Top Lead Legal Advisers, Ranked by Number of Announced Transactions (Bank and Thrift Mergers in Q1 2000)

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Top Lead Legal Advisers, Ranked by Number of Announced Transactions (Bank and Thrift Mergers in Q1 2000)

Top Lead Legal Advisers, Ranked by
Number of Announced Transactions
(Bank and Thrift Mergers in Q1 2000)

(Primary Advisers Only; Dollars in Millions; Excluding Terminated Deals -- Regional breakdown: Northeast: CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI and VT. Southeast: MD, DE, DC, GA, FL, NC, SC, TN, MS, AL, KY, VA, WV and PR. Midwest: OH, MI, IN, IL and WI. North Central: IA, MN, KS, MO, NE, SD and ND. Southwest: AR, LA, OK, TX, NM and CO. West: CA, NV, AZ, UT, OR, WA, MT, ID, AK and HI.)
Published May 5, 2000

Top Lead Legal Advisers - Northeast
Rank	Firm	No. of Deals	Announced Deal Value
1	Luse, Lehman, Gorman, Pomerenk & Schick (1)	4	$304.0
2	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP	2	4,502.9
-	Barley, Snyder, Senft & Cohen	2	133.3
-	Thacher Proffitt & Wood (1)	2	80.5
5	Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1)	1	2,618.6
-	Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin (1)	1	2,618.6
-	Sullivan & Cromwell	1	1,884.3
-	Breyer & Associates PC	1	178.8
-	Shumaker Williams PC	1	97.3
-	Harris Beach & Wilcox (1)	1	80.3
-	Muldoon, Murphy & Faucette	1	68.5
-	Silver, Freedman & Taff, L.L.P. (1)	1	41.6
-	McCarter & English, LLP	1	36.0
-	Ellsworth, Carlton & Waldman PC	1	20.4
-	Jamieson, Moore, Peskin & Spicer	1	20.4
-	Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP	1	16.2
-	Goodwin, Procter & Hoar	1	16.2
-	Peabody and Arnold LLP (1)	1	12.1
-	Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick	1	7.5
-	Malizia, Spidi, & Fisch, P.C.	1	7.5
-	Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C. (1)	1	3.3
-	Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, PA	1	1.0
-	Tyler Cooper & Alcorn (2)	1	N/A

Top Lead Legal Advisers - Southeast
Rank	Firm	No. of Deals	Announced Deal Value
1	Gerrish & McCreary, PC	3	$324.9
2	Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy	2	68.8
3	Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, PA (1)	1	303.7
-	Malizia, Spidi, & Fisch, P.C.	1	77.0
-	Muldoon, Murphy & Faucette	1	77.0
-	Sullivan & Cromwell	1	40.1
-	Zimmerman, Shuffield, Kiser & Sutcliffe, P.A. (1)	1	40.1
-	Greenbaum Doll & McDonald PLLC (1)	1	26.9
-	Stites & Harbison (1)	1	26.9
-	McCaffrey & Raimi, P.A. (1)	1	13.4
-	Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A.	1	9.9
-	Stradley Ronon Housley Kantarian & Bronstein, LLP	1	7.8
-	Williams, Mullen, Clark & Dobbins	1	5.9

Top Lead Legal Advisers - Midwest
Rank	Firm	No. of Deals	Announced Deal Value
1	Luse, Lehman, Gorman, Pomerenk & Schick (1)	2	$10.2
2	Arnold & Porter	1	1,202.1
-	Sullivan & Cromwell	1	1,202.1
-	Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC	1	1,202.1
-	Howard & Howard Attorneys	1	138.5
-	Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur (1)	1	138.5
-	Quarles & Brady	1	132.5
-	Schiff Hardin & Waite	1	132.5
-	Bodman, Longley & Dahling LLP (1)	1	62.7
-	Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss (1)	1	62.7
-	Baker & Hostetler (1)	1	33.8
-	Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease	1	33.8
-	Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman (1)	1	33.4
-	Krieg, DeVault, Alexander & Capehart (1)	1	33.4
-	Barnes & Thornburg	1	18.0
-	Rammelkamp, Bradney, Kuster, Keaton, Fritsche & Lindsay, P.C. (1)	1	6.8
-	Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum Perlman & Nagelberg (1)	1	3.9
-	Silver, Freedman & Taff, L.L.P. (1)	1	3.36

Top Lead Legal Advisers - Northcentral
Rank	Firm	No. of Deals	Announced Deal Value
1	Lindquist & Vennum P.L.L.P.	3	$25.9
2	Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz	1	479.5
-	Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, P.C.	1	32.7
-	Pappajohn, Shriver, Eide & Nicholas P.C. (1)	1	6.2

Top Lead Legal Advisers - Southwest
Rank	Firm	No. of Deals	Announced Deal Value
1	Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P.	1	$4.6

Top Lead Legal Advisers - West
Rank	Firm	No. of Deals	Announced Deal Value
1	Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger, Melnick (1)	2	$131.0
-	Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP	2	131.0
-	Lillick & Charles (1)	2	61.1
4	Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C. (1)	1	54.5
-	Gary Steven Findley & Associates (1)	1	16.5
-	McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen (1)	1	16.5
-	Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P.	1	15.0
-	Coudert Brothers (1)	1	6.5
-	Morrison & Foerster LLP (1)	1	0.5
-	Duane, Morris & Heckscher (2)	1	NA

Source:

Sheshunoff Information Services Inc.

, Austin, Texas, a Thomson Financial Company.
(1) Did not respond to survey.
(2) Value not available for at least one deal.
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