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Top Lead Legal Advisers

Top Lead Legal Advisers
Primary advisers in domestic bank and thrift merger deals announced in first half of 2004*
Published August 10, 2004
  Rank by value of deals Deal value (millions) Deals
1 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz $89,959.20 8
2 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 59,905.60 2
3 Sullivan & Cromwell 21,753.40 7
4 Bradley, Arant, Rose & White LLP 14,420.90 2
5 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 14,383.80 4
6 Burr & Forman 14,266.60 1
7 Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell 11,746.40 2
8 Goodwin Procter LLP 11,661.90 3
9 Silver, Freedman & Taff LLP 11,338.00 6
10 Davis, Polk & Wardwell 10,529.60 1
11 Bass, Berry & Sims PLC 7,025.00 1
- King & Spalding 7,025.00 1
13 Stevens & Lee 2,121.80 3
14 Arnold & Porter 2,094.20 1
- Keating, Muething & Klekamp 2,094.20 1
16 Pillsbury Winthrop LLP 1,631.80 3
17 Lindquist & Vennum PLLP 1,248.90 4
18 Rhoads & Sinon $1,025.50 2
19 Luse, Gorman, Pomerenk & Schick PC 909.5 4
20 Patton Boggs, LLP 905.8 4
21 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick 791.9 4
22 Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton 682.6 2
23 Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP 680.8 3
24 Miller, Hamilton, Snider & Odom LLC 665.9 1
25 Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach 655.1 2
26 Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP 637.8 4
27 Michael Best & Friedrich 613.7 1
28 Black, McCuskey, Souers & Arbaugh 576.5 1
29 Jenkens & Gilchrist PCF 417.7 9
30 Cox & Smith Inc. 383.4 1
31 Foster, Pepper & Tooze LLP 372.7 2
32 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 369.6 1
33 Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease 365.7 3
34 Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP 355.6 2
35 Malizia, Spidi, & Fisch PC $337.10 4
36 Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum Perlman & Nagelberg 293 4
37 Chapman & Cutler 270.4 2
38 Muldoon Murphy Faucette & Aguggia LLP1 246.1 3
39 Gary Steven Findley & Associates 245 1
40 Smith, Gambrell & Russell 234.3 2
41 Shumaker Williams PC 226.2 2
42 Shutts & Bowen 226 1
43 Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP 207 2
44 Bracewell & Patterson LLP 202.5 6
45 Breyer & Associates PC 194.5 1
46 Blank Rome LLP 182 1
47 Dinsmore & Shohl 181.9 1
48 Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz 176 2
49 Lord, Bissell & Brook 170 1
50 Fulbright & Jaworski LLP 165 1
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