Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Number of Deals
August 14, 2012, 6:10 p.m. EDT 1 Min Read
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Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Number of Deals
Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Number of DealsPrimary advisers in domestic bank and thrift merger deals in the first half of 2012. Dollars in millions | ||||
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| 2012 Rank | 2011 Rank | Firm | Number of Deals | Deal value |
| 1 | 1 | Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick PC | 8 | $455.0 |
| 2 | 8 | Bracewell & Giuliani LLP | 7 | 850.4 |
| 4 | Hunton & Williams LLP | 7 | 598.0 | |
| 4 | 2 | Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz | 6 | 2,584.4 |
| 5 | 4 | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | 5 | 363.6 |
| 19 | Fenimore Kay Harrison & Ford LLP | 5 | 5.8 | |
| 7 | 14 | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP | 4 | 2,215.5 |
| 19 | Horgan Rosen Beckham & Coren LLP | 4 | 90.3 | |
| 19 | Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP | 4 | 62.5 | |
| 32 | Hogan Lovells US LLP | 4 | 41.1 | |
| 11 | 54 | Stevens & Lee PC | 3 | 121.4 |
| 19 | Arnold & Porter LLP | 3 | 61.8 | |
| NR | Gerrish McCreary Smith PC | 3 | 11.7 | |
| 14 | 54 | Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | 2 | 540.5 |
| 32 | Barnes & Thornburg LLP | 2 | 124.5 | |
| 32 | DLA Piper LLP (US) | 2 | 57.5 | |
| 19 | Smith Mackinnon PA | 2 | 46.6 | |
| 54 | Dickinson Mackaman Tyler & Hagen PC | 2 | 41.5 | |
| 54 | LeClairRyan | 2 | 40.6 | |
| 3 | Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates | 2 | 36.4 | |
| 32 | Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP | 2 | 36.0 | |
| 8 | Gary Steven Findley & Associates | 2 | 30.0 | |
| 19 | Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP | 2 | 23.0 | |
| NR | Godfrey & Kahn SC | 2 | 5.6 | |
| 8 | Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP | 2 | 4.0 | |
| 32 | Larry E. Temple | 2 | 2.9 | |
| NR | Daniel W. Small & Co. | 2 | NA | |
| 32 | Fredrikson & Byron PA | 2 | NA | |
| 14 | K&L Gates LLP | 2 | NA | |
| 30 | NR | Haynes and Boone LLP | 1 | 641.1 |
| 54 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP | 1 | 500.0 | |
| NR | McConnell Valdes | 1 | 500.0 | |
| 32 | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | 1 | 251.3 | |
| NR | Linklaters LLP | 1 | 135.0 | |
| NR | Williams Mullen | 1 | 120.4 | |
| 54 | Harris Beach PLLC | 1 | 110.0 | |
| 32 | Krieg DeVault LLP | 1 | 103.2 | |
| 54 | McGuireWoods LLP | 1 | 77.8 | |
| 19 | Lane Powell PC | 1 | 72.7 | |
| 14 | Patton Boggs LLP | 1 | 72.7 | |
| 32 | Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP | 1 | 65.0 | |
| NR | Choate Hall & Stewart LLP | 1 | 64.8 | |
| NR | Hand Arendall LLC | 1 | 55.4 | |
| 32 | Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrère & Denègre LLP | 1 | 44.5 | |
| 54 | Paul Hastings LLP | 1 | 41.5 | |
| NR | Sidley Austin LLP | 1 | 41.5 | |
| NR | Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP | 1 | 40.6 | |
| 19 | Gaeta & Eveson PA | 1 | 36.0 | |
| NR | Hilburn Calhoon Harper Pruniski & Calhoun Ltd. | 1 | 34.0 | |
| 54 | Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP | 1 | 30.0 | |
| NR | Bowditch & Dewey LLP | 1 | 29.9 | |
| 54 | Foulston & Siefkin LLP | 1 | 28.5 | |
| 32 | Bingham McCutchen LLP | 1 | 27.8 | |
| NR | Dodd Mason George LLP | 1 | 27.8 | |
| NR | McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP | 1 | 26.4 | |
| 54 | Troutman Sanders LLP | 1 | 24.2 | |
| NR | Critchfield Critchfield & Johnston Ltd. | 1 | 23.0 | |
| NR | Mark Barnes Law PC | 1 | 21.3 | |
| NR | Metz Lewis Brodman Must O'Keefe LLC | 1 | 21.3 | |
| NR | Nixon Peabody LLP | 1 | 18.2 | |
| 54 | Alston & Bird LLP | 1 | 16.4 | |
| 14 | Bryan Cave LLP | 1 | 16.4 | |
| NR | Lowenstein Sandler PC | 1 | 11.5 | |
| NR | Dinsmore & Shohl LLP | 1 | 9.8 | |
| 54 | Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP | 1 | 9.8 | |
| 54 | Kotz Sangster Wysocki and Berg PC | 1 | 8.3 | |
| NR | Foley & Lardner LLP | 1 | 5.6 | |
| NR | Martin Pringle Oliver Wallace & Bauer LLP | 1 | 4.0 | |
| 54 | BuckleySandler LLP | 1 | 3.7 | |
| 19 | Elias Matz Tiernan & Herrick LLP | 1 | 3.7 | |
| NR | Richard E. Knecht | 1 | 2.2 | |
| NR | Burke Warren MacKay & Serritella PC | 1 | NA | |
| NR | Carl R. Croce | 1 | NA | |
| 14 | Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather LLP | 1 | NA | |
| 54 | Davenport Evans Hurwitz & Smith LLP | 1 | NA | |
| NR | Davis Brown Law Firm | 1 | NA | |
| NR | Devine Millimet & Branch | 1 | NA | |
| NR | Greenwald & Greenwald LLP | 1 | NA | |
| NR | Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP | 1 | NA | |
| 8 | King Holmes Paterno & Berliner LLP | 1 | NA | |
| 8 | Lindquist & Vennum PLLP | 1 | NA | |
| NR | Mirick O'Connell DeMallie & Lougee LLP | 1 | NA | |
| NR | Polsinelli Shughart PC | 1 | NA | |
| NR | Sexton Bender Maher Hill & Steinman PC | 1 | NA | |
| 19 | Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP | 1 | NA | |
| NR | Woner Glenn Reeder Girard & Riordan PA | 1 | NA | |
*Deal value for at least one deal is not available. NR = not ranked; NA = not available. In-house advisers are included. Whole deals are included. Terminated deals are excluded. Year to date figures are as of June 30. In the event advisers merge or an adviser is purchased by the parent of another adviser, SNL retroactively adjusts historic rankings to the single, highest-level adviser. If the buyer is already receiving credit for a particular deal, it will not receive additional credit following the merger.
Source:
SNL Financial
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