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 Value
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 | ||||
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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.
Source:
SNL Financial
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