Latham Unseats Kirkland as Top M&A Adviser: The Brief

EXCLUSIVE: Latham Tops Kirkland in M&A Deals for First Half of 2025

Latham & Watkins has unseated Kirkland & Ellis in the global race for M&A, advising on 341 deals worth about $269 billion in the first half of the year, according to Bloomberg Law’s league tables.

Latham’s tally was buoyed by an upswing in tech, telecommunications, and energy deals, including the $34.5 billion Cox-Charter transaction and a $24 billion purchase by Global Payments. The global volume of completed or pending transactions hit approximately $1.4 trillion in the first half of the year, up 18.5% from the same period in ...