Top 50 Bank M&A Lawyers, 1994*

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Firm Deals deal value ($million) 1 Sullivan & Cromwell 22 3,778.20 2 Mayer, Brown & Platt 4 2,562.20 3 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz** 5 2,515.8*** 4 Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro 7 2,429.30 5 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom 7 1,966.10 6 Arnold & Porter 10 1,597.1*** 7 Hunton & Williams** 6 1,269.50 8 O'Melveney Meyers** 1 1,100.00 9 Dorsey & Whitney** 6 1,008.10 10 Lewis, Rice & Fingersh 19 997.5 11 Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnely 1 826.6 12 Winston & Strawn 4 811.2 *** 13 Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar 6 745.1 *** 14 Muldoon, Murphy & Faucette 8 730.7 15 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton** 2 711.9 16 Ivester, Skinner & Camp 3 634.7 17 Thompson & Mitchell 7 632.2 18 Hogan & Hartson** 4 531.4 19 Stevens & Lee** 4 529.6 20 Silver, Freedman, & Taff 14 515.6 21 Edwards & Angell** 3 515 22 White & Case** 1 514.2 23 Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch 5 467.2 24 Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz** 5 424.3*** 25 Foley & Lardner** 10 431.7 26 Housley, Goldberg, Kantarian & Bronstein 11 416 27 Alston & Bird** 15 414.0 *** 28 Manatt, Phelps & Phillips 9 403.1 *** 29 Ward & Smith 13 384.5 30 Bourne, Noll & Kenyon** 2 367.5 31 Munger, Tolles & Olson 4 345.4 32 Bingham, Dana & Gould** 3 344.5 33 Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine** 1 331 34 Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leona 6 328.6 35 Luse Lehman Gorman Pomerenk & Schick 3 286.2 *** 36 Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz 4 281.1 37 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson 2 268.1 38 Steel Hector & Davis 1 253 39 Freeborn & Peters 1 246.3 *** 40 Chapman & Cutler** 2 246.3 41 Reed Smith Shaw & McClay 5 240.1 42 Brown, Todd & Heyburn** 6 237.6 43 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick** 7 236.4 44 Dinsmore & Shohl** 3 233.7 45 Squire, Sanders & Dempsey** 2 226.3 46 Thacher Proffitt & Wood** 2 219.4 47 Primmer & Piper 2 219.1 48 Breyer & Aguggia 6 218.2 48 Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny et al 6 218.2 50 King & Spalding** 2 218 === *Rankings reflect whole-bank and whole-thrift transactions announced in 1994. ** SNL Securities calculation; law firm did not respond to survey. ***Deal value was not available for at least one transaction. Source: SNL Securities

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