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Recommended firms Tier 1 Clifford Chance Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Hengeler Mueller Linklaters Tier 2 Cleary Gottlieb Gleiss Lutz Shearman & Sterling Hengeler Mueller continued to lead the way in German M&A in 2006. Standout deals included advising Schering on its €16.3 billion bid from Bayer, acting for Boc Group on the $14.2 billion Linde deal and representing Bear Stearns on the financing for Merck's €11.5 billion bid for Serono. And somehow the firm managed to find the time to act as German counsel to E.ON on its €48 billion bid for Endesa.

Recommended firms Tier 1 Hannes Snellman Roschier Holmberg Tier 2 Borenius & Kemppinen White & Case Tier 3 Castrén & Snellman Fennica Merilampi Marttila Laitasalo The Finnish M&A market has been rather slow in 2006 despite a boom in Scandinavia as a whole. The total number of deals fell 16.6% in the first 10 months of 2006 compared to the same period in 2005, according to Dealogic figures. The combined deal value dropped by a comparable percentage and the losses have been similarly proportioned across private equity and company-to-company transactions.

Recommended firms Tier 1 Bech-Bruun Gorrissen Federspiel Kierkegaard Kromann Reumert Plesner Svane Grønborg Tier 2 Accura Jonas Bruun Danish M&A had a solid 2006 as moderate investment from private equity firms encouraged steady growth.

Why US firms make more money in M&A

Recommended firms Tier 1 Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice – Advogados Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados Pinheiro Neto Advogados Tier 2 Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão Tozzini Freire Teixeira e Silva Advogados The takeoff in Brazil's equity capital markets has been mirrored by a leap in M&A. According to Dealogic, in the first 10 months of 2006 there were 193 deals involving a Brazilian target, up from 123 over the same period in 2005. These have been worth $47.6 billion, more than six times the value for last year.

Learn the lessons of Skadden in Europe

Rising M&A is intensifying the fight for Japanese lawyers

The explosive growth of China and India contributed to a strong sense of optimism among the lawyers gathered at IFLR's second Asia Capital Markets Forum in Hong Kong last month

Why expense priorities during an administration need to be clear

In an attempt to further develop the Ukrainian banking system and better ensure its transparency and security for investors, the Ukrainian parliament has introduced new requirements for the organizational form of Ukrainian banks. Adopted on September 14 2006, they are effective from October 4 2006.