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February 23, 2026
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP closed another record-breaking year with a blockbuster fund from longtime client Brookfield Asset Management while advising first-time fund managers including Crux Capital and Terminus Capital Partners on multimillion-dollar fundraises — earning the law firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 20, 2026
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP helped investment firm Global Infrastructure Partners assemble its largest-ever infrastructure fund, which raised $25.2 billion, and assisted longtime client Stone Point Capital with its 10th buyout fund, which raised $11.5 billion — earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 19, 2026
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP attorneys continued this past year to steer some of the biggest fundraises, including $22 billion in capital commitments for Blackstone's inaugural evergreen institutional U.S. direct lending fund, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 18, 2026
Kirkland & Ellis LLP guided several high-profile global investment funds as they sought to raise billions of dollars in capital last year, including a $16 billion distressed debt fund for Oaktree Capital and $34.4 billion in commitments for the Thoma Bravo Fund, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 17, 2026
Last year, the fund formation team at Ropes & Gray LLP helped private equity giant TPG Inc. close a $3 billion credit-focused continuation fund, guided another major private equity player, Bain Capital, in securing $5.7 billion from investors for its second global special situations fund and aided a unit of the Carlyle Group in raising $20 billion for its latest secondary fund, landing it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2026
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has helped lead the explosion of dealmaking in the insurance sector while guiding multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence infrastructure transactions, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 05, 2026
When it comes to private equity, Ropes & Gray LLP had one of the most impressive years ever, handling over 300 private equity deals with a total value of $175 billion, with 39 of those transactions being valued at over $1 billion each, earning the firm a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2026
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP advised financial services investor Kelso & Co. in its largest transaction ever when Brown & Brown Inc. unveiled plans to purchase Kelso portfolio company Accession Risk Management in a nearly $10 billion deal, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 03, 2026
Sidley Austin LLP acted as Affinity Partners' lead counsel in its $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts Inc. and advised private equity giants Carlyle and KKR across various acquisitions of a more than $10.1 billion portfolio of prime private student loans from Discover Financial Services, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 02, 2026
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has guided sponsors and portfolio companies through landmark private equity transactions, including the year's second-largest private market energy deal, putting the team among the 2025 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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January 20, 2026
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.
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January 16, 2026
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.
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February 24, 2025
Proskauer Rose LLP worked with Ares Management Corp. on its largest-ever private credit fundraise and advised StepStone Group on the formation of its $3.3 billion venture capital secondaries fund, among other achievements, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 21, 2025
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP guided Brookfield Asset Management in securing a record-shattering $30 billion private infrastructure fund, and assisted Crow Holdings in closing the largest real estate private equity fund of 2024's first quarter at $3.1 billion, earning the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 20, 2025
Kirkland & Ellis LLP earned such key victories as advising Warburg Pincus on formation of its largest-ever private equity fund of $17.3 billion and working with KPS Capital Partners LP on two funds collectively worth $9.7 billion, landing it among the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 19, 2025
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP lawyers advised on some of the biggest fundraises in the past year, including helping EQT establish a buyout fund that raised €22 billion ($23 billion) and guiding Lexington Partners in forming what became the largest secondaries fund to date, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 18, 2025
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP attorneys recently represented HPS Investment Partners on a $21.1 billion direct lending fund, and advised Goldman Sachs Alternatives as it raised more than $20 billion, earning the firm a place among the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2025
Latham & Watkins LLP's private equity attorneys had a banner year handling significant deals, such as SRS Distribution's $18.25 billion sale to Home Depot and advising Silver Lake in a $9.2 billion equity investment in Vantage Data Centers, making it one of the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 10, 2025
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP advised on private equity firm Silver Lake's $13 billion take-private sale of sports and entertainment conglomerate Endeavor Group Holdings Inc., the largest deal of its kind in the entertainment sector, landing it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 07, 2025
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP's recent work advising on a number of significant mergers and acquisitions, including representing Amentum in its reverse Morris trust merger with two Jacobs subsidiaries, has scored the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 06, 2025
A team of Ropes & Gray LLP attorneys helped shepherd a private equity firm's purchase of AT&T's stake in DirecTV for more than $7.5 billion and led several other deals with similarly large price tags last year, earning it a spot among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups Of The Year.
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February 05, 2025
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP steered private equity giant Clayton Dubilier & Rice in its $15.5 billion acquisition of Truist Insurance Holdings and led Windstream Holdings in its $13.4 billion merger with Uniti Group, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2025
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has been handling private equity deals since before they were called private equity and continues to be a leader in the field, in the past year helping Visma hit a $21 billion valuation, assisting in BlackRock's $12.9 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners and advising Permira on its investment in PharmaCord, earning it recognition among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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January 17, 2025
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
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.