Top Lead Legal Advisers by Value of Deals

February 13, 2007, 10:08 a.m. EST 1 Min Read

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Top Lead Legal Advisers by Value of Deals
Primary advisers in domestic bank and thrift merger deals announced in 2006. Dollars in millions Published February 13, 2007
Rank by value of deals		Deal value	Deals
1	Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz*	$72,022.20	20
2	Sullivan & Cromwell LLP	60,476.60	13
3	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP	21,147.10	5
4	Reed Smith LLP	16,803.30	1
5	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton	15,048.70	2
6	Davis Polk & Wardwell	9,763.00	3
7	VenableLLP	6,170.90	2
8	Elias, Matz Tiernan & Herrick LLP	3,868.40	5
9	Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin PC	3,300.00	1
10	Rogers & Whitley LLP	2,164.60	1
11	Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick PC*	1,687.30	11
12	Jones Day*	1,433.70	3
13	Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP	1,424.50	9
14	Powell Goldstein LLP	1,368.30	15
15	Bracewell & Giuliani LLP*	1,259.70	14
16	Patton Boggs LLP	1,259.60	6
17	Nixon Peabody LLP	1,233.30	3
18	Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum Perlman & Nagelberg LLP	1,190.10	13
19	Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft	1,033.50	1
20	Jenkens & Gilchrist PC*	1,013.60	11
21	Muldoon Murphy & Aguggia LLP*	998.9	12
22	Reitner, Stuart & Moore	987.8	2
23	Chapman & Cutler LLP	818.7	3
24	Silver, Freedman & Taff LLP	634.5	2
25	Witherspoon Kelley Davenport & Toole PS	568.5	3
26	Smith Mackinnon PA	560.1	9
27	Hogan & Hartson LLP	463.1	4
28	Foster Pepper PLLC	454.4	2
29	Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz PC	419.2	2
30	Kennedy & Baris LLP*	413.6	8
31	Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP	337.9	2
32	Balch & Bingham LLP	337	3
33	Haines Brydon & Lea	335.1	1
34	Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP	329.6	1
35	Lewis, Rice & Fingersh LC	321.30	3
36	Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP*	316.3	5
37	Barnes & Thornburg	290	1
37	Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP	290	1
39	Williams Mullen	287.7	2
40	Graham & Dunn PC	270.4	4
41	Reitner & Stuart	266.7	1
42	Horgan, Rosen, Beckham & Coren LLP	263.4	2
43	Goodwin Procter LLP*	259	2
44	Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP	232.8	2
45	Godfrey & Kahn SC	230.1	2
46	Schiff Hardin LLP	228	4
47	Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP*	227.3	6
48	Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP	225.8	4
49	Malizia Spidi & Fisch PC	224.5	3
50	Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrere & Denegre LLP	218.6	3

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

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