CVS/Aetna, Disney/Fox Highlight Solid M&A
The days before Christmas can be busy ones for M&A as companies try to wrap deals up, but the end of 2017 was crazed, with at least a dozen U.S. deals of $1 billion or more announced from Dec. 15 to 31 led by the Unilever spreads deal. The flurry suggests the continued appetite for M&A among both corporates and PE shops, which were involved on six of the 10 deals, three as buyers and three as sellers.
Read MoreM&A Law Firms Power Rankings
Firms
Deals announced between Jan 2017 and Dec 2017 ranked by number of deals, then by aggregate transaction value in the event of a tie.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Jones Day
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP
White & Case LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Hogan Lovells
Goodwin Procter LLP
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Alston & Bird LLP
Cooley LLP
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
DLA Piper
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dechert LLP
Clifford Chance LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Stikeman Elliott LLP
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Locke Lord LLP
Paul Hastings LLP
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Linklaters LLP
Baker Botts LLP
McCarthy Tetrault LLP
Fenwick & West LLP
Norton Rose LLP
Dentons
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP
Allen & Overy LLP
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Torys LLP
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP
Troutman Sanders LLP
Bracewell LLP
Squire Patton Boggs LLP
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
King & Spalding LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP
Slaughter and May Ltd.
Goodmans LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
K&L Gates LLP
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Bass, Berry & Sims plc
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP
McGuire Woods LLP
Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
NautaDutilh NV
Polsinelli PC
Graubard Miller
Hengeler Mueller
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Bryan Cave LLP
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
Macfarlanes LLP
Bredin Prat
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek NV
Stibbe
Ashurst LLP
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP