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Top Lead Legal Advisers Bank and Thrift Mergers (Q3 2000)

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Top Lead Legal Advisers Bank and Thrift Mergers (Q3 2000)

Top Lead Legal Advisers

Bank and Thrift Mergers (Q3 2000)

Dollars in Millions; Excludes Terminated Deals;
Ranked by Announced Deal Value
(Primary Advisers Only)
Published October 17, 2000

Rank Firm Announced
Deal Value
($,millions)
No. of Deals
1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 37,083.1 2
2 Davis, Polk & Wardwell 34,464.6 1
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 34,464.6 1
4 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (2) 7,720.2 6
5 Arnold & Porter 3,109.9 7
6 Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1) 2,618.6 1
- Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin 2,618.6 1
8 Bass, Berry & Sims PLC (1) 1,916.6 1
- Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey et al 1,916.6 1
10 Sullivan & Cromwell (2) 1,710.3 7
11 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC 1,667.9 4
12 Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe 1,521.4 2
13 Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard (1) 493.3 2
14 Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis (1) 455.8 1
15 Silver, Freedman & Taff, L.L.P. (2) 414.4 8
16 Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch (1) 375.9 1
- Rosenman & Colin LLP 375.9 1
18 Luse, Lehman, Gorman, Pomerenk & Schick (1) 349.1 8
19 Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1) 341.4 1
20 Muldoon, Murphy & Faucette 328.6 8
21 Gerrish & McCreary, PC (2) 316.7 4
22 Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, PA (1) 303.7 1
23 Thacher Proffitt & Wood (1) 286.0 5
24 Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP 244.0 3
25 Kennedy, Baris & Lundy 234.2 3
26 Alston & Bird LLP 234.2 4
27 Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C. 226.9 12
28 Warner Norcross & Judd LLP 213.9 2
29 Locke Liddell & Sapp(2) 208.9 3
30 Breyer & Associates PC (1) 178.8 1
31 Currie Kendall Polasky Meisel, PLC (1) 173.5 1
32 Schiff Hardin & Waite 171.0 3
33 Dorsey & Whitney LLP (1) (2) 162.4 3
34 Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (1) 155.2 1
35 Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C. (1) 149.5 2
36 Ritchie & Johnson 147.0 1
37 Howard & Howard Attorneys 138.5 1
- Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur 138.5 1
39 Quarles & Brady 132.8 1
40 Barley, Snyder, Senft & Cohen (1) 132.6 2
41 Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger, Melnick 130.5 2
42 Shumaker Williams PC 120.1 2
43 Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander 117.0 2
44 Malizia, Spidi, & Fisch, P.C. 115.6 4
45 Mayer, Brown & Platt (1) 113.5 1
46 Stradley Ronon Housley Kantarian & Bronstein, LLP 111.4 6
47 Williams, Mullen, Clark & Dobbins 106.8 4
48 Venable, Baetjer and Howard, LLP (1) 104.1 2
49 Graham & Dunn 100.3 1
50 Frederic Dorwart, Esquire (1) 92.0 1
- Thompson Knight Brown Parker & Leahy LLP (1) 92.0 1

Source:

Sheshunoff Information Services Inc.
, Austin, Texas, a Thomson Financial Company.
(1) Did not respond to survey. (2) Value not available for at least one deal.
*To be added to the survey list, please call (512) 236-6200, or e-mail at
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