Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, the most-profitable U.S. law firm, was the top legal adviser on mergers and acquisitions for the first half of 2009 after advising on deals worth double those it did a year ago.
The firm, co-founded by Martin Lipton, who created the “poison-pill” takeover defense, advised buyers, sellers or targets on $150 billion in deals this year, up from $70 billion at the same time last year, cornering a 20 percent share of the global M&A market. Deal volume has fallen 44 percent this year to $759 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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