Latham, Wachtell Top M&A Dealmakers

Oct. 2, 2025, 11:47 AM UTC

New York firms are among Big Law’s top M&A advisers in a third quarter boosted by record large deals.

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz guided global transactions worth nearly $452 billion in the first three quarters of the year, my colleagues Mahira Dayal and Atthar Mirza report in Bloomberg Law’s league tables.

While that put the New York-founded Wachtell second to Los Angeles-founded Latham & Watkins (with $499 billion in deals), Wachtell pulled it off in 68 deals to Latham’s 500-plus.

(And not to worry that LA will edge us out: Latham has over 750 lawyers at its Manhattan office, ...

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