Legal Advisers - Global M&A League Table Q1
last updated: 4 April 2008
Here's Mergermarket's first-quarter global M&A legal advisers league table:
1. McCarthy Tetrault - $319.1bn deal value, 17 deals
2. Sullivan & Cromwell - $260.2bn, 26
3. Linklaters - $255.3bn, 44
4. Skadden Arps - $242.6bn, 32
5. Cravath Swaine & Moore - $227.9bn, 13
6. Herbert Smith - $221.5bn, 13
7. Lovells - $219.6bn, 24
8. Allens Arthur Robinson - $219.4bn, 12
9. Slaughter & May - $218.5bn, 14
10. Davies Ward Phillips - $213.9bn, 8
11. Blake Dawson - $212.7bn, 11
12. Hunton & Williams - $107.5bn, 6
13. Sutherland Asbill & Brennan - $107.0bn, 2
14. Allen & Overy - $53.4bn, 41
15. Ashurst - $48.2bn , 23
16. Clifford Chance - $44.8bn, 43
17. Freshfields - $39.8bn, 47
18. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett - $36.5bn, 18
19. Vinge - $35.2bn, 20
20. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher - $29.0bn, 18
Source - www.mergermarket.com