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Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal Value

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Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal Value

Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal ValuePrimary advisers in domestic bank and thrift merger deals in the first half of 2010. Dollars in millions
Published August 11, 2010

2010
Rank
2009
Rank
Firm Deal value Deals
1 16 Kilpatrick Stockton LLP* $223.3 5
2 NR Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 191.7 1
10 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz* 191.7 3
4 NR Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP 158.3 1
5 NR Malizia Spidi & Fisch PC 121.5 3
6 NR Varnum LLP 88.9 2
7 NR Warner Norcross & Judd LLP 77.5 1
8 NR Giordano Halleran & Ciesla PC 72.3 1
9 NR Dykema Gossett PLLC 50.0 1
NR Sidley Austin LLP 50.0 1
11 NR Reed Smith LLP 34.5 1
12 5 Hunton & Williams LLP* 32.1 5
13 14 Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP* 29.0 10
14 NR Duane Morris LLP 25.2 1
15 41 Horgan Rosen Beckham & Coren LLP 25.0 1
16 84 Silver Freedman & Taff LLP 23.5 1
17 1 Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick PC 20.3 1
18 40 Bracewell & Giuliani LLP* 20.0 4
NR Haynie Rake & Repass PC* 20.0 3
20 NR Day Pitney LLP* 19.5 2
21 73 Howard & Howard Attorneys PC* 16.2 4
22 NR Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC 16.1 1
NR Miller & Martin PLLC 16.1 1
24 NR Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 15.7 1
25 NR Stevens & Lee PC 14.7 1
26 NR Barley Snyder LLC 12.9 1
6 Goodwin Procter LLP 12.9 1
28 NR Jones Day* 9.9 2
25 Smith Mackinnon PA* 9.9 2
30 NR Baird Holm LLP 7.0 1
31 NR Pepper Hamilton LLP 5.5 1
19 Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP 5.5 1
33 NR Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP 4.8 1
34 61 Kennedy Toppin & Sutherland LLP 4.6 1
35 7 McGuireWoods LLP 3.2 1
NR Smith Hulsey & Busey 3.2 1

*Deal value for at least one deal is not available. NR = not ranked; NA = not available. In-house advisers and whole bank and thrift deals are included. Terminated deals are excluded. Rankings are recalculated as of July 19, 2010. 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
, Charlottesville, Va.
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