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Top Lead Legal Advisers, Ranked byAnnounced Deal Value (Q1 2000)

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Top Lead Legal Advisers, Ranked byAnnounced Deal Value (Q1 2000)
Top Lead Legal Advisers, Ranked by
Announced Deal Value (Q1 2000)

Dollars in millions; excludes terminated deals; bank and thrift mergers
in the first quarter of 2000 (Primary Advisers Only)

Rank

Firm

Announced Deal Value

Number of Deals

1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP $4,502.9 2
2 Sullivan & Cromwell 3,126.5 3
3 Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1) 2,618.6 1
- Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin (1) 2,618.6 1
5 Arnold & Porter 1,202.1 1
- Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC 1,202.1 1
7 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz 479.5 1
8 Gerrish & McCreary, PC 324.9 3
9 Luse, Lehman, Gorman, Pomerenk & Schick (1) 314.1 6
10 Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, PA (1) 303.7 1
11 Breyer & Associates PC 178.8 1
12 Muldoon, Murphy & Faucette 145.4 2
13 Howard & Howard Attorneys 138.5 1
- Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur (1) 138.5 1
15 Barley, Snyder, Senft & Cohen 133.3 2
16 Quarles & Brady 132.5 1
- Schiff Hardin & Waite 132.5 1
18 Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger, Melnick (1) 131.0 2
- Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP 131.0 2
20 Shumaker Williams PC 97.3 1
21 Malizia, Spidi, & Fisch, P.C. 84.5 2
22 Thacher Proffitt & Wood (1) 80.5 2
23 Harris Beach & Wilcox (1) 80.3 1
24 Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy 68.8 2
25 Bodman, Longley & Dahling LLP (1) 62.7 1
- Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss (1) 62.7 1
27 Lillick & Charles (1) 61.1 2
28 Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C. (1) 54.5 1
29 Silver, Freedman & Taff, L.L.P. (1) 45.0 2
30 Zimmerman, Shuffield, Kiser & Sutcliffe, P.A. (1) 40.1 1
31 McCarter & English, LLP 36.0 1
32 Baker & Hostetler (1) 33.8 1
- Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease 33.8 1
34 Bingham Summers Welsh & Spilman (1) 33.4 1
- Krieg, DeVault, Alexander & Capehart (1) 33.4 1
36 Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, P.C. 32.7 1
37 Greenbaum Doll & McDonald PLLC (1) 26.9 1
- Stites & Harbison (1) 26.9 1
39 Lindquist & Vennum P.L.L.P. 25.9 3
40 Ellsworth, Carlton & Waldman PC 20.4 1
41 Jamieson, Moore, Peskin & Spicer 20.4 1
42 Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P. 19.6 2
43 Barnes & Thornburg 18.0 1
44 Gary Steven Findley & Associates (1) 16.5 1
- McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen (1) 16.5 1
46 Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP 16.2 1
- Goodwin, Procter & Hoar 16.2 1
48 McCaffrey & Raimi, P.A. (1) 13.4 1
49 Peabody and Arnold LLP (1) 12.1 1
50 Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A. 9.9 1
51 Stradley Ronon Housley Kantarian & Bronstein, LLP 7.8 1
52 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick 7.5 1
53 Rammelkamp, Bradney, Kuster, Keaton, Fritsche & Lindsay, P.C. (1) 6.8 1
54 Coudert Brothers (1) 6.5 1
55 Pappajohn, Shriver, Eide & Nicholas P.C. (1) 6.2 1
56 Williams, Mullen, Clark & Dobbins 5.9 1
57 Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum Perlman & Nagelberg (1) 3.9 1
58 Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C. (1) 3.3 1
59 Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, PA 1.0 1
60 Morrison & Foerster LLP (1) 0.5 1
61 Duane, Morris & Heckscher (2) N/A 1
- Tyler Cooper & Alcorn (2) N/A 1

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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