Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal Value

August 09, 2013, 6:53 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 2013. Dollars in millions Published August 9, 2013
2013 YTD Rank	2012 FY Rank	Firm	Deal value	Number of deals
1	1	Sullivan & Cromwell LLP	$1,225.9	2
2	54	Troutman Sanders LLP	943.4	3
3	NR	Avila Rodriguez Hernandez Mena & Ferri LLP	882.8	1
	NR	Carey y Cía	882.8	1
5	2	Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz	641.7	2
6	69	Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP	494.7	1
7	18	Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP	477.5	4
8	58	LeClairRyan	444.5	1
9	NR	Dover Dixon Horne PLLC	309.0	4
10	139	Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard PLLC	301.8	2
11	61	Reed Smith LLP	187.3	2
12	97	Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP	179.2	3
13	40	Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrère & Denègre LLP	168.7	3
14	NR	Bybel Rutledge LLP	155.9	1
	NR	Pepper Hamilton LLP	155.9	1
16	NR	Phelps Dunbar LLP	155.6	2
17	112	Vedder Price P.C.*	153.1	3
18	113	Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP	125.1	3
19	48	Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP	117.0	6
20	NR	Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP	114.7	1
21	72	Bingham McCutchen LLP*	100.4	3
22	10	Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick P.C.*	99.2	5
23	11	Hunton & Williams LLP*	89.9	7
24	35	DLA Piper LLP (US)	79.8	2
25	9	Bracewell & Giuliani LLP*	76.8	3
	NR	Thompson & Knight LLP	76.8	1
27	96	Breyer & Associates PC	73.3	2
28	66	Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP	72.7	2
29	42	Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP*	68.7	8
30	15	Graham & Dunn PC	68.1	2
31	111	Lowenstein Sandler PC	65.7	1
32	83	Kutak Rock LLP	64.0	1
33	76	Larry E. Temple*	63.2	4
34	33	Lane Powell P.C.	61.5	1
	20	Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates*	61.5	2
36	38	Smith Mackinnon PA	60.0	2
37	NR	Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP	57.5	1
38	19	Hogan Lovells US LLP	54.9	2
39	NR	Keller Rohrback LLP	52.4	2
40	NR	Fairfield and Woods PC	46.6	2
41	NR	Gunster Yoakley & Stewart PA*	44.0	2
42	NR	Richard E. Knecht	42.9	1
43	NR	Husch Blackwell LLP	40.6	1
	129	McAfee & Taft*	40.6	2
45	71	Schiff Hardin LLP	38.5	1
46	64	Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP	38.1	2
47	53	Choate Hall & Stewart LLP	37.4	1
48	NR	Larmore Scarlett LLP	31.5	1
	28	Stevens & Lee P.C.*	31.5	2
	93	Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP	31.5	1
51	70	McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP	31.1	1
	24	Patton Boggs LLP	31.1	1
53	84	Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP	29.0	1
54	50	Shutts & Bowen LLP	26.6	1
55	NR	Cranmore FitzGerald & Meaney	24.9	2
56	21	Fenimore Kay Harrison & Ford LLP*	24.7	9
57	NR	Brown Hay & Stephens LLP	22.3	1
58	NR	Davis Brown Law Firm	20.1	1
59	39	Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP	19.1	1
60	NR	Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan LLP	19.0	1
61	NR	Rogers & Hardin LLP	16.0	1
62	59	Silver Freedman & Taff L.LP*	14.9	3
63	88	Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada PLLC	14.3	1
64	NR	McGrath North Mullin & Kratz P.C.	12.3	1
	NR	Woods & Aitken LLP	12.3	1
66	NR	Day Pitney LLP	10.6	1
67	108	Barley Snyder LLC	10.1	1
	NR	Rhoads & Sinon LLP	10.1	1
69	NR	Ryley Carlock & Applewhite	8.6	1
70	NR	Foster Pepper PLLC	8.4	1
71	136	Morris Laing Evans Brock & Kennedy Chtd.	7.6	1
	116	Paul Foster Law Offices P.C.*	7.6	2
73	NR	Locke Lord LLP	6.8	1
74	80	Polsinelli Shughart PC	6.4	1
75	NR	Springer & Haseltine	6.2	1
76	75	Frost Brown Todd LLC*	5.8	2
	95	Stites & Harbison PLLC	5.8	1
78	98	Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP	5.0	1
	NR	Robinson & Cole LLP	5.0	1
80	3	Arnold & Porter LLP	4.6	1
81	32	Williams Mullen	4.2	1
82	NR	Friday Eldredge & Clark	3.9	1
83	NR	Forshey Prostok LLP	3.3	1
84	125	Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP	0.8	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. 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