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1998 bank & thrift mergers through June 30

Ranked by announced deal value

(Excludes terminated deals)

Announced Deal value

Rank Firm no. of deals ($ millions)

1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flo 2 $74,445.20

2 Shearman & Sterling (1) 1 74,313.40

3 Thacher Proffitt & Wood 3 2,875.80

4 Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1) 1 1,764.00

5 Silver, Freedman & Taff LLP 3 1,176.60

6 Muldoon, Murphy & Faucette (1) 1 1,078.00

7 Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton 1 1,044.50

8 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 1 1,044.50

9 Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch 5 579.8

10 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick 2 271.9 ===

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