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Bloomberg Law 2025 League Tables Reveal Top 20 M&A Law Firms

On Jan. 2, 2026, Bloomberg Law published its 2025 league tables from ARLINGTON, Va., naming Latham & Watkins the top M&A adviser with $787 billion in deals.
Bloomberg Law drew on its platform of news, market intelligence and research tools to help legal professionals benchmark performance over the past year, Cesca Antonelli said.
Bloomberg Law's interactive chart groups deals by adviser, showing Kirkland & Ellis $743 billion, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz $621 billion, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom $550 billion, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett $403 billion.
Legal professionals can use the interactive top-20 list as a market-intelligence tool, providing a practical snapshot of momentum in the M&A landscape and highlighting concentrated deal activity.
Global deal data show global deal volume topped more than $4.7 trillion, up 40% from 2024, underscoring intense competition among Big Law firms in the global M&A market.

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Bloomberg Law 2025 League Tables Reveal Top 20 M&A Law Firms

ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Bloomberg Law published league tables for 2025, with Latham & Watkins taking the top spot as Big Law's number one mergers and acquisitions adviser. The firm guided record-breaking transactions totaling global deals…

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Latham & Watkins expects the brisk pace of deals work to continue in the new year after dethroning Kirkland & Ellis as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2025.

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