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Big firms are continuing to land on megadeals. Over the last nine days, there were at least three deals exceeding the $7 billion mark.
October 08, 2024 at 04:16 PM
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Ropes & Gray; Latham & Watkins; and others all worked on deals announced in the last week that were more than $7 billion in value, as the mergers and acquisitions market continues to pick up in 2024.
According to the London Stock Exchange Group, global M&A was up 16% through the first nine months of 2024 compared with last year, hitting $2.3 trillion in market value. As it turns out, those deals were larger than last year, but not more plentiful. The overall deal volume year over year was actually down 20% to about 35,500, LSEG says.
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- Ropes & Gray
- Ruskin Moscou Faltischek
- Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
- Arthur Cox
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference Llp
- Dentons
- Goodmans
- Jun He Law Offices
- Bracewell
- DLA Piper
- Cahill Gordon & Reindel
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- Latham & Watkins
- Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
- Ogier
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