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Top Lead Legal Advisers,Ranked by Number of Announced Transactions (Q1 2000)
Top Lead Legal Advisers,
Ranked by Number of Announced
Transactions (Q1 2000)

Dollars in Millions; Excludes Terminated Deals;
Bank and Thrift Mergers, Ranked by Number of Announced Transactions
(Primary Advisers Only)
Published May 5, 2000

Rank

Firm

Number of Deals

Announced Deal Value

1 Luse, Lehman, Gorman, Pomerenk & Schick (1) 6

$314.1

2 Sullivan & Cromwell 3

3,126.5

- Gerrish & McCreary, PC 3

324.9

- Lindquist & Vennum P.L.L.P. 3

25.9

5 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 2

4,502.9

- Muldoon, Murphy & Faucette 2

145.4

- Barley, Snyder, Senft & Cohen 2

133.3

- Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger, Melnick (1) 2

131.0

- Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP 2

131.0

- Malizia, Spidi, & Fisch, P.C. 2

84.5

- Thacher Proffitt & Wood (1) 2

80.5

- Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy 2

68.8

- Lillick & Charles (1) 2

61.1

- Silver, Freedman & Taff, L.L.P. (1) 2

45.0

- Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P. 2

19.6

16 Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1) 1

2,618.6

- Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin (1) 1

2,618.6

- Arnold & Porter 1

1,202.1

- Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC 1

1,202.1

- Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz 1

479.5

- Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, PA (1) 1

303.7

- Breyer & Associates PC 1

178.8

- 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

- Shumaker Williams PC 1

97.3

- Harris Beach & Wilcox (1) 1

80.3

- Bodman, Longley & Dahling LLP (1) 1

62.7

- Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss (1) 1

62.7

- Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C. (1) 1

54.5

- Zimmerman, Shuffield, Kiser & Sutcliffe, P.A. (1) 1

40.1

- McCarter & English, LLP 1

36.0

- 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

- Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, P.C. 1

32.7

- Greenbaum Doll & McDonald PLLC (1) 1

26.9

- Stites & Harbison (1) 1

26.9

- Ellsworth, Carlton & Waldman PC 1

20.4

- Jamieson, Moore, Peskin & Spicer 1

20.4

- Barnes & Thornburg 1

18.0

- Gary Steven Findley & Associates (1) 1

16.5

- McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen (1) 1

16.5

- Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP 1

16.2

- Goodwin, Procter & Hoar 1

16.2

- McCaffrey & Raimi, P.A. (1) 1

13.4

- Peabody and Arnold LLP (1) 1

12.1

- Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A. 1

9.9

- Stradley Ronon Housley Kantarian & Bronstein, LLP 1

7.8

- Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick 1

7.5

- Rammelkamp, Bradney, Kuster, Keaton, Fritsche & Lindsay, P.C. (1) 1

6.8

- Coudert Brothers (1) 1

6.5

- Pappajohn, Shriver, Eide & Nicholas P.C. (1) 1

6.2

- Williams, Mullen, Clark & Dobbins 1

5.9

- Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum Perlman & Nagelberg (1) 1

3.9

- Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C. (1) 1

3.3

- Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, PA 1

1.0

- Morrison & Foerster LLP (1) 1

0.5

- Duane, Morris & Heckscher (2) 1

NA

- Tyler Cooper & Alcorn (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.
*To be added to the survey list, please call (512) 236-6200, or e-mail at
ross.finley@tfn.com

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