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Top Lead Legal Advisers Ranked by Number of Deals

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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 the first half of 2011. Dollars in millions
Published August 12, 2011

1H 2011
Rank
2010
Rank
Firm Deals Deal value
1 2 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 5 $13,506
2 4 Sullivan & Cromwell LLP* 4 12,590
4 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates 4 136
7 Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick PC 4 95
1 Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP* 4 35
13 Fenimore Kay Harrison & Ford LLP* 4 21
7 NR Elias Matz Tiernan & Herrick LLP 3 431
NR Arnold & Porter LLP 3 286
61 Patton Boggs LLP* 3 71
61 Gary Steven Findley & Associates 3 49
34 Baird Holm LLP* 3 9
12 NR Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP 2 616
7 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 2 520
NR Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrère & Denègre LLP 2 175
2 Hunton & Williams LLP 2 34
13 Horgan Rosen Beckham & Coren LLP* 2 32
34 Bryan Cave LLP* 2 31
NR Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP* 2 20
61 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP* 2 8
34 Smith Mackinnon PA* 2 8
10 Bracewell & Giuliani LLP* 2 7
NR Stuart Moore* 2 4
61 Loren P. Hansen APC 2 NA
24 NR Dechert LLP 1 9,000
NR Loyens & Loeff NV 1 9,000
61 Mayer Brown LLP 1 9,000
13 DLA Piper LLP (U.S.) 1 1,029
24 NR Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP 1 1,029
NR Shearman & Sterling LLP 1 1,029
NR Winstead PC 1 1,029
21 Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP 1 489
NR Rhoads & Sinon LLP 1 342
61 Day Pitney LLP 1 267
21 Goodwin Procter LLP 1 234
34 Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP 1 234
NR White & Case LLP 1 140
NR Gordon Arata McCollam Duplantis & Eagan LLC 1 135
61 Reed Smith LLP 1 131
NR Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP 1 70
34 Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP 1 49
NR Adams & Reese LLP 1 40
34 McGuireWoods LLP 1 32
21 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP 1 32
NR Gaeta & Eveson PA 1 31
34 McAfee & Taft 1 27
NR Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley Willis & Swanson LLP 1 26
NR Faegre & Benson LLP 1 25
21 Howard & Howard Attorneys PC 1 25
NR Keller Rohrback LLP 1 22
NR Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC 1 20
NR Winston & Strawn LLP 1 17
NR Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein L.LP 1 13
13 Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP 1 12
NR Forshey Prostok LLP 1 11
24 NR Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP 1 10
NR Shutts & Bowen LLP 1 10
61 Bass Berry & Sims PLC 1 10
61 Gunster Yoakley & Stewart PA 1 8
61 Bybel Rutledge LLP 1 8
NR Saiber LLC 1 7
7 Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather LLP 1 7
61 Harris Beach PLLC 1 6
61 King Holmes Paterno & Berliner LLP 1 4
NR Cox Smith & Matthews Inc. 1 4
13 Lindquist & Vennum PLLP 1 3
NR Bone McAllester Norton PLLC 1 1
NR Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC* 1 NA
61 Bingham McCutchen LLP* 1 NA
NR Crowley Barrett & Karaba Ltd.* 1 NA
NR Graham & Dunn PC* 1 NA
NR Kean Miller Hawthorne D’Armond McCowan & Jarman LLP* 1 NA
NR Kolesar & Leatham CHTD* 1 NA
NR Kutak Rock LLP* 1 NA
NR McCarter & English LLP* 1 NA
34 Miller & Martin PLLC* 1 NA
NR Vedder Price PC* 1 NA
61 Venable LLP* 1 NA
61 Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis PA* 1 NA
NR Winthrop & Weinstine PA* 1 NA

*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
, Charlottesville, Va.
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