Sidley No. 1 Again for Advising Companies on Investor Activism

Sidley Austin again led a ranking of big law firms helping public companies defend against shareholder activism campaigns in the first half of 2024, according to new Bloomberg data.

Sidley advised companies on 32 activist engagements with shareholder stakes totaling $9.5 billion, a figure that represents the value of shares that investors held in the public companies facing campaigns. The law firm previously secured the lead among legal advisers in 2023 after defending companies against 48 activist campaigns, according to Bloomberg’s ranking of law firms by number of shareholder engagements.

“Our pipeline is very robust and we expect continued ...