins at the U.S. Supreme Court and 11-figure merger deals.

  • January 16, 2026

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2025, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • February 10, 2025

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Fenwick

    Fenwick & West LLP leveraged its broad experience with complex health tech and science to guide large biotech clients through major acquisitions and secured a significant Federal Circuit win for a life sciences client, earning the firm a nod as one of the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year. 

  • February 07, 2025

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Cooley

    Cooley LLP advised radiopharmaceutical therapeutics company RayzeBio on its $4.1 billion post-IPO sale to Bristol Myers Squibb and helped biopharmaceutical company Liquidia nab significant victories in a patent dispute with United Therapeutics, earning the firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 06, 2025

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Freshfields

    Freshfields US LLP's recent work advising Johnson & Johnson on its $13.1 billion acquisition of cardiovascular device developer Shockwave Medical — the largest medical device transaction of 2024 — has earned the firm a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 05, 2025

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells

    Hogan Lovells successfully defended Danco Laboratories LLC against an effort to revoke the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion drug mifepristone and, across the globe, helped shepherd a collaboration between Merck & Co. and Japan's Daiichi Sankyo in a multibillion-dollar cancer therapy drug deal, landing the firm among the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 04, 2025

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP life sciences attorneys got Europe's highest court to scale back the European Commission's ability to oversee mergers, and advised Cerevel Therapeutics on its monumental $8.7 billion acquisition by AbbVie, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Life Sciences 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.

  • April 16, 2024

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Fenwick

    Defending Novo Nordisk's patents for diabetes drug Ozempic and guiding Dice Therapeutics through its $2.4 billion acquisition by Eli Lilly & Co. are among the achievements that put Fenwick & West LLP among Law360's 2023 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • April 15, 2024

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Cooley

    Cooley LLP advised Horizon Therapeutics during its massive sale to Amgen Inc. — defeating an antitrust challenge along the way — and helped Moderna Inc. win a patent case centering on its COVID-19 vaccine, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2023 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • April 12, 2024

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP marshaled its considerable depth and breadth of experience to score a major Federal Circuit victory and to shepherd biotechnology deals that reached into the 11 figures, earning the firm a nod as one of Law360's 2023 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • April 11, 2024

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP helped Bayer defeat Merck in litigation over asbestos-containing talc liability and guided mega pharma deals such as Pfizer's $43 billion acquisition of Seagen and Amgen's $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • April 10, 2024

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Morrison Foerster

    Morrison Foerster LLP successfully beat a preliminary injunction that would have thwarted a Sandoz biosimilar for multiple sclerosis from going to market, one achievement among many that earned the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Life Sciences 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.

  • March 03, 2023

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Covington

    Winning a jury trial verdict in favor of Monsanto and advising Sanofi on a multibillion-dollar collaboration with an artificial intelligence company are among the achievements that helped make Covington & Burling LLP one of Law360's 2022 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • March 02, 2023

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Arnold & Porter

    Arnold & Porter advised the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America in its successful challenge of a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule and helped Novartis Pharma AG complete a key license agreement with BeiGene Ltd. for a life-saving treatment, earning the firm a place among Law360's 2022 Life Sciences Practice Groups of the Year.

  • March 01, 2023

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Quinn Emanuel

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has successfully navigated a host of high-stakes litigation in the biotechnology field, including helping Complete Genomics Inc. score a $334 million damages award in its patent suit over DNA sequencing technology, earning it a place among Law360's 2022 Life Sciences Groups of the Year.

  • February 28, 2023

    Life Sciences Group Of The Year: Cooley

    Representing a clinical-stage life sciences company in its $6.7 billion sale to Pfizer and shepherding a cancer drugmaker's $4.1 billion acquisition by Bristol-Myers Squibb are among the achievements that made Cooley LLP one of Law360's 2022 Life Science Groups of the Year.