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 Value
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 | ||||
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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.
Source:
SNL Financial
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