NEW YORK, July 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Deal, TheStreet's (NASDAQ: TST) institutional business, announced the results of their rankings of the top firms and professionals involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for the first half of 2014. With 492 deals of $100 million or more worth a total of $649 billion, the U.S. M&A market is on pace for its best year since the late 1990s.
"The numbers are more than impressive in the first half of the year," reported David Marcus, Senior Writer for The Deal. "Blockbuster deals are back. Hostile deals are back. Pharma companies are buying everything in sight. Silicon Valley deal making is more frenzied than it's been at any time since the dot-com era."
League Table highlights:
- Top law firms included Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP with 44 total deals; Kirkland & Ellis LLP with 42 total deals; Latham & Watkins LLP with 39 total deals; and both Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP with 29 deals each.
- Top law firms representing investment advisers included White & Case LLP with 19 total deals; Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP with 11 total deals; Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP with 10 total deals and both Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP with 8 total deals each.
- Top Delaware law firms included Richards, Layton & Finger PA with 34 total deals; followed by Morris Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP with 26 total deals and Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP with 12 total deals.
- Top investment advisers included Goldman, Sachs & Co. with 55 total deals; Morgan Stanley with 51 total deals; Barclays Capital with 49 total deals; JPMorgan Chase & Co. with 46 total deals and Bank of America Merrill Lynch with 43 total deals.
- Top proxy solicitors/information agents included MacKenzie Partners Inc. with 25 total deals; Innisfree M&A Inc. with 18 total deals and both D.F. King & Co. and Okapi Partners LLC with 10 deals each.
- The top public relations firms were Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher with 44 total deals; Sard Verbinnen & Co. with 41 total deals and Abernathy MacGregor Group Inc. with 19 total deals.
The full report is available online.
About The Deal's M&A League Tables
Rankings include the names of lead M&A and/or corporate partners at law firms that represented the principals and investment advisers. Only deals involving a change of control of a target company with a market value of $100 million or more are included, and only when a key party involved is a U.S. company. Unless the target is a recognized stand-alone operating business, rankings will not include asset sales, unit sales, sales of subsidiaries, spin-offs or joint ventures. Deals with undisclosed transactions values are not eligible. The Deal's M&A League Tables, which come out each quarter, are cumulative across the year.
About The Deal
The Deal, a business unit of TheStreet, has been serving corporate dealmakers, advisers and institutional investors the most sophisticated analysis of the deal economy since 1999. Our transaction information service, The Deal Pipeline, is powered by a newsroom of senior journalists who offer proprietary research and reporting across M&A, bankruptcies, auctions and financings. It includes a breaking news service, First Take; daily and weekly sector newsletters; The Daily Deal, a 2x daily report of the day's top stories; a research center with over a decade's worth of intelligence and a database of over 100,000 deals; and an iPad & iPhone app. Our marketing & media services group produces the industry's leading forecasting event, The Deal Economy, held annually in New York City in addition to industry webcasts and integrated marketing programs. For more information, visit www.thedeal.com.
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