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Top Lead Legal Advisers by Number of Deals

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Top Lead Legal Advisers by Number of Deals

Top Lead Legal Advisers by Number of Deals
Primary advisers in domestic bank and thrift merger deals announced in 2006. Dollars in millions
Published February 13, 2007
Rank by number of deals Deals Deal value
1 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz* 20 $72,022.20
2 Powell Goldstein LLP 15 1,368.30
3 Bracewell & Giuliani LLP* 14 1,259.70
4 Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum Perlman & Nagelberg LLP 13 1,190.10
  Sullivan & Cromwell LLP 13 60,476.60
6 Muldoon Murphy & Aguggia LLP* 12 998.9
7 Jenkens & Gilchrist PC* 11 1,013.60
  Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick PC* 11 1,687.30
9 Smith Mackinnon PA 9 560.1
  Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP 9 1,424.50
11 Kennedy & Baris LLP* 8 413.6
  Lindquist & Vennum PLLP* 8 204
13 Gerrish McCreary Smith Consultants and Attorneys* 6 46.5
  Howard & Howard Attorneys PC* 6 99.2
  Patton Boggs LLP 6 1,259.60
  Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP* 6 227.3
17 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick LLP 5 3,868.40
  Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP* 5 $316.30
  Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 5 21,147.10
20 Frost Brown Todd LLC 4 49.9
  Graham & Dunn PC 4 270.4
  Hogan & Hartson LLP 4 463.1
  McAfee & Taft* 4 106.3
  Schiff Hardin LLP 4 228
  Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC 4 95.1
  Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP 4 225.8
  Winthrop & Weinstine PA* 4 91.1
28 Alston & Bird LLP 3 174.7
  Balch & Bingham LLP 3 337
  Bass, Berry & Sims PLC 3 19.5
  Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP 3 117.2
  Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC 3 66.6
  Bryan Cave LLP 3 122.6
  Chapman & Cutler LLP 3 818.7
  Crowe & Dunlevy* 3 $96.10
  Davis Polk & Wardwell 3 9,763.00
  Fredrikson & Byron PA* 3 23.1
  Gaeta & Eveson PA 3 63.7
  Igler & Dougherty PA 3 123.1
  Jones Day* 3 1,433.70
  Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrere & Denegre LLP 3 218.6
  Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP* 3 16.6
  Lewis, Rice & Fingersh LC 3 321.3
  Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP* 3 86.5
  Malizia Spidi & Fisch PC 3 224.5
  Miller & Martin PLLC 3 60.3
  Nixon Peabody LLP 3 1,233.30
  Polsinelli Shalton Welte Suelthaus PC 3 198.1
  Troutman Sanders LLP 3 94.3
  Witherspoon Kelley Davenport & Toole PS 3 568.5
  Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs LLP 3 58.1

* Deal value for at least one deal is not available. Excludes terminated deals

Source:

<font size="2">SNL Financial</font>
, Charlottesville, Va.

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