Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal Value

August 12, 2011, 3:57 p.m. EDT 1 Min Read

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Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal ValuePrimary advisers in domestic bank and thrift merger deals in the first half of 2011. Dollars in millions Published August 12, 2011
1H 2011 Rank	2010 Rank	Firm	Deals	Deal value
1	1	Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz	5	$13,506
2	2	Sullivan & Cromwell LLP*	4	12,590
3	NR	Dechert LLP	1	9,000
	NR	Loyens & Loeff NV	1	9,000
	13	Mayer Brown LLP	1	9,000
6	17	DLA Piper LLP (U.S.)	1	1,029
	NR	Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP	1	1,029
	NR	Shearman & Sterling LLP	1	1,029
	NR	Winstead PC	1	1,029
10	NR	Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP	2	616
11	11	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP	2	520
12	10	Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP	1	489
13	NR	Elias Matz Tiernan & Herrick LLP	3	431
14	NR	Rhoads & Sinon LLP	1	342
15	NR	Arnold & Porter LLP	3	286
16	NR	Day Pitney LLP	1	267
17	46	Goodwin Procter LLP	1	234
	7	Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP	1	234
19	NR	Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrère & Denègre LLP	2	175
20	NR	White & Case LLP	1	140
21	9	Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates	4	136
22	NR	Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan LLC	1	135
23	44	Reed Smith LLP	1	131
24	15	Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick PC	4	95
25	NR	Patton Boggs LLP*	3	71
26	NR	Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP	1	70
27	NR	Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP	1	49
28	66	Gary Steven Findley & Associates	3	49
29	NR	Adams & Reese LLP	1	40
30	28	Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP*	4	35
31	14	Hunton & Williams LLP	2	34
32	107	McGuireWoods LLP	1	32
	59	Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP	1	32
34	22	Horgan Rosen Beckham & Coren LLP*	2	32
35	84	Bryan Cave LLP*	2	31
	NR	Gaeta & Eveson PA	1	31
37	63	McAfee & Taft	1	27
38	NR	Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley Willis & Swanson LLP	1	26
39	NR	Faegre & Benson LLP	1	25
	71	Howard & Howard Attorneys PC	1	25
41	NR	Keller Rohrback LLP	1	22
42	83	Fenimore Kay Harrison & Ford LLP*	4	21
43	NR	Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP*	2	20
	NR	Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC	1	20
45	NR	Winston & Strawn LLP	1	17
46	NR	Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP	1	13
47	16	Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP	1	12
48	NR	Forshey Prostok LLP	1	11
49	NR	Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP	1	10
	NR	Shutts & Bowen LLP	1	10
51	95	Bass Berry & Sims PLC	1	10
52	91	Baird Holm LLP*	3	9
53	79	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP*	2	8
	79	Gunster Yoakley & Stewart PA	1	8
	85	Smith Mackinnon PA*	2	8
56	NR	Bybel Rutledge LLP	1	8
57	NR	Saiber LLC	1	7
	57	Bracewell & Giuliani LLP*	2	7
59	54	Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather LLP	1	7
60	109	Harris Beach PLLC	1	6
61	NR	King Holmes Paterno & Berliner LLP	1	4
	NR	Stuart Moore*	2	4
	NR	Cox Smith & Matthews Inc.	1	4
64	92	Lindquist & Vennum PLLP	1	3
65	NR	Bone McAllester Norton PLLC	1	1

*Deal value for at least one deal is not available. NR = not ranked; NA = not available. Deal value as of announcement. Terminated deals are excluded. Rankings calculated as of June 30. If advisers merge, SNL retroactively adjusts historic rankings to credit the surviving, highest-level adviser.

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SNL Financial