Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Deal Value
February 17, 2016, 12:00 p.m. EST 1 Min Read
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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 2015. Dollars in millions | |||
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| Rank | Firm | Number of Deals | Deal value |
| 1 | Sullivan & Cromwell | 6 | 12,785 |
| 2 | Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz | 10 | 11,378 |
| 3 | Osler Hoskin & Harcourt | 1 | 5,333 |
| 4 | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | 2 | 4,624 |
| 5 | O'Melveny & Myers | 1 | 1,815 |
| 6 | Kutak Rock | 4 | 1,337 |
| 7 | Hunton & Williams | 9 | 1,156 |
| 8 | Morrison & Foerster | 1 | 1,027 |
| 9 | Alston & Bird | 6 | 980 |
| 10 | Schulte Roth & Zabel | 3 | 937 |
| 11 | Luse Gorman | 18 | 829 |
| 12 | Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom | 5 | 774 |
| 13 | Silver Freedman Taff & Tiernan | 8 | 747 |
| 14 | Troutman Sanders | 8 | 625 |
| 15 | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton | 9 | 579 |
| 16 | Smith Mackinnon | 11 | 539 |
| 17 | Hogan Lovells | 5 | 496 |
| 18 | Bryan Cave | 8 | 486 |
| 19 | Mette Evans & Woodside | 1 | 474 |
| 19 | Reed Smith | 1 | 474 |
| 21 | Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard | 2 | 466 |
| 22 | Covington & Burling | 3 | 464 |
| 23 | Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg | 11 | 446 |
| 24 | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman | 1 | 424 |
| 25 | Shutts & Bowen | 2 | 413 |
| 26 | Davis Polk & Wardwell | 1 | 403 |
| 27 | Bass Berry & Sims | 4 | 355 |
| 28 | Arnold & Porter | 1 | 350 |
| 29 | LeClairRyan | 2 | 303 |
| 30 | Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough | 6 | 288 |
| 31 | Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love | 1 | 269 |
| 32 | Fenimore Kay Harrison & Ford | 15 | 252 |
| 33 | Stevens & Lee | 2 | 245 |
| 34 | Williams Mullen | 2 | 220 |
| 35 | Dorsey & Whitney | 4 | 209 |
| 36 | Day Pitney | 1 | 208 |
| 37 | Manatt Phelps & Phillips | 7 | 195 |
| 38 | Varnum | 1 | 188 |
| 38 | Warner Norcross & Judd | 1 | 188 |
| 40 | Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada | 1 | 187 |
| 41 | Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice | 2 | 186 |
| 42 | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton | 4 | 184 |
| 43 | Bingham Greenebaum Doll | 4 | 171 |
| 44 | Stinson Leonard Street | 6 | 170 |
| 45 | Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz | 3 | 168 |
| 46 | Barnes & Thornburg | 2 | 161 |
| 47 | Goodwin Procter | 3 | 151 |
| 48 | Stuart Moore | 2 | 149 |
| 49 | Bracewell & Giuliani | 7 | 147 |
| 50 | Rogers & Hardin | 2 | 147 |
| 51 | Bond Schoeneck & King | 1 | 142 |
| 52 | Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren | 1 | 142 |
| 53 | Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson | 1 | 141 |
| 54 | Wyatt Tarrant & Combs | 6 | 140 |
| 55 | Briggs & Morgan | 1 | 140 |
| 55 | Nyemaster Goode West Hansell & O'Brien | 1 | 140 |
