Linklaters fields one of the most experienced and highly regarded corporate teams in London.
The number and variety of deals on which the group has advised provides it with an invaluable pool of experience. Renowned for its capacity to deal with the most complex domestic transactions, the team covers the full spectrum of corporate work.
Over the last 12 months Linklaters M&A practice has advised the market's most significant and complex deals including on:
- Advising 26 of the FTSE100, including 8 of the top 10 by market cap.
- 9 of the world’s top 10 investment banks (by all fees) on their corporate transactions.
- Linklaters ranked no. 1 for public M&A (where firm offers announced in 2022 and firm offers completed in 2022). We had bidder or target adviser roles on 7 deals valued at £7.745bn.
- In line with market trends, we’ve seen an increased number of carve-out transactions - in 2022 we ranked number one for carve-out deals in the UK advising on 22 deals including 5 of the top 10 UK carve-outs and 2 of the top 4 European cross-border carve-outs.
We have the largest corporate team in the City bringing a breadth of expertise which means that we can combine teams with a strong sector focus (covering financial services, institutional investors, energy and natural resources, consumer, real estate, TMT, industrials and healthcare) with all-round strong product experience across public and private M&A/PE, corporate governance and board-level advice.
