Most Active Mid-Market Law Firms by Volume  Most Active Mid-Market Law Firms by Value ($bil)  
      
Law FirmNumber of
Deals
 Law FirmValue ($bil) 
      
Latham & Watkins79 Kirkland & Ellis27.3 
Jones Day78 Skadden22.5 
Kirkland & Ellis72 Latham & Watkins22.1 
Skadden52 Jones Day18.5 
Baker & McKenzie37 Weil Gotshal & Manges16.8 
Cooley LLP36 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett13.7 
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati36 Davis Polk & Wardwell11.4 
Goodwin Procter LLP35 Ropes & Gray10.8 
Weil Gotshal & Manges34 White & Case LLP10.6 
Davis Polk & Wardwell34 Vinson & Elkins LLP10.6 
DLA Piper LLP33 Baker & McKenzie10.0 
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher32 Shearman & Sterling LLP9.0 
Norton Rose Fulbright31 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher8.3 
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett31 Sullivan & Cromwell8.2 
Vinson & Elkins LLP30 Cooley LLP8.0 
Ropes & Gray29 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz7.9 
White & Case LLP29 Paul, Weiss7.9 
Fenwick & West LLP28 Morgan Lewis & Bockius7.8 
Morgan Lewis & Bockius27 Willkie Farr & Gallagher7.7 
Sidley Austin LLP26 Sidley Austin LLP7.6 
O'Melveny & Myers26 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati7.3 
Bryan Cave LLP25 Goodwin Procter LLP7.3 
Sullivan & Cromwell25 Debevoise & Plimpton7.2 
Shearman & Sterling LLP24 Cravath, Swaine & Moore7.1 
Squire Patton Boggs LLP23 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson6.8 
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz23 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton6.7 
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld23 Norton Rose Fulbright6.6 
Dorsey & Whitney LLP22 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer6.2 
Greenberg Traurig22 O'Melveny & Myers6.2 
Paul, Weiss22 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld6.1 
Stikeman Elliott21 DLA Piper LLP6.0 
Bracewell & Giuliani21 Greenberg Traurig5.9 
K&L Gates21 Bracewell & Giuliani5.8 
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson21 Fenwick & West LLP5.5 
Manatt Phelps & Phillips20 Blake Cassels & Graydon5.2 
Morrison & Foerster20 Paul Hastings4.9 
Willkie Farr & Gallagher20 Dechert4.9 
Paul Hastings19 Linklaters4.7 
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer17 Stikeman Elliott4.6 
Covington & Burling16 K&L Gates4.6 
Proskauer Rose LLP16 Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP4.5 
Blake Cassels & Graydon16 Mayer Brown LLP4.4 
Winston & Strawn15 Morrison & Foerster4.4 
Dechert15 Andrews Kurth LLP4.1 
Debevoise & Plimpton15 Herbert Smith Freehills4.1 
Mayer Brown LLP15 Squire Patton Boggs LLP4.0 
Hunton & Williams15 Hogan Lovells4.0 
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton14 Dorsey & Whitney LLP3.9 
Hogan Lovells14 Covington & Burling3.9 
Arnold & Porter13 Winston & Strawn3.7 
      
Source: Thomson Reuters     
Editor's Note: To measure activity in the middle market, Mergers & Acquisitions looks at transactions that fulfill several requirements: Deals must have a value of roughly $1 billion or less; they must be completed (not just announced) within the timeframe designated; and they must include at least one U.S. company in the role of buyer and/or seller. Excluded from our charts are: recapitalizations; self-tenders; exchange offers; repurchases; stake purchases; and transactions with undisclosed values, buyers or sellers. Our data provider is Thomson Reuters, which updates its databases continuously. We use the data available at press time. For this article, data was collected on Dec. 31, 2014.

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