| 57 | Harris Law Firm | 1 | 139 |
| 58 | Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf | 5 | 138 |
| 59 | Krieg DeVault | 2 | 137 |
| 60 | Phelps Dunbar | 3 | 133 |
| 61 | King Holmes Paterno & Soriano | 5 | 131 |
| 62 | Cranmore FitzGerald & Meaney | 4 | 127 |
| 63 | Lamb & Barnosky | 1 | 126 |
| 64 | Holland & Knight | 1 | 119 |
| 64 | Varner & Brandt | 1 | 119 |
| 66 | Gunster Yoakley & Stewart | 3 | 108 |
| 67 | Frederic Dorwart Lawyers | 1 | 103 |
| 68 | Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard | 1 | 102 |
| 69 | Jones Walker | 10 | 102 |
| 70 | Drinker Biddle & Reath | 2 | 101 |
| 71 | Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease | 3 | 100 |
| 72 | Haynie Rake Repass & Klimko | 2 | 100 |
| 73 | Gary Steven Findley & Associates | 2 | 97 |
| 74 | Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd | 1 | 96 |
| 75 | Schiff Hardin | 4 | 94 |
| 76 | Loren P. Hansen | 2 | 93 |
| 77 | Bieging Shapiro & Barber | 4 | 85 |
| 78 | Frost Brown Todd | 4 | 83 |
| 79 | McGuireWoods | 1 | 83 |
| 80 | Larry E. Temple | 3 | 79 |
| 81 | Igler and Pearlman | 3 | 78 |
| 82 | Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft | 1 | 77 |
| 83 | Thompson & Knight | 1 | 77 |
| 84 | Norton Rose Fulbright | 3 | 74 |
| 85 | Chapman & Cutler | 2 | 73 |
| 86 | Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton | 3 | 73 |
| 87 | Calfee Halter & Griswold | 1 | 71 |
| 88 | Dinsmore & Shohl | 3 | 66 |
| 89 | Dover Dixon Horne | 3 | 64 |
| 90 | Ward and Smith | 2 | 64 |
| 91 | Horgan Rosen Beckham & Coren | 3 | 61 |
| 92 | Davis Wright Tremaine | 1 | 56 |
| 93 | Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger | 1 | 55 |
| 94 | Richard E. Knecht | 1 | 52 |
| 95 | Godfrey & Kahn | 5 | 52 |
| 96 | Salter Feiber | 1 | 50 |
| 97 | Howard & Howard | 12 | 49 |
| 98 | Fredrikson & Byron | 7 | 46 |
| 99 | Sandberg Phoenix & Von Gontard | 2 | 44 |
| 100 | McAfee & Taft | 5 | 43 |
| 101 | Maynard Cooper & Gale | 1 | 42 |
| 102 | Lowenstein Sandler | 1 | 42 |
| 103 | Hartzog Conger Cason & Neville | 1 | 41 |
| 104 | Ober Kaler Grimes & Shriver | 5 | 39 |
| 105 | Boardman & Clark | 7 | 39 |
| 106 | Balch & Bingham | 1 | 37 |
| 107 | Rhoads & Sinon | 3 | 36 |
| 108 | Cohen & Grigsby | 1 | 35 |
| 109 | Miller Nash Graham & Dunn | 1 | 32 |
| 110 | Butler Snow | 1 | 30 |
| 111 | Dodd Mason George | 2 | 29 |
| 112 | Nutter McClennen & Fish | 6 | 27 |
| 112 | BuckleySandler | 2 | 27 |
| 114 | Kirschner & Legler | 1 | 27 |
| 114 | Smith Gambrell & Russell | 1 | 27 |
| 116 | Jackson Kelly | 1 | 27 |
| 117 | Fox Rothschild | 1 | 25 |
| 118 | Gordon Feinblatt | 2 | 24 |
| 119 | Beard Kultgen Brophy Bostwick & Dickson | 3 | 23 |
| 120 | Primmer Piper Eggleston Cramer | 1 | 22 |
| 121 | Stoll Keenon Ogden | 2 | 22 |
| 122 | Martin Snow | 1 | 21 |
| 123 | Giordano Halleran & Ciesla | 2 | 21 |
| 124 | Breyer & Associates | 1 | 21 |
| 124 | Witherspoon Kelley Davenport & Toole | 1 | 21 |
| 126 | Shumaker Loop & Kendrick | 2 | 19 |
| 126 | Shumaker Williams | 1 | 19 |
