Top Lead Legal Advisers
February 11, 2009, 10:08 a.m. EST 1 Min Read
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Top Lead Legal Advisers
Top Lead Legal AdvisersPrimary advisers in domestic bank and thrift merger deals announced in 2008. Dollars in millions | |||||||||||||
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Rank by value of deals | Value of Deals | Deals | |||||||||||
1 | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP* | $27,270.9 | 9 | ||||||||||
2 | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz* | 25,798.2 | 6 | ||||||||||
3 | Jones Day | 5,691.4 | 2 | ||||||||||
4 | Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP | 5,603.7 | 1 | ||||||||||
5 | Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP* | 4,665.3 | 4 | ||||||||||
6 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP | 4,179.7 | 3 | ||||||||||
7 | Mori Hamada & Matsumoto | 3,808.1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP | 3,808.1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates | 3,808.1 | 1 | |||||||||||
10 | Davis Polk & Wardwell | 1,909.9 | 1 | ||||||||||
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP | 1,909.9 | 1 | |||||||||||
12 | Bryan Cave LLP* | 972.5 | 5 | ||||||||||
13 | Avila Rodriguez Hernandez Mena & Ferri LLP | 927.0 | 1 | ||||||||||
14 | Mayer Brown LLP | 520.0 | 1 | ||||||||||
15 | Kilpatrick Stockton LLP | 425.3 | 3 | ||||||||||
16 | Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard PLLC | 284.8 | 1 | ||||||||||
17 | Kutak Rock LLP | 253.1 | 2 | ||||||||||
18 | Bybel Rutledge LLP* | 216.2 | 3 | ||||||||||
19 | Patton Boggs LLP* | 210.5 | 5 | ||||||||||
20 | Bracewell & Giuliani LLP* | 200.2 | 6 | ||||||||||
21 | Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick PC* | 195.2 | 7 | ||||||||||
22 | Goodwin Procter LLP | 193.7 | 2 | ||||||||||
Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP* | 193.7 | 3 | |||||||||||
24 | Silver, Freedman & Taff LLP | 193.1 | 2 | ||||||||||
25 | Pepper Hamilton LLP | 181.8 | 2 | ||||||||||
26 | Gaeta & Eveson PA | 180.9 | 2 | ||||||||||
27 | Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP | 180.4 | 2 | ||||||||||
28 | Bingham McCutchen LLP | 170.0 | 1 | ||||||||||
29 | Day Pitney LLP | 167.2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Quarles & Brady LLP | 167.2 | 1 | |||||||||||
31 | Alston & Bird LLP* | 165.0 | 2 | ||||||||||
Carver, Darden, Koretzky, Tessier, Finn, Blossman & Areaux LLC | 165.0 | 1 | |||||||||||
33 | Williams Mullen | 162.6 | 3 | ||||||||||
34 | Dechert LLP | 161.5 | 1 | ||||||||||
35 | Hogan & Hartson LLP | 145.5 | 3 | ||||||||||
36 | Sherrill & Roof LLP | 132.6 | 2 | ||||||||||
Ward and Smith PA | 132.6 | 2 | |||||||||||
38 | Foley Hoag LLP | 124.8 | 1 | ||||||||||
39 | Mette, Evans & Woodside | 123.8 | 1 | ||||||||||
40 | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd PA | 95.8 | 1 | ||||||||||
41 | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP | 94.4 | 1 | ||||||||||
42 | Duane Morris LLP | 87.7 | 1 | ||||||||||
43 | Hunton & Williams LLP* | 86.5 | 9 | ||||||||||
44 | Bingham McHale LLP | 77.0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Bose McKinney & Evans LLP* | 77.0 | 2 | |||||||||||
46 | Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP | 72.5 | 1 | ||||||||||
47 | Larry E. Temple* | 66.7 | 2 | ||||||||||
48 | Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP | 58.0 | 1 | ||||||||||
49 | Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC | 57.6 | 4 | ||||||||||
50 | LeClairRyan | 55.8 | 1 |
*Deal value for at least one deal is NA.
Source:
SNL Financial
, Charlottesville, Va.© 2009 American Banker