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Rankings: Practice Groups of the Year
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February 20, 2025
Competition Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP scored a trailblazing antitrust verdict for Epic Games when a California federal jury decided Google's Play Store illegally dominated the Android app market, making Cravath one of the 2024 Law360 Competition Groups of the Year.
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January 27, 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP shepherded clients through industry-defining 2024 deals, including Mars in its $35.9 billion acquisition of Kellanova and Ozempic's manufacturer in its acquisition by the investment arm of Novo Nordisk Foundation, securing the firm's spot in the 2024 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 24, 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP spearheaded some of the largest mergers, acquisitions and spinoffs in history throughout 2024, including Chevron's pending $60 billion acquisition of Hess Corp. and the strategic separation of General Electric into three global companies with a combined market cap of $367 billion, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Weil
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP clinched some of the largest deals of 2024 for big-name clients as diverse as The Home Depot, Sunoco, Cedar Fair and a consortium that includes Glencore PLC, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's mergers and acquisitions team clinched some of the biggest deals that reshaped the technology and media landscapes in the past year, including Cisco Systems' $28 billion purchase of Splunk and Paramount's $28 billion merger with Skydance Media, landing the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 21, 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP had a big 2024 highlighted by high-profile, blockbuster deals as diverse as Skydance Media's merger with Paramount Global, and Healthpeak's $21 billion merger with Physicians Realty Trust, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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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.
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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.
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March 04, 2024
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Weil
Real estate attorneys at Weil played key roles in Micron Technology's development of a $100 billion semiconductor factory, Kroger's proposed $24.6 billion merger with fellow supermarket giant Albertsons and Brookfield's $8 billion sale of Westinghouse Electric Co., earning their practice a spot among Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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March 01, 2024
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Thanks to its role advising on multiple deals north of the $10 billion mark, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has earned a spot as one of Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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February 29, 2024
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Kasowitz
Recent legal victories by the real estate practice at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, such as confirming SL Green Realty Corp.'s $185 million arbitral award against Chinese conglomerate HNA Group and keeping the Hotel Chelsea's suit over a revoked building permit alive, earned the team a spot among Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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February 28, 2024
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells oversaw a busy 2023 that included successfully defending real estate investment trust Life Storage from a hostile takeover attempt, advising on billions in transactions in the real estate investment trust space and guiding clients to a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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February 27, 2024
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Greenberg Traurig
Greenberg Traurig LLP attorneys helped the Metropolitan Transportation Authority complete the development of a major train terminal in New York City and advised a $2 billion transaction in which a Japanese real estate firm bought a 50% stake in a Manhattan office tower, landing the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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February 26, 2024
Real Estate Group Of The Year: Fried Frank
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP helped clients close deals last year for the development of prominent additions to the New York City and Las Vegas skylines, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Real Estate Groups of the Year.
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February 16, 2024
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Wachtell
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz helped heavyweight clients in major 2023 deals, including Pfizer in its $43 billion acquisition of Seagen and the parent company of Michael Kors in its $10 billion sale to the owner of Kate Spade, putting the firm among Law360's Mergers and Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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February 15, 2024
M&A Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's mergers and acquisitions team tackled some of the biggest, industry-shaping matters of the last year, including advising Seagen in the biggest all-cash pharma deal and representing Amgen in its $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics, landing the firm a spot on Law360's 2023 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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February 14, 2024
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Latham
Latham & Watkins LLP had a strong year bringing companies and assets together for their clients, from the UFC's $21 billion merger with the WWE to guiding the years' largest energy transaction in the U.S., earning it a spot among Law360's 2023 Mergers And Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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February 13, 2024
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Davis Polk
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP guided Exxon Mobil Corp. in its agreement to buy Permian Basin shale producer Pioneer Natural Resources for $59.5 billion, the largest deal announced in 2023, landing the firm a spot among Law360's Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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February 12, 2024
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Cravath
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP guided the Snyder family through a tense environment to seal the $6.05 billion sale of the Washington Commanders and advised WestRock's complicated $20 billion combination with Smurfit Kappa, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Mergers and Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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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.
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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.
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January 26, 2023
Benefits Group Of The Year: Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown LLP found success defending corporations' right to deny or award workers severance benefits and helping administer their benefit plans, creating "ripple effects" across corporate America that earned the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Benefits Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2023
M&A Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's global team steered acquisitions, divestitures and spin-offs for a diverse mix of clients over the past year, highlighted by migraine-treatment developer Biohaven Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s $11.6 billion sale to Pfizer Inc., earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 20, 2023
M&A Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP had another banner year in 2022 representing clients on blockbuster deals, including guiding General Electric Co. in its spinoff into three public companies and advising global investment firm 3G Capital in its $7.1 billion acquisition of Hunter Douglas, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 19, 2023
M&A Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP represented clients involved in some of the highest-profile deals of the year, including longstanding client Microsoft in its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard and the Twitter board of directors as they navigated the Elon Musk takeover, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.