Ranking Table

Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded

This chapter includes company acquisitions, dispositions and related financing arrangements, mergers, joint ventures capitalizations, entity selection and formation, operating and partnership agreements and governance matters. Also covers those transactions designed to help restructuring within companies and their subsidiaries by change of ownership. Priority is placed on primary representatives, those acting for buyers and sellers, whilst those acting for financial advisors, underwriters and the banks financing such transactions are also considered.

How rankings work
How rankings work

  • Band 1

    Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

    Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

    2 years ranked

    Goodwin

    Goodwin

    19 years ranked

    Jones Day

    Jones Day

    9 years ranked

    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

    20 years ranked

    Ropes & Gray LLP

    Ropes & Gray LLP

    20 years ranked

    Sidley Austin LLP

    Sidley Austin LLP

    20 years ranked

  • Band 2

    Clifford Chance US LLP

    Clifford Chance US LLP

    19 years ranked

    Cooley LLP

    Cooley LLP

    5 years ranked

    Covington & Burling LLP

    Covington & Burling LLP

    20 years ranked

    Dechert LLP

    Dechert LLP

    20 years ranked

    Milbank LLP

    Milbank LLP

    18 years ranked

  • Band 3

    Akin

    Akin

    20 years ranked

    Baker McKenzie

    Baker McKenzie

    10 years ranked

    DLA Piper LLP (US)

    DLA Piper LLP (US)

    18 years ranked

    Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

    Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

    20 years ranked

    Morrison Foerster

    Morrison Foerster

    16 years ranked

    Proskauer Rose LLP

    Proskauer Rose LLP

    20 years ranked

  • Band 4

    Baker Botts L.L.P.

    Baker Botts L.L.P.

    19 years ranked

    Fenwick

    Fenwick

    6 years ranked

    Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

    Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

    32 years ranked

    Linklaters

    Linklaters

    3 years ranked

    McDermott Will & Schulte

    McDermott Will & Schulte

    36 years ranked

    Seward & Kissel LLP

    Seward & Kissel LLP

    14 years ranked

  • Band 5

    Arnold & Porter

    Arnold & Porter

    20 years ranked

    BakerHostetler LLP

    BakerHostetler LLP

    17 years ranked

    Dorsey & Whitney LLP

    Dorsey & Whitney LLP

    19 years ranked

    HSF Kramer

    HSF Kramer

    19 years ranked

    Mayer Brown LLP

    Mayer Brown LLP

    8 years ranked

    McGuireWoods LLP

    McGuireWoods LLP

    7 years ranked

    Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC

    Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC

    11 years ranked

    Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

    Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

    7 years ranked

    Reed Smith LLP

    Reed Smith LLP

    8 years ranked

    Vinson & Elkins LLP

    Vinson & Elkins LLP

    19 years ranked

    WilmerHale

    WilmerHale

    8 years ranked

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