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Rankings published in 2026
M&A
Tier 3
18 firms ranked
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Tier 1

Foley Hoag
3 practice areas
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Goodwin Procter
4 practice areas
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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
3 practice areas
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Latham & Watkins
3 practice areas
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Morgan Lewis & Bockius
5 practice areas
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Ropes & Gray
5 practice areas
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
2 practice areas
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WilmerHale
5 practice areas
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Tier 2

Choate Hall & Stewart
4 practice areas
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Cooley
4 practice areas
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Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo
4 practice areas
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Weil Gotshal & Manges
2 practice areas
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Tier 3

Brown Rudnick
3 practice areas
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DLA Piper
2 practice areas
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Duane Morris
4 practice areas
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Goulston & Storrs
4 practice areas
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Nixon Peabody
2 practice areas
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Nutter McClennen & Fish
2 practice areas
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Business firm DLA Piper was born in 2005 from the largest ever merger in the legal industry between Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, Piper Rudnick and DLA. The international law firm has offices in almost every region in the world. In the United States, the firm has 28 offices in every region of the country.

 

Focusses / specialisms

The firm has a plethora of teams spread out across the country. Its Baltimore, Maryland offices particularly have a top tier M&A practice.

Firm wide it has a notable projects practice. The projects team is especially focused on project financing, where it represents lenders in financing projects in the mining, power, energy and infrastructure industries. Most of its projects are cross border internatioanlly.

 

Key clients

Key clients for the firm include CIT Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Coöperatieve Rabobank, ING Capital, Natixis, OPIC, IDB, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Central American Bank for Economic Integration, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Citibank and Japan Bank for International Cooperation.

 

Research period review: 30th edition (2019/2020)

During the research period the projects team represented multinational lenders in financing projects chiefly in the renewable energy and infrastructure industries. Solar and wind energy comprised most of the renewable energy projects. Most of the projects are based outside of the United States. 

 

Deal highlights: 30th edition (2019/2020)

Amman East 400MW combined cycle power plant restructuring

Ruta del Cacao toll road

Zaporizhia 500MW wind farm

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M&A
We round up top lateral hires across the finance, PE, M&A, competition and corporate practices at leading law firms in the UK, the US and the EU
New hires were made across the corporate, M&A and finance practices in key US hubs and London
Capital markets and finance partner Laurent Massinon joins the firm’s finance practice, a year after the launch of its Luxembourg office
Sherlyn Lau has brought a team of 12 to the firm’s Hong Kong office after spending nearly two decades at Sidley
Sustainability-linked and transition loans provide practical pathways for decarbonisation in emerging markets’ hard-to-abate sectors
New hires and promotions were made across finance, PE and M&A practices in London, Singapore, New York and Santiago
M&A
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