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Rankings published in 2026
Capital markets
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26 firms ranked
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Tier 1

Cahill Gordon & Reindel
5 practice areas
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Cravath Swaine & Moore
5 practice areas
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Davis Polk & Wardwell
7 practice areas
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Latham & Watkins
6 practice areas
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
6 practice areas
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Tier 2

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
6 practice areas
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Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
5 practice areas
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
7 practice areas
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Sullivan & Cromwell
6 practice areas
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Weil Gotshal & Manges
6 practice areas
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Tier 3

A&O Shearman
4 practice areas
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Debevoise & Plimpton
8 practice areas
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Kirkland & Ellis
6 practice areas
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Mayer Brown
3 practice areas
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Milbank
7 practice areas
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Paul Hastings
7 practice areas
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Tier 4

Clifford Chance
6 practice areas
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Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
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Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
6 practice areas
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Greenberg Traurig
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Morrison & Foerster
5 practice areas
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Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
7 practice areas
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Tier 5

Alston & Bird
4 practice areas
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Dechert
7 practice areas
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Reed Smith
5 practice areas
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher
9 practice areas
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M&A
Tier 4
40 firms ranked
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Tier 1

Cravath Swaine & Moore
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Davis Polk & Wardwell
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Kirkland & Ellis
6 practice areas
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
6 practice areas
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
7 practice areas
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Sullivan & Cromwell
6 practice areas
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Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
7 practice areas
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Weil Gotshal & Manges
6 practice areas
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Tier 2

Debevoise & Plimpton
8 practice areas
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Latham & Watkins
6 practice areas
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Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
5 practice areas
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Ropes & Gray
5 practice areas
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Tier 3

A&O Shearman
4 practice areas
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
6 practice areas
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Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
6 practice areas
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Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
6 practice areas
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Morgan Lewis & Bockius
3 practice areas
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Morrison & Foerster
5 practice areas
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Paul Hastings
7 practice areas
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White & Case
7 practice areas
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher
9 practice areas
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Tier 4

Clifford Chance
6 practice areas
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Dechert
7 practice areas
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Freshfields US LLP
10 practice areas
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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
4 practice areas
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McDermott Will & Schulte
5 practice areas
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Milbank
7 practice areas
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Reed Smith
5 practice areas
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Tier 5

Cahill Gordon & Reindel
5 practice areas
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Greenberg Traurig
5 practice areas
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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
3 practice areas
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Cole Schotz
6 practice areas
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Duane Morris
4 practice areas
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Kleinberg Kaplan Wolff & Cohen
3 practice areas
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Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis
2 practice areas
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Seward & Kissel
2 practice areas
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Troutman Pepper Locke
6 practice areas
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Winston Taylor
4 practice areas
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Foreign

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
2 practice areas
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Nishimura & Asahi
3 practice areas
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Restructuring and insolvency
Tier 4
33 firms ranked
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Tier 1

Davis Polk & Wardwell
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Kirkland & Ellis
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Milbank
7 practice areas
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
7 practice areas
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Weil Gotshal & Manges
6 practice areas
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Tier 2

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
3 practice areas
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Sullivan & Cromwell
6 practice areas
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Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
7 practice areas
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher
9 practice areas
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Tier 3

Brown Rudnick
2 practice areas
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
6 practice areas
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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
3 practice areas
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Latham & Watkins
6 practice areas
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McDermott Will & Schulte
5 practice areas
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Morrison & Foerster
5 practice areas
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
6 practice areas
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Tier 4

Cravath Swaine & Moore
5 practice areas
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Debevoise & Plimpton
8 practice areas
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Dechert
7 practice areas
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Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
6 practice areas
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Katten Muchin & Rosenman
2 practice areas
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O'Melveny & Myers
4 practice areas
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Paul Hastings
7 practice areas
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Reed Smith
5 practice areas
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White & Case
7 practice areas
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Tier 5

Bracewell
5 practice areas
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Cahill Gordon & Reindel
5 practice areas
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Clifford Chance
6 practice areas
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Cole Schotz
6 practice areas
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Dentons
3 practice areas
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Freshfields US LLP
10 practice areas
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King & Spalding
4 practice areas
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Luskin Stern & Eisler
4 practice areas
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Since its founding in 1877 in Pittsburgh, Reed Smith has grown into a market leading firm in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It has also expanded to 30 offices across three continents. In the United States, the firm has 18 offices in 10 states. Pittsburgh remains the firm’s headquarters and is one of its largest offices. The New York office is noteworthy in M&A. The firm advises niche private equity clients and holding companies in noteworthy mergers and complex acquisitions. 

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We round up this week’s top moves in the finance, corporate, M&A and PE practices in the UK, France, the US and Germany
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
Ian Hohmeister discusses the strategy behind the new hub scale-up, from integration and hiring to market positioning, as headcount nears 20 just over a month after launch
New hires made in regulatory, corporate, M&A and finance practices at leading firms across the US and the UK, while German Hengeler Mueller elected two new managing partners
Ian Hohmeister, who arrived in March from Morrison Foerster, has been appointed the inaugural managing partner of the firm’s newest US hub
New hires were made across corporate, PE, M&A and finance groups in London, Miami, Los Angeles, Washington DC and Milan
M&A
New hires were made across the M&A, corporate and finance teams at leading firms across the UK, Germany and Saudi Arabia
Reed Smith has set up shop in Boston, while other firms have hired across capital structure solutions, project finance, corporate and banking practices in the US, Australia and Italy
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