Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal Value

August 14, 2012, 6:28 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 2012. Dollars in millions Published August 14, 2012
2012 Rank	2011 Rank	Firm	Deal value	Number of deals
1	1	Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz*	$2,584.4	6
2	2	Sullivan & Cromwell LLP*	2,215.5	4
3	49	Bracewell & Giuliani LLP*	850.4	7
4	NR	Haynes and Boone LLP	641.1	1
5	35	Hunton & Williams LLP*	598.0	7
6	NR	Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP	540.5	2
7	NR	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP	500.0	1
	NR	McConnell Valdes	500.0	1
9	21	Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick PC*	455.0	8
10	40	Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP	363.6	5
11	13	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP	251.3	1
12	NR	Linklaters LLP	135.0	1
13	95	Barnes & Thornburg LLP	124.5	2
14	59	Stevens & Lee PC*	121.4	3
15	NR	Williams Mullen	120.4	1
16	97	Harris Beach PLLC	110.0	1
17	41	Krieg DeVault LLP	103.2	1
18	31	Horgan Rosen Beckham & Coren LLP*	90.3	4
19	52	McGuireWoods LLP	77.8	1
20	37	Lane Powell PC	72.7	1
	27	Patton Boggs LLP	72.7	1
22	36	Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP	65.0	1
23	NR	Choate Hall & Stewart LLP	64.8	1
24	38	Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP*	62.5	4
25	18	Arnold & Porter LLP*	61.8	3
26	8	DLA Piper LLP (US)	57.5	2
27	NR	Hand Arendall LLC	55.4	1
28	42	Smith Mackinnon PA	46.6	2
29	22	Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrère & Denègre LLP	44.5	1
30	NR	Dickinson Mackaman Tyler & Hagen PC*	41.5	2
	84	Paul Hastings LLP	41.5	1
	NR	Sidley Austin LLP	41.5	1
33	13	Hogan Lovells US LLP*	41.1	4
34	NR	Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP	40.6	1
	79	LeClairRyan*	40.6	2
36	24	Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates	36.4	2
37	44	Gaeta & Eveson PA	36.0	1
	67	Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP*	36.0	2
39	NR	Hilburn Calhoon Harper Pruniski & Calhoun Ltd.	34.0	1
40	29	Gary Steven Findley & Associates*	30.0	2
	70	Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP	30.0	1
42	NR	Bowditch & Dewey LLP	29.9	1
43	93	Foulston & Siefkin LLP	28.5	1
44	75	Bingham McCutchen LLP	27.8	1
	NR	Dodd Mason George LLP	27.8	1
46	NR	McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP	26.4	1
47	72	Troutman Sanders LLP	24.2	1
48	NR	Critchfield Critchfield & Johnston Ltd.	23.0	1
	57	Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP*	23.0	2
50	NR	Mark Barnes Law PC	21.3	1
	NR	Metz Lewis Brodman Must O'Keefe LLC	21.3	1
52	NR	Nixon Peabody LLP	18.2	1
53	NR	Alston & Bird LLP	16.4	1
	51	Bryan Cave LLP	16.4	1
55	NR	Gerrish McCreary Smith PC*	11.7	3
56	NR	Lowenstein Sandler PC	11.5	1
57	NR	Dinsmore & Shohl LLP	9.8	1
	55	Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP	9.8	1
59	110	Kotz Sangster Wysocki and Berg P.C.	8.3	1
60	78	Fenimore Kay Harrison & Ford LLP*	5.8	5
61	NR	Foley & Lardner LLP	5.6	1
	NR	Godfrey & Kahn SC*	5.6	2
63	34	Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP*	4.0	2
	NR	Martin Pringle Oliver Wallace & Bauer L.LP	4.0	1
65	61	BuckleySandler LLP	3.7	1
	15	Elias Matz Tiernan & Herrick L.LP	3.7	1
67	63	Larry E. Temple*	2.9	2
68	NR	Richard E. Knecht	2.2	1
69	NR	Paul Foster Law Offices P.C.	2.0	1
70	NR	Verrill & Dana LLP	1.2	1

*Deal value for at least one deal is not available. NR = not ranked; NA = not available. In-house advisers are included. Whole deals are included. Terminated deals are excluded. Year to date figures are as of June 30. 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.

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SNL Financial