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