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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 2013. Dollars in millions
Published August 9, 2013

2013 YTD
Rank
2012 FY
Rank
Firm Number of
Deals
Deal value
1 5 Fenimore Kay Harrison & Ford LLP 9 $24.7
2 4 Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP 8 68.7
3 2 Hunton & Williams LLP 7 89.9
4 1 Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP 6 117.0
5 5 Luse Gorman Pomerenk & Schick P.C. 5 99.2
6 8 Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP 4 477.5
  75 Dover Dixon Horne PLLC 4 309.0
  18 Larry E. Temple 4 63.2
9 50 Troutman Sanders LLP 3 943.4
  50 Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP 3 179.2
  18 Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrère & Denègre LLP 3 168.7
  18 Vedder Price P.C. 3 153.1
  75 Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP 3 125.1
  50 Bingham McCutchen LLP 3 100.4
  8 Bracewell & Giuliani LLP 3 76.8
  50 Silver Freedman & Taff L.LP 3 14.9
17 10 Sullivan & Cromwell LLP 2 1,225.9
  3 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz 2 641.7
  75 Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard PLLC 2 301.8
  75 Reed Smith LLP 2 187.3
  NR Phelps Dunbar LLP 2 155.6
  75 DLA Piper LLP (US) 2 79.8
  50 Breyer & Associates PC 2 73.3
  50 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP 2 72.7
  18 Graham & Dunn PC 2 68.1
  15 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates 2 61.5
  31 Smith Mackinnon PA 2 60.0
  10 Hogan Lovells US LLP 2 54.9
  NR Keller Rohrback LLP 2 52.4
  NR Fairfield and Woods PC 2 46.6
  NR Gunster Yoakley & Stewart PA 2 44.0
  75 McAfee & Taft 2 40.6
  31 Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP 2 38.1
  18 Stevens & Lee P.C. 2 31.5
  NR Cranmore FitzGerald & Meaney 2 24.9
  31 Paul Foster Law Offices P.C. 2 7.6
  31 Frost Brown Todd LLC 2 5.8
  50 Baird Holm LLP 2 NA
  NR Beard Kultgen Brophy Bostwick & Dickson LLP 2 NA
  31 Bryan Cave LLP 2 NA
  50 Howard & Howard Attorneys PC 2 NA
  5 Lindquist & Vennum PLLP 2 NA
  NR Loren P. Hansen APC 2 NA
  18 Winthrop & Weinstine PA 2 NA
45 75 Avila Rodriguez Hernandez Mena & Ferri LLP 1 882.8
  NR Carey y Cía 1 882.8
  75 Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP 1 494.7
  31 LeClairRyan 1 444.5
  NR Bybel Rutledge LLP 1 155.9
  NR Pepper Hamilton LLP 1 155.9
  NR Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP 1 114.7
  NR Thompson & Knight LLP 1 76.8
  75 Lowenstein Sandler PC 1 65.7
  75 Kutak Rock LLP 1 64.0
  18 Lane Powell P.C. 1 61.5
  NR Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP 1 57.5
  NR Richard E. Knecht 1 42.9
  75 Husch Blackwell LLP 1 40.6
  18 Schiff Hardin LLP 1 38.5
  75 Choate Hall & Stewart LLP 1 37.4
  NR Larmore Scarlett LLP 1 31.5
  75 Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP 1 31.5
  50 McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP 1 31.1
  18 Patton Boggs LLP 1 31.1
  31 Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP 1 29.0
  50 Shutts & Bowen LLP 1 26.6
  NR Brown Hay & Stephens LLP 1 22.3
  75 Davis Brown Law Firm 1 20.1
  31 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP 1 19.1
  NR Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan LLP 1 19.0
  NR Rogers & Hardin LLP 1 16.0
  75 Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada PLLC 1 14.3
  NR McGrath North Mullin & Kratz P.C. 1 12.3
  NR Woods & Aitken LLP 1 12.3
  NR Day Pitney LLP 1 10.6
  75 Barley Snyder LLC 1 10.1
  NR Rhoads & Sinon LLP 1 10.1
  NR Ryley Carlock & Applewhite 1 8.6
  NR Foster Pepper PLLC 1 8.4
  75 Morris Laing Evans Brock & Kennedy Chtd. 1 7.6
  NR Locke Lord LLP 1 6.8
  13 Polsinelli Shughart PC 1 6.4
  NR Springer & Haseltine 1 6.2
  75 Stites & Harbison PLLC 1 5.8
  75 Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP 1 5.0
  NR Robinson & Cole LLP 1 5.0
  15 Arnold & Porter LLP 1 4.6
  50 Williams Mullen 1 4.2
  NR Friday Eldredge & Clark 1 3.9
  NR Forshey Prostok LLP 1 3.3
  31 Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP 1 0.8
  NR Brown & Brown Chartered 1 NA
  NR Carmichael & Quartemont SC 1 NA
  75 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP 1 NA
  50 Dorsey & Whitney LLP 1 NA
  31 Godfrey & Kahn SC 1 NA
  NR Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP 1 NA
  NR Horwood Marcus & Berk CHTD 1 NA
  75 Jackson Walker LLP 1 NA
  NR John Fleming Law 1 NA
  NR Kemp & Grzelakowski Ltd. 1 NA
  75 Kennedy Toppin & Sutherland L.LP 1 NA
  50 King Holmes Paterno & Berliner LLP 1 NA
  75 Krieg DeVault LLP 1 NA
  NR Lane & Waterman LLP 1 NA
  NR Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren Ltd. 1 NA
  75 Mark Barnes Law PC 1 NA
  75 Morrison & Foerster LLP 1 NA
  NR Parsons Behle & Latimer 1 NA


*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. 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
, Charlottesville, Va.
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