Top Lead Legal Advisers by Number of Deals
February 11, 2009, 10:08 a.m. EST 1 Min Read
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Top Lead Legal Advisers by Number of Deals
Top Lead Legal Advisers by Number of DealsPrimary advisers in domestic bank and thrift merger deals announced in 2008. Dollars in millions | |||||||||||||
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| Rank | Deals | Deal value | |||||||||||
| 1 | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP* | 9 | $27,270.9 | ||||||||||
| Hunton & Williams LLP* | 9 | 86.5 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick PC* | 7 | 195.2 | ||||||||||
| Howard & Howard Attorneys PC* | 7 | 44.8 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz* | 6 | 25,798.2 | ||||||||||
| Bracewell & Giuliani LLP* | 6 | 200.2 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Bryan Cave LLP* | 5 | 972.5 | ||||||||||
| Patton Boggs LLP* | 5 | 210.5 | |||||||||||
| Lindquist & Vennum PLLP* | 5 | 44.7 | |||||||||||
| Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP* | 5 | 37.4 | |||||||||||
| Winthrop & Weinstine PA* | 5 | 25.9 | |||||||||||
| 12 | Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP* | 4 | 4,665.3 | ||||||||||
| Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC | 4 | 57.6 | |||||||||||
| Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC | 4 | 43.1 | |||||||||||
| Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP | 4 | 42.4 | |||||||||||
| Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP* | 4 | 41.8 | |||||||||||
| Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP* | 4 | 2.0 | |||||||||||
| 18 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP | 3 | 4,179.7 | ||||||||||
| Kilpatrick Stockton LLP | 3 | 425.3 | |||||||||||
| Bybel Rutledge LLP* | 3 | 216.2 | |||||||||||
| Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP* | 3 | 193.7 | |||||||||||
| Williams Mullen | 3 | 162.6 | |||||||||||
| Hogan & Hartson LLP | 3 | 145.5 | |||||||||||
| Krieg DeVault LLP* | 3 | 40.0 | |||||||||||
| Frost Brown Todd LLC | 3 | 34.5 | |||||||||||
| Smith Mackinnon PA | 3 | 32.9 | |||||||||||
| Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick LLP* | 3 | 14.3 | |||||||||||
| 28 | Jones Day | 2 | 5,691.4 | ||||||||||
| Kutak Rock LLP | 2 | 253.1 | |||||||||||
| Goodwin Procter LLP | 2 | 193.7 | |||||||||||
| Silver, Freedman & Taff LLP | 2 | 193.1 | |||||||||||
| Pepper Hamilton LLP | 2 | 181.8 | |||||||||||
| Gaeta & Eveson PA | 2 | 180.9 | |||||||||||
| Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP | 2 | 180.4 | |||||||||||
| Alston & Bird LLP* | 2 | 165.0 | |||||||||||
| Sherrill & Roof LLP | 2 | 132.6 | |||||||||||
| Ward and Smith PA | 2 | 132.6 | |||||||||||
| Bose McKinney & Evans LLP* | 2 | 77.0 | |||||||||||
| Larry E. Temple* | 2 | 66.7 | |||||||||||
| Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC | 2 | 52.0 | |||||||||||
| Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs LLP | 2 | 40.6 | |||||||||||
| Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP | 2 | 33.1 | |||||||||||
| Stites & Harbison PLLC | 2 | 30.0 | |||||||||||
| Lane & Waterman LLP | 2 | 28.0 | |||||||||||
| Gerrish McCreary Smith PC | 2 | 24.3 | |||||||||||
| Quattlebaum, Grooms, Tull & Burrow PLLC* | 2 | 20.0 | |||||||||||
| Hinman, Howard & Kattell LLP | 2 | 15.3 | |||||||||||
| Holman Hansen & Colville PC | 2 | 14.8 | |||||||||||
| Balch & Bingham LLP* | 2 | 13.2 | |||||||||||
| Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP | 2 | 11.8 | |||||||||||
* Deal value for at least one deal is not available. Excludes terminated deals.
Note: 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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