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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.

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Recommended firms Tier 1 Uría Menéndez Tier 2 Clifford Chance Cuatrecasas Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Garrigues Linklaters The volume and value of Spanish M&A activity have grown over the last 12 months. Four hundred and sixty deals in the first 10 months of 2005 soared to 550 in the same period in 2006. The cumulative value of the deals rose accordingly, from just over $100 billion to $167.4 billion. The growth was fuelled by booming public equity transactions, while private equity deals declined.

Recommended firms Tier 1 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae Linklaters White & Case Tier 2 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld CGS&H Baker & McKenzie Clifford Chance Salans Skadden Arps M&A in Russia has been an unmitigated success this year. The total number of transactions has more than doubled, from 493 to 1,111, while the value of those deals leapt from $39.7 billion to $65.5 billion.

Recommended firms Tier 1 Dewey Ballantine Grzesiak Weil Gotshal & Manges Tier 2 Allen & Overy Baker & McKenzie Grszczynski Clifford Chance Janicka Namiotkiewicz Linklaters Soltysinski Kawecki & Szlezak White & Case W Danilowicz W Jurcewicz In Poland overall M&A activity grew between the opening 10 months of 2005 and the same period this year. While the volume of both private and public equity deals grew, only public equity deals enjoyed an increase in cumulative value. The combined worth of private equity transactions actually fell from 2005 to 2006.