Top Legal Advisers by Region (FY 1999)
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| Published February 7, 2000 | |
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Rank | Firm | Deal value | Number |
1 | Bingham, Dana LLP | $17,724.70 | 3 |
2 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | 16,964.40 | 3 |
3 | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz | 16,234.50 | 2 |
4 | Sullivan & Cromwell | 11,401.90 | 2 |
5 | Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton | 9,850.00 | 1 |
6 | Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch | 2,046.00 | 6 |
7 | Goodwin, Procter & Hoar | 1,496.40 | 4 |
8 | Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick | 1,166.60 | 6 |
9 | Nixon Peabody LLP (1) | 778 | 1 |
10 | Thacher Proffitt & Wood (1) | 593.6 | 1 |
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Rank | Firm | Deal value | Number |
1 | Foley & Lardner (1) | $10,687.3 | 1 |
- | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz | 10,687.3 | 1 |
3 | Stinson, Mag & Fizzell PC | 169.3 | 11 |
4 | Kaplan, Strangis & Kaplan (1) | 89.1 | 1 |
- | Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach (1) | 89.1 | 1 |
6 | Muldoon, Murphy & Faucette | 88.0 | 3 |
7 | Cook, Vetter, Doerhoff & Landwehr | 71.4 | 2 |
8 | Fredrikson & Byron PA | 64.7 | 6 |
9 | Winthrop & Weinstine (1) | 43.6 | 3 |
10 | Morrison & Hecker LLP (1) | 39.7 | 1 |
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Rank | Firm | Deal value | Number |
1 | Sullivan & Cromwell | $8,256.6 | 3 |
2 | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz | 6,328.2 | 1 |
3 | Arnold & Porter | 2,370.6 | 7 |
4 | Alston & Bird LLP | 2,234.1 | 9 |
5 | Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC | 1,878.1 | 10 |
6 | Brobeck Phleger & Harrison | 1,794.5 | 1 |
- | Hogan & Hartson | 1,794.5 | 1 |
8 | Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy | 457.0 | 12 |
9 | Murai, Wald, Biondo & Moreno PA | 411.6 | 1 |
10 | Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander | 293.9 | 2 |
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Rank | Firm | Deal value | Number |
1 | Sullivan & Cromwell | $6,190.6 | 4 |
2 | Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz | 5,764.9 | 1 |
3 | Dorsey & Whitney LLP | 1,357.1 | 4 |
4 | Irell & Manella LLP (1) | 953.9 | 1 |
5 | Duane, Morris & Heckscher | 906.6 | 1 |
6 | Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP | 677.7 | 12 |
7 | Graham & Dunn | 461.9 | 6 |
8 | McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen | 385.7 | 6 |
9 | Stoel Rives LLP (1) | 309.7 | 1 |
- | Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (1) | 309.7 | 1 |
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Rank | Firm | Deal value | Number |
1 | Graydon, Head, & Richey (1) | $2,521.3 | 2 |
2 | Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton | 2,293.0 | 1 |
- | Lewis, Rice & Fingersh LC (1) | 2,293.0 | 1 |
4 | Silver, Freedman & Taff LLP (2) | 1,296.7 | 3 |
5 | Mayer, Brown & Platt (1) | 1,207.4 | 1 |
6 | Warner Norcross & Judd LLP | 1,065.3 | 4 |
7 | Dykema Gossett PLLC (1) | 819.1 | 1 |
- | Quarles & Brady | 819.1 | 1 |
9 | Schiff Hardin & Waite (1) | 422.3 | 2 |
10 | Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease | 353.5 | 4 |
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Rank | Firm | Deal value | Number |
1 | Bracewell & Patterson LLP | $487.1 | 14 |
2 | Jenkens & Gilchrist PC | 430.7 | 11 |
3 | Locke Liddell & Sapp (2) | 175.2 | 4 |
4 | Alston & Bird LLP | 171.5 | 2 |
5 | Bradley, Arant, Rose & White LLP (2) | 108.2 | 3 |
6 | McAfee & Taft (1) | 104.2 | 2 |
7 | Eastham, Johnson, Monnheimer & Jontz PC (1) | 87.9 | 1 |
8 | Stinson, Mag & Fizzell PC | 82.7 | 1 |
9 | Cox & Smith Inc. (2) | 80.9 | 4 |
10 | Frederic Dorwart, Esquire | 75.8 | 3 |
Regional breakdown: Northeast: CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI and VT. Southeast: MD, DE, DC, GA, FL, NC, SC, TN, MS, AL, KY, VA, WV and PR. Midwest: OH, MI, IN, IL and WI. North Central: IA, MN, KS, MO, NE, SD and ND. Southwest: AR, LA, OK, TX, NM and CO. West: CA, NV, AZ, UT, OR, WA, MT, ID, AK and HI. Source: Sheshunoff Information Services Inc., Austin, Tex., a Thomson Financial company. (1) Did not respond to survey. (2) Value not available for at least one deal.
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