| 128 | Grady & Associates | 1 | 19 |
| 129 | Sacks Tierney | 1 | 18 |
| 130 | Fox Swibel Levin & Carroll | 1 | 17 |
| 131 | Endacott Peetz & Timmer | 1 | 16 |
| 132 | Murphy & King Professional Corp. | 1 | 16 |
| 133 | Kaplan Strangis & Kaplan | 1 | 15 |
| 134 | Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney | 1 | 14 |
| 135 | Aab & Botts | 1 | 14 |
| 136 | Barley Snyder | 1 | 13 |
| 137 | Avila Rodriguez Hernandez Mena & Ferri | 1 | 10 |
| 137 | Sérvulo & Associados - Sociedade de Advogados | 1 | 10 |
| 139 | SmithAmundsen | 1 | 9 |
| 140 | Fairfield and Woods | 1 | 7 |
| 140 | Lewis Roca Rothgerber | 1 | 7 |
| 142 | Squire Patton Boggs | 1 | 7 |
| 143 | Lindquist & Vennum | 7 | 7 |
| 143 | Crowley Fleck | 1 | 7 |
| 145 | Gerrish McCreary Smith | 6 | 6 |
| 145 | Woods Fuller Shultz & Smith | 2 | 6 |
| 145 | Davenport Evans Hurwitz & Smith | 1 | 6 |
| 148 | Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather | 2 | 5 |
| 149 | Law Offices of Thomas Maul | 1 | 4 |
| 150 | Bone McAllester Norton | 1 | 4 |
| 150 | Hodges Doughty & Carson | 1 | 4 |
| 150 | Ritchie & Powell | 1 | 4 |
| 153 | Winderweedle Haines Ward & Woodman | 1 | 2 |
| 152 | Keller Rohrback | 1 | 0 |
| Polsinelli | 7 | NA | |
| Winthrop & Weinstine | 4 | NA | |
| Lewis Rice | 3 | NA | |
| Christian Samson Jones & Chisholm | 2 | NA | |
| Koley Jessen | 2 | NA | |
| Perry Guthery Haase & Gessford | 2 | NA | |
| Ruder Ware | 2 | NA | |
| Vedder Price | 2 | NA | |
| Baird Holm | 1 | NA | |
| Berson Law Group | 1 | NA | |
| Bodman PLC | 1 | NA | |
| Bowditch & Dewey | 1 | NA | |
| Brunini Grantham Grower & Hewes | 1 | NA | |
| Burke Warren MacKay & Serritella | 1 | NA | |
| Cadwell Sanford Deibert & Garry | 1 | NA | |
| Critchfield Critchfield & Johnston | 1 | NA | |
| Crowe & Dunlevy | 1 | NA | |
| Dentons Canada | 1 | NA | |
| Eaton Peabody | 1 | NA | |
| Faegre Baker Daniels | 1 | NA | |
| Foley & Lardner | 1 | NA | |
| Foster Swift Collins & Smith | 1 | NA | |
| Foulston & Siefkin | 1 | NA | |
| Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore | 1 | NA | |
| Giffin Winning Cohen & Bodewes | 1 | NA | |
| Gomberg Sharfman Gold & Ostler | 1 | NA | |
| Jackson Walker | 1 | NA | |
| Jardine Stephenson Blewett & Weaver | 1 | NA | |
| K&L Gates | 1 | NA | |
| Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | NA | |
| Kus Ryan & Schluentz | 1 | NA | |
| Lane & Waterman | 1 | NA | |
| Mathis Marifian & Richter | 1 | NA | |
| May Adam Gerdes & Thompson | 1 | NA | |
| McCarter & English | 1 | NA | |
| McGinley O'Donnell Reynolds & Korth | 1 | NA | |
| Michael C. Hayes | 1 | NA | |
| Miller & Martin | 1 | NA | |
| Morgan & Pottinger | 1 | NA | |
| Olson & Burns | 1 | NA | |
| Partridge Snow & Hahn | 1 | NA | |
| Quarles & Brady | 1 | NA | |
| Siegel Brill | 1 | NA | |
| Spencer Fane Britt & Browne | 1 | NA | |
| Verrill & Dana | 1 | NA | |
*Values based on deals where the pricing was disclosed.
Source: SNL Financial, Charlottesville, Va.
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